New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-08-06
NETWORK CITY.

NALL
A free ce-water fountain has been set up at One-
hundred and-forty irst-st. and Alexander-ave
Little business was done at the Cotton Exchange
yesterday, as l. was n bank holiday III Liverpool
Collections are now made on Sunday from the
lamp etter-boxes in fremont fordham ana "eso
Farms.
This candid statement is hung ont in a Catharne1,
st. pawnbroker's window: by leaving q small
deposit we keep any article in this window"
The headgoar of half the street-car drivers in the
CITY suggests the solution of the query rs 10 WHAT
became of policemens last years summer hats.
TAKING FREE WASH
The number of persons who enjoyed tne free
floating baths last week was reported yesterday as
follows: Men and bows, Az S95; women and girls.
go 1885, total, 19S,O34
DROWNED N A CIsTERN.
While several small children were playing yeSte,r-
William Fortune five years old, fell into a cistcrn
and was drowned. Ii body was recovered by his
parents.
LAST WEEKS POST OFFICE RECEIPTS.
The Post Office receipts for the last week were
$50 7OO-over 81, 900 moro than in the correspond
ing week OF last year. Foreign letters TO the num-
Der of 10S 702 were dispatched in the steamers
sailing yesterday.
POSSIBLE RIVAL TO COMFY ISLAND.
The East Riycr near the mouth of the S9th-st.
sewer is favOrte bathlng-pace; so much so thaI
the erection of bathhouss for the use OF those VINO
can afford excusivencss at 10 cents head has
proved profitable investments.
RESCUED FROM DROWNING.
Alvey Sepler eight years Old, accldentalF 1cll INTO
the North River at Pier No. 81, yesterday and wonId
have been drowned had not James Clark, OF No. 372
Hudson-st., plunged in aud rescued HIM. Inc boy
was taken to his home at NO rs barroW-St'
EMUI.ATING MR.. BERGH IN INDIA.
F. Fellows Jenkins Secretary of the society for
the Prevention OF Cruelty to Children has received
a letter from India, written IN the lhdoo lanenagi'
asking aid and advice as 10 the IOrnaton Vi STILL
lar society at Calcutta.
ARRIVALS AT CASTLE GARDEN.
The steamship City of Richmond from Liverpool
passengers the Polux from Amsterdam rs, ana
the Honenstaufen from Bremen, 377 The total
number of immigrants who reached tins port In Tue
week ending August was 747l.
STEALING FROM HIS EMPLOYERS.
William Meth, age thlrty-tye, of No.22 Beach-st.,
porter in the employ of Schosse ~ Brother at NO
$50 Broadway was charged before Justice fatters1n
Yesterday at the TOmbs Police Court with the
larceny of cloth goods of the value OF S34 from that
firm. 1t is alleged that he has been sieallng ior
some time. He was held in default OF $l,OOo pail.
COLLECTION OF THE HEAD-TAX on IMMIGRANTS.
Collector Robertson did not receive any nstruc-
tons Yesterday relative to the collection OF the
head-tax on immigrants The agents OF Tue various
al steamship lines are indifferent i'll regard 10 the bill,
which thew say will not alter the present method by
which they already pay head-tax On each steerage
passenger landed
THE MENTAL CONDITION OF A LUNATIC.
In the case of Letitia T.. Laurent, VINO was com
mitted in 1878 to the Lunatic Asylum on Black
wells Island at the instance OF her brother kchard,
Justice Haight in the Supreme Court, CHAMBERS,
YESTERDAY granted an order TO show cause why q
commission should not be appointed to inquire INTO
her sanity and the amount OF her property.
MAJOR LELAND's WILL
The will of Major George ,. Leland, who died at
the Sturtevant House on last Wednesday, was MED
in the Surrogate's office yesterday. lie Dequeaths
all his property to his executors. Horace D Leland
Clara 4. Wiggens and Noble b. Wiggens,sin trust
for his son, Jerome Aaron Leland, now elght years
old who is to receive 1t when he reaches te age Oh
tWenty-One. The Will IS dated December ~, 1851.
