New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-04-03
NETWORK CITY.

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fees collected. $7.923
pa.ssns,r. on the Metropolitan Elevated Road
complain Of the offensive odor OF coal OIL winch
comes from the lamps as soon as they are ngu'eu'
Johr l.. Stoddard will close his course OF Illus
trated evening lectures at Chickering hall 10
morrow evening. The remaining matnees are Oh
Tuesday and Friday.
POST OFFICE STATISTICS.
The recejpts last week at the Post Office from toe
sale Of postage stamps and box rents were $91 ~
Tie six outgoing steamers yesterday tooA oi''
letters and Iii bags of newspapers.
POSSIBLY PREMATURE ANTiCiPATIoNs.
"Corr TO n better place above" is the rather suR-
vcstiye announcement of dealer in religious BOOKS
who is about to move from place IN one Oh Tue s'uo
,treets downtown to a building near broadway
COPYING TnE REGISTRY LISTS.
Nearly score of clerks employed by the Demo
cratic Committee of One Hundred was AZ "ork =.
Police Headquarters yesterday copying last year
test Of qualification to vote
SgPoTIsM IN MULBERRY STREET.
The Police Commissioners on Friday nppoHWIe et
James II. Matthews. a son of Commissioner MAT
thews clerk at a salary of 81 800 year: brother
of the Commissioner Is SURGEON III the Department
aud receives q salary OF 500 year
MUTUAL PROTECTION OF TAILORs.
A nuarterly meeting L. the Central Body OF the
Tailor, Protective Union of this city was held ias
evening at No. 10 stantonst Sevsrsl ipsen
was reelected president, and Thomas "lIilihs sec
rotary. ..,.,.,.,.o>
The Democratic Republican General Committee
met: Mt Tammany Hall last might to celebrate the
I3Sth anniversary of the birth OF Thomas Jefferson.
Addresses we're made by j. X. Flanders, exJndge
Rroaier and John Kelly Resolutions were passed
approving Jtticrsous ideas, and demanding ina, that
step, be taken toward the erection i'll Ieh'ral "'h
Of a monument To HIM.
DLTFHMINFD TO ECN AWAY. go
Reuben Ross. who some time AGO ran away WITH
Mamie Smith Ia young woman einpioycu ny ny
again ran away FIR lay evening and took the fast
train on the Pennsylvania hallroad, To lhiiade'-
phia Mrs Ross hearing that they wt ,Leu s"ln ',,
arrived just IN time TO see the tram leaving the
depot. ..
Ameeting OF the Wes'-Sidc Association was held
last night al NintL-ave. and Seventy-thlrd-st;
James A. Briggs. who was TO 'lver an address did
not appear The question of " Taxation ana Assess
ments was discussed bv the president. ID. H. Ohm
stead General Niele and other members kcsolu-
tons were adopted requesting the ieglslatur1 10
pass n bill for the Improvement OF klversIue fafA
and Avenue.
FROM FIrIu-AvENUE To -TnInD-FTRfrT.
G. T. Pntnanis Sons will remove their business
this month TO larger and more convenient quarters
M Nos 81 and 20 West Twenty-thrd-st.. the fourth
house from the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Tho building
is 200 feet deep, and extends TO lwenty'louilhSl;
The store is divided into the wholesale and retail
6euartnents ard AT the rear os the stOre there Is
steam elevator to take customers TO the composing
and press rooms
ftFECrs OF JUDGE CRoATEs RESIGNATION.
Business is seriously Murdered IN the tnlteI
States District Court owing To the resignation oil
Judge Choatc. The Court has not been opsn since
Judge Cboate was attacked with Illness, about SIX
weeks ago and IS unders that he Will not M
dcrtake any new business HIS intention Is to DIS,
pose of all the winch have been before hl ana
soon aferward as his health VIII permit 'oiosuo
bis private practice.
PEzrs FOR DESIGNS FoH WALL PAPER.
