New-York tribune., 1883-03-14

calf of this co ", bull seven weeks ou lor Pl <'oVV
cash.
NOT ANXIOUS FOR AN INVESTIGATION
The cases OF Customs INSPECTORS Jacob SwartZ anu
Nugent who were suspended tor permitting severn
thousands of dollars worth of taliors go9uS :" ope
smuggled on shore from the steamship Aiass,.d $50 70
still IN allowance Surveyor Benedict sent worn 81 "
Swartz several days ago that he coud appeTd podeved
examination As he has not Responded IL rs ,;nt,on
that he is trying to avoid thorough lnVeS"s"''
DISCHARGED BY A SYMPATHETIC JUSTICE. =
William 81. John, of No. 553 West ihlItv poi;oo
st., was charged in the Jefferson MARX, +; the
Court yesterday with dumping loaa OF h in de-
street and Justice Gardner commltteu hi III -, sent
fault of $5 fne In the afternoon woT1 ",S tiIIed
to the prison that ST. Johns child had pee there
BY falling out of the window Inc % d;scbarged
upon RENTED the iae, and st. John was u''0n' s
ARCHIrECTURAL-IRoN INTERESTS; os
The certificate of Incorporation OF the society ~
Architectural Iron Manufacturers was niea yesSl
dav The object of the society IL TO advance Tue III
terest. nf the erchtecturalron trade and to increase
and spread abroad much information as POss,c1
In regard to architectural WORK q, %. .omnbeii
James j. Burnett, j. b. Radey, A; y. NaInpoiit{
'Iobn Henderson. J. j. Healey and Charles Hewitt
are the corporators.
SHOWED UNDER A CAR BY PIAYMATE
A boy, Charles Roeber, OF No l4I4 first-ase.' az.
was rin over and his leg broken on Monday after.
noon by a Second Avenue street car near EasV
seventy -ffth-st The driver, John Cook. OF NO.
900 East Twenty-dfti-st was arTes.eGi anp Poce
Court Dr. Vaudeville says that the poy Is s seIi-
on ly injured, and also that he states that pray
mate showed hm under the wheels OF the car
THE MAINE sTEAMsHIY COMPANY. A.,
The dispatches published on Monday that idnS inS
Maine Steamship Company directors hln ueoiuou 0
on Saturday to sell their two steamers s p5ortiand
Steam Packet Company are said t. be untrue. ihe
line has been in operation for thirty years oa' s,o
few there eqs not 5eeh since ine the loss of
the Chesapeake year ago. the business ol o htS
has been much restricted by having only two Doa'''
MIR. FIERo's LAST OFFICIAL ACT.
tIatn
fetal act Yesterday in moving, before Judge DeH1
dict In the United States Circuit Court Ior NJ
proseQu i'll the case OF Wllllam kIley, ,non"rs VIZ
IL was shown that the money was receiVeu as
pratuity Later in the day Mr. tlero surfenueItDu tr
his office to his successor General FOSTER WHOM ~ H.
Fiero himself succeeded IN the same once: DIT
Fiero will renew his connection with the nrm oi
Fiero, Chitenden ~ Flero.
IN FAVOR OF THROWING ASHES IN THE STREETS.
DR. Tracy Yesterday sent to the Board of Health
renort in which lie stated that it was not possible
for owners or tenants OF bindings III tne rIIsI "u
to keep proper receptacles for ashes on the sue
walks as they we're invariably stolen by the strees
boys. He thought it best for the occupants oi
bouses to throw the ashes in the streets III that par
of the city. The ash heaps ought to DO remover
each day, however
rrx.v srERR HAS SWIM IN THE EAST RIVER.
A large Texan steer jumped into the East h'Ver
from the cattle boat Newark, opposite Grand-st.
Monday and began to % SWIM NOV down ht 6ae Se1 Psfro
and row boat was manned bv officers who went III
pursuit. The steer caught an towed 10 the
foot of CorlearsSt, where 1t was holstea on snofe
with a derrick. Captain Mcintosh OF the cattle
boat claimed the animal and 1t was surrendered "
him.
