New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-28
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Alexander E. Orr has been eiecueu Nioo-Pi'
Of the Mechanics National Bank ar,
The Hobart College alumni VIII oiho ~ "
nnellYs on February b. ,,.,,
Abram 8. Hewitt, who is suffering from p aihiu'
carbuncle, was improving yesterday.
The number Of immigrants i11s,d was as sSa
The assignee of Matthew Armstrong 70 con gy Ss'a
yesterday that 1t was impossible lot MIN W si''"
statemeut of liabilities and assets YET.
Dr. Willard Parker passed bs friends o We're
terday He was feeling better anu lis 'iA0Au' wa"
much gratiied at the improvements
Science Hall. in Eighth-st., has been leased to q
billiard club of Englishmen; VINO Will inIoouoo 'n0
English game on English tables
John q. Kennedy has been elected a trustee OF the
Central Trust Company to I'LL vacancy, caused ny
the death Of Martin Bates.
Unsafe buildings reported so' Ea S%
Fifty-ninth-st.
Deaths last week. $780, births $40; marriages YSs
223 arrests 1,10s, excise licenses SEES gah'eo' iHN'
and fees collected for licenses So'e3o'
STREETS TO BE CLEANED TO-DAY.
II the weather permits, the Street Cleaning De,
partment and Contractors Walton ana brown WIZ
strsets and those through which the streetrairosds
run.
DEATH OF A SHIP CAPTAIN. re-,
Captain Clark oil tne ,r DasS at this port yeser
day, died off Cape Hatteras on "Wednesday Oh
dropsy. The vessel was in charge Oh fH'' ""Vo
Barclay.
PASSING AN ABANDONED SCHOONER
The steamer Edith GOdden, Captain bennett
from ST. AIMS Bay Port Maria, reported yes,eooday
that In latitude 800 35 north, longlduGe ~ an IN
west she passed the schooner Matte b. huioh ois'
masted, wsteI-logced and abandoned
DISAPPEARANCE OF AN EYEsoRE
One of the eyesoe OF the city, the unseemiy neap
of wooden cabins at Walker and Canai-sfs, mas Gus
appeared, and workmen are laying we ton l
for seven story orick building, i'll which the man,
ufactory of gas fixtures will be carried on ny
Walker-st firm.
THE EAST INDIA COTTON CROP NOT INJURED
The cotton market was s,esns Ses vas received
from Bombay, stating that the report OF tne uaS Ua
fore regarding injury TO the East India crop was
untrue, and that the cotton was In goou cohoi'ion
SMALL Pox ON A SCHOONER FROM BALTIMORE.
Bert Bertlesen, sailor on the schooner ArcneI
and Reeves, discovered SICK Win small pc1 On
board the vessel at The foot of East 1wenyeigntn-
NJ vesteTdav and was removed 10 the Riverside Hos
pts by orIer of Sanitary Inspector Chaplin iae
Schooner arrived recently from Baltimore Mo''
where Bertesen contracted the disease
LEAKING FOURTEEN INCHES AN HOUR.
The ship Martha Cobb of ROckand, Me-, reached
this port yesterday, 176 DAYS from Yokohama; Oh
September 81, in latitude 0S.15 south and loagi-
fude l35 ga east she ran into some "reckage. Inc
ship began to leak twelve inches an nor anu uut
increased TO fourteen inches, ana cOntnue1 uuSlI
the vessel reached port All the pumps mad 70 Do
kept going.
DIAMONDS FOUND IN SERVANTS POSSESSION
In the YorkvIlie Police Court yesterday Kate
Jacoby, domestic employed by FREDERICK 20
sephs of No. 500 East Ffty-hrst-st, was held ior
tria charge of stealing a quantity OF weaI l
apparel from her employer. portion OF the goods
w.re found in her possession, as were also some ON
diamonds that she is supposed TO have stolen; De-
fectiyes McCowan and Cuff of The Nineteenth IRE
clnct. made the arrest
FATALLY INJURED WHILE CoAsrING.
