New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-06

eyes, were asserted TO be merely supeIs
large audience.
NOT PRoFrTING BY HIS EXPERIENCE. r.
William Whelan was tried In the Court OF GEN zen
sGa b On U IN assa1g and
robbing Peter O'Neil in Bleecker-st The jury dls-
agreed, and Whelan was allowed to go Tree. iw %e
days after he snatched q pOcket-b0ok carried py
Mrs. Eleanor Gonzaez. who was walking In the
vicinity of the place where ONell was r9DDeu'
Whean was tried yesterday on the seCS9e
and was convicted Judge Glldersee'o seh'oho0u
him to five years in the State prison.
REGISTERS OFFICE NOTES.
August Belmont has conveyed q lot on the horth
side of Nineteenth-st about 100 ieet wes' al nom
nal consideration. For nominal consldefratIoaa
Santiago A. Rodrigues and Others have transferred
Chambers, Grand, Eleventh and Thirty-eght sts.
also plot in Lexington-ave. and extensive prop
erty in Brooklyn, to John OConnor who mas seGprea
upon the same from Juan G.. Fernandez and others
a loan of $225,000.
THE HUDSON RIVER STILL OPEN.
Inquiry being made at the offices of the Peoples
and Troy Lines of Hudson River steamboats, yester-
day, it was learned that navigation has been unin
peded by ice up to the present time; ana tnt ene
probabilities are that the Hudson will remain open
on the night of December registered ~ ana
thin ice formed as far down the river as hna l
son. The City of Troy, which left here on Monday
evening. encountered this ice beating her way
through it, however, without any difficulty.
PLUCKY WOMAN CAPTURES A BURGLAR.
In the absence of Mrs. Bertha Flanders from her
rooms on the second floor OF No. 1856 L9dlow-sst.
Yesterday afternoon an entrance was effected by
means of false keys, and her return she was con-
fronted by strongly built man VINO assauited HIT gSt
of stars-she holding on to him tenaclousiyIuin
Officer Smith, of the Tenth Precinct, was called IN
and arrested the intruder, who gave the name OF
John Williams age twenty-One. Justice Duly, at
the Essex Market Court, held him for trial IN de-
fault of 81, 900 bail.
PARET 4 co. MAKE AN ASSIGNMENT.
I,I Doro4 g, No
make assignment in order to protect their cfedI
tors. Two deeds of assignment to Charles l.. LOrd
Ga by s % Bccn vino did qS
ness as John Paret q Co. from December l, ISl9,
| to December 81, 1881. They prefer Abraham Gray
for $1,000. The other deed is made by John Paret,
| Frederick T.. Bacon, Benjamin f. Graves and John
| II. Butler general partners and Rufus story as
special partner who have been in business together
| as John Paret * Co. since January l. 1851 NO
preferences are made in this deed. Judgment tor
$685. in favor of S. w. Fay was recorded against
Mr.. Paret individually yesterday.
A GERMAN DEFAULTER SENT HOME.
| Louis Kittnacker, q defaulting postmaster from
! the town of POphingen, WurtembuIg, Germany,
! who was arrested in Chicago on Saturday by Plhk-
| ertons detectives. sent home to Germany yes
terday the Wesphalia, where he VIII be trled tor
stealing So, 900 from the Imperial Government. On
arriving in Chicago Kittnacher found employment
| in writing for several German Catholic weekly
papers, under assumed name. 1t was
| through decOy advertisement offering situation
| to a German accountant that he was discovered.
| When taken before the German Consul he made
! full confession. Kttnacher is a fne-0oking man
of over six feet in height. He is well connected
| in his own country. The punishment Tor MS crime
| is twenty-five years Imprisonment.
| swTNDIING A MAN FROM MISSISSIPPI
| young man rushed Wild y about the PennSyl-
vania Railroad depot in Jersey City yesterday
morning looking for police officer He said that
he was from Natchez Miss; that his name was
Chambliss and that he had been ,swindled by
banco steerer" out of $50 80. He did not care for
the money, he said the experience was worth IT,
| but he wanted to have the thief arrested. Inc
| thief was an old man with white HAIR and an
| honest look. He had offered to show the young
| man house he was looking for. Chambliss lent
him 50 80 to pay another man, who presented phi
to him, until he could get check cashed The last
he saw of the honest old man he was running
| rapidly around corner two blocks away.
