New-York tribune., 1883-03-11
NETWORK CITY.

NEW-YORK CITY.
,"FD CT sends 81 for the Seeds family
The numbsr of immigrants landed at Castle Gar-
den last week was 4,So Z. . :.
Fulton Market looks no nearer completion thah IL
did two mopths ago. - .
Street-car and omnibus companies often try 20
get rid of mu'iated coins by placing theh III 'he
change envelopes ~
The winter games of the Columbia College Boat
Club will be held at Madison square Uaiueh on
Friday and Saturday.
IJndcr-Sberiif Joel o. Stevens, accompanied by
his wife and youngest daughter, started yesterday
6y steamer for Florida. He has been IN poor heaith
for some time.
The rocky prominence at st. Nicholas ave. and
One-hundred forty -rst-st is being eveled pre-
paratory to grading the street from Elghth-aVe 10
the Hudson River.
p1.xs FOR A FACTORY AND sToREuoUsE.
Plans were fled at the Bureau of Buildings yes
terday for flctory and s.orehouse to be built at
Nos "a 20. 26 and 81 West-st., at cost OF Soo,-
600. Mrs Hannah G. Gerry rs the owner.
TIE ZoPHAR MILLS TO BE TESTED.
The pumping machinery Of the new nrc-Doat
Tuesday. when streams of salt water viii be thrown
from q. until p. IN.
MASKS AT THE ACADEMY
The PuIim masked ball at the Acadelny o. nd lusad
on Thursday night will open with ballet danced
by Madame CavalaZH and the other members 0i tue
italian opera ball let troupe. Queen Esthcrs court
Will be the most brilliant feature OF the oail
MIR PoNpIR's AssAILANT HELD.
T. + Ehers' ndt of No. $50 West FIity-ninth-st.,
who is accused of assaulting John Pondir broker,
on March g. was held in $500 bml by Justice rat
terson in tho Jefer,o on Market Police Court yester
day. His bondsman is Hiram H. Dlxon' OF NO. "a
Park place.
DEATHS FROM PNEUMONIA AND CONSUMPTION.
There were 100 deaths from pneumonia ana luS
from consumption last week. The total nun9er Oh
deaths reported was 656 births 5Z6; marraeeSS' tS'
I5i; arrests l,13S and excise licenses granted,
233 The ices collected for licenses amounted 10
$9,s95.
PASSION SUNDAY IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCHES.
To-day is Passion Sunday, and III all the Roman
Catholic churches the pictures cruciixes. and stat
nary around the atars will be covered with purple
concealng them entirely IRON % ylew anu Mii he
day before Easter. Easter comes THIS year Oh Maich
CARDINAL M'CLoSKEY's ANNIVERSARY.
Yesterday was the thirty-nlnth anniversary OF
Cardinal McCloskeys entrance into the eplscopacy
of the Roman Catholic Church. The Cardinal was
engaged IN his usual duties during the day, and
thers was no special commemoration of the ami
versary. He had great many callers In 'ne course
OF the day.
MIR. MUNpY AND TIE LIQUOR DEALERS.
President Mitchell, of the Excise Board. denies
having said as reported at the conference between
the committee from the Church temperance rance so
ciety and the Excise Commissioners on Thursday,
that w. ii. Mundy had been proved blackmaItr.
lie states that what was said was this: Dealers
having complained here that Mr.. Mundy was a
blackmaler, we thought 1t proper to grant a
license"
THE CASE OF FREDERICK ROTH. -
Major Frederick Roth in whose case Commis-
sioner Osborn recently granted warrant OF extra
diIion, was taken before Judge Brown Yesterday on
n writ of habeas corpus and oertorar h,th IL
charged with having embezzled money cOllected
by hun while q military officer at Berne SwitZer-
land. Mr.. Reed, counsel for the prisoner, argued
that the complaint was for embezzlemeut while the
nroof was a breach of trust. Frederick r. COudert
srgued for the SWISS Government Decision was
Reserved.