MRS. MoRDAUNT PROMISES TO BEHAVE HERsE,r. RS d,s
When the examination on the complaint OF uls-
orderly conduct of Laura II. Wallace, IN &c ress,
against Mrs. Frank M1rdaunt, wife OF the leading
actor in the "Old Shipmatcs" company, came up
for hearing before Justice Duffy yesterday after
noon. AT the Essex Market Police Court, the room
Was crowded. 1t was stated that an amieahle ad-
jusment of the case was desired by ooth sides Srs
Mordaunt promised Justice Duly not To m"est MISS
WaIlace and the latter withdrew her complaint
The Justice warned Mrs. Mordaunt not to repeat
the offence.
CHANGES IN DUTY COLLECTIONS.
Collector Robertson Yesterday received n copy OF
the new Tariff law from the Secretary OF thr rras-
urv with instructions tO observe the provisions "i
section T. Ibis section provides that the Value oI
saCgino crates boxes or covering of goods OF any
kind shall not be estimated IN determining tho duty
to be paid unless the sacking c..shal be OF any ma
terla or form on which there is duty, ana desghed
for other than to protect the goods IN thsls
In that case, they shall be subject 10 uuy Vi loo
per cent ad valoren'
EXCISE CASES TO BE PUSHED.
| Recorder Smythe and District Attorney Mckeon
had conference Yesterday In reference 10 the trial
( OF the excise cases. Mr. MckeOn PROMISED tnat tne
| cas.s should be- prepared for trial on the second
| Nonday in Auril en- the Recorder VIII Oe pre-
pared 10 hear the evidence. Ihe clcrks nave com
! planned that the pgeon-hol,s are ge'tlhg over
| crowdcd with these cases. The judges have 6ecn
! busy with the trial of PRISON cases. anu as th"se
| CHARGED with violation OF the kxcsa laws are on
| ON bal they never came 10 trial. Mr.. Mckeon sai
| yrstsrd1v that the Court and Dlsrict-AttOrney s
| Office wOud see that the tilals were vigorously
! prosecuted.
BROOKLYN.
Deaths reported last week, 200; births, 23l
marriages, 40.
Mrs. Susan Durell. colored. died on Friday at heI
home No, II Chauncey-st. She was said TO bo lOO
years old.
Judge Pratt yesterday granted an absolute d.
yorce TO Mrs. Louise Annie llcehurst from george
| Ticehurst, of Huntington, l.. /.
The General Term of the Supreme Court has de-
! c;ded to continue the injunction restraining tht
| Board of Aldermen from granting license u
| Henry Hamilton TO run a line OF stages III Deu
| ford-ave.
The trial of the suit of Edward schnel against hi.
| maternal uncle Frederic Blohm, TO recover S5O,OoC
ae damages for the alienation 0t his wIios love and
| affection by the defendant was closed yesterday.
Alter the charge OF Judge Cullen the jury dclibe-
| rated for an hour and a half and Then returned Il
! verdict awarding $4,000 as damages.
The Executive Committee of the Young Meni
| Democratic Ciub has issued an address cOndennlni
| the conduct OF the Democratic Assemblymen wht
voted to deprive Henry LSpragne o. ms scat ana au
proving the action OF thOs" members who, Ill Vo'lnl
| 10 seat Mr.. Sprague, rose above the nh%ise am
| thonghtess clamor of their associates Inc ad
| dress trOnounces the former class Co be guilty o
plan treason to the Democratic doctnpe that th;
will of the people plainly expressed shall prevail
NEW-JERSEY.
PATERsON.-In the Passaic County Courts yestcr
day the trial of Francis A. Martin, on a charge
seduction preferred by Emma NJ. Van Ripper. wa
ended Martin is farmer at preakness, ana j
about twenty-five years old. Miss Van Ripper Il
about nineteen, and was employed III factory a
Haledon. III the suburbs Of Paterson. her chli'
was born in January 1882. She testified tina
Martin had promised to marry her. but that tn
promise was conditional on the result OF their in
timacy. Counsel for Martin asked Judge DIXON u
charge that the conditional clause vitiafed th
promise of marriage but the Court refused 80 t.
charge. The jury were only out IA few minutes an'
t., .fofou A hpO
the father of the GIRL Richard Van Riper Freak
ness farmer, Is also pending against Martin;
Prosecutor Stevenson, OF Passaic county, n. >.
William Hicking and c. G. Van Houten, and th
motion was granted yesterday. Hlckling an,
UoughtOn were charged, with William Collier, witt
conspiracy to ruin Sigmund Drnger. the Jewis
Junk dealer whose litigation with the Eric Roa
has made hun famous.
WESTCHESTER COUNTY.
WHITE PIAINs-ln the Circuit Court yesterda