New-York tribune., 1885-03-18
NETWORK CITY,

NEW-YORK CITY.
| Subscriber.-SoTy we can't oblige you
Large foes Office appeared again in tue rivers and
| bay yesterday
An uptown jeweller has in his window an i'm,
mense knot cut from a tree, which Is an exact
counterpart of human ear.
| superintendent Walling yesterday ordered tho
police to watch for thieves who have been steailng
electric light wires from the poles
| The managers of the Demlt Dispensary, at
Twenty-thIrd-st. and Second-ave., last evening
adopted resolutions in regard to the death of their
president, Charles Tracy.
The model of the new steamship America, OF the
National Liue, is exhibition at the office of the
Adams Express Company, In Twenty-third-st', near
| THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF ARTS.
| The meeting of those who are interested in the
| formation of the proposed National Society of
Arts" has been further postponed to Tomorrow
| tion, No. East Twenty-third-st.
| GOING BACK TO GERMANY.
Henry HOsster, who was charged with beng
| forger aud with having escaped from Heidelberg,
Germang, will return to-day on the fulda. having
been extradited after examination before United
States Commissioner Belts.
| CABLE RAILROADS AND CITY PROPERTY
According TO statement prepared by Lonis r.
IIoltz Assessor of san Francisco, and attested by
laid before the New-York Cable Railway Commits
sion the value of property on certain streets has
been greatly increased by the construction OF cable
railroads, while horse railroad routes II mas cor
| respondingly decreased.
USELESS TO BURY ONE FROM THE ADDRESS GIVEN;
| The Charity Organization Society acknowledged
the receipt of money from anonymo us person TO
help bury the child of a man who applied for such
| aid and who gave the name of John Heddan, OF
No. 529 East lhirty-eighth-st. As any family JIvI
ing at that place would already be buried several
| hundred feet out in the East River, there beng
only aboat 800 members in that street. the society
would be glad TO return the money.
| SEEKING DAMAGES FROM THE ELEVATED ROAD.
The trustees OF the Lonllard estate have begun
five suits in the Superior Court for damages against
| the Manhattan and Metropolitan Elevated kal-
road Companies for interference with light and AR
| and access TO property in South Flfth-ave. The
| actions pertaining to Nos. 1853 and 165 are now
| being tried before Judge iruaI. the extent Of the
damages resting with the discretion OF the Court
| EQUITABLE GAS COMPANY DIRECTORS.
The following directors of the Equitable Gas
| Light Company were elected yesterday: Eugene
Kelly Jacob ID. Yermilye, X. NJ. G.. Graham, f. j.
JerzinanowskI T.. n. Dick kcrson, jr, b. C. BenediGt,
| ". II. Gebbard, Jacob Bertschmann,, Jerome B.
Wheeler; Charles f. Tag Charles & NJ; fEy yGodnn and
| were the only yadditions 10 the former board.
BILLS CONSIDERED BY Young REPUBLicANs.
The committees of the Young Mems Republican
Club on Legislation approve Senate bills Nos 81
| S., So and ll6. The last bill provides for con-
sututional amendment prohibiting the Legislature
from passing acts requiring i3Gai pr9nyoemeina.ss ias
| They also approve Assembly bills Nos 26i, 200,
| 2GB, and 352 aud disapproye Assembly Dill No.
2lT. The committees meet at the club rooms every
ACTIVITY ~ THg TxcrSE BOARD.
The Boardo of Excise YESTERDAY sent to the Board
not taken licenses 10 sell liquor and are supposed
| 10 be violating the Excise law. Accompanying the
list was a request that the police would arrest the
druggists II they sold any liquor. The list was re-
ferTed 10 Superintendent Walling with instructions
o have the force that the sale OF liquor wines
albs IN any place without llceuse DO 30 lar as
possible suppressed"
TAXING STEPS TO RESIST CHOLERA.
Orders were gwen by the Board of Health yester-
day for house to house inspection IN me teGe,
ment house districts with the idea OF placing the
city in as good sanitary condition as possible TO
resist an expected epidemic OF cholera IN the sum
mcr. The fifteen inspectors will first visit the
worst places. hey will make detailed reports each
week to the Sanitary Superintendent, who will keep
IN mis- Office a map on which the houses whose sur
I0nndings are regarded as most dangerous VIII be
marked.
GoING TO ALBANY TO PROTEST AGAINST A BILL
Another effort Is to be made tonight by the rep
resentatives of the Produce Exchange to enlghten
members OF the Legislature regarding the blow
that will be struck TO tho commercial interests OF
th, port if the ball becomes a law which proposes
10 reduce the charges for eleyating and handling
grain elevators and ships number OF mer-
chants will 90 10 Albany to-day. They say that
thoy do not wish to antagOnze tue canal -boatmcn,
but wish to have them listen 10 the facts and care
fully consider them before any further action is
LOW PRICES FOR HoGsTEIN CATTLE.
joint sale Of Hols,eln cattle imported by SHUTTER
Brothers, OF CroHmgcn, Holland, ana 5. T. Dyt, OF
PassaIc, n. D., was begun yesterday at the Amerl-
can Horse Exchange, FIitietb-st. and broadway.
he attendance was fair but the bidding duil.
The seventy-sx ANIMALS offered brought $io'iso.
Only two brought over 500. They were the i've
yeaT-old cow hlexandrina by Willem lid, dam
Jozophina, bred in North Holland, which brought
SJ6O and her hcifer kiZern. two years old, by
Alexander, which sold for 500. The sale Will
be continued to-day.
ENGLAADs DEMAND FOR OATS.
The rumor of q probable war between England
and Russia has teuded to stimulate the demand
from England for oats from the Atlantic instead OF
thc BaltIc ports Tho demand has been 80 large in
the last few weeks that the shipments Tor TINS
month from New-York alone promise to reach
900 900 bushels which will exceed the shipments
for any one month heretofore. The engagements
ON berths range from $4,000 to 10000 bushels a
day and yesterday they footed up about 10000
bushels There are also large shipments OF Cana
dian oats In transit by the Glasgow steamers from
this port. Most of the depand comes from London.
A fair tx port demand also comes from Bordeaux.
Reports from Baltimore, Boston and Montreal also
sneak of the increased charters for oats shipments
BROOKLYN.
The ifesize figure OF Dr." Cogswcll. surmount-
ing the drinking fountain at FuIion-st and Latay-
hat which bore a green c0ckade q green sash and
rosette, aud green flag.
Chauncey NJ. Depew will deliver his new lecture,
Poetry and Politics in the British lsles,' at the
hall OF tho Long Island Historical Society, this
Sheterng Arms Nursery.
The charge against George III. Price for keeping
gambling house at No. 800 Futon-st. has been dis
secured 10 show that Price tho proprietor of
the place. in which the police captured Dnetyseyen
packs of cards and over 5000 poker-chips.
,,1l i,rt tha hrtrah Of ttea