New-York tribune., 1878-10-04
NEW-YORK CITY

This is the last day of the Flower Show at
the American Institute Exhibition.
Imported dresses show that basques and
waists OF all kinds stll very long.
One of the favOrite plaids to be worn this
Winter ia called the d" Macleod plaid"
The newest thing in millinery is the India
Cashmere feathers called because Of their brilliant
coloung.
The wires of the new Continental Telegraph
comnopv are now in working order from this city to
Philadelphia. 49,
Partisan ladies are wearing turbans OF SILK
for beaddresses. They are by bridesmaids al
morning weddings.
Very fancifully made shoes are shown to be
worn with the short costumes which will be shorter
than ever next Winter.
The short skirt will continue in favor the
coming Ladies' too sensible TO readily aban-
don so pretty and comfortable fashion
The Relief Committee of the German So
ciety during the past month expended SlO6 90 ID Md OF
German emigrants in straitened circumstances.
Judge DonOhue, in Supreme Court, Cham
bers dismissed yesterday the writ OF habeas corpus on
behalf Of Andrew Bressant, who is demanded by the
Governor Of Massachusetts, for trial. and Bressant was
surrendered to the Boston officers
At the Castle Garden Labor Exchange dur
ing the past month 977 applicants provided with
employment-4s3 men and 494 women 4l6 OF the men
were employed as farm laborers and OF the women
were employed as house servants IN this city
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury French
has given notice TO Collector Merritt that appeals from
the decision OF the Collector Of Customs to the rate
and amount Of duty chargeabe in any given lmpoI&a, ia
tion OF merchandise be filed subsequently 70 tue
liquidation OF the entry In order to be valid
The immigrants landed at Castle Garden
Yesterday numbered 574-264 coming from Hamburg
on the steamship Gellert The Algeria from Liverpool
brought lI5; Nevada, from Liverpool 113 Vile de
pa frOm Pennsylvania,
Glasgow, 80; and the Devon, from Bristol' ~
The New Church Society (SwedenbOrgian)
in East Thirtyffth-st, OF which the Rev. Chauncey
until recently the pastor, has decided to call
the Rev. 8. 8. Seward minister Of the swedenbOrGnn
church i'm Wilmington Del Mr. Seward - a nephew OF
Secretary Seward aud brother Of the Minister TO CHINA
The steamship Cimbria, which six months
ago created much excitement throughout the country
upon her arrival at Southwest Harbor, Me-. with 600
Russian sailors and officers board, arrived In this
city from Philadelphia yesterday, having completed the
term OF charter She will resume her position In
the Hamburg-American line
John ii. Starn will give his customary an
nua excursion and picnic TO the newsboys and boot
blacks OF NewYork on Thursday, October TO- The boys
Of the lodging houses and schools connected with the
Children's Aid Society are included in the party:
Tickets for the picnic can be had ut the NewsDoys'
Lodging House, No. Duane-st,
William II. Lawrence. for years Coroner OF
Yonkers ana prominently connected with politics in
seat. mile south of tho town, since last
Saturday. He went away early IN the morn morn
ing ON that day, on what errand is not KNOWN. nan
Mr Lawrence IS sXtyhye years Of age, with white har
and beard.
A meeting of the General Committee on
New ArmOry, representing the 7th Regiment aud
Veteran Association. was held this week 10 consider
ways and means for raising the necessary amount TO
complete the armory. About SlOOOO0 Is required ~
addition the amount already subscribed and the work
suspended In November unless funds are raised
nIttffnu adj
chzeBs of New-York, for additional subscriptions
The Board of Apportionment appropriated
Yesterday 900 for the completion OF the new Court
House. and 500, 900 for the Riverside Park. The Com
missioner Of Public Works was granted permission TO
transfer 900 from the lamp aud gas account TO he
fund the support OF the Metropolitan museum OF AI
aud the Museum OF Natural History Ias ne 900 s"sq ro o,
the smallpox fund TO the fund Tor the diHhiecon OF
the city. nnoov,vv
The body of John p. Murray, of No. 517
Ulcks-st who had been missing since Saturday was
found Yesterday morning In the bay at the foot OF Forty
ninth-st. lie Is believed to have been accidentally
drowned.
The Board of Supervisors yesterday referred
TO the Committee on Law in connection with the legal
adviser Of hoard the reductions in the salaries Of
employees Of the county reported at the last meeting
OF the board
Martin Tracy, age fifty, of No. 90S Ber-
gen-s, while the influence OF liquor yesterday
fell though hatchway in the OF Harrison Broth
ers at Paclfc-st and Washingt0n.aye, ana fractured
his skull. Death ensued almost Instantly.
The inquiry into the mental condition of
Mrs Louisa McAdams, before commission appointed
by the Supreme Court, and sherifs jury, was con-
cluded yesterday No testimony was introduced for the
defence, and the jury, after Orief deDeratOh pro-
nounced Mrs. McAdams sane.
TadIslaus Dobiecki the watchman who was
instantly killed by locomotive the Atlantic Avenue
Railroad Wednesday night while crossing the track at
schenectadyave., leaves wife and two children. He
was struck by Of the piston cylinders aud thrown
about sixty feet John Fitzgerald. the agman at the
crossing Lewis f. Livingston, the engineer, and Ed
wark X. Norris the conductor OF the train. were ar
rested They were released their recognizance
by Coroner Slmms.