New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-09
NETWORK CITY.

NETWORK CITY
Dealers contemplate a reduction in the price OF
skates.
DAMAGE BY WATER IN FIFTH AVENUE.
The police of the Twenty-ninth Precinct reporter
Yesterday that a water pipe had burst on saturday
in the unOccuped house No. 80 fltth-aVe'' 9Tncu
by Hugh Hastings, and that some damage hau pcon
caused by water.
DAMAGED BY SEVERE GALES:
The bark Okenburg, from Macclo, with cargo
of sugar, arrived yesterday in partially wrecked
condition. She had continuous westerly RaJs' nndd
her sails were split her bulwarks crushed IN, anu
everything movable was swept from the dechs'
THE RESULT OF THE ALDFRNEN's CoMBINATIoN.
President Sauer, of the Board of Aldermen has ms
list of committees nearly made up they VIII De
announced at the meeting of the Board to-inoIIqW
The charmcn of the committees are divided be
tween the Tammany Aldermen and the kepuoHGrhhn
majority who voted for President Sauer' ~ ne
Comfy Democracy members and Aldermen Wate
and Seaman, the Republican Aldermen who refused
TO come into the combinations VIII hoI oe 'cO"en'"
i'll the appointments
PICKING ONE POCKET TOO MANY.
Uuco :. Mack of No. 90 West Forty-sixth-'t
boarded Grand-st. car at DesbroSSes street frfIy
Friday nyht and while getting of at EllZabeth-si;
was crowded 10y a thick-set man who wore lu
beard. shortly aftcrward Mr.. Mack missed ms goa
watch valued at SlIS. He furnished description
of te suspected thief to the police, ana on H3nraaH
Detective O'NeiIl and Doyle of the Central once
arrested James 9. Meyers. alias "Nibsy, man we'll
known to the force He was taken 10 me JSHtr..3n
Mack Justice Patterson rcmanded um Tor 1uriHer
'N''''''''''''"' BROOKLYN
The new propeller Charles H. ScIh VIII he
launched ut GrrcnpOnt this week. II Is 100 le'i IN
length II in width and 10 In depth. \ new SiIc-
wheel steamer will soon be ready for the monarch
Line II is 50 feet long % feet beam ana - le'I
depth of hold.
Four sittinrs in Plymouth Church yesterday
morning were occupied by Captain Martin HateS'
the giant, and his wife, VIII Is quite us inuGh 81 i
giant each being over eight feet tall. Mt. bcechcI
preached a characteristic sermon upon the law ,"'
love, or bcEcyoience, rs the central theme Oh TIC
Gospel
The Conversational Association Of Ncw-Yorl, and
BROOKLYN. including the churches and minister's
that affiliate with Mr. Berchcr will meet to-m'r-
row AT o a. IN. in Plymouth Church Reports from
the churches and discussions 0i Varous TOPICS IN
cGdlIg " The Causes and Cureo frequent IH"II'S
in the Pastoral Office, The Duty OF CITY jhuIch'7
the Fruits OF Heading ana study will be discussed.
There VIII be no evening service
JERSEY CITY.
Six new cases of smallpox, iour of which were
fatal were reported yesterday To licdlth Inspector
benjamin. The fatal cases were Alr: Hand OF No;
3Ij Holaday-st, who had been Ill for week ahu
without medical attendance; Mrs Lang. OF No. co.
Grand-st.; Mr.. Burke. Of No. i3 Oak-st ana hr.
Williams IF No. 1863 Sccond-st Williams leaves
a wife and four children III destitute circumstances
and in all probability they will al! be attacked ny
the disease. The Health Inspector vaccnai'9
them. The other cases are at No. 300 tIlst-t'' ana
NEWARK.
While the members of the Finance Committee Of
the Common Council in Newark refuse 10 say WhEt
new evidences of frauds have been discovered at the
CITY Hall il is undprStOO that they relate tolorgcd
checks or bonds. amounting to $1,000. 1t IA smd
that the forged paper passed through bank IN New
York and the committee wants the bans, as a
penalty for not discovering The frauds 10 pay me
city part Of the sum lost Ii Is promised ma IN"
matter will be made pubic WITHIN TWO "' 'H''
days
John Daily, a young man who gave New York as
his home was committed TO jail IN Newark NrSt't-
day to await trial on charge OF ilanci"uS ihlSGIIo
Kalischs jewclry store No 100 Mlrkot-St Ito
saws that Kalisch loaned him 81 on gold cham
worth $50 and then on tie pref Xt that he u alItI
came day too late to redeem the cham 10
return it, saving that it had been melted. Weeks
passed by and Kalisch gave HIM nothing IN return
for the chain Again. on Saturday night nc lc-
fused to refund the cham or IFS value IN money
Daily saws be lost control Of himself, and III lis
anger demolished the case
LONG ISLAND.
IsL1P.-Scarlet fever prevails t. an alarming cX-
tent at I;ip. The town Board of Health has been
asked to take measures prevent the spread &" Inc
disease.
Long Island CmY.-nanic Rice, colorcd age
fifty, of Jamaica. was commit yea iaS y" S'u.r,ual 10
the Queens Comfy Jail on "A charge 0l drunhenuc-5
for thirty days by JQsticc Rowland. Yesterday
morning he was found dead IN his cell
SMITHvILLE.-In the course Of a fight at baH
gwen by coored people saturday evening At the
house of Henry Bctto, at Smthyillr Smith Bctto
was terribly beaten by John Sanford, ana john
Jackson received an injury TO ms spine, completely
paraliziug him. He cannot recover.
STATEN ISLAND.
SrAPLETON-Thc thrcc-mastcd schooner Com
mandcr of Boston, which sprung leak about ten
davs ago on a trip from Baltimore 10 Boston with
cargo of coal and was run ashore near sandy HOOK
was hoatcd yesterday by the Merritt Nrcckmg
Company and tOWcd to its dock of StaplctOn, The
vessel had been given up By her oWneIs rs lost
The Commander was formerly the steamer South