New-York tribune., 1882-03-10
NEW-YORK CITY.

for 1884 800, was recorded yesterday.
The cutters around Fulton Market have little
foot-bridges placed over them on rainy days, so
deep are the pools of water that collect in them.
INCREASED INTEREST IN MARKsMANsHIP.
The prospective coming of tine English rifle team
has already begun to excite popular interest In
rife matters, and new shooting galleries have been
opened in various parts of the city.
MEMORIAL SERVICE TO DIR. JOHN COTTON SMITH.
A service in memory of the Rev. Dr. John Cotton
Smith will be held in the Church of the Ascension
by the Rev. Dr. William r. Huntington, of Wor-
cester, Mass.
The fog that proceeds from the pipes OF the gate
man and the ticket-seer after midnight in the
Elevated Railroad stations uptown, hides from the
view of the near-sighted passenger the gliding and
lettering on the pretty sign " No smoking"
FIXING THE TIME FOR AN INQUEST.
KngS etcFay GGGde& th GP0m daGs%f n %
case of Mrs Wall; who is charged with shooting her
husband, George Barry Wall, at New-Utrccht L. l.;
recently. Mrs. Wall is still confined in the Raymond
Street Jail in Brooklyn.
BUILDINGS REPORTED UNSAFE.
Examiner Mcnamara, of the Buildings Bureau.
yesterday reported that the rear stable at No. 247
Elizabeth-s was unsafe that it ought to be torn
down at once. The following houses were reported
as needing repairs Nos. 81 Maiden-lane, 81 Crosby
ST., 249 Elizaheth-st., and 6S7 Eighth-ave.
SALE OF FATHER FARRELLY's LIBRARY.
public sale of the library of the late Rev Felix
II. Farrelly pastor Of st; JoseeRh'S Church, took
place yesterday at No 109. Washington,Iplace.
General QUINN Fathers Salter Reardon, Kean,
Mc(iinley, FitzHarris and Mclean, Thomas Bowe,
Andrew Campbell and DIR. T. G. Finnc!l, jr.
SAFE ROBBERS NOT DISCHARGED.
Justice Lawrence, in the Supreme Court Cham
bers refused yesterday to discharge Cornelius +.
Harnett and James Walsh, who were brought be-
Walsh are accused of having robbed Harnetts
fathers safe in Savannah, Ga. Governor Cornell
has granted warrant for their extraditiCn.
COMMITTED FOR TRIAL WITHOUT BAIL.
CHARGED with
in concert with Alexander Ross, b. X. Post and
George S: Jaqucs, conSpired to defraud G r. w w.
Jencks of No. SO and 15S Broadway, of 900
by means of forged papers, waived further exami-
nation before Justice Smith yesterday. at the
Tombs, and was committed for trial without BAIL
CHIxAMAN WHO WISHES TO BE A CITIZEN.
The clerk of the United States Circuit Court yes
terlay issued declaration of intention of becOm-
ing citizen to Hop Sing, of No l3 hottest, ma
Christian in religion. He owns part OF q silver
mine in Nevada; This is the second application
that has recently been made in this court by China
desiring TO remain in this country as citizens.
PRIZE ESSAYS on MILITARY SUBJECTS
The Military Service Institute. which has its
headquarters at Governors Island, has selected as
the subject of its prize essays this year " i he i'm
pOrtant Improvements in the art OF war during the
last twenty years, and their probable effect on
fered yearly by this society for the best essay Oh
selected subject won last year by General
Gibbons.
TALKING ABOUT THE PROPOSED FAIR.