While coasting Yesterday on The klngsbrldge
road at One-hundred -and.e ty-ninth-st Law;
renee NuRent, nine years old OF ienthaVe. any
Observation-Disclosures ninth-st stfucS The NJ;
the Fire Department repair wagons ana Droke MS
left leg above the knee. lie was conveyed 10 the
Nnetvninth Street Hospital Later IN 70 the Gay
coroner asked to go to the hOspllai 10 in'oS'A
gate the cause of his death.
TWO woRKMEN FALL THROUGH HATcHwAT;
Ernest Lang workman III we laG. c h a.. t ~
60i West Thirty eigh th-street. slipped on the hsI
Roor yesterday aud Tell through hatchway 10 tne
celar He caught hold OF Ernest Kemple another
workman and dragged him down also. Lang war
carried 10 the Roosevelt Hospital insensl6ie IL Is
fSought that his skull Is fractured. kemples Knee
cap was broken.
rHouGHT TO HAVE HID HIMSELF n LABORATORY
The friends of Norman NJ. Pierce, the yopnt
chemist of Buffalo n. Y, said yesterday that the,
W Ild noi he disappeared he studying process
Tor producing sugar from glucose he oeievo.
that he on the verge OF mdkims nd he had NJ
motive for suicide His friends now '1inh no y !,
some laboratory, where no person eau uis'ui M
hard at work III DIS s'uuS'
noxEs AT THE ACADEMY SECURED. !,
Among those who have secured boxes az w, IN
Academy of Music for the res % o. On b
Su aD,na Of n February g. are Royal Phelps
Mills William G. Whitney, ex-Governo( saw Snrn;It
William SapGf 0o1sr NM Mrs "l Adran A. Isen Mrs
Sis Ioriiiard, Mis- ogden Goeet. Mrs. A6ram
Hewitt Mrs T. b. Musgrave and MIS- "ilian
Aston. .o,,
THE WEST WASHINGTON MARKET AssoCIAIlo1N NJ
meeting OF the West Washington Market Asso
citation was held yesterday morning IN neSeyos sT
near Wesst. II was well at'enocu ros mHny ~ tb
nesolntion adopted at the last meeting. ne con-
mittee appointed to wait on the Connlt i 80
the Sinking Fund, from whom r rle 10 he Cor
troIIer for the decisive answer as 10 wneh III
market was to be vacated
REVENGE FOR AN HI-FITTTNG COAT.
Howard ,om hers aInan who looks IKE uaniI
vas charged before Justice Power yesterday, at III
Tombs Police Court. with throwing soone s VI q
pane of glass IN the c0, aIn s st 5o He d.
tS;s N revep0e' because ne had purchased an Ill
lifting coat there which he was unable 10 e1cnsnR'
He was held in default OF $500 ball.
MORE IMAGINATION THAN FACT:
The date of the departure Of the Vanderbilt part
for the Pacific coast has not yet been liked Nj
Vanderblts friends think that business eng =
exnected The special train over winch some he"
paper reports have mae great display e1is's !
the maanatoH OF the Tr psrior ear With tw
ordinary seepers, now running between hor
and Albany attached. No alterations OF addltiol
have been made to these cars
NEW WHITE STAR STEAMSHIP.
The Ionic the latest addition to the White Sts
steanship feet was launched from the yaid OF ia
and & Wolf, at Belfast, on January IT, ne esI au
is Of steel She 10 440 feet III length, IA fcot
breadth and depth 80 feet. and she registers o w
tons. She has two dOublc-eylndeT engines Oh oo
horsepower, with three eptcal boilers, woIkln
al an initial pressure OF 80 pounds 70 Tue sqIhi
inch There are four masts. The saloon is paneiie
I'm wal, ut and maple The Sleeping cabins are o
the main deck The accSmmoaSn ns1',o r confo1
The Doric O sister ship TO the Ionic, VIII U
launched in February.
STEALING sEvESTY-Two COATS.
Ssmnel Goldman age twenty OF No. % Eldrldgs
lev eIQlteeu. .