Morning journal and courier., 1883-04-30
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Ross Content With HRnlans Terms.
 NEW YORK, April 29.-Wallace Ross has written from St. John to the stakeholder, Mir. Hamilton Busby, that he is perfectly satisfied with the articles of agreement as amended. The race will take place at Og- densburg on Wednesday, July IS, for stake of $1 ,OOO a aide and a purse of the same amount. MT. Duryea, the original packer of Banlan and Lee, has cabled that he is too i'll to leave England, and prominent New York gentleman has taken the engagement off his hands MT. Duryea had intended to sail to- day in the Alaska. His continued illness ex- cites grave fears on the part of his friends She Skipped Over Two Hundred Times.
 NEW YORK, April 29.-Mary Carroll, child eight years of age, of No. fl Park street, died on Friday night. She had been ''scup- ping'' in the forenoon of Thursday and later in the day she skipped rope two hundred times. She was taken with vomiting, head ache and fever. She went into coma and died Friday morning. There will be an in quest.
 The Tide of Immigration.
 NEW YORK, April 29.-The immigration this season, while it is very heavy, has not reached the volume of last year, and the fig ures for 1882 stin remain unequalled in the history of Castle Garden. The arrivals of alien passengers at this port from the71st of January last up to yesterday aggregated 95, 511. During the same period last year there were 132, SIS and the decrease this year is 37, 102. During the week ending yesterday there were landed 1O,056.
 Raid on the Bawdy Houses.
 pn made last night by Captain Brogan and his men of the Mercer street police station upon the houses of i'll fame in Bond, Great Jones and Wooster streets, and thirty-two persons were arrested and arraigned this morning at the Jefferson Market court. There were 6 proprietresses twenty-three white girls and four colored girls in theparty and among the audience were many dudes, picayune gam blers and statues" who seemed much inter ested in the fate of the soiled doves and the bosses. Many of the girls were richly dres- sed and almost all were in tears although some attempted to show they did not care. Eight of the prisoners were discharged for want of sufficient evidence. All of the pro prietresses were held in $500 bail for trial and nineteen girls were sent to the peniten- tiary for six months.
 Little Girl Stolen From Home.
 NEW YORK, April 29-There is considera- ble excitement here over the supposed steal ing of pretty little girl named Jenny Fay Tor, aged six years, the child of respectable mechanic living in Thirty sixth street. Its parents are in poor circumstances and a6s 7ertised on Thursday that they were willing to have the child adopted. shabbily dressed woman called in answer to the adver tisement and was allowed after some per suasi on, to take the child to show her, as she said, to 8 wealthy family on Fifth avenue. The woman promised to bring the child back at o'clock that evening" but neither the woman or the child has since been seen. The police have traced the supposed abductor as far as a baby farm formerly kept at A Null berry street by an old woman known as the granny, who has hastily removed to parts unknown. It is said that for years she has kept babies to hire out to organ grinders and beggars, who dressed them in rags and dis played them to excite sympathy and attract aims.
 LATER.-Little Jennie Taylor was restored to her parents tonight. She had been taken by the mysterious woman who took her away from her home. The mysterious movements of the woman and of the people who had possession of the child attracted the attention of young man living in the neighborhood, who investigated the matter and restored the child to her parents. remark made by the strange woman to whom the child was entrusted leads to the belief that her object was to sell the child to wealthy family living in Cuba
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