New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-06
NETWORK CITY.

| Elevated Railway DILL
NETWORK CITY.
DYING on THE WAY TO THE ToMBs.
drunken man. who gave MS name, AZ Jacop
Harth was arrested by the Church-st. police yeser-
| day While be was being taken to the lomOs f0lice
Court he suddenly fell on the sidewalk ana died.
PASSENGERS ON THE ALASKA
| Mrs William III. Guion, stanton Gulon, Charies
| F. Lewis NJ. p; X. l.. Cutting II" Willy Wallacn'
Henry G. iii on and wife, the Rev. Thomas NJ.
| Killecn and w n. Cilley are among other passen-
GERS who will sail for Liverpool to-day on the Guion
| steamship Alaska.
TRYING TO SELL THE MERCHANTS HOTEL
| The Merchants Hotel, at Nos. 80 and Al Cort-
| landt-st as put up at auction yesterday by Louis
| Mesier The property IS part of thu henderson es-
| tate and was to I've sold in partition. The prices
! bid were not satisfactory to the owners ana Inc
! property was bid in by j. Mcintyre for them for
THE GRAND JURY FOR MARCH.
| The Grand jury for March was Unparalleled yester-
dav I'D the Court of General Sessions and John Sloane
! of No. $50 Broadway, was made foreman Recorder
Sml ii in h: charge repraed the walain ms Inat
lico of finding indictments IN ordinary cases against
prisons who had not been first taken before Police
| Justice
| LARGE PORK SHIPMENTS TO GERMANY.
The shpmeus OF provisions from tins port to
| Germany have largely increased IN the last Few
weeks the desire being To fill contracts for German
ports be ore the prohibitory decree against Amer-
| can hog meats goes into effect on March 10. Inc
| foreign exports of pork last week amounted to
3i75 barrels of bacon O, 76s, 500 pounds, and Of
| hams 2l2,27O pounds.
MEASLES AT CASTLE GARDEN
Several cases of measles were discovered among
| the children of immigrant passengers VINO arrived
| on Saturday aud lnday on the steamships Neckar,
| Pol nesa and WIrldnd. Superintendent jackson,
| of Castle Garden seut a report To the Board oil
| Health that they were detained in the hospital
| there, but were doing well.
NUMBER ONE THE HAPPIEsT MAN IN TIE LOT
Long before the sun had warmed the cold ar yes
| terday morning large crowd of Government PEN
sionrrs Lad collected III the vicinity OF tne Pension
Office in Canals TO receive their quarterly ali3t-
| mpnts AbOni fifty persons had spent most OF the
night in thu street as TO be at the heal OF the
| line when the office opened. No. VAS the haPpiest
| man III the lot.
EIGHT YEARS FOR ATTEMPTING BURGLARY.
| john Moore attempted on February - To enter
the building at No 40 East Fifty occupied
| as a school Tor girls by Mary II. aud Carrie II;
| Morris He was captured by one Of the SCHOOL
teachers while climbing INTO window. he was
fou ID guilty of an ATTEMPT at burglary and was
sentenced yesterday by Judge Cowing 10 eight
| years in the Stale Prison.
| DISAPPEARING NEARLY 4 YEAR AGO.
| The police of this city nave been asked 10 search
| for b. A. James. of Columbus, Umowno disappeared
| in Baltimore, Md, May |, 1857. Mr. ) ame' ~
seventy -ive years old. tall ami stout with lar com
plexion and blue eyes When !as' sen m BALTIMORE
| he tnteu, ed To 10 Canata by way oi Newt Ork
| reward OF 200 ~ offered by his relative, ii. l.
| James for Information about hun.
THE TWENTY-FIVE YEAR OF BUSINESS COLLEGE
| Tnere wall be a graduating class OF MY al IN
| business College IN the Academy OF Music TINS
| evening. ChefJustico DAVIS will preside, and
| ChtunccY VI. DrpeW, A. Oakey liail, tho rev. III
| Goitheii Judge Larremore, President Hunter, oil
| the Normal Olege, and others will make addresses
| There viii lac music also.
