New-York tribune., 1882-02-08
NEW-YORK CITY.


Fordham has a backman worth 100000, ana AT
81 - per hour they ought all 10 ger rlch IapidIy'
Health INSPECTORS seized upward Of 2,i00 pounds
of unwholesome meat in various markets
Thrd-ave from II Harlem Bridge TO One-hundred-
and-seyentIeth-st. IS 10 le numbered
The Rev. Canon Knox Little, OF Engand. VIII
preach in ST. Georges Church, StuyyeSant square
this evening.
Tho New-York Church Extension Society has
opened a mission in East nc-hundred-and-twehty-
third-st. go
The Dartmouth College Alumni Association will
eat their annual duncr AT Pin1rd'S tins evening.
-Four of the professors will be present.
The annual Cornthan regatta OF the Seawanhaka
Yacht Climb will take place this year on Saturday
June l..
Much heavy floating ice was in tho bay yest"r-
day, impeding navigation considerably. One trip
morning and evening on the Staten Island halIWay
Ferry has been discontinued on account VI 'no Ivy
season.
DANCING or TIE CABLES;
On cold days the men engaged on thc bfooh{n
Bridge may be seen dancing vigorously Oh ny
cables TO keep Their feet warm. faullarilY WIN
tie great height at which the' work has bred con-
tempt for LIS danger
NEW FERRY FRANCHISE.
The Committee on Finance o; the Board OF AI!er-
men Yesterday reported iavOrabv on the estapllNh
rncn of "a ferry from the foot of Llbcrty-S 10 Gon,
munIpaw. and CoInmlSSlonerS OF the SlhhlnR unu
were authorized to sell 10 the highest Didder inc
right TO operate the ferry.
Alderman Kirk offered a resolution IN tho heaId
yesterday allowing all business men below IoHr- IoHr
teenth-st back trucks and carts on inc sldc c"alNs
in front OF their premises 10 I'du anu uh'Odu sO0''
II was passed.
HANGING HIMSELF WITH HIS HANDKEEcHifF.
Nelson Peterson. age forty-ve years, who refused
to give his residence, attempted suicide YESTERDAY
by hanging himself with his handkercheI AT No'
81 Beacl-st. He wa, taken 10 Bellevue Hospital
NOT CASE OF POISONING.
Coroner Brady yesterday held an inquest IN inc
case of Catherine f. Carlcn who died last OCTOBER
under circumstances that induced some persons 10
suspect poison. The Coroner decides that she GIed
from asthenla.
NOT INDICTED BY The GRAND JrEY.
Lewis COhcn, of No. Is LUdloW-st., was arrested
sometime ago on a charge of killing hs VIE ~
brutally striking and kicking her. Inc GIahd
jury failed to indict him because there was not SUI
hcicnt proof of his assaults, and yesterday lie vas
discharged.
MORE UNSAFE BUILDINGS.
Unsafe buildings reported yesterday; Nos 52 ana
I5owery. Nos. 7l9 ana 72l FIith-st, No. 46Nl2
Pclrl-st, rear, No. 1919 West Eicycnth-st., and No.
762 SecOnd-aVe.
BEuFSTEAK FOR A CENT.
house of public entertainment III BaXtFr-St mas
on its bill of fare: " Coffee, one cent beeisteak
one cent; rolls one cent, aud on through the lSt
which eliminates in the offer Oi " square meal lot
five cents" The cold wave from Manitoba swept
large numbers OF blear-cyed tramps into this sub
Gel lar hos. .clry.
COMMITTED PENDING Az INQUEST.
Michael McAnnerley, OF No. " ANGST VINO ls
charged with causing the death OF william
FeatherstOnc by striking him on the head "ith
brick December 81; was arralgnrd ye,tetaai De.
fore Coroner Knox, who committed mia 10 inc Citl
Prison pending the inquest IN the case
DR. FREEMAN's SECOND LECTURE.
The second lecture ID Dr. l.. 4 trccmans course
on " The English People IN hcIr Ihree llones,
delivered for the benefit of the New-lOrk Free CIR
culating Library, will be given III Chlckenng llau
al hali-past O'clock tins evening. lnc subject
will be- The Oldest England and the L Hst
Voyage
ENROLLING MORE VOTERS.