BAD LOGGER TO HAVE IN THE HOUSE.
George Placer age fortyiive, was rcarraIgned be-
fore Justice Patterson yesterday at the lomDS
bovme- while in an m oxicated condition. set fire
10 bed in his i'll ,he rear OF the premises at
No ~ West-st., on the night of August 2, to the
great danger of the other inmates. 1t is alleged
That he is an habitual offender lie was committed
for one month III default OF 1900 ball.
cEMENTING THEIR FRIENDSHIP WITH DRINK.
archibald d. Gordon, arrested on Il charge OF hav-
ing assaulted John W. Keller III the lobby OF
Wallacks Theatre on the night of July 81, was ex-
ahmed before Justice Ford, in the Jefferson Mar
ket Police Court, yesterday. Alter nearing me
testimony the Justice advised the parties to the
suit to make up and be friends. as they mad been
before the assault occurred lhey SHOOK hands ana
smoked the pipe ot peace-that Is, they look
drink
A NEW THEATRE IN A CENTRAL LOCATION.
On a Muberry-st. back-stOop two bare-footed
urchins were conducting Matinee behind
ragged blanket on business principles, yesterday.
Inc bills uck up about the stOop tor the lniorma-
ton OF aI imaginary audience showed that tncy
were managers of experience Ihey read, Al
mission one cent - Pay on cnterlng" &" No
trust y" No lighting allowed" The central object
of the exhibition was paper pln-wheel on the end
| of q bTOOm-stck.
HELD TO AWAIT THE CoMPLAINANT's RETURN.
SImon Picard, who was arrested Oh Friday night
and locked up the IhIrtieth Street Police station
on complaint of j. NJ. Ormes, OF the firm OF OrneS
| d Eldrld, telephone contractors, OF London ana
| Paris in whose employ he had been rs messenger
up last February, when he lett the latter city
with 1000 francs belonging to the hrm was
orraIned IN the Jefferson Alarket Police Court yes
terdav. lie was remanded by Justice Ford to await
the return OF Nil Ormes, who had gone to Baltimore
| on important business.
BROOKLYN.
Hamilton-aye is being repaired.
There were $40 arrests by the police in Brooklyn
| la ST week.
Permits were granted for the erection of thirty
| five buildings last week.
Changes are being made in the Fulton Ferry
house on the BrOohyn SIDE
James McLane, a boy seven years of age, was IA
tally injured by falling down stairs at So Atlantic
ave, where his parents live, last evening.
Mrs Mary Mannix, thrty-two years of age iy-
| ing al No. 673 Flfth-ave., while attempting TO
kndle lire VITA Kerosene was fatally burned yes
| terday
| Thomas j. Murtha, living at No. ~ Smith-st.. was
arrested last night on complaint OF superintendent
| George ". Dixon, of Westcotts Express Company,
charged with embezZing 500 from The company
while acCng Its agent at No. 10 tourth-st., Il. d.
| Henry E. Schultz, who is accused of attempting
| TO elraud the Busnwlck Savings Bank by means OF
| forged checks, Is sull missing. An examination by
tine officers OF the bank shows, it SAID that the n
sttutlon Will suffer no loss through Schultzs trans
| Actions
| Robert AIT. age twenty-four. of No. 1877 Hester
| St New-York, was arrested by Officer Hopping
| Yesterday, ON The complaint of the Rev. J0hn I.
| Boyer OF No. 147 Zen Eyck-st., the pastor of the
| German Evangelical Church at GrdhLm-aye and
| Ten Eyck-st., charged with endcayorlng to collect
| money on false prctenccs
JERSEY CITY.
Eta Wright, Florence Blanche and Josephine
Blanche three colored girls VINO gave the IntOrna-
| ton to Detective Ky an upon which Albert Bradley
| was arrested for a burglary at George H. Frenchs