WORK OF THE CHARITY ORGANIZATION SOCIETY.
| A meeting of the Executive committee Of the
Charity o. ganization society wa held last evening
at Mott Memorial Hail. No. IS MadIson-aye. Last
month 5.3I0 cases were repoited by sixty different
churches ana societies. his makes IA All oo'IoI
C. ses OF applicants for charity OF which the society
has records. One hundred and thr.y clutches ana
societies the city now working IN cooperation
| with this organization.
| THE DEFICIENCY ~ TIE SCHOOL FUND
| The Finance Committee Of the Board ol Educa-
| ton held a meeting yesterday 10 determine what
| amount It.NOuld ask Of the Board OF Apportion-
ment TO meet the deficiency IN the scnoOl fund
| The committee declined to state the precise sum
betw cen 81 900 aud 1850. 900. report will be
made to the board Of Education tomorrow.
| NO CHANGE AT ST. MARY's CHURCH
| The treasurer OF the Church OF St. Mary the
| Virgin James Burt said yesterday that the Rev.
William Radcliffe, OF boston, had not been called to
| the pas crate of hat cnurcn as had been stated
| lie could not account for the publication OF the
story AZ here had been no difficulty with the pres
| ent rector and everything was running smoothly.
| . DR. THOMAS on SPENCER AND HIS CREW"
| At the weekIy meeting Ot the Baptist preachers
| yeslelday the Rev. Dr. j. Is. Thomas spoke on the
Lamp OF the Body" In speaking of the design III
the construction OF the human eye, DR.. Thomas SAID:
There IL no use III aigulng win men IKE spencer
| and his crew, who consider the universe n barrel
organ turned by crank OF circumstances. II
| thought comes from the BRAIN how are We TO ac-
count for the predictions OF a severe winter by the
fight OF geese Wild geese too, are better weather
| prophets than the common goose"
IN FAVOR OF FIvE-CENT FARES.
| The Executive Committee Ot the Autobiography
| League met yesterday TO discuss the veto ol The
Flvc-Cent Fare BIZ. There were present ), Is.
Chittenden f. Is. 1hurber, .lenry Nichols, Theodore
! f. 1omlInsOn John w. n hoe James H. Serrell,
w. s. v OH aud DIR. X. +. Gibson. a memorial to
the Senate and Assembly, which had been prepared.
passed over the Governors veto. and that the Man
| haitian Company be at once uls. Owed either by
direct act OF the Legislature or by such mandatory
directions to the AttOrney-Gencral as will insure
| this result through judicial proceedings.
| ANOTHER COMPLAINT AGAINST MRS. MORDAUNT.
The OF Laura II. Wallace, an actress, OF No.
| 124 West WashingtOn-place, against Mrs. Frank
| MOIdaunt, vile of the actor VINO pers0nates the
leading character III the Cosmopolitan Theatre IN
terry arising out OF Jealousy, was again adjourned by
JusIce Duny yesterday AT the Essex Market Police
| TO illness. Miss Wallace made another complaint
against her for assault and threatening to shoot her
| on sIgnt, upon which warrant was obtained.
| MR. PoNDIR HAS HIS AssAILANT ARRESTED
Justice Pa tersOn, III the Jefferson Market Police
| Court Yesterday morning issued n warrant for the
arrest of Edward +. EGerstadt, broEer of No. 40
| Broadway, n the instance OF John POndir, q
broker who lives at No. 90 University place Mr..
PondIr stated that he lett his Office at 20 Exchange
place early Oh Saturd iy afternoon III company with
his son RUFUS; that they had gone only II snort
distance when they met Mr.. kbcrstadt, who struck
him blow in the lace, knocking INN down. Mr..
| EbeTstadt then repeated tine operation on his SON.
J Court Officer MIchaels was nTused with the war
rant and appeared in court III the afternoon with
Mr. Lberstadt, who was paroled for examination
| on March 3.
| BROOKLYN
The ponds IN the suburbs frozen over yester-
| day aud skaters made merry on them.
There is talk of establishing an English Lutheran
church in the Eastern District.
| The March Grand Jury was sworn in yesterday
with S. $. Williamson, of Gravesend as foreman.
| Mrs. Mary Cotter, age thirty OF No. "a
Ralph-ave, fell down stairs yesterday and was in
sianty killed
Workmen began yesterday TO fill in the lot at
Thlru-st aud Ffth-aye, to be used as the new base