Warren. Fuller X Co., manufacturers OF wall
raper at No. 100 East Forty-sccoHd-st., have OIL
}e,ed four prizes amounting to S2C''J tor the best
designs of wallpaper. The exhi"ltion OF designs
will take place IN the fall, at the American AT ,a
ell ha( 'brigfI
Ter Brothers, l.. {. Moore. of Tiffany q C"' aht
William Il. BlGelow, an architect The prizes are
81 900. $500. $500 and 500.
A PHYSICIANS IMPRACTiCABLE sCHFME.
physician of this city has laid before the Board
of Health proposition to purify and disinlect sew
ers by the use of electricity lie PROPOSES 10 rsd
he at by means OF an electric current and CLAIMS
that the chemical action would eliminate the hydro
gen from the gases and make oxygen. HE Heaitb
Commissioners claim that the scheme Is worthless
md would not accomplish any thing.
INDICTMENTS MADE BROADYR.
New indictments were yesterday hied agalo M
WANT officers of the Mutual Stock Operating
Company for obtaining money under false pfeten-
A motion to ouash the indictments was made before
Judge Cowing. who denied IT, but intmatcd that
the indictments might be nude somewhat broader
THIS suggestion has been carried out. Inc In
dictcu men are under bail III $1,000 each.
BROOKLYN.
Eighteen deaths from diphtheria were reported
last week.
John r. Cough will lecture in the Academy of
Music Tomorrow evening Oh fiat'orm ahu ici-
bOnal Experiences"
The building Department granted seventy-three
permits for the erection of new buildings last week.
In Marcb 231 permits were granted
William Cullen and Ann Collins. who were ar
rested Friday for kidnapping two children, Carrie
Arvine and sophia Gracben, were comIntted yes
terJay by Justice Towns. IL was stated tbat tn,y
expected to get 900 reward for the return OF the
children
'N''O''"' NEw-JERsEY.
UyroN HnI--E!izabe,h Smith, of Union Hill.
who owned a number of cows. went 70 the brewery
IN that place yesterday with wheelb2rrow 20 eet
,ome grain for her cows. On the way home she fell
pver her barrow and broke her neck Her body was
saken to her hclue.
LONG ISLAND.
OYSTER DAY-Eilen Levi. colored, was found
dead III a piece of woods at Pine Hollow, town OF
OYSTER Bay Yesterday morning. Coroner Bayllss
took charge OF tue body.
B,RrTErI's STlrIoN.-Five hundred acres of vau-
lbe timber owned bv William o. Bartlett, at Bart
irtts Station. was burned over Thursday. The
origin of the fire Is unknown.
BRIpGrrAMpToS.- lhe Methodist Association has
,old the large tract OF land adjoining the beach be-
tween Mecox Bay aud Sagg Lake at BIdgelainpton:
10 persons from Ncw-ioIk tor $4,000. Hotels and
cottages to be built and the place will be made
lsummcr resort
Gust Valley l.. l., was held III 81 800 bail Yesterday
before Judge Armstrong IN tue Queens County
Court or SESSIONS on cIaTSb OF HAVING
Anric Morrit The defendant is a butcher and a
partner of the Young wOmans father, at whose
house ne lived. An indictment charging HIM with
beng the girls betrayer was discontinued on his
promise to merry hor. After his release he sued Mr.
kIorrt for $50 900 for false Imprisonment. Hc
again arrested and the old charge was renewed
FLusHING.-Mrs. Sarah A. Leake. Of Flushing
who was arrested Thursday on the charge Of murder
ing her daughters child bv throwing it Into an
putLouse and covering il with ashes was arragned
before Justice Frame yesterday. Officer Schmidt
aud Henry Curtis testified 20 the fact Of finding tue
child as narrated in Fridays TRIBUNE. The pm
pner who had previously admitted to the Justice
and the officer that she threw the child in the out