New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-02-12
NEW-YoRK CITY.

NETWORK CITY.
| The postponed festival of the Italian School
viii be held this evening" the building, at NO l5S
| Leonard-st
The trustees of the American Museum OF
Natural History yesterday adopted resolutions III e"osy
OF the late Theodore Roosevelt.
The Association for improving the Condition
of the Poor extended aid during the past to ooO
families. and expended about 100000
Anthony Klein, age fifty, of No. 253 Centre
ST. who shot himself IN the head, died IN the Chambers
Street Hospital late yesterday afternoon
Herman Endelert and John eau, two immi-
grants Castle Garden quarreled yesterday evening"
and Endcert stabbed eau in the arm, incting wound
two inches deep.
Meetings for the election of delegates to the
General Committee OF the German Independents"
have been held during tho last few days The committee
will meet Thursday.
The signs on o BOwery museum illustrate
indefinite extension. They have now swarmed over
half block and with the arrival of each new prodigy
prodgious picture Is hung on the outer wall 70 lure III
the cartons pubic
A battered old sleigh, exhibited in front OF
Broadway store bears the card, Said to have De-
longed 10 Frederick the Great" 1t WAS once richly
cildad but now, In its tarnsncd age, IL looks IKE te
band wagon circus at the end OF the show season.
The antI-Tammany Committee, appointed
at the Hoffman House, to prepare an address to the
Democrats of New-York met yesterday afternoon at
Ii.
formal conference and adjourned until Wednesday AFTER
noon.
The following additional subscriptions to the
18th Regiment New Armory Fund have been received:
Niagara Fire Insurance Company, $3.50; Union Stock
Yard and Market Company 1900; D. F. Morgan, $50;
d. H. McAipne, 800; Globe Fire Insurance Company
500 Coachmans Union League Society tcoloredl $50
f. A. Hayes Robinson is an Englshman and
a stranger TO the and prices OF this country
Almost his breakfast after landing from the steamer
IOtal S+erfo He
20 tho charge. s1-was "blarsted h'outrage" prob
ably-apd Knocked the cerl: down. Now he is under
$500 bail to appear for trial for assault.
Miss Mary Ann Kavanagh, who resided with
her married sister at No 26l Cnton-aye Brooklyn. dis
appeared from her home February The sister fears
that the unknown woman who leaped from the Ham-
ton Ferryboot NewYork. the evening Of February A.
was the missing person Who was tNentyoH years Ola
and had beeB low spirited for several days.
Thomas Taylor, who stabbed Margaret
Rogers Sunday evening. held at the Jefferson Mar
ket Police yesterday. to await the result Of the
girls injuries. Taylor is member Of tine "Rotten Row
Gang" AID slightly wounded two OF hi eommlons
attempted 10 arrest him after the assault Ihe gri
IS N the NewYork Hospital. in dangerous condition
The steamship FleWs Castle. spoken by the
steamship Gamma, Saturday, $50 miles from Sandy
Hook with machinery disabled came into port yester-
day. The crank shaft Of of her engines was broken
Wednesday last and she worked her way port with
one engine. on FRIDAY February T. Captain Mechior
passenger, died OF consumption and was buried II sea-
Az the inquest yesterday in the case of the
five children of Thomas Cassidy sufocaed February 4.
at No 554 East slxtht, the father testified that be
could blame for the accident. The jury rendered
verdict of accidental DEATH and wished TO censure the
paren for e wing young children in the care OF
single ervant but the Coroner thought that this had
better BE- omitted.
Not long ago the wooden Indian enjoyed
alone the privilege OF protecting stores, but his do
main of late years has been invaded by representatives,
OF all characters and nationartles and both sexes
cigar store Broadway displays an imitation bronze
gladiator. His mas his name ana residence engVed ~
good Greek a tree behidd him. but on his shield Is
displayed in good Auglosaxon. Competition Dehed."
A Grand Lodge of Sorrow, under the aus
pieces the various bodies Of the Ancient and Accepted
Scottish Rite of FreeMasonry OF NewYork ana Brook
Iyn will be held az the Academy Of Music this evening.
There will be chorus OF sixty voces besides the Rhen-
fischer S,cngerbund and Hudson Macunerchor Euogies
will lie delivered BY prominent Aasons, and nowers IN
memory OF the dead VIII DC dS'riputcd ny "hi'eoDeu
Officer Smith, of the MadisOn-st. police,
heard cries for help from the East River at the foot OF
JacksoI-st, at4 o'clock yesterday morning He ran TO
tie pier and man struggling in the river Hastily
procuring boat, the officer succeeded in rescuing the
stranger and brought him in an exhausted condition 10
the station house. The man remained lnsensDie uti
5 o'clock, when he died. No papers which would iden-
tlfy him, were found on his person.
Abel Crook has sued Civil Justice John
Flanagan for professional services the sut 10 try Mr.
Flanag ans title Office Judge Flanagan says that his
services were be gratuItOus This Mr.. Crook denies,
AID among other for fastening the trial or the
suit saws that Mr. Flanagan is nsOlvent, and the only
recourse the plaintiff RECEIVERS, Will be To the judges
salary Judge Donohue set down the trial OF the case
for March A.
The Brooklyn alderman yesterday ordered
the flags upon the City Hall to be placed at hafmast,
IN honor of the dead Pope.
Coroner Nolan, yesterday, impaneled jury
TO hold an inquest upon the body OF Mrs. Peters, who
died on Sunday at No. 63 Delmonico-place, from the
effects an abortion alleged to have been produced by
Mrs. T. yklart, of No. 81 stantOnst., New-i0rk
An unknown man, about thirty-six years old,
and 8 feet inches in height accidentally fell from
the forward part the ferybOat Republic as she was
leaving the Catherine Ferry slip the New-York side
Before assistance could reach hlm, he was drowned
The members of the South Congregational
Church held meeting last evening TO celebrate the sue
cessl efforts recently made TO iqul1ate the debt OF
500 900 which rested upon the church The pastor tue
Rev A. J. Lyman some historical "reminiscences
aud addresses made by the Rev. DIR. H. NJ stOfrs
former pastor the church. and the Hon. John Wnsow
In the City Court, yesterday, debtor was
about 10 be sworn in supplementary proceedings, when
the opposing counsel objected stating that the man aid
NOT believe in the Bible. Judge McCue said 1t was
matter between the witness and his conscience dlh
make much difference, some scientists ana wise men
uaa abolished hell.