New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-04-10
NETWORK CITY.

The Cotton Exchange decided by ballot, yes
terday. TO close the Exchange on April 10 and 90
Only fourteen of the $50 stands at the
Manhattan Market at the foot of West Thrty-fourhs
are now occupied.
Thomas Lord, jr., and family with. a party
OF friends, going TO spend the month Of June on
board Mr.. Lords new yacht
City markets now make a great show with
golden butter, crimson berries green vegetables ana
brght-hued lowering plants.
The Easter egg of our fOrefathers, sldlfully
Introduced forms prominent feature of the coming Eas
ter cards and mCmentOes practical novelty in this
line is the substitution OF suSarpums Tor the nara Doed
yOlk.
The funeral of A. T. La Forge, the late
senior PARTNER In the firm of r. II. Macy & Co.. took
Mace Yesterday at the Church OF st. Ignlus at M
TIE store. OH Fourteenth-s was closed during inc Gu
tire day.
A West-st tobaccOnst displays a long pipe
made of verebrg, horny substance, from tho follow
ing animals, VIZ Buffalo, whale, elephant deer, shark
hippopoamus horse and Brazilian OK 1t supposed 10
be a strong puller
The chapel and reading-rOOms of the st.
Barnabas Society adjoining the Police Central Office In
Mulherry-s, are being torn down to make room for
and more commodious building to be used for SIM
liar purposes by the society.
Officer John Moran, of the First Precinct,
found man, eighty years OF age scs in the street. yes
terday morning and took him to tbs statiOnhOuse. He
appeared be insane. His name, he SAID was John f.
Colin. lie could give further account OF himself
At the German Hospital 578 patients were
treated during past year, Of whom 4l5 were from
Germany 40 died. At the Dispensary q i99 patients
were treated and 29i22 prescriptions furnished. The
receipts S2S,22G 5S; expenses TZoZO| 10
The New-York Genealogical and Biograph-
ca Society will hold Its anniversary meeting tomorrow
evening the chapel OF the Reformed Chuch at Fifth
ave. and Twenty-nnth-st, when the Rev. samuel Us
good DID, will deliver an address entitled " Life and
ITS Record In this Generation"
Il. II. benson, mate of tho schooner Paugus-
set denies that his vessel responsible for the col
sion with the schooner Yankee Doodle, on Saturday
night OF Barnegat Tie SAYS that he put his helm
" hard a. port" avoid being run intO and That the
other vessel kept OF, trying TO pass his bows.
A novelty in the way of entertainments will
be the prize elocuon contests to take place at CHECKER
ing Hail. on Friday and Saturday evenings, under the
arrangement OF J. s Vale. Several young women and
young men viii compete for prizes OF F1O ahd S-o III
gold Friday and $50 and Sl5 the next evening
The Board of Health was requested, yester-
day. by the Society for Prevention OF Cruelty to Child
rem 10 furnish 1t with the result of any investigation
when may have been made by the Health Department
IN relation to the recent deaths OF Young children eui-
pOyed IN the manufacture Of artificial noweTs ana wax
paper
FancEon has chirped her last chirp at the
Standard Theatre. Good audiences have attended the
representations This evening and during the remainder
Of the week. Maggie Mitchell will appear in Little
win be followed, April -, by j. X. Emmett, IN
Fritz"
At the Cafe Cosmopolitan, in SecOnd-ave,
chess tournament has been started, In which twenty
nine chc,nayer are engaged The highest scores thus
FAR have been reached cssr9 Burke Doyle. Tmbcck,
Ellinger, Eiscnman, Heushel and Graham The prizes
to be awarded close OF the contest from go
TO $50
G.. s. Schermerhon, secretary of the Ma
tlOnal Rife Association, received communication from
the National Rife Association Of Great Britain Mon
day. acknowledging the receipt OF the invitation to com
fha Int ION
that 1t will not be able to send British team this year.
The following Is n comparative statement
OF cases OF contagious diseases reported for the TWO
weeks ending April u: ,