New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-05-14
NETWORK CITY.

The forest trees in Central Park are in full leaf
The Mayors Marshal issued 4s3 licenses last week.
and received therefor $3,463 70.
Buildings at Nos 700 Broadway and 216 East
Eighty-first-st. were reported unsafe yesterday.
Tho most appreciated citizens of the metropolis
for the last two days have been the sweepers of
stTeet-crosslDgS.
Complaints are made that the menhaden fishing
steamers are catching large quantities Oh ulackcrel
and other fish.
There were ten isolated cases of typhus fever and
twenty cases of smallpox reported at the Sanitary
Bureau last week.
Deaths last week. TT; births, 40; marriages.
249 arrests 1882 excise licenses granted, Coz !;
and fees collected T36,355.
The steamship America which arrived yesterday
from Bremen, reports that she passed numerous
large iceborgs from longitude Az TO OH west IN
latitude Az north.
DOCTORS TO BE GRADUATED.
The seventy-lifh annual commencement OF the
College of Physicians and Surgeons Will he held on
ating class will be delivered by Luther *. Marsh.
AFAsT TRIP TO LONDON.
The Lydian Monarch arrived i'll London on May
10 having left here on April 20, at pm. She made
the trip III little less than eleven days the fast
est time between New ork aud London on record.
LECTURE By DR.. M'COsH.
The Rev. DR.. James McCosh. president of Prince
ton College, lectuTcd last evening before the young
men OF the Collegiate Reformed Church, at Filth
ave. and FOrty-eighth-st., on Evolution" The
discourse a general review OF DR.. McCosPs
CONCERT BY THE BOY VIOLINIsT.
Master Michael Banner, the boy vioiInlst, gave
a concert last evening at Stenway Hall, assisted
by Miss Hattie Louise Simms, soprano, Miss Hor-
tense ilibbarI, pianiste, III. k. Humphries, tenor,
and Armln Schotte, Organist
INCREASE IN IMMIGRATION.
Three European steamships landed 2,954 lmmi-
grants at Castle Garden yesterday making the total
for the week II 49, an increase of Isis over the
corresponding week of last year. The total arrivals
of immigrants from January l are III $50 against
l31, 79o fOr the same period in 1881.
RIFLEMEN ASKING FOR HELP
The Rifle Association asks for contributions from
the National Guard and the public TO defray the
expenses of the Military Rifle Match at CreedmoOr
in September, and OF sending representatives, TO
contest at Wimbledon with the English, Scotch and
to Colonel j. ii. Cowperthwait, treasurer, No. rs
Pine-st.
CLOCKS IN BROADWAY.
ST. PauPs Chapel in Broadway, has the Oldest
tower clock in the city, having been made in Lon
don in 177S IL has two weights of 900 pounds
each and il takes threeq of an hour to wind
H. The clock in Trinity Church. made i'll 1916 has
three weights OF loo pounds each and Is wound
up III al hour and half.
A BAsKET-MAKER SHOOTS HIMSELF
James Smith q basket-makcr, hfty-tive years old
was found living on the floor OF his apartment, at
No 1913 Avenue-A, last evening unconscious from n
pistol wound IN the head. A revolver lay on the
where he.dIed without rcgalning his senses. 1t was
supposed that he shot himself as he had been living
alone Tor some time and was not III good health.
PURCHASE OF ADDITIONAL PROPERTY
President Parker, of the Produce Exchange, has
called a meeting Of the members at p. III. Tues
day, to take action upon recommendation of the
Building Committee 10 purchase part for the