A GOOD PRICE FOR A 1868 BIBLE.
The Cooke library sale, which was continued at
Clinton Hall yesterday was well attended One OF
the curiosities was John Eliots Indian Bible This
is one of the copies having the dedication OF klng
Charles of which twenty copies only were sald De
| prnted. 1t bears the date of 1868. After some
| trisk bidding the volume was knocked down for
$3.50 $3.50 more than the original cost to Mr..
Cooke Ferdinand Gorgess work, "Amer yea PAINTED
second volume, relating TO the Development OF New,
England, $50: Richard Hakluyts1 3; " PRINCIPAL
Navgatons, VOYAGES, Tratliques and DISCOVERIES OF
$144.
ANNIVERSARY OF THE ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITAL.
The New-YOrk OrthOpedic Dispensary and H0spl-
tai held its regular anniversary meeting yesterday
afternoon at No. 1875 East Fifty-ninth-st Mrs, ".
NJ Bliss president of the Ladies' Board, read the
annual report. A free hospital bed had been en-
lowed with SO, 900, by Mrs. William Astor and an
other with So 900 in memory of Miss G.. b. Hicks.
An appeal was made to the public for the endow-
ment of the nine remaining beds. Addresses were
made by DR.. Andrew III. Smith, the Rev. Dr. j. ;.
Shipman, and DR.. Newton NJ Shaf1er, surgeon in
charge of the institution, who reported that l0Oo
patients had been treated during the year for spine
and hip diseases and that 800 had been discharged
cured.
BROOKLYN.
The Grand Jury sworn in yesterday has Gaylord
McFaul, of Flatbush, as foreman.
Fifty new street fre-alarm boxes are to be added
to the eighty-six now IN use.
A number of manufacturers appeared before
Mayor Low yesterday, and protested against the
action of the Aldermen in passing an ordinance
prohihting the manufacture of cream tartar IN
the city.
4 verdict awarding 81 900 as damages was rem
dercd Yesterday in the suit of James Hood against
the National Meter Company, in whose works, at
No. 20 Frst-st, +. d., where he was employed, he
broke his leg.
Richard Curran and Henry Boyle, who were ar
rested for q brutal assault upon sick woman, Mrs
| Henrietta Ehret, while they were conveying heI
from East Ncw-York to the County Hospital, were
held yesterday for the action of the Grand jury
The Commissioners of Charities and Correction
| Yesterday appointed Mrs. Annie u. Hammond
matron of the County Almshouse, to succeed Mrs
Ann Cavanagh, removed: Mrs Gardner who was
| first appointed declined the place.
The Rev. Casper JOst, of the East German Meth.
odist Conference died on Tuesday at the house OF
his daughter, No. 23l Rodney-sti at the age OF
slyty-fivc The funeral will take place tomorrow
in the German Methodist Church, i'll Second-st
New-YOrk.
The iury before which was tried the suit of w
C. Heney to recover pay for his services private
secretary to Dr." Monck, the renegade clergyman
and spiritualst, who pretends to heal diseases by
'laying-on of hands" found verdict yesterday
allowing the plaintiff $500 for his services for iif
teen weeks from which 500 for board and $l 81 u,
loaned him by MOnck were to be deducted A
motion made for a new trial.
lanes Raney his wife and five children were
found in rags and wretchedness in n miserable hove
i'm Hoyt-st yesterday, by an officer OF the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and h'
arrested them as Migrants the noghbors having
| complained that the children were forced to gt
hnnirrv and half-clOthed in rags. while the tathe