New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-02-26
NETWORK CITY.

Second-ave. street-cars now bear the a'uac''o
placard: This car is heated"
Sailors love 70 bask on the sunny sidewalks OF
South-st. and play checkers with bits OF COAL
Valentines in large numbers still decorate the
shop windows for the beneht OF oeiaIeu 'oNels
The assignment of George Dunn ana fhlnp u
Wilbur to Edward X. Wilbur was filed yesterday
meeting will be held in S'einway HAL on
Thursday evening TO nrge the appointment OF ma
irons Tor the police stations.
Deaths last week. 7G6; births, 571; Marriages ,3s
GAG: arrests lisa: excise licenses granted, loo
Fees amounting TO S7,525 were collected
The masons have at last completed the brick work
of the new Fulton Market and the carpenters are
now at work on the wood work IN the interior.
DEATHS FROM CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.
There was decrease of contagious diseases IN ne
city last week. Tho number of deaths from small;
pox was 10; measles. rs; scarlet fever, el ana
from diphtheria IL
VACANCY IN THE COMMISSION.
The Commissioners of the Underground Railway
met and adjOur ned yesterday without datH' no
commissioner has yet been appointed i'll the place Oh
Julien &. Davies who resigned.
KILLING EiMsFIF IN GRIEF FOR HIS WIFE.
A verde. Of suicide found by a Coroner S
Jury yesterday in the case of Ashton y; Binn is
who took dose of laudanun on FEBRUARY To-
through grief AT the death of his wife,
BUILDINGS DEEMED UNSAFE - -,
Unsafe buildings reported Yesterday; Nos -
AvenueA. go Avenues, 323 Megr oIJ
the building at the southeast corner OF ihud-dNe'
and Eighty eighth-st.
LANDED AT CASTLE GARDEN.
veStcrjav- Of which humber $40 were Italians from
Naples. few were Russian Hebrew refugees on
their way to Chicago. The total NUMBER VI hhiu-
grants for the week was 5,O23.
FX-MINisTER FOSTER TO LECTURE.
John w. Fos,er laie Minis er TO It; Peiersrrnrs'
will deliver lecture in Chickenng Hall on ne
Sav ryrn,rg on THE Car and his People" The
proceeds the Lecture viii he devoted 10 the Oeheht
of the Russian Hebrew refugees
UNABLE To MOVE ALTHOUGH BURNING TO DEATH.
Rchecca Zeiss, German woman htty years OIL
who lived on the second floor of III liester-st and
who was almos, helpless on account Of recent
stroke of paralysis was burned to death yeNleIaay
in her DOM She was alone at the time, ana IL Is
supposed that her dress caught fire from stove Ill
SALE OF TICKETS FOR TIE PURIM BALL
The managers of the Purim Bail which IS to take
place at tn Academy of Music on March :. report
an unusually large sale Of tickets. Much care has
been extended to make II success. i ne, supper
viii be- served in Nilsson Hall at l. o'clock. The
proceeds are to 90 to the Russian Emgrant una
and other claltles.
AID ASKED FOR A HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN. nj,
AJapanese tea party viii be gwen az LYRIC Hal III
in Sixth-ave. tomorrow evening, ior tne behen' OF
The New-York Medical Soc ETY. and Hospital lOr
Women The committee IN charge sohclt assistance
from the public In the shape Of money. the sale OF
tickets or gifts of useful or oruauental articles
which would be salable upon bazaar table.
TRIAL OF A FIRE-ESCAPE.
A large crowd gathered IN Irlnung House
Square yeste day ofternooa 10 zee tne trai 1I a Ne"
FIRE soap. invented 2v Henry A. stone lbs CON
sisted OF canvas tube vita apParales LOT aaisls
to the windows OF building IL was attacneu 10
the fifth story of The Tribune Building and the
inventor and several fremen Id down through the
tube without injury OF accident OF any hlnd'
THEIR s.LEswoMEN ALLOWED TO SIT.