In private house III Tenth-st. the Committee on
Exposition, of the American Agricultural Associa
tion is holding daily secret sessions. The consttu
ton and bylaws which are to guide the coming fair
have been roughly drafted and are now being acted
upon with view to their final adoption. The secre
tary says that there is nothing new to report con-
cerning the possible site time and extent OF the
proposed fair. -
In the street parade tomorrow night of the
Barnum and London shows will be chariot drawn
by eight ponies. Following this will be the "Old
Woman in the Shoe" and her numerous progeny, In
another chariot also drawn by eight ponies. Then
will come thirty-three charots twenty-five trained
elephants twenty camels and ten glraIies: There
will be 200 torches in the procession, besides cal
cium lights and many fireworks
MEETING OF REPUBLICANS.
The Twelfth Ward Republican Association, of the
Nineteenth Assembly District, held its regular
hundred -and-tenth-5t. and Tenthavc., with Andrew
Bleakley in the chair Ten new members were
elected 1t was decided to hold the meetings of the
association for the coming year IN Arnold Hall
Various committees reported progress, and the
usual routine business was transacted.
BRIDGE WHICH RESTS on WEAK SUPPORT,
The bridge on the sidewalk on the Park-rOw side
of the ruins of the Potter Building has been the
cause of some alarm to pedestrians. For some dis
tance the girdcrs on which the panks are laid rest
Oh charred timber which looks like a hinge stick
of charcoal that might break IN two under pressure.
1t is distance of ten or twelve feet from the side
walk to the debris underneath. The man in charge
said TO Il TRIBUNE reporter Yesterday that the
timber was better than II looked, and would bear
weight or 1--we tons.
CRUSHING A PIER.
Six hundred bars of steel weighing about 200
tons. were unloaded upon Pier No. 40, East River,
from the steamship City Of Lincoln, which arrived
from Cardf, Wales, on Saturday. The weight was
too great for the strength of the pier and part of
the structure suddenly broke down at 5:45 a. III.
yesterday That part of he pier which sank with
the steel was about forty-ilye feet in diameter No
one was injured. The damage amounted TO about
81 900; the steel was consigned to Clark, Post "
Martin, No. 81 Pine-st.
RUMORs OF WAR Al THE PRODUCE EXCHANGE.
rr,fp. tltfa fltu
chants at the Produce Exchange yesterday that
Russia and Germany were on the eve OF an aggre5-
sive war, and that 1t had been officially declared.
1t was also rumOred that orders had been sent 10
New-York not to ship grain and provisions except
ing in American and English vessels. The TumOrs
had the effect of disturbing the market and making
il fcverish Prices generally declined especially in
wheat and corn, which were from ! to ! 8i cents a
bushel lower. Freighs were also lower, but there
was only a light export demand.
HARDER TO UNDERSTAND THAN ARABIC
Communications written III German, French,
Irish, Russian, Hebrew aud Arabic aro not uncom-
mon in the daily mail received by Superintendent
Jackson at Castle Garden, and they are readily
translated by himself or an interpreter. Tho fol-
lowing letter in English somewhat staggered the
gifted Superintendent Il hafc taken lntrest in
young Amergrand wich arfd aubt Il months agoc,
and had hun Prinspaly Frand of mine, buth
he Is take on Saiury SIRIUS SICK Is with out
Frands hoap you will send a ambulance very
SOM" Mr. jackson found that 1T was III relation
TO an immigrant who arrived here more than year
ago and that the writer had cared for him as a
friend until Saturday, when he was taken Sick Iic
will be sent 10 Wards Island.
BROOKLYN.
Dora Avery, who was arrested on Wednesday,
charged with poisoning six persons in Providence
r. L. with lar.cnic given up TO n Prov
idence detective yesterday and taken to that city
At the request of Coroner Keller who conducted
the nUuest in the case of the mysterious poisoning
of Bessie Thayer age eleven of No. 1877 ST. James
place in whose stomach 300 grains OF arsenic were
found. a detective has been detailed by Police Su-
parintendent Campbell TO investigate the way III
which the dead grl got the arsenic
Willard Benjamin, employed as Il watchman, at n
factOry at No. 80 South Flith-st, was found by "A
policeman early yesterday morning trying doors
81 h. nctp He arrested IIt5