New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-04-18
NEM.YORK CITY.
This is apparently about the first of March.

new and much exaggerated device among flor
lists to arrange bouquets Ill tue shape oi hoise
SHOE
miniature locomotive engine with coaches at
tached, in Broadway window, attracts much ad-
miratlon.
Coaching umbrellas at Alexander VI. Hays5 are
in wide striped satn the stripes running around the
| umbrella
CITY merchants receive with earnest approval the
bill reported to Congress by Alexander H. Stephens
to make small silver coins exchangeable for green
| backs.
The Street Commissioners might have been seen
inspecting the streets yesterday. That is. they
probably might. The streets can be seen best WIN
! the nose.
The New-York Club at its annual meeting, elected
Frederick f. Gilbert, president; J. Nelson Tappan,
| vice-presidcnt; Il. =. Lounsbery. treasurer; ana
| Robert /. Hoy, secretary.
The New-York Elevated Railway will stop trains
| Mt the American Institute to accOmmodate VISIT
| ors to- Barnum's show between the hours OF l2:3O
and p. m, and G:3O 10 1880 p IN.
In the divorce snt of Annie Schafner against
John Schaiincr for adultery yesterday IN the Court
| of Common Pleas Judge larremore granted the
decree Of divorce and $23 weekly allmony
The twenty-ffth anniversary Of Bishop Potters
| incumbcncy will be celebrated on November y by
a service IN Trinity Church, at which a te5tmO-
NAL will be presented to tho venerable prelate.
Dr. H. D. Noycs delivered lecture at the First
| Ward Workngmen's Free Reading Room. No. l35
| Greenwich-si. last evening on "1he Eve" The
lecture was illustrated by the use Of models and
| charts.
The managers Of the Produce Exchange have de-
med the request of seyenty-iye members of the Ex-
change that then petition for an equal division of
the surplus fund should be submitted to the vote OF
| the Exchange.
strange looking plant sold in SiXth-ave. recently
by an enterprising Jerseyman found ready pur-
! chasers among the city shoppers but country
eyes at once recognized IT as y wild plant NWgalN
known skunk cabbage" from Its repulslVe
odor.
| writ of error was obtained yesterday from
Judge Barrett, IN the Supreme Court, Chambers, IN
the case OF Nine. Bertha Burger recently sentenced
to State prison for twelve years for malpractice
The writ is for the purpose of arguing before the
General Term a motion for new tfial
The steamboat T. V. ArrOwsmth, from Keyport,
NJ j., yeste' day had her machinery disabled In the
XII Won Kull, and for few moments afterWard
somewhat of panic prevailed among the eighty
passengers. The Arrowsmth Immediately came TO
anchor and the passengers were brought 10 the
city by the steamboat General Sedgwick.
An eccentric merchant uptown has complicated
sign painted on the fiat roof or his Dull,1ng. NO
body can see il except those who approach the SIX
foot letters through the skyight. 1t cannot even
be read from The TRIBUNE tower. such enterprise
almost makes one hope that Mars Is inhabited and
that they have telescopes OF surprising power.
John Summermeyer of Orchard-st., for receiving
goods stolen from Carter < Stewart No. 81 Frank
inst, was sentenced yesterday by Judge GoWlng
to State prison for five years George Z. walker
the clerk who stole the goods and sold them to sum
mermcyer, pleaded guilty OF grand larceny, ana was
remanded until Monday for sentence, In order that
he might prove his previous good character.
Hall last night at the fifth anniversary celebration
of the Young Mems Hebrew Association. |. ).
Isaacs the president said that during the five years
the association had met with great success. Its
catalogue now includes over 1000 members The
amonntina TO So. 900. Addresses were made by the
Hon. Algernon >. Sullivan and the Rev. George ii.
UepwOrth.
