New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-05-29
NETWORK CITY.


Mr. Peer should come right here and jump from
| our suspension bridge into the East RIVER
The Tabor Chapel in West fwenty-sixth-st, in its
| reconstructed state, becomes the Shiloh PresDy-
terrain Church
Tiffany &. Co. will close on Decoration Day. So
also will the well-known dry goods firm OF James
McCreery & Co.
The Manhattan Beach Railway will begin run
ming trains on both the Greenpont DIVISION anu tue
Bay Ridge division to-day
The elevated railroad iron which has blocked mp
the western portions of Iwenty-ftth ana twenty
sxth-sts., is rapidly being distributed along inc
Second-ayc. route.
In consequence Of preparations for the annual
receptions, the Tcading-room and library OF tho
Cooper Union will be closed today ana to-,noprow'
They will be open on FRIDAY from ~ Il. H. 10 4 p
M, and thereafter as usual
By-and-by, IN few weeks, people Will be de-
handing lemonade and water ices, tanning them
heads and saying. Why couldn't we have been
satisfied with that lovely May weather even II there
weren't any peaches ~ Why not, indeed!
A letter was received Tuesday by the Board of
Police from Judge Hilton, in which he says that,
having received no communication from the Board
upon the subject of his offer to dispose of the
garbage of the city, and being unwilling TO nave III
remain open indefinitely, he therefore withdraws It,
You'll hardly ever sec a man forget friend that
owes him, though he's not AKIN; you'll hardly ever
see woman bet ana pay the wager snould tle
other win you'll hardly ever see pensiye goat
that cannot eat wooden cellaT-door; you'll hardy
ever hear an urchin quote the hardly ever" from
| the PlnafOre.
The Feast of Weeks was celebrated yesterday
with much ceremony in nearly all the Jewish Syna-
gOgucs. At the Temple Emanuel the services were
most elaborate. Floral arches were raised on
The way 70 the altar which was almost hidden
beneath ferns and eXotics. In all the reformed
congregations children were confirmed.
Two Of the victims of the St. Omer Hotel elevator
accident died yesterday-Katie Callahan at
o'clock and Annie Fogarty at $50 in the morning
at the New-YOrk Hospital. Mary McGlnnis was
still alive last evening, bat in a dangerous
he
Nellie Brown is doing well and Is considered TO De
ont of danger.
The Post Office corridors free Yesterday from
the motley crowd which has occupied them since
the beginning of April, although many people
called for funding cert fcates beng unaware OF the
order dlscontnung the sale OF them. The Post
Office officials believe that if they had had an ample
supply of certificates during the last thirty days
they could have sold at least S2O.OOO.OOO.
Judge Choate handed down decision yesterday
in the United States District Court in the suit
brought by Cornelius 5. Warlng assignee IN bank
ruptoy of one Burke, against James 8 Buchanan.
The action was brought TO set aside assignment
bv the bankrupt TO the defendant. The decision
ordered buchanan to account for the property thAt
came into his possession the assignment being de-
clared illegal.
Captain Wilkinson of the British bark Lalia W.,
which sailed from this port for Marseilles with
cargo of grain on April 10, arrived here yesterday
on the steamship Algeria. After much bad weather
his bark leaked so that April q 1t was necessary
to abandon her. The crew was picked up by Nor
wegian bark. The Laa w. belonged at Annapolis,
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measurement
The affidavit of an inmate of the house at No. 448
East One-hundred wenty1second-st was pre-,
that the ncwly-bOTn child of another inmate was
burned to ashes in August last. 1t Is stated that
the cremation was ordered by DR.. White, of One
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and Second-aye. The
Health officers have referred the case to the attor-
ney of the Board, who will summon Dr. "mte De-
fore him and investigate the matter.
Tue Reformed Presbyterian Synod convened last
evening at the church of the Rev K NJ. SomervIe,
in West 56 IN ' dssstes Ge
ing all the churches of the denomination IN
the United States were IN attendance Following
the usual custom of the church the retiring mod
orator the Rev. C.. d. Trumbull, opened the first
session of the Synod by prayer and sermon. HIS
theme was the work of the Christian ministry 1t
was arranged that the Synod should hold two ses-
sions each day, beginning at a. nj. and 23O p. IN.
The Synod will continue week.
As it has been asserted that the water in Croton
Lake Is not in good condition, the Superintendent
has reported to the Department of Public Works
that THE lake is patrolled daily by competent
person, who goes up IN boat along the shore on
one side. and down the other, removing all dead
fish, brush and drlttwO9d, reporting TO me every
night the amount of work he has done and what he
has taken ont, and the general condition ! OF the
water Besides this, i make personal inspection
once every week, going the whole length of the
lake Going over it on Friday last, 1 found it in a
perfect condition, the water being very clear ana
free from all impurities"
The law library of the late Judge Hamilton
w. Robinson put up at auction tuesday at the
salssrooms, of Bangs a. So:f No; 132 Broadiway,
$3.50 D. Between seventy-iye and hundred
lawyers were present. Tho ahI the bc Pldag
prses IN all over Go numbers, selling, at from one
cent TO $13 volume. These were among the
sales Browne on the Law of IFads%aGds
2 vols, - 81 each Bradfords Reports IN.
in Error" IN. Y. 1870, S3 s. Gritty Equity d.
gest, 4 vols. So each Index to Code of Procedure
1S40|5Ol one cent.
The annual parade of the Coaching Club will take
place at 4:l5 p: m: today. Ihe coaches Will be
Twenty-thlrd-st Ii is expected that eleven drags
win start. The route will be up tifth-ove. to Cen
trail Park around the Park and back 10 Washing
ton Square. There Will be dinner at the Bruins
wick Hotel afterward. The parade VIII he lead by
Colonel William JAY president of the Club and 1t
is expected that teams will be driven by Colonel De-
lanccy Kane, vice-prcsident of the Climb Pierre
LOrllard, Theodore A. Havemoyer f. Augustus
s;chermerhorn, Frederick Bronson, Leonard jerome,
Fairman Rogers of Philadelphia, L. X. Riyes, James
V. Parker and Mr.. Belmont
Harriet f. Gardner, of Boston, for the last three
weeks the guest of her aunt, MIS- Mary A. Sumner,
at the Grand Union Hotel in Forty-second-st., was
arragncd in the Police Court Tuesday. Her aunt
was the complainant, and in her statement to JUS
ce Kilbreth she said that her niece the wife of
u Boston merchant and that she had long been adj
dicted to the excessive use OF stimulants She had
intended at first 10 ask her nieces commitment TO
ye% the w. iae a p1% tbS ST Sb, sck
Boston, where her husband and friends would try
to restrain her in future Mrs Sumner did not say
what the object of her own and niece's visit to
this city had been, but 1t understood that both
| ladies highly connected here. The Court
granted Mrs. Summers request and discharged Mrs.
| Gardner
| The African Methodist Episcopal Conference con-
veued again yesterday at the Zion Church, at
! Blocker and West Tenthsts., Bishop Moore pre-
siding On motion of the Rev. NJ. III. Moss, the
timent of the Conference relative to the Southern
! exodus embodied in resolution which
| adopted, and which declared that the Conference
recommended the collection of funds In the different
| churches for the alienation Of the
sufferers. Speeches were made by Bishop
| Moore. the Reys. Schefilin Ross and Dr.
| E.ri. Nrhich the mn m Nru