New-York tribune., 1881-03-27
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
WORKING FOR CLEAN STREETS.
- -. -. :. .r,.. = vxe, coasxiTTEK OF TWENTY

WORKING FOR CLEAN STREET,
uzkTfxo OF rHE ciTizgSs' cosimirTER oF TwESIfr
oxr-pRop ABILITY OF The PASSAGE OF THE
MAYORS HILL At ALBANY.
rba citizens Committee Of Twsnty-one: appointed
s the meeting g. S00psr Essssraay There
asssen members present The chairman. d. Wiills
japoes called she meeting 10 order ana sau iua a
As oSss Ssss Ss a Albany
S,Il lie called upon Thatcher NJ Adams for state ;i
ment Mr. Adams reeounsea .ne tu ppareiSrs Of
which have been given to the readers OF TIE iRib
UsE in It's Albany correspondence, nee: e:,,;,iae ne
wnnd be successful in its undertaking. that the bill
would become law. James Gailatin aiso spoke hopo-
fully Of the prospects OF the Dil. :, ,vo. finally
resofsed that the entire COMMITTEES OF fwenty~one
shouId 20 to Albany Monday morning, =.
Mr. james In conyersatlop nrSssyoripg to have
nut into the bill clause requiring tnaI sste G
bs deposit Of 10 per cent TO remain untlI tne cou
s 51s Tnsn o% ONE s" to i've years
~nnid destroy competition and favor capitalists.
Senator Mccarthy opposed special ,eglsasons:
fhe nripciple of the bill was to place the street
Cleaning Department under an individual rospon-
Ths Mayor received nupbor Of callers yesterday
those who called were Senators hogan ana
and issembl Andrews and Dugnid. lne as
Mayor has little 20 aco 70 % and the Street
Cleaning bill His sentiments concerning po'n H. are
already well known. The reply OF the foiiee SoIi III,
rsrort of the commissioners of Accounts thereon,
are being carefully examined, ana tine result VII. ~
.,Us1s ssass Ss paqs sorrssSp ssS%n attached oS
bsny on behalf of the Mayor Hestated yesterday ,N
chat he Thought the StreetCleaning Dill wouid pfop
ably 20 through with some unimportant amend
ments. and that Senator McCarthys opposition was
seeming than real 90 70 fr t6s 6s bill
considerable number Of tho members OF the Legs
suSs Ne nor... was made Yesterday in the matter Of
ihe investeaton of street-cleanipg affairs by the
Grand Jury 1t being Saturday the jury oid noe
meet Assistant Bell iu converse
that the Grand Jury would not order indictments
against any officer. but said that probably pre-
ssntment i would be made to the Court EMPLOYING @ &
lie result of the Investigation ard Also the views
81 the Jurors on the facts brought 70 light,
PoIiee Com rnissioners French, Mason and Nichols
held long YssssTuay mtS Assem-
hiyman T. A. Carpenter, chairman of the Commit.
tSs on Cities. The subject under discussion was was
street cleaning but tho retHsep Ssd aasn
: sssd or done. To-day South and West,sts. VIII o. oe
cleaned and as mach ss possible q tue
tieth. twenty second and Iwentyseventh Precincts
FATAL AFFRAY IN NEWARK.
Joseph Furey. who was stabbed in iisht sta early
SavS Previous to his death Furey made state
ment which is now in the hands OF the County
Phvsician Yesterday the statements OF Joseph
W;,;ams and Thomas Cruise, who were arrested as
wttnesses. were taken. They stated that the stab
bing was done by a man named Hugh Spltn,
scene-ehifter at Waldmann's Variety Iheatre.
Newark The circumstare ees of the stabbing are as
follows: Furey and friend named Kelley met two
strange men in Broad-st, and quarrel arose
Three patrolmen came MP and separated the COM
bafants and ordered them to go home. In his
ststemsnt Furey asserted that he told one OF the
officers that he MAS stabbed. and polnted out nls
that the ocer instead Of doing so, threatened HIM
with his club. This statement IS supported by
The ofjcer states, however, thai nothing was said
10 him about stabbng. that he made no threat 70
use hls clnb, aud that he accompanied Fnrey sew
eral blocks on his way home. and received from him
no intilnation that he had been wounded. The
weapon used was a.pen-knfe, and the wound was
yestsrday that Hugh Smith had disappeared from
hia nsnal kaunfs.