New-York tribune., 1879-11-13
NETWORK CITY.

The Worlds Fair Committee will meet at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel this evening at o'clock, ana
invite all persons interested to attend.
A fire Yesterday in the unoccupied house, No 59I
Fifth-aye damaged it to the extent Of 500.
Spontaneous combustion twas asserted to be the
cause.
wooen corduroy Is a favorite material for cloaks
for young girls it is light, soft and warm. and comes
in the pretty ecru and gray tints that are so fash
Ionable this Winter.
The pianomakers employed by the firm Of IIaines
Brothers, who have been on strike for four weeks
to force an advance of 12l2 per cent in their wages
have finally effected compromise with their en-
ployeis and yesterday resumed their work for the
firm.
Agents Of the American Colonization Society are
visiting the interior tow of Arkansas. South Car
DINA and Georgia, in hopes OF organizing another
colony of negro emgrants TO be sent 10 Liberia on
the bark MOnrova, now lying at the Empire Stores
Brooklyn.
A competitive examination under civil service
rules will be held at the Custom House on Friday.
The purpose of the examination Is to tll vacant
clerkshp In the Naval Once. having salary of
81 800. The candidates will be from the lower
grades OF clerks.
The total number OF immigrants arriving nj Cas-
tie Garden during the month of October was l6,O07.
an increase of $3.50 over the same period last year.
The number arriving from January TO November
was III 300 an increase OF 10000 over the same
period III 1873 OF the 1O,O97 arriving I'm october
i $40 were from the German States. 3244 from
England . ,204 from Ireland. G17 from Scotland.
All from Wales and 1,449 ScandInavians.
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siOners of the States Of Massachusetts, Connecticut
and New-.Iersey met at the 1T. Nicholas Hotel yes
terdav. Lucius Dennng, of Connecticut. presided,
and Edwin Iweedy, of DanbuTy, acted as secretary,
The sessions are held in private but it is understood
that az yesterdays session the subject discussed
was: How far shall convict labor be allowed TO
compete with free and honest labor IN the shops
outside 7" No decision was arrived at. The con-
vention Will meet again this morning at o'clock
A convention under the auspices of the First and
Second United Presbyterian Presbyteries OF New
Nor mot in he WpStl
Presbyterian Church. between Sixth and Seventh
aves. on Tuesday. After singing, a responsive
reading was gwen on " "Precepts and Promises OF
Christian Endeavor" The next was Bible read
ing by the Rev. A. II. Harshaw on " Sef-Conse-
Grafton" Miss NJ. Frazier followed with an essay
on "The Bible Estimate of Childhood" Other adj
dresses were made and much interest was mani
Tested.
Louis Fehn and Jacob Wine, half brothers were
Court charged with assault and battery by Charles
De Hervi. Mrs. Fehn, the mother OF the defend
ants has charge OF the tenement-house No 3i2
West Thirty-nnth-st., and rents n floor to DE Hervi
and his family On Tuesday morning she had some
words with DE Hervi. who threatened to strike her.
When her sons came home that night she told them
thrashed him. They were held for trial at the
Special Sessions.
Henry Davis, n member of the firm of Davis.
Volt K Co., brokers, of No. 5S Pine-st was passing
through Liherty-st. yesterday afternoon, when two
we-dressed men josted against him so violently as
nearly to throw him to the ground. They apollo
until they had disappeared amid the throng on
Broadway that Mr.. Davis discovered that they had
stolen his gold watch yai1ed at over S3Qo, MI MI
gave description OF the watch and OF tho thieves
10 the detectives
The complaint against Officer Mccarthy, of the
Twenty first Precinct. for criminal ASSAULT upon a
little giTl, named Christine Eylcr, which was re-
Gently tried in the Court Of General Sessions and re-
suited In disagreement OF the jury, was before the
Police Commissioners Yesterday, Mr. MacLean be-
ing on the bench. Officer Mccarthy, when the
offence committed. was in the Fourth Precinct.
The old testimony was produced, but the witnesses
against the officer failed to identify him as the man
whom they had with the girl. Decision was re-
served for action by the full Board.
The mode of communication between conductors
and engineers on the elevated railroads does not
always accomplish its object. few minutes after
3 .. N. yesterday the last car, No. AZ, OF down,
town tram ON the Sixth Avenue Line WAS stopped
at Eghtl-st. above the platform. Several passen-
gers attempting to get out were sent through the
next car hut before they reached the platform the
train was started. The conductor of the last car
pulled hard upon the signal rope, but no attention
was paid 10 the signal and the passengers
ried to the next station The conductor SAID that
probably " the rope was caught somewhere"
A prize oratorical contest was held last evening
in the college hall of the College OF ~. Francis
XAVIER members of all the Undergraduate classes
competing This il the first contest of the kind held
in the college The judges were General John New
ton, Dr. Charles g. IIerberman and the Rev; James
II. Mclean. The first prize was gold watch gwen
by the Rev. John A. Ireanor and was presented TO
Sylvester l.. Malone, whose subject was "Catillnes
Defiance" ne second prize, cOlplfit set VI
novels of Charles Dickens, given the Rev. Joseph
Prachensky. was won by George L. tlil the subject
of whose defamation was John Maynard"
Malone ~ n member of the class of 80 and Hill of
the class OF 50.
BROOKLYN.
There have been many cases of diphtheria in
Brooklyn recently, Dut the health officers do not
consider that there is any occasion for alarm. Last
week there thiriyive deaths from this disease
and III the three weeks ended November >. eighty
eight deaths we're caused by IT, In the correspond
ing weeks last year sIXtytwO deaths occurred from
dIphtberla.
On motion of Commissioner LEIGH Yesterday the
Board OF Police appointed Christopher Gibbons. a
colored man. of The Twenty-tifth Ward, to be door
man at the Seventh Precinct Manhattan-ave.)
Station. Gibbons is the first negro who has ever
held "A position IN the Police Department. EX-Ser-
Qeant Charles n. Miller formerly of the Ninth IRE
ciuct, was appointed "a telegraph operator at the
Central Once.
Tired of life: Peter Sullivan, age thirty, while
intoxicated on Tuesday, jumped overheard at the
foot of Atlantic-ave. with suicidal intent. He was
rescued with difficulty. and then attempted to
throw himself into the water second tune. On
Tuesday evening Clara Hamilton. cooTed girl,
age sixteen, swallowed quantity of GIN and arsenic
Ii Is supposed that she intended 10 take her ife but
she refused TO make any explanation
When the night school in Public School Building
No l. al Adams and COncord-sts., was dismissed some
of the bows created q disturbance and assaulted two
of the Teachers William Fitzgerald and Joseph NJ.
Bacon II il SAID that Bacon became angry at the
bows when they forming In line. and struck
one of them. This enraged The boys. and they at
tempted TO assault the teachers Afterward they
collected in the street and armed themselves with
stones When one of the female teachers came out
n stone was thrown, which struck the door just
above her head. The other teachers left the build
ing by q rear door