New-York tribune., 1878-11-26
NETWORK CITY.

/ TaylOrs are trimmed with bands or 1ur'
| Plain satin is in great demand for dresses,
and when used with striped velvet is very handsome
Velvet and silk are no longer combined IN
one costumes satin is used with the SIX, ana Wors'eu
| material with velvet
The sunerintendent of the Newsboy's Lodg-
ing House would he glad to receive Thanksgiving con-
| tributons at No. 0 Duanest.
In the millinery department, at Sternss new
store ON Twentyhrd-st the feathers and wings have
been reduced greatly in price
William Durham, carpet-weaver, OF Gas-
saic N. j., came to New-York November 2l' to buy
materials for his business and has not been seen since
that time
The Chatham Street branch Of the New-1ork
Elevated Railroad will be completed about the maoie
of next month The station will be in front OF The Day
! NeWS Office
In the interview with General Wingate on
the reorganization of the National Guard puhhshed IN
THR TRIBUNE OF yesterday NewYork was credited Win
| 100000 militia instead OF 2O'OOO.
Two of the five men committed to Ludlow
Street Jail by Commissioner Davenport on election day
for illegal voting registration were aIraignea Deloio
| Commissioner Belts yesterday ana discharged
The United States POtters' Association, which
is composed OF the leading potters Of the country will
hold their regular annual convention at Trenton, ~ D.,
on Tuesday WEDNESDAY and Thursday OF next week.
The directors of the Wabash Road yestcr-
day discussed the plan extending tho lire to Chicago
i
line would he constructed the Decatur Com
panv should complete its portion OF the contract WIN
the Wabash Road
A new specal docket-boOk, to facilitate
searches for insOvent assignments has been prepared
by William g. Kelley clerk OF the Special Term of the
Common Pleas Tho records OF these proceedings have
been kept according TO law but the hunting ior 'uen
mas been work OF difficulty
The fifth and last lecture of the course
before the NewYork BAPTIST sundayschOol Teachers
Association will be delivered by the Rev. Dr. George C.
Lorimer November 90, at the Calvary Baptist Church,
in West Twenty-thirdst, near tlfthaVe' Inc SUBJECT
will lie The Teachers Teacher"
The prominent subject of conversation in
police and medical circles yesterday the reported
charges to be brought against welknOwn city phys
clan for malpractice The OF the physician and OF
the informant in the case are carefully Withheld. The
facts as far known were published in yesterdays
TRIBUNE.
Collector Merritt yesterday received an
opnop from Assistant Secretary French In which the
latter decides that foreign vessels cannot discharge car
goes except port of entry Collector Merritt VIII
enforce this rule and prevent oregn vessels hereafter
from dchargng their cargoes at other than recognized
ports of ontry.
A home -and-home racket match between the
NewYork and Quebec clubs has been arranged hrst
match to played In this city on December o. and the
second on January at Quebec. Henry BOakes for the
Canadian and John Mahon for the NewYork club. will
be the contestants Boakes is the favoriie but the
match is expected 10 DE Close
Augustus Hartman, of No. 34S Seventh
ave. John Mason, of No. 404 West Thrtieth-s, John
Nolan OF No 33l East Forty-seventh-st. and William
Green of No o West Thireenth-st, were arrested on
Sunday in the upper part OF the city Tor Ieck
less driving. They slept in the Harlem Police Station
and were yesterday fined by justice Suhth'
The managers of the Association for the
Reue Of Colored Orphans appeal for aid In furnishing
Thanksgiving dinner for tho 300 destitute children
under their care The asylum is at One-hundred-and-
fortythrds and Tenthsye Any OF OF
the asylum, by Mrs James Stokes, NO 81 MadlSoh-
ave.
A Mr.. Spalding, who was sent home as
passencer on board of the bark Abby Bacon which ar
rived from Malaga yesterday disappeared on the night
Of October &c. the day after leaving port and sup
nosed 10 have fallen overheard. He not missed by
the captain until the following morning. MI spaldng
belonged in Name and was sent homelh us"esS iroin
Gibraltar.
Postmaster James has received from Post
master General Key notice that the soliciting OF gifts
by letter-carrers through New Years addresses Is
thought prejudcia to the service The Issuing OF snch
addresses is therefore forbidden Postmaster James
saws that this order does not forbid the carriers TO re-
ceive gifts voluntarily offered, but forbds them TO
solicit any.
J. C. Morrison, the agent of the schooner
Eothen which sailed for the Arctic Ocean last Summer
| with Lieutenant Frederick schwatka and several
Others to search for the relics OF Sir John Franklin dis
credits the report sent by Captain Tyson that the ex-
pediton had landed near Cape Fulton as at that time
Capain Tyson at Cumberland Inlet, or AT Disco,
while the Eothen should have been In Hudson's Bay
Richard Cahill, bill-pOster, was tried at the
specal Sessions for violating the billboard ordinance,
and fined $50 He appealed, claiming that the commit
ment against hi m failed to show any violation Of
the ordinance. The appeal came up before Judge
Lawrence in Supreme Court Chambers Assistant Dis
trct-AtOrney Leavy presented new commitment cor
rectng the first error nut msnamng tne pr,sonor @
Judge Lawrence heiu po'n o'n'"'0'' "i'S"i"i "'u
released the prisoner
Bangs g. Co. sold yesterday afternoon part
of collection OF standard and illustrated books The
following brought fair prices: Outline Engravings OF
the Sculptures of Michael Angelo. Sl2; Bryants Pctur-
esdue America, SO Balzac's Drol Stories. 81 The
Brdgewater Treatises, in thirteen volumes, $40 so
Buffon's Complete Works. $40; Outline Engravings OF
Canovas Sculptures 81 Caryles Works, In thiry-one
volumes $2s; Casses Birds rs; APpleSns Cyso'
In ten volumes, each brought S20
Mary Jones, a little girl nine years old, called
upon Police Justice Smith yesterday saying her mother
was dead and her father Thomas Jones' OF No 245 East
One-hupdred and nineteenth-s did not love her and
had Turned her the street On Sunday night she
tried TO carers her father but he beat her and then car
red her to front stOOp, with warning never 10 re-
turn under penalty OF a similar punishment Mary went
TO her aunt Mrs. Jane ONeil at Third-ave ant One
who took her In. The
child showed the Justice her back and arms which
covered with bruises. Her father subsequently, ar
raned before Justice Smith, and committed for trial
at the Special Sessions.
BROOKLYN
John Supple, of No. II High-st., is reported
as missing from his home since last Thursday.
The members of the police force were d.
rected yesterday TO enforce ordinance allowing the
use OF velocipedes In the streets only before 10
and between p IN. and sunset.
Oliver COtter yesterday laid before the Board
of Police and Excise the of forty-Ave persons
whom he charges with selling spirituOus liquors when
their licenses simply allowed them 10 sell ale and beer
George Curnow, of No. 1876 Partition-st,
was held by Justice Ferry yesterday $1,000 bail on
the charge Of shooting Louis Baudern OF No 25 Con-
mil Ia fra andh