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Four mail steamers sailed yesterday 30,000 letters and 56 bags of papers. of the letters the P merania took 24, 00 and the Maas 8. Two of the men injured in the riot in Harlem 1 Saturday night are expected to die. The ringleaders, Bu Kernan, Jenkins, and Felt, are still held in enstody. James Russell, a stone-cutter, was arrested yest day on the complaint of Jacob Edler of No. 535 West Thi eighth st., on a charge of passing counterfeit money. The occasional crack of political fire-crackers the streets these evenings startles sleepy policeman int momentary activity under the Impression that a pistol hash fired. There were 31 arrests reported yesterday for : lation of the Excise law. The police say that the number unlicensed venders of intoxicating liquors has rapidly cressed. The Board of Estimate and Apportionment hel meeting yesterday for the purpose of taking up the question paying the laborers lately employed on the Tenth-ave. A consultation, an adjournment was had until to-day. Albortine Bogensholz of No. 784 Eleventh-a died yesterday from the injuries received in analtereat with Jacob Siebert and his wite, at No. 780 Eleventh-ave. July last. Siebert and his wife, Eliza, were arrested. " Who steals my purse steals trash, *. but that filches from me my good name," etc., was probably first remark of some member of the firm of George King & yesterday when the theft of their brass sign was discovered Gustav Verner Welston, a Swede of No. 220 Mo st., pushed back his chair after supper last evening, and about to arise from the table, when he dropped dead upon floor. The cause of death is believed to have been heart ease. Some one suggests that the friends of Moody a Sankey should fit up the old Post-Office building where tl can work for the benefit of the lower part of the city, wh the Hippodrome property offers another good center for ope tions in the upper wants. A large number of the laborers employed on 1 public works were paid off yesterday. Many of the labor whose pay is withheld because of a question whether any propriation was made for the work on which they were gaged were present to arge their claims. The persons in the smokery-as the gentleme cabin might be called-of the ferry-boat Hackensack W astonished yesterday morning by the intrusion of a schoon bow-sprit through a window Fortunately the bow-s) shapped short off, and the damage slight. A private telegram was received in this city y terday afternoon from St. Louis stating that persons rep senting $85 .000 of the third mortgage bonds of the Misso Pacific Railroad Company began yesterday an action for purpose of throwing the Company into bankruptey. The funeral of Minge" Roane, the young wom who committed suicide at No. 180 Fifth-ave. on Tuesday ey ing by shooting herself through the heart. took place yes day from the rooms where she had been living with Thomas Whitney. There was a profuse display of flowers. The in ment was at Greenwood Cemetery. The Committee on Rules and Discipline continu the investigation of the charges made against Seth C. Haw the chief clerk of the Police Department, yesterday. whole testimony receive by the Committee on trime is be sifted, and report will DE obably be made at the meeting the Board of Police Commissioners to day. The conductors on the Harlem Railroad lo trains immediately after leaving the Grand Central Depot lect all fares for stations this side of White Plains, giving checks in return. Taking advantage of this, it is asset many passengers purchase tickets to Harlem, but ride to N risania, Fordham, or other stations beyond. For an expressed consideration of $599,000, eline L. Poillon has transferred to Cornelius Poillon la amount of real estate at Eleventh-ave. and Eighty fourth at Broadway and Forty third-st., at Broadway and F1 seventh-st., and on Fifty seventh-st. together with prope at Eleventh-ave. and sixth-st. The deeds were cordei yesterday. Records of real estate transfers from Samuel € hen and wife to Mary P. Higgins, and from Mary P. Hig to Dinah Cohen, were filed yesterday, and are understood to connected with the recent real estate transfers just preced the failure of Lewis. Phillips & Co. for $2,000,000. The of these transfers, for $75,000. land on Tenth-ave. a south-west corner of Ninety sixth.st., about 1.7 feet by to Ninety fifth The other transfer is also for $75,000, affects land on the south side of West Fifty -ninth-st., 150 west of Seventh-ave., and 25 by 100 feet ID area. BROOKLYN. Another installment of the city debt was paid T terday. Bonds to the amount of $338,000 having matured, principal was paid to the bolders. An unfounded runior that the Greenpoint Savir Bank is embarrassed financially, caused a run which has las for two or three davs but confidence is now restored. The Health Board has requested the Board of C Works to clean immediately the streets in those districts fected with small and to perform the same work in of streets before Winter sets in. Mayor Hunter, believing that the streets are properly cleaned, yesterday sent A letter to the Commission of City Work: stating that hereafter he will require certifica from the inspectors stating that they have personally amined the different streets. A small dummy engine capable of drawing t carshas been put into use on the Brooklyn and Coney Isl Railroad and runs from the city line to Gravesend. If no Jection is made by the property owners along the route, rail will be put down next Summer, and all the cars be pelied in like manner. The Board of County Canvassers continued its si sions yesterday. Of the votes of 18 districts which were ceived, those of 7 were returned for corrections. No retu have been made from the IVth District of the Ninth W: and the inspectors were ordered to appear and explain matt No full votes ere received for any of the candidates, and Board adjourned until to-day. The Health Board has appointed Dr. Francis Stewart Register of Vital Statistics, and Dr. W. E. Griffi Sanitary Inspector, while the services of Dr. S.J. Holly sue Sanitary Inspectors Van Clief and Raymond have been pensed with. Dr. Isaac G. Snell and Dr. Alexander were lenated as vaccinating sicians. Dr. Henry Hesse hasb appointed surgeon. The clinging of an intoxicated man for support a tree the sudden appearance in the opposite doorway o confirmed somnambulist, all in white; the drunkard on kneesbefore the supposed appariation shricking for mercy the police policeman Hereely rapping for assistance to he did not OW what such were tuo ridicolous feature midnight tal lean described yesterday morning as having curred in Gold-st. It is currently reported that the Board of Ald men at their next meeting will take from the table the n inations of Edward Rowe, Daniel D. Whitney and Cornelic Bergen, which were sent in by Mayor Hunter last Janus and contirm Messrs. Rowe and Bergen. Mr. W Thitney, stated. is to be rejected on the ground that he is now Regis of Arrears. This will Mr. Stranahan in the Board. action is to be taken b fore Mr. Schroeder and the new Bo take their seats, 60 as to keep the Commission in Democr hands. A traveling magician, during Wednesday nig placed the staffed image of a man on top of a flag staff in At tic-ave. Pedestrians were horrified yesterday morning what appeared to be a man standing on his head, hauging one fool in mid air, and assuming all sorts of dan gerous P Lons at a perilous hight. AL one time he seemed to have his footing. and of horror went up from below. M. while the professor" enjoyed the sport immensely as, un served, be pulled the wires from the roof of a neighbor house. JERSEY CITY. The city's receipts for the week ending yesterd were $92,127 96, and the balance in bank is 43,695 76. Ellen Murphy, an employé in the Hoboken but factory had her hand erushed in the machinery yestere making amputation necessary. Charles Petera and John Woltman, who W subpenaed yesterday as witnesses at the Hudson Cou Court, were fined $5 each for being late. Kumor says that " the richest man in tow had to borrow $100 of a friend yesterday to save his note f going toprotest. He found it impossible to raise the casi any other way.