MUTUAL BENEFIT ASSOCIATION FOR cLERks
Ihe eleventh annual meeting OF the Insurance
CT ks Mutual Benefit Association was held yester-
Ga, In the Boreel Building, at No. 1l5 Broadway
The president B. NJ. lomklns occupied d dne cnalr'
He stated that the association numbered SO MEM
bCrs; that during the last year - new IaempeEs
had joined it, l9 members had been dropped II had
resigned, and 10 had died. The association had re-
ceVed from various sources S.504 l3, and had
pad out for death claims alone $l7OOO
A sCHooLHoUsE REPORTED UNSAFE.
An examiner of the Buildings Bureau reported
Yesterday that the two-story frame schoolhouse In
Sxteth-st., near Avenue A., was unsafe because
pn.nb aud because a large near tho rear en-
trance was rotten and likely to fail. The school
Society, OF No. 80 East Twenty: :ninih-st 90 Other
unsafe buildings reported were Nos. ia ChristO-
plei-st., 351 West Twenty-eightn-st ana $40 Last
Iity-slxth-st
THE PAY OF THREE YEARS LOST.
Thomas DAILY, age forty-four, weather-beaten
taI who said mat he had served On a man-oi-war
was taken before Justice Duffy yesterday, at the
Essex Market Police Court, Oh charge OF lntoxl.
ca'ion. 1t said that ne got under the influence OF
dluk III low resort III Cherry-st ana that he was
senJ off from there IN a cab. On recovering con-
sclousness, he asserts he discovered tnat 5000 had
been stolen from him which he nad saved during d
three years cruise. He was discharged
HEAVY GALES AND TERRIBLE SEAS
The schooner Mary L. Douglass, from 81 Domln'
go, Iwenty-One days out III latitude 81 ~ nOrth'
longitude TO 5l' west, met with heavy gales and
terrific sea- On March 4, latitude 80 SO, lOngl-
tue 10 as, another gale with heavy sea stove
In ber buwaTks, swept everl thing movable fTOm
the deck and filled the cabin with water: The bng
Emily Dabm, from Port Prince, IN a heavy gale
on March 3, had her main staysail ooWh out OF the
bOIj-TOpes.
r,IIrpF oF AN rIGUrH- AVENUE MERCHANT.
William X. PeytOD dealer in dry goods at No.
% EIghth-ave made an assignment Yesterday 10
Richard Kelly giving preferences 10 Ellen Brennan
for 700 ami 10 II. Is. Clatlln IL 90. tor $4,000
Mr.. IeytoD has been III the drygCOds business over
twenty-five years. tie was formerly at No. ~
Bowefy and,for year at No. 405 Sixth-ave. lie
moved 10 Eighth-ave. on May i, 1879. For several
years claims against HIM have been collected with
difficulty. HIS liabilities are reported to be about
100000
THE CONTEST IN THE REGISTERS OFFICE.
The fifteen agents of the New-lork little Com
pany entered the Registers office yesterday IN a
squad and each iormay demanded one OF the re-
cord books to copy. Custodian Boyle, as on Thurs
day, refused permit the entrr squad TO nave more
than one U0Ok at time. lhereupOn, al Dut tuIee
OF them Withdrew, and did not return durlng the
day Ii stated that early next week the trustees
OF the company will, unless the Register yields III
the nleautlme apply for "a mandamus agaIusi him.
Nil DOcnariy eXp presses himself rs ANXIOUS 10 have
the Issue settled III the COURTS
STEALING ONE ovERCOAT TOO MANY.
Mr. Boermer, OF No. 1877 Ludlow-st., made com
plant before Justice Duffy Yesterday at tue Essex
Market Police Court that while he was dining III
The restaurant of Charles Kreuger, at No. l64 East
Houston-st on Friday evening, Albert Meyer, age
twenty four, who sand that he mad been staying at
the Progress Hotel i'll the BOwery, stole his over
coat valued at $l6. lie was arrested. and four
tickets for OyercOats left by him IN pawn shops
were found in his possession. Yesterday three com
plants tor petty larceny were lodged against MN
before Justice Duffy at the Essex Market Police
Court and hc was hed for trial III default Of $500
bail.
TRYING BRIDE OFFICER AND JUSTICE.
BTDOme-
st., while working iOr Martin Stelnneld, a bottle
dealer at No. Dos Delancey-st., January 70, ran
over boy, Charles Britber, age four of No. % Co
luinbIa-st When al examination was held IN regard
10 reckless driving, Kuapp offered to pay the doctors