New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-05-07
NETWORK CITY

| tnlufenS dresses are DeluE lituC ioiSCi ~
| an inch or two.
Chenille bourette grenadine is something
new aud stylish.
The Iceland floss is much used for crochet
| ing shuwls and sacqucs.
Black mitts, suitable for street wear, can be
bought for II 20 pair.
| Princesse dresses are shirrcd In the front,
| and trimmed with plsscmenteries.
Bowery pawnbrOker has taken in thirty
eight family Bibles during.the past month
One yender OF newspapers IN this city pays
! al annual rent of 81 900 for sidewalk room.
Basques are made with long tabs at the
back. some are tastefuily trimmed with lace.
Notwithstanding the LIST Of May has passed,
| the landlords do not down with their rents.
Home made trimmings are much used for
ladies' lingerie II il durable than the Hamburg
The wareroOms of the Steck Piano Company
have been removed to No IL East Fourteenthst near
Fifthavc.
A rich material for furniture covering Is
called drap DOR the background IS worsed with leaves
wrought In gold.
Gustave w. Rain, age thirteen, of No. 322
| East sixtysixth-st, instantly killed yesterday by
being by sccondave. car at sixty-sixthst
| During quarrel early yesterday morning.
at James and NcwChambers-sts Bridget Hines had her
bitten Off by unknown man who escaped arrest
Ira ID. Sankey will conduct a service of song
at Association Hall Saturday evening. Admission
viii be free by tickets to be had at the Association
| Rooms.
The pupils of the Ncw-York Institution for
the Deaf and Dumb will assist In the Spring anniversary
exercises by giving free exhibition at the Broadway
Tabernacle, at 800 p IN. on Ihursday
\ mortgage of 1925, 200 on the property at
the southeast of Fifty-slxthst and Broadway
made by Frederick T. James to the Mutual Life Insur-
ance Company was recorded yesterday.
The May meeting of the New-YOrk Horti-
cultural Society will take place at Republican Hall to-
day at o'clock There will b. exhibition Of choice
plants and address. There Is charge FOX adnis-
sion.
The strike of the silk-weavers III Stein
hardt's six nanuactory continues. set Of men,
brought here from College Point and who nave been AZ
work the factory Tor few days yesterday joined the
! strikers.
The committee of the Teutoma Savings
Bank dcpostors has called another meeting Of the de
postors DO held at Concordl Hail. In AycnueA, this
afternoon report OF the condition OF tne banks duals
| will bu submitted.
Charles D. Howell, Thomas Fleming, Henry
/ Day, Howard Wiley, and Arson Baker were elected
trustees Of the NcwYork Marble I'M Cemetery Second
ST., yesterday. Daring the last year there forty
! two intermcut- ana eight removals.
! Ann Walters, of No. IS StantOn-st., whose
throat was cut April 10 by her husband, Henry NJ
Walters, who afterwards cut his throat, has re-
covered and was sent YESTERDAY to the House of Deten
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The eighth annual chess tournament of the
NewYok Chess Club. which has been progress the
| Cafe Cosmopolitan, in Second.aye., for some time, has
been concluded Prizes were awarded 10 Hugo Either,
! Tcrd, Griffin, Doyle, ROhuicld, and Dr. JcntZ
Stern brothers, the wel-known dry goods
dealers Of Twenty .hrl-st and sxhave. are about to
build neat store Twenty -thrdst nearly opposite
tho Fith Avenue Hotel having front OF seventy feet
and depth Of 200 feet. IL Is expected that the new
trade.
! At the annual election for directors of the
Flushing North shore and Central Railroad the follow
ine were chosen Morris Franklin, John ". Lawrence,
Adolph Poppenhuscn Charles knoblauch, Isaac Sher-
wood, Henry Clement Herman lnnkc, Ehzur b. llIus-
| dale John y Locke, samuel j. Parsons, Edward l..
| spIague, Carl Victor, Frederick \. Potts
\. A. Low acknowledges tho receipt, since
April - the following contributions for the relief Of
the sufferers by the famine In China: Cyrus Cheney,
Cntonylle, Conn, Sll; First Presbyterian Church,
shreTsbury ~ J., So Cash, April g. s.; Cash $40;
| -; previously acknowledged, Tl,5i2 %; tota',
/ II. dO3 -.
! The Secret Service Department has dscOv-
cred circulation 800 counterfeit note on the Mer-
chants National Bank, OF Ncw-Bedford, Mass In The
couutaric the lower part OF the letter" Gin tho
signature Of T. Colby, Register of the Treasury,
over the letter 4" " in the word Massachusetts, and
the letter in the signature OF Mr.; spinne: does
the upper pant Of the letter >" IN February
| 1t does III the genuine bill.
The annual report of the trustees of the
Grutuy Fund Of the stock Exchange submitted yeser-
| day. shows that the funds invested follows:
100000 each in per cent and per bonds; $780,
in 4i2 per cent bonds, and 100000 cash hand.
During five years that tho society has In exist
cnce, there have been forty-fvc deaths. Each widow
received 10000 causing average annual assessment
| 10 each member OF less than 500.
The verdict of the COrOners jury in the ease
OF Mary Ann Dougherty who supposed 10 have died
from the effects of poisoning. by the materials used
resulted from disease Of the liver kidney ana lungs;
but that death may have been accelerated by ahsop
of pCric acid, used in the cOlurng artificial flow
! Board OF Health should examine all factories where
! poisonous ingredients are used.
A company for insuring the fidelity of per-
sous In positions of trust is being organized in this city.
Tho company is called the Guarantee Association Of
Ncw.York and Its capital placed at Sl5OOO0 Among
the incorpOrat0rs 0f the enterprise George r. Hope
Continental Fire Insurance Company; Philauder Shaw
vice president OF the Ph~uix Insurance Company Of
Bro9hlyn; George ~ Hard pgesidsni Chatham Taonal
Trust Company; j. T. PulsOrd, manager Liverpool and
| Lopdon aud Globe Insurance. Company r. hoffman,
| vlce-president Niagara Fire Insurance Company
BROOKLYN.
Twenty liquor dealers were detected violat-
| ing the Excise Law on Sunday.
The Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island
Railroad Company IS extending ITS road from the
Wiuk entrance OF Prospect Park by open cut, be-
tween Franklin aud CIassonaves; TO Atlantic-ave;
thence tine surface to the end OF the road at Fatbush
and Atlanc-ayc.
Peter CARL, age ffty-four, the colorcd coach
man of f. NJ Low, of No. 80 Remsen-st., was held in
81 900 bonds by Justice Bloom yesterday,
charge preferred by his wife, Sarah A. Car OF marry
ing Frances Per,lue, February IL. 1873 Cars SON.
! who Is cOachman, was also arrested recently GU u
| charge Of bigamy
County Judge Moore, County Treasurer
Gardiner. and Surrogate Daley in accordance with
law passed in 1870, appointed ex Tax Collector William
A. Furey Commissioner of Jurors, to succeed John Lin