New-York tribune., 1879-01-15
NEW-YORK CITY.

| able.
Black kid gloves buttoned with small pearls
| are novelties.
White net bonnets trimmed with Breton
| lace at options and afternoon teas.
| Dock Commissioner Wcstervct's condition..
at q late hour last nighr, seemed slightly improved
The Commissioners of Charities and Corrcc-
on opened sixty bids yesterday miscellaneous sup
| plies.
Throat bows are made of long loops of gay
Persian ribbon. Some OF them fastened by tnsel
| lizard a bee.
| Miss Anna F. Dickinson will lecture on
the " Platform and Stage" AT Chckcring Hall, Friday
evening, January II.
The Yale Alumni Association will hold its
h'd Social Meeting FOR the present season Ill Demon
| ico's on Friday January Il.
John II. Platt, assignee of Richard Schell,
yesterday sold at auction lGOGl shares OF Lower Cali
| fornia Mining stock for $10J.
The National Rife Association held its
meeting last evening az the armory at
Sevenihave. aud Thrty-hfth-st
| President Anderson, of Rochester University,
will lecture Currency Legs aton." before the New
| York Free Trade Club tomorrow hight.
General Franz Sigcl while ascending Grove
III. in Morrisania, last Sunday, his way home
trlppcd and fell His right leg was broken
The Hon. II. T. Sherman has been ap-
pointed to iii tn" vacancy in the New-YOrk Fishery
Commission caused by the resignation OF Ex-Governor
| Seymour.
The Board of Excise yesterday revoked the
license for Nos. lO3 and 100 Bowery, wcll-known as
william McGlorys Windsor Palace aud the saloon OF
owen Geoghegan.
An elegant new evening dress, intended for
the Academy balls, is white corded silk with panels of
striped black velvet TIE Jewels to be worn with this
dress are pearls set In onyx.
Commissioner of Emigration George W.
Qulntard to Washington yesterday to urge upon
Congress early action the Immigration bill now pend
ing before the Committee on Commerce.
The compOSitors employed i'll the German
newspaper offices organizing to resist reduction Of
s@d TO be M Inc The ppSG heretofore
Judge Hilton will give Il reception at his
house. No. West Thirty-ourth-st.. Thursday, at
r. m. the delegates to the Convention on Militia Re-
FORM which meets at the 9TH Regiment ArmOry to-
morrow.
The New-Jerscy Temperance Alliance will
hold State convention at Newark in DR.. Fiudcvs
Church Wednesday and Thurs'av N,al Dow, the Rev
Will speak.
The American Pathological Society will meet
at Room No 80 Cooper Institute, Wednesday. January
- at D. M Dr. John A. Wr'sse. the new president,
VIII deliver An address upon Ncw-lork as Scientific
Metropolis"
The inquest in the case of Sarah Hayden
who was shot on Christmas Day at Ccutre and White
ss verdict Of The jury yesterday was death from
pistoshot wound hands of Felix Lavelle. Lavelc
committed 10 the Tonbs.
The committee having i'll charge the raising
of funds etc, for the organization and equipment of
the Amateur LesaviuG Corps, has requested that two
additional delegates may be appointed from the Stock
Produce, Cotton and Maritime Exchanges.
The application of James Dennedy, arrested
for the murder OF bis wife. for his discharge the
ground that there evidence against him.
med Yesterday by Judge Barrett, in supreme COurr,
Chambers and his writ OF bahcas corpus was dismissed
The tenth annual convention of the EX-
prcssincn's nu,ual Benefit Association VIII begin this
mornrng at the Metropolitan Hotel, and continue for
thre. DAYS 4 parade o the express wagons belonging
to the companies VIII Ike place to-day, after the
meeting.
The Dry Goods Mutual Benefit Association
held It's annual meeting last evening the Nicholas
Hotel The directors elected for the ensuing year. 10
take the place those retiring. d. Robinson. H. ~
Thayer ". L. 1eht, W. C. Howard, II. C. Pedder and f.
B. CnHcc.
The gross receipts at the Catholic fair
amounted To SI72 so Is but this included nu7n!cr
of expenses which did not have be paid, such tho
gas bill. me actual eXucnses 4 these included
would be not rt.j79 ~, but $500 So This left net
ihcdIal.
The Rev. DR.. Henry C. Potter, rector Of
Grace Church. has started subscription TO defry the
expense OF placing organ memorial Of the Rev
John Kcblc the parish church NJ Harscy England,
wi ere Kcble miustcred for many years. Kehle was
the author of ;he Cnrstian Year" or the
qurcd, II .7jO nearly 100 have been subscribed.
IIorato Seymour, .jr State Engineer, visited
the Produce Exchange yesterday 10 exchange views
with the members in relation to the commerce Of NY
York interview with President Edison aud =. f.
Lverm0ie he expressed himself as favorable 10 their
ideas ~ cana infringement. ne was also III ia'or oI
giving the canals an additional depth Of one foot
John d. Jones, of the Atlantic Mutual
Marine Insurance Company, elected president of
the Life Saving Benevolent Association, yesterday.
Royal Phelps elected vcc-presidrnt; Clifford 4.
Hand secretary W. II. II. Moore, treasurer For mer-
orlous in saving lfe the past year the follow
ing awards have been madc: gold media. silver
medals prizes of $50 cach twelve Of So five Of $50,
five Of So and one of 80.
The meeting yesterday to organize a Fire
Insurance Tariff Association was attended by the rem
rcscntativcs of syty-sr companies and agencies. The
following committee WAS appointed to draft constitu-
ton ana bylaws; y G. Miller, of the star; George
Hope, Of the Contneual; A. j. Clinton, of the Eagle;
stephen Crowell of the PhGniX. I. Bcddal. OF the
Royal John l.. L"finewc oi the Flrrasui Fire lnsu-
rance companies aid G j. irdht' OF the laine hare
Insurance Agency.
DIR. II. Won Hoist, Professor Of History at
the University Of Frciburg, in Germany, will deliver
lecture in German Calhoun and his Si-nhcaon in
The History Of slavery" at Sjenway Hall Tonight. DR..
Won Hoist is the author OF the standard work the
constitutional History of Ia" United states. English
translation of whch used M many Of the colleges and
Srirncc Which takes a lively titcie, in tie completion
tn, work has Induced The author to spend year III
the United States.
BROOKLYN
Maria Talbot age thirty-iiyc, Of No. rs
smlth-st while suffering from dcrum trcmcn1 yester
Jay attempted to end her life hy taking laudanum. She
WIS found C0urtsi aud taken 10 drug store and
was then removed to the Long Island College Hospital
The Brooklyn, Bath and COncy Island Rail
road Company has made a surrey of a proposed
tension OF that road from present southern terminus
70 Coney Island Point The projected route - parallel
~ maj Of the route lad by Prospect Park
! Coury Island Company.
The Nineteenth Ward Taxpayers Association
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