New-York tribune., 1878-04-02
NETWORK CITY,

NEW-YORK CITY,
French ginghams are woven to form bourette
effects.
The "gold braid" straw is fashionable for
bonnets.
Silk buttons are no longer seen on fashona-
BILE dresses.
"Scales" is the proprietor of a fish-stall in
Fulton Market.
Mantclcts and dolmans have about extin-
guished sacqucs.
Linen collars and cuffs are embroidered
with cOored cotton.
A marked feature about new bonnets is the
absence of all hanging draperes they made to look
compact as possible.
"EmanO" is q new cotton material similar
TO French cambrc, and will be used TO combine with
lawns for house dresses.
Knife patings are as much used as ever.
An imported suit at JohnstOns Is composed almost en-
tirey OF narrow diagonal plaitngs.
A. r. Stewart exhibits some very handsome
bathing suits Of white Turkish toweng, braided with
red blue or black which promise to he very popular
The doors of a. T. Stewards Hotel for
Women will be open for all having admission tickets at
o'clock this evening, instead Of O'clock as previously
announced.
Greek bands are worn on the skirts of
dresses little below tho waist; they are OF metal,
leather. made OF the dress material and have very
unique appearance
The receipts at the Ncw-York Post Office
during the quarter ending March 80 were S7il3T Ga;
the disbursements S2O2.o95 81 The office received
S7Ogssi 40 the sale Of stamps stamped envelopes,
etc, and S17. 34s for box rents.
Ellen Riley, age fOrty-fye, of No. 80 Oak
ST.. was severely burned about the body yesterday
morning by her clothes taking fire from kerosene oil
with which she was lighting fire IN n stove.
The Produce Exchange took n ballot on n
proposed amendment TO the bylaws yesterday which
was to the effect that the Exchange should never be
closed to business except legal holidays or Sundays
The amendment was lost by vote oi G0l tOJO
May COrrcll. age two years, residing at No.
305 East Eighty ynf-s died yesterday. and Dr Charles
Bosscr Of and Trstayc..
who attended hor attributes her death 70 the EFF cts OF
eating candy containing poisonous substances IN the
coOTing
The New-Yorll Free Trade Club authorizes
the statement that Edwin A. Pratt ceased TO b. secre
ary Of the club February and That all acts Of his In
that capacity since that time have been unauthorized
aud Illegal He no longer represents the NeW-iCrk Free
Trade Club In any official capaciV.'
John Schlacg of East Houston and Sheriff
sis. disappeared on January II. Yesterday morning
his body found ha East River nj the foot Of East
Tihsi ANA had evidently been in the water for long
time No marks OF violence were found on the body,
aud Il Is thou ght TO have been a case OF suicide.
Judge DOnollue referred yesterday the d-
vorce Of Emma August Brush against Clarence B.
Brush jefferson NJ. Levy. The wife saws she was mar
Tlpd her husband August lB 800, tltN nave one
chd declares that he left her last January and Is
now LIVING with a woman whom he calls Fannie Brush.
Boyd Eliot, the engineer, of this city, whose
disappearance was announced yesterday morning has
returned home lie stricken with paralysis In the
Philadelphia depot Friday. and taken to n hos
ptal On recovering consciousness he the requisite
Information and brought T. this city yesterday. lie
has fair prospect OF recovery.
The WOmcn's Christian Temperance Union.
OF Harlem held its first anniversary yesterday when
addresses were delivered by the Rev. Dr. g. Henry
Mundcve, the Rev. Mcssrs. H. Virgin. Wesley Davis.
and Geo III. smith, and Mrs. Peer NhudcnhOG. prcsi-
dent OF the society Tho society organized one year
ago suppress the liquor traffic In the Twelfth Ward.
This is the twenty fifth year of the Wilson
School The managers will celebrate ts silver
sary nj the Institution No I25 st. Mark'space, Thurs
day. April g. at 230 =. The children viii ring out
songs coming. Tue silver WIN he brightencd IN
will followed by sIlyery shower TIL they hear the
golden bells OF the fifiioth year
At the election Of directors of the Second
Avenue Railroad Company, yesterday the following
were chosen Adophus Hamilton. David Jones' Waldo
iutchins Joseph Richardson Solomon Mcrbach, J. LIE
IIumfreyillc. James Eyernrd Moses Mchrbach Thomas
j. McCalli Peter SrhneideI "iiiam . lhoFu D. d. lci-
Of DAVID &. King The directors will organize to-day.
As a horse belonging To August Belmont
was being exercised by Budd Tarber young groom OF
No. 100 West Fiftysecond-st, yesterday morning at
Fortethst aud Sixtlaye., he became frightened and
threw his rider. Rushing 10 Fifh-avc., tho horse
Jumped into wagon Of the New-York Transfer Com
pany slightly inlurng John Mcclure, The driver, and
breaking wheel and axle Of the wagon lie finally
captured by K0undsman Pace. OF the Tweniy-nlnth
prcCiuct, and returned 20 his stable.
Mr.. A. A. Low acknowledges the receipt
since March 2G % the following additional subscriptions
for the relief the sufferers by the famine prevail
ing in China: j. j. W. SIOO Mrs. II. C. Moss, Boston.
80 Anonymous, T. T. s Mission, 81; r. II. WhIttcsey,
Dunkrk. %; Il. e., bIiibrook parsonage. Duchess
a.. .tg y, a.. M I.xtu
C"I,inoI, Dnpl lirt All; r. F. Nash Geneva SIS; Total
SIjl -; previously acknowledged, $50 20; grand
'''"'' BROOKLYN.
Three of the five Rapid Transit COmmIs-
sloucrs recently appointed by Mayor Howell flied
SO 900 each IN the County Clerks office, yesterday
Francis Mitchell, age forty-iyc, of Middle
village L. l., who visiting at No. 100 Maugcr-st,
sunday night, fell down stairs and broke his neck. lie
died Yesterday.
On account of the deficiency which exists in
the salary of the Fire Department the Alder
mcn Yesterday reduced the pay OF the employees thai
department . per cent.
Nellie DOwd, age nineteen, residing in Main
st. took a walk on Sunday evening with TWO young men
whose names she did not know At Lencrts-pacc and
Classon-,vc., the two men committed brutal assault
upon her ana fed.
Albert Mesel, clerk in the Brooklyn Post
Office who was sentenced to years Imprisonment
in the Kings County Pcntentiary for embczzlug a
money order, was pRrlonc1 yesterday 10y President
Hayes. His term would have expired on May 20.
The First Baptist Church Society, whose new
church. partially completed. at Picrrcp0nt and Clinton
SITS. was recently described In THE TRIBUNE, obtained
permission from Judge Gilbert yesterday, mortgage
the church az Nassau and llbcrtysts. for 10000
| The Brooklyn Aldermen yesterday adopted
resolution offered by Alderman Dwycr OF the second
Ward, providing that the vacancy In the Fifth Ward
by the death Of Alderman Shannon should he
ncd and that the salary for tho remainder OF his term
| should bc paid to the late Aldeman's family.
| During concert at No. 113 Graham-aye., .,
Sunday night, Raymond stcuglcn, OF No. 12l Boeum-