New-York tribune., 1882-04-07
NFW-YORK CITY.


The dead body of an unknown man aboHt forty ay
wears old. was found in the basement of No. 80
Waer-st early yesterday morning
Professor Nathan Sheppard will begin his Author
Entertainments in Association Hall TINS evening
with Dickens's Characters True to Life"
Justice Smith Yesterday. at the Tombs Police
Court required Thomas BabcOck, for selling pools
on horse races in New-Orleans, La, at No t3 Broad
way to furnish bonds in $500 for examination.
The lamps under the station of the Third Avenue
Elevated Road at Forty-second-st. and Park-aye.
have not been lighted as required by the city ordl-
nance for many weeks.
PROVIDING FOR THE PAYMENT OF BONDS.
The Sinking Fund Commissioners met III the
Mayors Office Yesterday and provided for the pay.
nent of bonds falling due on May l. to the amount
of $3S9,OO0.
CALIFORNIA ORANGES AND LEMONS.
A collection of prize fruit from the celebrated
Citrus Fair, recently held at Riverside, southern
California, will he on exhibition for Jew dayS at
the seed store of b. X. Bliss * Sons No. 81 Bar
clay st.
COOPERATIVE FAILURE
The cooperative store in ClintOn-nllce has closed
the failure are stated to be want OF patronage, Dad
management and inability to stand competition
The store had been running about year.
DYING FROM sELF-INFLICrED INJURY.
Catharine Niannene an inmate of the Lunatlc
Asylum on Blackwers Island, diei on !ueslay
from the effects OF an injury which she inulc;ed
upon herself some weeks ago, while she was suIIcI-
ing from acute mania.
CHARGING HER son WITH THEFT.
Jane Donahue, of No. 252 Flrst-ave charged
her son John age twenty-five. IN the 1oIkVlIle
Court yesterday. with theft. She said that he re-
peatcdly had stolen clothing from herself and her
daughter. lie was rcmanded.
BUILDINGS REPORTED UNSAFE.
A notice was sent 10 the owner of the building at
No. IS5 Mercer-st yesterday to the effect that it
was dangerously unsafe and should he torn down.
Buildings at Nos 90 prncest. and .O57 lhlrd-ave'
were reported as unsafe and i'll need OF repairs.
TRYING To RAISE MONEY FOR A CHURCH.
Tho cou upr4pofl.n q Emmanuel Chapel t(rcrnan
Lutheranl in East Eighty-scvcnth-st., near Third
ave-, wish 10 build church III the place OF the
present chapel, which is much too small for their
use They are endeavoring to raise S50,0 900 for the
purpose.
OBSERVING HOLY THURSDAY.
Yesterday beinE Holy Thursday. special services
i'm commeinoration of the day were held in all of
the Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches lhe
Cathedral was filed with those who were dcsirons
of witnessing the ceremony Of consecratmg the
sacramentai oils. In the other Roman Catholic
churches the preparation OF the repositories was
special feature oi the day.
EXAMINATIONS IL THE POST OFFICE.
An examination was held yesterday of applicants
for 5000 clerk kships in the Post Office There were
twenty-five young men examined by board con-
sistlng OF Assstant-Posmast Gayler and Super
and Appointment Clerk Wood. The examination
was in the ordinary English branches of study.
DEATH OF AN AGED NEGREss.
Mary Smith. "A negress, who was once slave IN
Virginia, died in nd-flfty llfth-st,
near COurtand-avc., on Monday, from old age
certificate OF DEATH which was sent to the Bureau
of Vital Statistics yesterday, stated that she had
lived in this city ffty-Our years, and that at the
time of her death she was one hundred ana seven
wears two months and twenty-tbrcc days old
SALE OF A QUAKER MEETING-HOUsE.
Charles Griifen and Others. acting under direc-
ton of the monthly meeting of the NcW-fOrk So
ciety of Friends, which was held on W Wednesday
last, yesterday sold TO Louis l.. Todd for T97, 800
the moeting-hOuse formerly used by the Northern
District Prepalatlye Meeting on the north SIDE OF
bought the plot III 1856 for $4,000.
IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING BY THE THOUSANDS.
Nine steamship with G,4S3 immigrants arrived
at Castle Garden yesterday The Koln, from Bre-
l.O71; the Labrador from Hayre S2G; the Trim
acria from Gibraltar Sl4 the w. A. Scholten, frop
Rotterdam, 500; the flevetia, from Liverpool, 639
the BelgraVia from Glasgow, 5l6: the Crcassla
from Glasgow, 3S4, and the Abysinnia from Liver
pool, 347.
ENTERTAINING sCHOOL-sHIP BOYS.
literary and dramatic entertainment was given
TO the pupils of the Nautical school the ship ST.
Mary's, foot of East Iwenty-third-st., last hi 1ht
" Little Ada Drummond and Baby Pinky
comic Oddities; Little Lizzie" Drummond
danced hOrnppes, played the banjo and gave recita
tions Nina DruInm0nd played the banjo. Mrs.
Belle Cole sang, and Robert Smith played on the
piano
FRUIT AND SPICE EXCHANGE.
Thirteen irut merchants Of tins city, representing
the ,corporators OF the New ork Fruit and Spice
Exchange, have applied to the Legislature for
charter. They ask for power 10 hold property 10
any amount not exceeding 5000 600 for the purposes
of an Exchange the capital stock of which shall not
be less than 500 O0O repre- re-ented by 900 shares,
with liberty to increase the same to any amount not
exceeding 81 000,0 The corporation is to begin
business when 900 has been subscribed and 10
per cent ON each share paid IN.
DEATH or 4 VAGRANT.
Captain Ryan, of the Iwenty-iTst Precinct, re-
ported to superintendent Nalling yesterday that
Vagrant. John llarnet, had been found dead in the
police station at D a. III. The man applied for lOdg
ines late on Wednesday night aud the sergeant on
toll hum taf fne lodi th
rear No further notice was taken OF BIN until the
doorman found his body lying at the foot of the
stairs which lead to the lOdglng-rOOm. 1t was sup
posed that Hartnet had fallen and broken his neck
ONE PART OF HIS STORY UNTRUE.
wel-drcssed man. about torty-iiye years old
went to the Charles street Police Station at 1:45
lie gave his name Baron Grammont, and said he
was a guest at the Astor House. In explanation of
his injury he SAID he had fallen from Fourth
Avenue car at Eighth-st. His head was dressed at
the ii. Nincents Hospital, and he left that place
soon afterward. 1t was said at the Astor House
that no one by the name of Baron Grammont was
staying there.
DEATH DUE TO POISON.
The Coroner5 inquest was held yesterday in the
case of the death OF Edward Won Eichenau. Deputy
Coroner Raclc testified that the cause of death was
poisoning by cyanide of potash. Won Eichenau,
who SAID 10 be the son OF an Austrian General.
attended a ball at Nalhalla Hall, IN Orchardst..
March II, ana was cJeced from the room FOR dis
orderly conduct, by Policeman Quick. who, il Is
alleged, beat him over the head with his club He
was taken by the officer to the Eldridge street Po-
lice Station and locked up in "A cell where he was
found dying shortly afterward. The jury returned
verdict OF suicide by poison, cXonerating the pO-
Hccman.
HIS MONEY TAKEN WHILE lie WAS DRINKING BEER
Anna hummer, of No. 7i9 Sixth-ave., was ar
ragned IN the lorkvie Court yesterday TO answer
a cnarge OF theft, preferred against her by George
NJ Hoffman. of No. SO5 Sixth ave. The cOmpaill-
ant stated that he entered the liquor store kept by
the defendant on Wednesday night. where Inc drank
several glasses OF beer. iIc started for hls home
where he discovered that his pocketbOok contain
ing about % in money and several checks repre-
senting over 300, was missing. lie applied To the
Twenty second Precinct Police Station, and the
woman was arrested. As there was no evidence
against the defendant she discharged