New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-07
LOCAL MISCELLANY.


FAREWELL, LETTERS OF A SWEDISH GIRL
Tho Rev A. d. johnson, pastor of the Sweois III
Methodist Church in East Eleventh-st. wen ,1 bo
Police Headquarters yesterday ana rJpoi woman
disappearance OF rn Young circumstances that
made her friends and family po nSoot 'iI
she has committed suicide; e. tbs country
yaor 400 the young woman came 10 NE 'S Stoiity
18th her norents and younger sister, from otncik
holm. At that time Augusta appeafeS, Gu rafnsed IN
and would be often found Ser Trouble was. Her
son %n' however. were CONVINCED that u na9
f"methinc TO do with love affair ina sue naa
carr'eu Un wears old and described as beng
very pretty With far hair blue eyes anu reu
easily found o poyMlt Mr. str al No. 24s west
Fftv.fourth-st Her father, who is tailor, carried
on his business at No. 4Os East fifieeHth,.st:
yery much liked by the family with whom whom sue
lived They noticed, however, that she ofteh APP
peared depressed and acted as though eoi s sH
something preyng heavily upon her MIND save ave
left Mr. StIobidGes on last Sunday eVehiag o Say
ing that she was going to church she W1d no' le
turn home until very Ia.e' m, " wes nut r"t
ia fhe house, and she did not appear during the
dav. Mr.. Strobrdge made inquiries and found that
instead Of gong to home U% There she seemed
more melancholy than usual, but departed
late without saying ANYTHING TO ss sia' of her m
Late on Monday night Mir. Anderson received
through the mails q postal card signed by his miss,
ing daughter 1t was written IN STedSn any fear fear
as follows: Il have been very wicked. anu noi
YOU cannot forgive me. , snaiI eI dnx
both of YOU to an early grave" The next gay
came another postal Carl s1sneo Dear Father and
Mother: 1t is the fault OF the peoPie horid
Sweden that am now lost But LOT te Isl sdou,v v
be innocent Take warning and 90 noo s enu NJ
sister ont to service. am about to die-farewel''
Forgive me FAREWELL on,, alarm
Superintendent Walling sent out genera alaTm
min hat
woman might he found
HOUSES SHAKEN AND WINDOWS BROKEN
Superintendent walling yesterday received
,otpap fram ID j Whitney, OF No. 7S East Fifty
third-st complaining OF the blasting OF rocks III .ne
vacant lot at Madisou-ave and tltty.hrst-st. M.
Whitney wrote that the ceiling IN ms mousse n t
been cracked and the plaster knocked down py Tue
heavy explosions. He had appealed without enecC
to the contractor to make the charges bat the
poce could take no acuon TO prevent heaVv cuaIses
from being used in blasting houses Srsss wg ht
Injured property-owners lind Obtain reuress ny
bringing suits against the contractor. o,,, -
he workmen have been blasting, rocks at
the place 9Ss directions of fST r Sn
tractor who lives in One-hundre9-anuIr ~
In small cottage on the GROUNDS OF OF na'aioG H
cathedral the glass in the windows vas Droken Nv
a blast on Monday. Persons employed III me Catne
dral i'd Yesterday that the massive building had
been made to shake perceplbly by some OF tne OK
pIosions' In the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum,
in Madison-ave., between Fifty-trst AMI f1.ty
secoudsts some of the ceilings nave oeen eracAe;,
Midway between Fourth and MadlsOn-aVrS;, III
Fifty-first-st ls the Columbia Grammar School'
The plaster and glass In TINS nave oeen oaonr WI
Stones have been hurled upon tne ROOF a.so anH
nave caused damage there, and fragments or rock
have been thrown across Fifty-hrst-st. into tne
asylum grounds when children were at play. Hn Id
man. who lives in Fifty-third-st., sald that nc hdo
been lifted from his chair by the explosions.
SECRETARY FOLGER IN THIS CITY.
Secretary Folser spent several hours at the Sub
w
him there we're General Hllhouse FORMERLY ASSIST
ant Treasurer at New. York; Surveyor Ursnain,
Parker Handy. George Montague, president Of the
Seventh Ward National Bank, aud Frederick d.
Happen, president of the Gallatin National Bank
The Secretary will start for Geneva this morning
and will not return to Washington before next
week He has decided that the surveyor as wen as
the Naval Officer shall perform the duties Oi DIS
Office until his successor shai DC 9usS ecrstoru
said u know that my action has Deen erltlclsed
sharply in New-YOig, but the people In wall street
apparently forget that the call haa srfe h
were to Le paid at once. The revenues are increas
ing steadily aud know OF no other way than inc
to circulation l anticipate that the surplus reve,
nues will be much more than snihelent ior TINS can
by the time 1t natures. The Treasury rec-lptss
may lie unusually large from the tax on whlskey
have no means of Judging as TO the proOaoie lte Vi
the bill no before Congress-. l have seen only one
edo in this matter for the only persons who have
called OH me about 1t have been those VINO Favored
the passage Of the bill. have not seen any of It's
opponents"
PROTESTS OF SPECIAL TEACHERS.
About fifty special teachers of the common schools
of this city met at Steinway Hall YESTERDAY 10 CON
s,der the recent action of the Board Of EDUCATION.
A. A. Schultz. teacher of German in School No. II,
read a set of resolutions, which were adOptei.
These asked the Board of Education TO Teconider
their action. stating that special teachers had been
employed after dehberation by former bJards; that
uneasiness would exist among all the teachers IL
the Board could take sucl summary acuon; tnat
the special teachers were dependent on uneu posl-
move them without notice from their places ~ tnls
time of the year. when they would have dl1hcu.ty
in securing positions. George ii, CnTtls presenter
q stranger set of resolutions which, after discussion
he admit d he had written under the exeitemehI
of the first news of the action of the Board. Ihey
were finally Withdrawn.
A ERTIO-MILLENNIAL CELEBRATION.
L. Bradford Prince, who not long ago resigned the
Office OF Chief Justice OF New Mexico, IS now III thir
city. In conversation with Tribune reporter
Yesterday he gave some particulars OI Inc arrange
mems for the tertiO- millennial celebration oil the
settlement of Santa Fe New-Mexlco. IL Ii the Old
est town in tho country, having been settled IN
1850. The month of July next is TO be gwen up TO
this celebration. There will be Two exhibition
halls one filled with the numerous historical relics
and antiquities to be found the Territory and the
other with its present proencts: VIII tbs pe
ninrteen In the Territory and full representation
of the three pero DIS in It's hstory-tho rule OF the
Zuni, the Spahaid ard the American tHcurslon
IN this city.
CROWDS AT HORTICULTURAL HALL.
CarnatIops lilies of the valley. primulas hya
cinths camelias and plants tasteully grouped were
the centre OF attraction for throngs OF people yes
terday in the hall at Nos 20 and 20 West twenty
ejphth-st ut the first monthly exhibition az thai
place OF the Horticultural Society: Inc exhibition
was @cOnplete success" as President Ssmde
Sloane pronounced it, The only dra = back was th'
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