New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-20
NETWORK CITY.

The active demand for the silk hats Of past gem
erauon heralds the approach OF 81. PatTicES Day.
Few of the new five cent pieces are in clrcula-
tion yet. Those who have them Keep theh as cum
oSItles.
MANY complaints have been made recently that
the sidewalk the Post Office IN Maist. Is never
cleaned of.
The spring weather yesterday brought out the
street bands in force. and the tenemeut-house chill
drcn the Eas Side reloced greatly
Unsafe buildings reported Yesterday: Nos III
Nassau-st., 1874 Horatio-st. and 32s and 33s East
Nineteenth-st.
No trace was found yesterday of Robert Lang, Of
No. 400 Hud.on-st., the boy who disappeared on
Saturday with 121S.
The Charter Oak Life Insurance Company has
signed mortgages aggrcgaing $50, 900 to James ne,
Il. Powell, of Hartford. Conn, and two others Tor
$50 900 to George W. Bartholomew.
THE FOURTH AVENUE TUNNEL DISASTER.
In the Court Of Oyer and Iermincr Yesterday the
trial of George l.. Rood and William 4. d. hawhon
was set down for February 2S. Tie prisoners are
charged with manslaughtcr IN connection with the
recent Fourth Avenue Tunnel railway disaster.
ACCUSED OF COMMITTING ARSON IN NEWARK:
William XOntlccu, age thirty, of No. 20 East
Thirty-second-st., was taken before Justice White
Yesterday al the T3mbs Police Court by Detective
Won Gerichtcn. of the Central Office, Ia answer a
charge of arson at Newark, y. ). lie was handed
over to an officer ON that city.
MEETING OF COLLEGE LACROSSE PLAYERS
meeting of the New-York University Lacrosse
Association was held yesterday afternoon IN the
chapel w. ". Kingsley, $50 and a. +. Skcrry. jr,
81, were elected delegates TO tho lnteIcolleg ate
Convention, which is 10 be held az Harvard on
WashIngtOns Birthday.
HOW TO COLLECT AND DIsPERsE CROWD.
An elderly man makes his appearance about once
a week the steps of the City Hall and proceeds To
distribute bread and crackers In limited quantities
to a hungry and ragged multitude Yesterday was
distribution day with him, but aspeech supplement-
ing the donation soon had tue effect of dispensing
the crowd.
An ABANDONED BARK PASSED AT SEA.
Captain Classon, of the bark PeacemakoT, which
arrived here yesterday reported that on January 10
he passed the bark lphegeuia, OF tiumc, aban-
dOned The sails were blown 10 ribbons the bull
works and houses on her deck gone and the vessel
seemed 10 be deep In the water. he signal NJ C."
was flying III the mIzZcn rigging.
TIE ARREST OF DR. BLOOD
Judge Brown, of the United states District Court
yesterday denied a motion to vacatc the order OF ar
rest issued against Dr." Blood III a civil suit BY
the Government to recover $4,000 as penalty on
90 900 bottles Of patent medicine which 10 IL
charged that Blood had sold unstamped. Blood Is
now in Ludlow Street jail.
PROCEEDINGS OF A HEBREW CONVENTION.
The convention OF the District Lodge OF the Order
Kosher Shell Barrel completed its business at
PythagoTas Hall, Nos 1874 and l30 Canal st, last
evening The sum OF 500 was voted for the beue-
fit of the sufferers by tho Ohio River floods. The
election Of trustees resulted III the election of L.
LOwcy, l.. Jacobs and ). Stern.
BONDS LOST TEN YEARS AGO.
An advertisement has been published. offering
reward Of $500 for the recovery Of two Boston and
Albany Railroad bonds, issued IN 1872 and num-
ls@o
& 900 each. Captain Irving, the detective, said
that the bonds were lost in 1872 and that lately he
had believed that he had succeeded IN tracing them
PAYING DEPUTY MARsHAIS.
The special deputy marShas who served at the
election OF 1882 are to be paid this week. The
marshals IN the first six Assembly districts are re-
duestcd to present themselves at the Marshas Office
on Wednesday evening 10 sign the vouchers for the
amounts due them. Checks will then be sent to
them at their homes as soon as they can be pre-
wHIRLED ABOUT BY sHAFTING.
Herman Blechner, fourteen wears old, was injured
in iiightful manner yesterday ut No. 1873 Water
IT., where he was at work. lie caught in the
shaftiug of some machinery and whlrled about
I'll both his thighs had been broken and his head
the Chambers Street Hospital but his injuries were
regaided as fatal HIS home was at No. 10 East
Eleventh-st.
FIRE-EsCAPEs Oh HOTELS.
Inspector EsterbrOOk yesterday directed fire.
escapes to be placed on the front of the Brentwood
Hotel, at Seventh-ave. ana Fourteenth-st. he
hotel Is owned by Mary L. Jennings, OF No. 20 East
Fiity-fOuTth-5t FITe-t scapes were being placed
yesterday OH the Revere House, at Broadway and
Houston-st, III compliance with a recent order.
LETTERS not TO BE DELIVERED.
Postmaster Pearson yesterday received orders
not to deliver letters addressed to Ward d Co., No
90 Exchange place and H. Is. Smyih' Co., No.
q Wall-st. These are two of the firm names under
which James Lacy, who was recently arrested con-
Quoted his operations. Lacy was in the habit of
guaranteeing that money sent to him would not be
lost whlle profit might be realized from the in
vestlnontS IN stocks made bY HIM.
DIADLM IN THE CROWN" OF JOHN KELLY.
special meeting of the Shoemaker Union was
held ut Military Hail. in the Bowery last evening
and was addressed by A. Srasser, president of the
International Cigar Makers Union. lie urged the
union To send committee TO Albany to urge the
stopping of cOnvict-labor. Edward KING said that
he felt certain that conyict-labor would he abol-
shed, and that Ike every other successful measure,
this act would be " dadem III the crown of John
| Kelly.
| DIFFERENT KINDS OF INFANT FOOD.
Professor Albert k. Leeds, OF Stevens Institute,
Hoboken, lectured at the Academy OF Sciences last