New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-07-11
NETWORK CITY.

The Savannah steamship City OF Augusta arriNeu
Yesterday with the first bale Of new Georgia co'.oh
II weighs 800 pounds and came from the plantation
Of tho late Prmus Jones, the negro planter VINO iof
MANY wears was noted for the earliest picking lhis
hale was grown by his foreman Martin DAVIS, also
negro who is ready to furnish an afdaV1t as 10 's
cenuineness. 1t will be sold at auction shor'V'
sheriff sicsles yesterday appointed John Graham
special Deputy Sheriff.
George w. Rumble, the manager Oh the r"oino
Mining Stock Exchange" at No. 81 Newst'' anu 'acs
W. Waldron broker. who were arrested IN oie '"iu
made by Captain Mclaughlin on Wednesday were
remanded to await the acuoh Oh Iie "i""" '' "
the Tombs Court yesterday.
Assistant United States District Attorney Rose began
s in the United States District Court yesterday to
secnre the confscation Of emerads worth $500 WHICH
were seized in the mails, having been sent 10 tnS
country from Amsterdam.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has instructed ths
United States DstrictAttorney in TINS city 10 i'os
gate the charge that the Federal laws were violated
in the landing of seven immigrant giasSpo"ers iron
the steamship Umbria brought here as coh1racs
,ahorcrs The District Attorney will report whether
n Is advisable to begin action against the officers Oh
the vessel.
The sunday school Of Mt Sinai Temple held j"
annual picnic yesterday in Suffers Harlem River PARK
Ensigns Augustus n Mayer and Joseph N Rohf
hacker were detached from the soopofwar Pensacoia
yesterday and ordered to coastsurvey duty.
The commander of the torpedoboat Gushing received
ao yesterday TO take the vessel to Newport, where
experiments are to be made with her at the torpeoo
station.
The steamship Gaelic arrived at San Francisco on
Wednesday with mails from China and Japan Oh the
following dates: Shanghai, 10 Hong Kong, Juno
"a. Yokohama. June %; due here Monday morning.
The Dock Board at its regular meeting yesterday
oassd resolutions to build two piers on the North
River one Of these will be at One hundred ana tweI-
~ fourth-st and the other at twenty
eighth-st where there has been for some time oe-
mand for increased pier facilities. The piers VIII 10
about 200 feet long and will cost about Sloooo escn
Al a public meeting of the New-York Mercantile
Exchange on Tuesday resolutions opposing the hareh
Ship Canal scheme were adopted. The meeting NOUS
the opinion that the canal at present projected VIII
greatly interfere with the between the upper
and lower parts of Manhattan Island, the other por-
tions of the state Of NewYork and the Eastern od'eS
Edward Miles, 'longsloreman, began suit IN the
limited states Court yesterday against the Cuna Lhe
Steamship Company 10 recover $1,000 damages ior
injuries received while working in the hold OF the
steamship SerVia on May To-
Judge Benedict in the United States Court yes
terday fined Wilhelm stampfcr $3.50 for senong aous"
postalcards through the mails
Beniamn Ray, who recently appointed AS
.tant United states Inspector OF Steam Boilers, was
found dead in his bed at his boarding house. NO. III
Greenwicll-st., yesterday morning. lie was seventy
three yeus cd and bachelor. He came from HUGS n
Azariah Jackson CrtOn the demented cicIk VINO
created disturbances in the Custom Heuse ana "rote
fantastic letters 10 President Harrison and exfos1
master Hendrix of Brooklyn, has been dismissed rom
the customs service
Mayor Grant went away yesterday afternoon TOT
vacation until Monday. Where he went or what ne
i doing no one at the City Hall would say yesterday
The first steamer ever chartered to carry produce
from this city 10 Australia was engaged yesterday.
She Is the Prodane, and was chartered by Arkell q
Douglass The Prodane will be loaded in the ht'er
mart Of this month. Hitherto produce has been shipped
from this mort 10 Australia in sailing vessels
Andrew G. Ambrose, young man. went 10 De- ~
paut,s iewelry store at No. 1GS Bowery, on Weones
dav and snatching diamonds worth $3.50 dashed out
followed by Rauth He was caught after long
chase and was held in the Tombs Police Court yes
rdav afternoon after the diamonds had been returned
TO their owner.
Max Samuel Guggenheimer, Of No. Isl Eldrdge-st,
was held I'm the Tombs Police Court yesterday chargeu
with practising medicine without a license, ana Win
perinry in swearing falsely before the County clerk
lie has been prosecuted five times on charges OIL pfac