The XItL Assembly District Republican Associa-
ton, Charles a. Peabody. Jr., president, held tile
regular monthly meeting last evening IN Che rooms
at No. 1O7 West Thirty-lourth-st. After transao-
tlon OF the routine business several new names
were added to the roll OF membership.
WISHING 70 CHANGE ITs NAME.
Alta meeting OF the stockholders # The National
Mechanics Banking Association. No. IS Nail-st,
Yesterday, the capital STOCK was increased tf"In
5000 600 TO II. 100000. IL was voted also Ia "Sk
Congress for permission to change the name oi the
institution to the " all Street National Bank.
bin for this purpose has been already presented IL
is understood that the bank has engaged IoJuS Ia
the Mills building III Broad-st
CHARGED WITH DIGAHY.
William Rowan, OF No. - SiXth-aVe. who was ar
rested Oh Monday night on a charge OF bigamy pre-
ferred by Catharne Rowan, whom he married on
December 49, was aTfligncG AT the Jefferson Market
Police COurt yesterday. lie woman told Justice
Patterson that she had learned that Rowan bad
wife living in Glasgow when he married her MIs.
and lie was held TO answer III ToOO pail
DECLARING THE CITY TO BE HEALTHY.
The Board of Health yesterday ISSUED the follow
ing notice: "For the information Of American
consuls and the accredited agents Of the JmtoI
States at foreign ports II - hereby resolved ana de
ciared that the usual good health prevails IN thls
city ana III the adjacent country, ana that there IS
no epidemic of smallpox OfulhtI contiguous uiacdac
IN this CITY, or any Immediate danger .! such cpl
demlc.,'
RESIDENTS OF A BLOCK WITHOUT WATER.
Health Inspector Russell yesterday sent 10 the
Board of Health report That al the houses III
Forty Y-secOud-st., between sixth and ScNchlh-dNcoi
with the exception OF Tie 81 CioHd IiOtcI, were III
alternately supplied with water as tie street main
il too small The inspector wrote III conclusion
" As there Is ample supply ol water l0i lhe clty
1t seems nabe tlat tno residents OF TINS Dloch
should not suffer- The report was referred 10 the
Department OF Public Woiks.
DRUNK NEAR a BLAZING FIRE.
Patrolman Book, OF tne lWeHtI-eiBhh ITeelnct
alragucd IN the lOrkville Police Court yesterday
John y ilara and Mary Mandcrylile, charging them
with disordcfiV conduct. On Monday afternoon
the officer WAS called 10 the house al No. 80 Last
Fifty -ninth-st by an alarm OF fire. lie entered the
room occupied by Mis-. ManderV1lle aud 1Ouud her
and o. 'Hara lying upon the iOOr drunk and the bed
m Il blaze. lie c&tIuguIshcd the HIIncs and ar
rested the paIr. Book stated IN court thdt there
were twenty families ia the house ana the ire might
have resulted seriously Ih-y were each hncd $40.
AWARDS or SALVAGE.
The steamer Lcip.Ic, Oi the NOrtn German Lloyd
line in September, 1879, became disabled wien two
days out from TINS pVfr lilo steamer Gre' ham,
plying between New pOft aud baltimore, came upon
the disabled vessel, aud tue captain agreed 10 tow
the Lcipsic into New-lorh harbor for $4,000, THIS
salvage claim was aiterWard contested IN The
[ 'ultcd States Circuit Court. Yesterday Judge
BlatchfOrd handed down decision holding that the
proper amount salvage for TINS service would be
80 300 OF this amount hc awarded Si,l2J 10 the
owners OF the Gresham, 800 to the master, ana
the rest to the officers and crew Oi the Gresham.
SIMPLIFYING me REGISTRY OF IITLEB
Alderman Roosevelt at The meeting Ot the 30 ri
Yesterday offered a resolution that the Committee
on Law be directed to prepare q law and memorial
TO bc presented 10 the Legislature tOr the simpic-
ton of the registry of titles O aud IN tins city. lie
declared that the present system OF registry WAS
failure and that a newer ana more simple one was
needed. The cost of the present system en0T-
NOUS, and II tended 10 the accumulation ot books.