New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-04-30
NETWORK CITY.

called crepe. 90,
lace-pin at Theodore B. STAIRS represents wild
rose with foliage. The rose Is utnhed ny uiaui'"
with heart of ruby.
Chinese red and old gold are the favorte coiors IN
furniture coverings this season.
New wells are of black Brussels net, embroidered
on the edge and dotted with gold.
Pretty batstc ties. in pale pink and Diue at
Macy,s are heavily embroidered on the ends
Last week of "Midgets" at Masonic Temple. Go
and see them M-idgetly, or lose them forever.
The handsomest coaching parasols are in wide
stripes of satin in strongly contrasting colors'
Cut-glass vases ut the Meriden COmpanys. IN new
designs are held in gilt and French steel standards
Nora White age thirteen, and Hattie Cusick, age
fourteen, were picked up Monday evening III Null
beIry-st. in state OF helpless lntoXcatlon'
Mr. and Mrs. ID. 6. Croy gave a farewell recep-
ton TO Mr. and Mrs A. p Burbank. prior to the de;
pariure Of Mr.. Burbank tor England, where ne WIZ
read this Summer. There were many notable peo-
pie present.
The agent of the New-naven Steamboat Com
pany and Connecticut River Railroad Line warns
the public against a man who Is representing him
self as superintendent OF tins company, ana Dy
various devices obtaining money.
One bright warm, genial, fervent, sunshiny day
now wOuld cause much JOY in the rustic frog
pond misplaced switch on an elevated railroad
causes in the responsive heart OF the enthusiastic
president OF a h0rse-caF company.
Tie word splendid has been shockIngly
muSsed no by being applied unfortunately by the
average youth 10 cats and dogs and crcuses, that
II out OF place Wnen uscu 10 ufStftDc lhc
rainbow which last evening Mt sunset spanned
Brooklyn with perfect duplicated arch of glory.
Where, Oh where is the Council Committee on
Signs and Street Numbers! There are two No. 81
and two No los in Maiden-ane, aud the four build
ings are side by side and crowded with business
firms who experience the greatest ANNOYANCE. Other
streets are still worse of, numbers being duplicated
over and over.
H. s jackson, Superintendent of Castle Garden
received a letter from Jacob Mantz, of North Unity
Mich yesterday, stating that he and his wife were
deSirons of securing the services OF some honesi ana
industrious immigrant who would take es much in
tcrest in the farm as they did. Such person
would be heir to the property.
Francis McKenna, who was convicted OF man
slaughter in the third degree for killing William
fenced 10 State Prison yesterday for four years.
Judge DonOhue in the Supreme Court, Yesterday
released McKenna on 500, 700 bail, pending tie
decision of the General Term on the appeal.
Rooms have been secured at No. II Mott-st. for
a Chinese Mission. More than 1000 Chinese live
in that street. and numbers of them have expressed
desire to have school and mission. IL Will be in
charge Of MOy-J in-kee, q Christian. The rooms
Will be opened Sunday. May 4, at 230 p. m.
Friends of the enterprise are invited to be present
II. A. Clifford, the young Methodist clergyman
who WAS reported in The TRIBUNE yesterday as
missing. has returned to the home of his brother
in-law at No. 257 West llOuston-st. He says that
Thursday last he was Unexpectedly called out OF
the city, and sent a message to that effect
postal-card to his friends but for some reason it
did not reach them.
The Sinking Fund Commissioners met in the Con-
trollers office yesterday to open the bids for $500,
600 3 per cent consolidated stock of the City of
New-YOrk bridge bonds redeemable after Novem-
total ber rSG Of fb bids The highest
bid was by the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank
for 100000 at 1876.
Irving Hall was about half filled with promis-
cuOus audience last night, TO see blackened glove
and PADDY" Ryan, of Troy. Among the spectators
were a few respectable persons, but the large ma
collars, short hair, and headlight diamonds"
After half hour of ludicrous sParring, Ryan was
declared victor by score of 10 touches to Millers
Superintendent Jackson, of Castle Gargen, was
informed yesterday by the Superintendent Of Wards
Island that Moritz Kraus, an Immigrant thirty-two
wears old, who arrived III Newly ork Oh the steamship
Baltic, March 81 1876, had committed suicide by
hanging himself in the insane asylum In the third
story with piece of saSll-cord suspended from
gas fixture He was found in fifteen minutes, but
he was dead then.
Henry Englehardt was arraigned yesterday in the
Essex Market Police Court for assaulting brass
band. He was held in default of bail. The from
bone had bloody nose, the hautboy had black
eye, and the oboe seemed to have been slightly in
jured in the abdomen. Englehardt's provocaton
may h have been ga great II ne had an ear for
mercy of the Court.
Inspector Conway, Of the Pilot Board. made a re-
port of his raid on the shadpoles last week to the
commissioners yesterday SIxty-one poles and nets
destroyed between Eighteenth-st. and Spuyten
Duyvil Creek, and in some instances the fishermen
were allowed to remove Others that were within 200
feet of the New-York shore. The board ordered the
wreck OF sloop in the Harlem River and the wreck
of coal barge at College Point to be removed.
The longshoremen employed by tho Anchor, At
las, Bermuda, Bristol Charleston, Clydes, French,
Guion, Hamburg Hull, Inmdn, National North
German, Lloyds, Old Dominion. Pacific Mail, Red
Star, Savannah, State, and White Star steamship
lines met last evening at Varick-st. Hail. and APP
pointed a committee of six to propose mutual con-
cessions TO the agents of the companies to-day The
report of their efforts will be made at the same
hall this evening.
AT the Registers Office yesterday an instrument
was recorded by which the 9TH Re giment assigned
the lease of the property upon which its armory is
building, to Robert Lenox Kennedy, Royal Phelps
bonds of the value Of 81, 900 each payable in 1881
and bearing interest at the rate of per cent. The
regiment IS about issuing these bonds for the pur-
pose of raising sufficient money to complete and
furnish the new armOry.
William II. Vanderbilt, Cornelius Vanderbilt, r.,
and other officers of the Lake Shore and the Michi-
gan Central Railroads. left the city last evening by
the Hudson River Railroad on their annual Western
excursion the chef purpose of which is to attend
the annual meetings Of those corporations which
will be held on Wednesday and Thursday of next
week. The Messrs. Vanderbilt usually start several
days advance of the meetings in order to visit
some of the Western cities.
Experiments with the electric light in the Post
Office have been in progress for some time with vary
ing success. Three lamps have been placed on the
Broadway side of the distributing -rOom On Sat
urday evening Tic apparatus falied TO give satsfac-
ton. but on Monday night the experiment. met with
better success. The floor was brilliantly illumi-
mated, but drawback was found In the heavy
shadows cast. The lights burned with considerable
steadiness. The generator is worked by the en-
CINE in the cellar of the building, which runs all
night.
The Committee on Information and Statistics of
the Produce Exchange gave notice to the members
of the Exchange yesterday that as the owners Of "a
certain warehouse had refused to give 1t informa
ton IN relation to stocks of lard and as 1t was pow
erless to compel such information to be given, the
posting of the stock bulletin would be discontinued
for the present. 1t is Brooklyn warehouse that re-
fuses the Information in the interest of of their
large customers, and other warehOusemen feel indg
nant that il should have been refused.
The ballet-dancers Of the " Black Crook nj