II. O'Nelll William Kinney and }. Rothschild
storckeepers taken TO the Jefferson Market
Police Court yesterday to answer for neglectlng to
proylde seats for their saleSW OGnen They were
paroled until Monday 10y Justice Patterson They
d.sIv the charges which are made by the agent OF
.he Workingwomens Protective Union, ana say
that their saieswomen allowed to SIT down when
at leisure
WANTING HER HUSBAND COMMITTED.
Sobn Van Of
on Friday nighI stabbed his wife with table FORK
apf br heh eTon Market ri Police Court SeseTay
His wife, whose injuries are slight, asked Justice
Patterson to commit him to SOME institution. ilo
is suffering from the effects of nemperance, ana
was sent 10 Bellevue Hospital, whence he will go 10
the WOrkhOuse for three months.
NUGFNT& co.'s STOCK TO BE SOLD.
The pTOperty Of &. Nugent az Co., the Newark
morocco IN nu acturors, which was seizel at their
New-Y rk store, at William and Spruce-s s.. at the
time Of their failure by Deputy-Snerf Bcgg, is to
be sold at auction on Monday at l o'clock, at No.
q East Broadway, under an "Xecutl0n OF judgment
in favor of tue defuuct Mechanics Bank of New
ark The property co sists of large assortment
OF skins, said 10 be worth $-Oooo
an ARGUMENT POSTPONED.
The argument in the order issued by Judge
Bla, hford TO show cause why the SUIT OF T. H.
BAbbltt against the Mutual Union Telegraph Com
pany should not be renanded to the superior Court
was los poned Yesterday on the motion of Robert
Sewall who appeared f1r the telegraph company
Judge Bla,chford decided that in view OF the onls-
son TO file record of the case with the clerk the
argument could not take pace until Monday
morning
CHOOSING DEATH WHEN DESERTED BY HER LOVER.
Coroner Brady yesterday held an inquest IL the
case of the young German girl, Mary SchlichtiDg
whose body was found floating of the Battery on
February IA. Tue testimony showed that the dead
yonng Dauish cigar maker Theo lore johnson, who
lived in Prince-st She went TO iioboken and while
there wrote IA letter to her alleged betrayer John
sen instead Of rep wing left the city, and III her de-
spair she committed suicide.
FoILuD IN HIS PLAN To GET FREE PASSAGE
of WOr a III
ent Walng Friday that they had IN custody a
man who gave his name Max SOmmer. and who
said he had embezzed d 200 from Sgheie tLce
York The police Of his city investigated the
matter Yesterday and learned that the statement of
Somner was true. The firm, however had been
satisfied by Somners relatives and did not desr to
prosecute him. The police of Chicago were told
therefore set him Tree. Ii is supposed that he had
been ad ysed that he had thing to fear, and that
he surrendered himself order TO get tree passage
10 thus city.
THE CHARGE AGAINST JAMES A. BRIGGS.
Deputy Collector Briggs, who was charged re-
Gently With violating the revenue laws III taking
package from the steamship Seryia says that the
name of General Merritt Consul General at London.
was used without authority i'll the published re-
ports. Mr. Briggs says that the cloak belonged to
the daughter OF a friend whom he wished To obge
and that when he learned he had committed
technical violation OF the law, he paid the duty.
Tie person for whom the cloak was bought is not
Captain Bracket, said that he bad nothing to do
with the complaint, which had been brought by the
Az INSANE SOLDIER.
Officer 'HeTan, of the Steamboat squad, and an
employe of the Ocean steamship Company,
at Pier No. So North River, took before Justice
Power Yesterday. at the IOmbs Police Court,
Sergeant Lawrence E. Hay. of Battery +, 9th
Reeiment of Artillery, who was passenger by the
steamship Gate City from Florida, on bus way to
Plattsburg Penn. lie wore his uniform and his
baggage consisted of large valse, hls muSket and
military equipments. IL il alleged that he con-
Cucted himself i'll such manner on the passage
as to lead TO the belief that no was Of ulso9nd