New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-02-13
NETWORK CITY.

NETWORK CITY
The Old-time fashion of sashing dresses and
inserting material OF another coloris revived.
Indian silks shown at Stewards have honey
| comb surface, overshot with bright rich colors
Much to the surprise of fashionable people
some Of the latest imported street garments are short
The new fabric, known as drap dOrient. is
queer tumble OF coors resembling Limoges ware tDot
| wear.
New silkSare in stripes and checks and all
the beautiful combination of colors so much In vogue
this
Lovely new brocaded silks at Arnold &
the shower"
The sauarer the neck, the higher the Shout
derstrap and the shorter the the fashion
able Is the ball dress.
The report that Owen Murphy, the fugitive,
had returned to this city pronounced untrue at the
Office OF the Excise Board yesterday
The English cutaway coat with vest promises
to be the favorite style this Spring.
Combined with the short skirt it is very.beautful
Fashionable ladies are reviving the old GUS
tom OF pecing quilts But instead OF calico and deaine,
which their grandnothers used they employ silk and
velvet.
The Board of Police yesterday gave per-
mission Sergeant Heating and other members OF the
Police Athletic Club to pre- sent Captain Williams with
gold badge.
New pictures at Macy's have frames of or
nancnted cardboard the pictures are on transparent
material, and have very pretty effect when hung
against mirror.
Exquisite sets of duchesse lace, consisting
OF vest cuff broad collar and sash, to be over
the richest silk dresses, novelties shown at leading
Broadway house.
Incredible as it may seem, Worth, OF Paris,
has manufactured recently ball dresses with short
la.,t hpra b1fif Il
that they may be.
Michael Kennedy, age twenty-One, living at
Inwood, severely bitten in the face yesterday by
mad dog The animal also bit horse and several dogs
and finally killed.
An exquisite bracelet, displayed by Broad
way eweer and designed BRIDE is of brilliant fire
opa and pink pearls. The jewels arranged as to
spell the brides given maine.
The fourteenth annual dinner Of the Dart
mouth Alumni Association VIII be given at Demonicos
tomorrow evening The new president OF the college,
DR.. Bartlett, viii be present.
memorial to Congress was adopted by
the Bc,rd Aldermen. yesterday, asking that an ap
uropriaon made for the Improvement Of the Harlem
Rive. and Spuytgu Duyvil Creek.
The Aldermen, yesterday, resolved to request
the Mayor to transmit communication to the Leg!sla
ro protesting against the passage Of the bill abolish
ing the College Of the City Of Ne"-lork
IL Is asserted that nearly every European
steamer carries ton Of paper patterns. designed by
Madame Dcmorcst. This docs not look as II New-York
ladies' dependent upon Paris FOR styles.
ID. Maitland Armstrong, formerly United
states ConsuGenera for Italy, been appointed by
the Advisory Committee Art OF the Paris Exposition
superintendent OF Art IN the American Department:
His office viii be at No. Go Broadway, Mt the rooms Of
the committee
The Sixth Avenue Railroad Company yes
terday elected the following directors Richard Morti
mer. Il. W Burnbam. Frederick de Peyster. Jonathan
R,,la Do
Bryce stephen Wral, Vim. y. Mortimer, and Albert W.
Greene.
The japanese belief in the origin of their
diamond or that the serpent ascends from
the sea ard spouts from his mouth, whch crystal
lies \ bronze representing THIS l. to he found in the
collection ~ curlo>. exhibition at Clinton Hal:
fScaa WHEN S oid and silver Wire nad upon cop
per. ied up win enamel ana men Da@ed' LIE lero"
The tickets for the Arion SOcicty's ball,
which is TO be- held Glmores Garden February 81 are
tascfully designed. ON SIDE Arion is represented
in The net Of leaving the Academy of Music with pro-
standing the back Of Comedy Is ealing the procession
into the garden with his horn. The other side shows the
ears Prince Carnival is riding on back OF Pegasus
aud piercing the worlds eye with q large lance
BROOKLYN
The Greenpoint Ferry Company refuses to
accept the trade dollar
boats were out for the first time yester-
day on the lake Prospect Park To-day regatta Will
be held
Joseph W. Sonnenbloom was arrested yester-
day on suspicion of having set fire to his taorshcp. AT
No % Pncappe-st. His stock insured for 800.
The skating on the CapitOline Union and
Prospect Park Lakes enjoyed yesterday, by crowds
~ people The been in better condition this
than At the present time.
The Kings County Democratic General Com
mItec adjourned again last evening without taking any
action The Committee Contested Seats reported that
atisacOry arrangement would probably be made in
OF disputed seats. The adjournment was until
March ).
Ex-SupcrvsOr Patrick Brcslin, who keeps
liquor saloon at York and Mansts., sued by Mrs.
Mary Hickman the loss OF her husbands services
account of the defendants selling liquor 10 him. She
timated her damages at 900 The ease was tried yes
teray the County Court and the Jury rendered YER
diet IN favor Of the plaintiff for 500.
In the Brooklyn City Court, yesterday, the
trial OF suit OF b. f. sherman against Edward +.
Root Wall-st broker. recover $4,000 for alleged
wrongful conversion of stock. begun In Scpember,
1873 plaintiff purchased. through the defendant,
200 shares New York and Harlem, aud fifty shares
of Lake shore stock. which stock lie claims sold
during the panic without his consent.
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NETWORK TOWN ELECTIONS.
FLMIRA, n. Y, Feb. 12.-lhe indications
i'm m Chemuny COunty held