New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-06-22

cruits for the cavalry service viii start IoT tho pa
racks at st. Louis 10 be instructed In cavalry tao
tics.
A BOY FRUSTRATED BY HEAT.
Edward Newman, a school boy, age fourteen, OF
the heat while lie was returning Hom ,ne
Twenty-thrd Street School yesterday. lie re-
covered and was taken home.
A.LoAN OF $4,000.
A loan of $4,000 has been advanced by the
Citizens savings Bank to Charles A. Coe and wlfe
on property at the northwest corner OF Water ana
East sts having frontage on Water-st Oh 70 ieeV
aud extending 100 feet Oh Easiest.
THE MAYOR SUMMONED BEFORE TIE GRAND JURY.
Mayor Edison was summoned yesterday 10 give
testimony before the Grand jury In proposed III
yestgatiOn of the Controllers ONCE AS the tilhe
of the jury was otherwise occupied, however, tno
Mayors testimony was not taken.
POST OFFICE CLERK PLEADS GUILTY.
Wilfred r. Valentine "A clerk IN the Post ONCE,
Station b. who was charged WIN sleai'hg nonoa
from letters pleaded guilty yesterday IN the Uhlted
States Circuit Court aud was sentenced by Judge
Benedict to nine months imprisonment IN the feni-
Tertiary.
THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT INQUIRY.
The committee OF thu Board of Aldermen which
is investigating the Carroll frauds, yesterday APP
pointed Lindsay J. Howe an expert accountant 10
examine the books of the Finance Department
Two or three witnesses were examined, but nothing
pew was ELECTED.
CONGRATULATED BY TIE MASTER PLUMBERS.
Gen, raj Shaler was visited at the health DEPART
ment Headquarters yesterday by committee OF
the ASSOCIATION OF Master Plumbers sent to con-
graduate him upon his appointment as president OF
the Board of Health. The chairman, Genera T. l.
Locke made q complimentary address.
oFFICERs OF THE BANK CLERKS LEAGUE.
The bank clerks OF most OF the prominent BANKS
of the city have organized henshclal ASSOCIATION
un Ter the name Of the Bank Clerks League. Inc
fnIlowing officers have been elected President,
w f. n Pulien; vice president, +. y. Lawrence
treasurer w. A. Camp aud secretary Newton
Squire.
A BIG CocoANUT CARGO.
Loaded with 100000 san Bias cocoanuts and
$50 900 ivory nuts the schooner Emma hltch
arrived at tbs port yeseInayi tne etgo va ind
that ever arrived here. The schooner Is the largest
vessel engaged in the fruit-carryihg trGde' JoAh
Cassidy Is the master
LOOKING AFIER FORTUNE ~ LONDON.
Among the passengers who SAILED by the White
Star steamship Celtic for Liverpool yesterday was
| Martin j. Keogb. of New-Rocheile, WHO'S going 10
| Iondon as the representative of John +. Reddiug,
of Yonkers his two sisters and other descendants
| of Robert and John Clay, two grand-uncies, who.
| after long service IN the British Army, died I'M
married aud left fortune OF t4o'OOO
| rAfRFzzLlNG FROM A GRAND ARMY POST.
| George Robinson, age forty, switchman on the
Second Avenue Elevated Railroad, who lives at No.
| 2,2l3 First-ayer was arrested anu 'akeh 10 ,ne
| Iumbs Police Court yesterday charged win en-
| hezzlrmpnt The prisOGrr was quarierinasteI ol
| Cameron Post No 80, and in April he was given
| charge of S5G7 81 belonging TO the fost "hleh he
| appropriated TO his own use.
A PrIrUL TALE THAI WAS FOUND TO BIZ FALSE
| A policeman found little RIrl about fourteen
years old crying on the sidewalk at MaodougaI and
! Bleecker SITS. yesterday. lie took her To Ponce
| UeadauArtets where she said her name was Maria
! NevIns. Her father who iyed at Parkyille l.. L.
| had put her the train and sent her to newborn
| she said Her pathetic story gained her friends nm
iii it was asccrtaned later that she had run away
| from No. IS WashIngton-place, where she Is bound
| TO family.
| A BoATMAS's PROTECTIVE SOCIETY.
| special meeting OF the haTboI bOatIuen OF New
| York was held yesterday afternoon at No. 81
| Church-st. TO complete the organization of pro
tectye association he boatmdh eonplal enieny
! as sea pers,' who 90 10 the shippers and get or
ders, charging the boatmen commission OF ~ o.
| each load. These men reduce the rates OF freight
| to the lowest possible figure
THE BERNSTEIN INcANDEsCENT LIGHT.