Mrs. Erminie A. Smith, Of Lafayette. Jersey City,
delivered an address on Amber" before the New
York Academy of Sciences, Of which she was the
| first lady elected "A member. The treatment OF the
| interesting theme was exhaustive, and Included
| chemical ANALYSIS by the speaker of the black
| amber recently brought into this country from
Spain and much sought Tor purposes OF decora-
| ton. This lady was introduced to the Academy by
Professor Martin, and spoke about half an hour.
| George W. Hall, agent in this city for William
Cramp Il Sons, shipbuilders at Philadelphia, closed
| Il contract with the managers of Morgaus LOUISE
ana and Texas Railroad and steamship Line yester-
! day to build an IRON steamer larger than any of
! those in the trade 10 he ready by November l.
She will be $40 feet in length, ~ feet breadth of
| carrying $500 bales of cotton at draught OF 10
| feet Of water
! The State Charities Aid Association held its an
| nual meeting Yesterday al No. East Fourteenth
| ST.. Frederick Law Olm,ted presiding. The annual
report was read and ordered printed. The following
| officers were elected for the ensuing year: Miss
| Louisa Lee Schuyler president: Howard Potter,
| Mrs VIM. b. Rice, Frederick Law Olmsted Mrs. &.
| X. Lowell, James (iallatin and Miss Mary X. Prime,
yice-presidents; John Crosby Brown, treasurer;
Joseph Hobson, corresponding secretary ). h. Min
| turn, associate secretary; Miss Woosey, Librarian.
Edward Fuller, of No. 175 Jay-st Brooklyn, in
| formed Captain McCullagh. of the Seventeenth
at a gambling house at No. 10 First-st. Captain
McCulagh went to the place, but could not get IN.
However, he arrested Peter Nolan, who was stand
ing near by whom Fuller accused of being the man
who ''roped him n." At the Essex Market Police
Court yesterday Fuller did not wish to press the
| charge but the Justice ordered him and Nolan to
| De locked up until further evidence could be OBJ
| tanned.
The Lehigh Valley Coal Company has reduced its
Mauch Chunk to Perth Amboy is about 135 miles,
| and the tolls by the recent reduction have been
made 30 cents ton. This reduction makes the
| present price precisely onc-half that charged on
| January /. The present Is the lowest rate ever
reached The output of coal is expected to be in
creased largely in the near future; In the Wilkes
barre region individual miners have started up
| mining in several colleres that have been idle
| for a long time.
complimentary dinner was given at the Aston
| House last evening To the Rev. DR.. Anderson who
has severed his connection with the FIRST Baptist
Church, at Park-ave. and lhlrty-nnth-st. DIR.
Thomas Armtage, of the Fifth Avenue Baptist
Church, presided, and there were about fifty ladies
| and gentlemen present Among these were the
Rev. Drs. William Adams, :. lren9us Prime, William
OrmstOn, and Stephen II. lying, jr Alter dinner
addresses were made and an album was presented
To the guest of the evening. DR.. Anderson has
been pastor of the First Baptist Church for seven
teen years He has been appointed one OF the dele
| gates to the Evangelical Alliance, which will meet
| at Basic. Switzerland, in August.
Is this April or Octoberl dismal, dripping. sullen,
sober, with cliuging fog 30 full of unpreclDtated
ram, with the sod forever drinking and the cr0cus
buds ablinhIng and asking If the vernal sun will
come To them again. Is tins Spring or Is 1t Autumn
full of colds-we, all have caught 'em; full of
! rheumatic for old folks, full OF sorrow for the
young; full of fear for pleasure Breaches, full of
| blight tor jersey peaches, full of death for songs
that early birds have usually sung. Is April OF
| Octoherg dark and dismal, sad and sober, when
flowers creep back into their cups, and frogs refuse
10 sing; why, sure. Old Indications from his sOmbre
Signal Stations should get patent out for this I'M
| precedented Spring.
strange man discovered in upper
room of a Twenty-thrd-st. boarding house
! by one of the servants Wednesday even