New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-22
NEW-NOKK CITY

The streets were covered with a Shiny, slippery
mud yesterday that caused many mishaps To man
and beast
Vendors of Evacuation Day medals cards and
pictures are doing "A good business on street corners
Some of them wear the old Continental uniform.
The Chatham--t. policy shops have been closed
hv the prOprictOrS at last, but, of them said
yesterday, " We viii open next week.
A Bowcry lodging house offers e lodging for a
dime, smoking tobacco, soap, towels, ETC.. free OF
charge
The Custom House officials yesterday seized ten
boxes of dental instruments from the purscr Of the
Hamburg steamship SllesIa.
The Office Of the National Rifle Association, AT
No. l02 Niam-st., was entered by burglars on
Tuesday evening ANA eleven rifles were stolen.
The new church of ST. Paul the Apostle at Ninth
ave and FIiyniuth-st., will be open for inspection
on Thanksgiving Day
A fair * progress IN the basement of ST. An
thongs Church, IN Sulllvan- for the building of a
new church. The Franciscan Fathers have charge
Of II.
Inspector Esterbrook yesterday directed the
trustees of the Dcafaud Dumb Institute, at LcXing-
ton-ayc. and SXty-scvcnth-st to place lrc-cscapcs
on the building.
COMMITTING BATCH or vAGRANTs.
In the Essex Market Police Court yesterday,
iorty-two tramps and Migrants who were regular
statOn-hOusc dodgers, after receiving "A vigorous
lecture from Justice Gardner, were committed to
Blackwclns Island for six months.
KILLED BY A LOCOMOTIVE.
Alexander Thompson, age siKty-fOur, WAS run
over and killed Yesterday by a Hudson River Rail-
road train near kHgabrldgc. He lived i'm Kings
bridge. and was the janltOr of Grammar School No..
SO. The cnginemau of the train said that ThOmp-
son was walking on the track and did not attempt
to get OF, although the whistle was blown in time
NATIONAL GUAFD MOTIFS.
Captain George LOcscr has returned from a fur
handing officer of the nth Regiment. lie was
greeted by several officers on his arrival The
election returns Of the 18th Regiment have been
received at Brigade Headquarters with the names
of John +. BOylan and Edward KnOedlcr for second
leutenancics.
a!IT CLOTHING ~ BAXTER-sT
Soldiers Oyercoais arc displayed in front of the
old clO'" shops in Baxter-st. Occasionally a
truckman or a cOuntTyman buys one, for they are
cheap and warm. The original owners, however
the servants of Uncle Sam, found them costly-
after 4 days dcbauch, a few DAYS IN the guard
house on bread and water and loss of two months
pay.
CHEAP LOTS on THE WEST SIDE.
V. X Stevenson jr has sold six lots on the south
east cOrucr0f Riverside Park and Eighty -sccond-st
TO llrshEind & Co., for $4,000. This sale has
caused talk in West side real estate circles because
of the cheapncss of the property four of the lots
being on Riverside Drive and two adjacent thereto
on Eghty-sccond-st.
An INGENIOUS USE OF ELECTRICITY
An electric light company in Liberty-st. displays
in one of its windows an interesting exhibition of
the diverse uses of electricity. miniature water
fall dcsCcnds from the top Of the window and be-
hud ii CLEAN several inCandesCent electric lights
The effect is brilliant. The electricity which
pumps up the water and furnishes the light is con-
REAL. ESTATE NOTES.
The POTTER and Stymus Manufacturing Company
has secured twcnty-yeaTs lease of part OF the
old Rutgers College Building in Fifth-avc mort IA
of fOrty-iirst-st., at an annual rental of $40 900
with taxes etc. The Rev. Richard l.. BnrtScll
pastor of the Church of tho Nativity, has executed
formal transfer of the church cdihce on the south
west corner Of Blocker and Downing SITS. to tho
trustees, etc, of the Church of st. Benedict the
Moor.
YOUTHFUL TILI-TAPPERS.
j. 1gklli. tMplVp-NplI-Dl1 boy on
Tuesday evening entered the store of William X.
Ward, No. S62 Broadway, and robbed the money
drawer of $50. lie had been aided by William and