There was an exhibition of the new Bernstein IN
candescent light at No. "a Cortlsndt-st. last night
The chief feature OF the new ght ~ that ny using
hollow carbon cylinder instead OF the usual carbon
| flament a greater degree OF lncandeSccnce is oh
FAMED with a less degree of waste. The light Is in
tended to be an intermediary between the are. o
5OO-cande light, such IL used 10 light the streets
aud the small TO 10 candle light.
TUE wooDHAIL SISTERS DECLARED GUILTY.
| In the Court of Special Sessions yesterday tn
| cases Of assault ard battery against tho Woodhai
sisters were called. Neither OF the defendants wa
| present Their counsel wished 10 offer a plea o
| guilty, but ex-Judge Curtis objected. Then "A plc
of not guilty was entered After the evidence wa
counsel was requested TO produce them in court OF
Thursday Tor sentence.
REUNION OF THE CHRISTIAN COMMISSION.
The officers OF the United States Christian Com
mission have issued an invitation TO all chaplains
Sanitary and Christian Cominission delegates ant
active Christian workers, connected with both tn
Union and Confederate armies during the Clvi
War to have reunion at Ocean Grove from july
% 10 "a The work OF the Sanitary Commission wa
specially devoted to supplies looking after th'
| wounded, burying the dead and furnishing intelli
gence of the lost.
THE RFAR WALL OF A THEATRE TO BE REBUILT
Examiner Bttiner made report at the Bureau
of Buildings yesterday that the rear wall of th,
theatre building, which Is being erected at Nos 20
and 203 bOwery by Harry Miner, had settled ant
buged so much as to he unsafe, Inspector Ester
| brook directed that the defective portion of tn,
wall should DO rebuilt. The following buildn q
were reported az unsafe No. $40 East Houston
St. No. AT East Sl1teenth-st and No 121 Wes
| Forty -htth-st.
CATTLE SENT DIRECTLY TO SYRACUSE.
| consignment OF l20 Holsteln cattle was re
ceived at this port on Wednesday. The animals
were consigned TO Powell Bros. and Smith &
| Powells of Syracuse Collector Robertson refused
TO forward them until they had passed through the
| Government Cattle Quarantine Station, at Garfield
N. j.. although direct passage had been requested
| by Congressman Frank Hlscock. Yesterday The
Collector received directions from Washington fol
the forwarding of the cattle and they were sent Il
| Syracuse.
BUILDING sEA-wALL ON GOVERNORS ISLAND.
| Congress last fall appropriated S54,0 900 for the
| improvement of Governors Island by the con.
structon of a granite sea-wall on the east shore
The work is now being done. The sea-wall is To bC
| / 700 feet long extending from the coaljock to
the Battery, and is to be built on spiles. The i'm
provement will extend tho shore of the island Il
iow-water-mark and make its contour conform u
the sweep of the tide through the ButteunIlE
Channel. The york IS being done by contract BY
Francis II. Smith, who, as water-color artist. Il
better known as +. HOpkinson Smith.
A LIFE-sAYING MATTRESS.
From the sea wall at the Battery yesterday after
noon "A crowd watched the eyOlutons OF a number
of mon and boys on a floating object In the water
IL was life-sayins mattress made by the STANDARD
| Life-Saving Mattress Company of Boston, and sup
ported WITH ease from two TO five persons at once
who either sat land upon II or chung 20 the life
rope which ran about the edges. The mattress
CONSISTS Of a rubber cloth sack filed with hair anC
covered with extra ticking flexible rubber tube
being inser ed at intervals These mattresses have
been introduced OH the steamer Pilgrim and 4 mum
Der of other boats.
CHARGES AGAINST EXCISE INSPECTORS.