New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-04-01
NETWORK CITY.

Marabout feathers are most used IN millinery '"''
Spring.
Handsome articles in crystals. designed for oFna-
mentIng hats, are shown at Daniels.
Canton crepe will be one of the materials most
used for elaborate bonnets this Summer.
A scarf.pin at Theodore B. Starts is a trefol OF
diamonds with a rainbow-tinted pearl pendant
Very large flowers are used in millinery TINS
Spring a single rose in many cases FORMING 'no
crown of a bonnet.
The steamers leaving Peck slip ut 3 and II D. m.
will sell excursion return tickets for > % To me
Methodist NewYOrk East Conference, III SESSION.
this week at New-llaven.
The nauier basaue is the foundation of the many
rumors about large paniers beng again worn. 10
consists of long side form, plated ana caught III
the back drapery, to form the small panler on the
hips. ~
Alderman Morris has drafted a BILL which will be
introduced in the Legislature, 10 compel the Ele
waited Railways to place lamps on every column az
the intersection of streets, and to keep them ghted
from sunset to sunrise
The steamboats, of the Peoples Line will begin
their trims between this city and Albany very soon
The boats have been reftted for the summer ;
business and the directors have spared no eorls 10
increase the popularity of the line.
William Grobc, an employee at the Monaco villa
Hotel in Observation-Disclosures eyenth-st; was
found last night at the hotel in very low CONDITION
from the effects of beating he mad recelVed III oci
sey City, lie was sent to the hospital.
A Mutual Aid Association has been formed by
the employees Of the Metropolitan Elevated Hal,-
way Company. The employees of the New-l eini
Loan and Improvement Company are, by specla,
amendment TO the constitution, entitled 10 luli
membership.
Mrs LanraC 9low2y will lecture sn on I &c at
Chickerng Hall. Mrs. Holloway is one OF the
editors of The Brooklyn Eagle, and has written
largely upon topics connected with the social ana
industrial position OF woman. Inc lecture Is
new one.
Bv the Castle Garden statistics Of the first three
onhs Of this year. there is an increase IN the I'M
migrant arrivals over the same Pcg1u sc s tbe
of January is 1O,S5S The increase I'D the JanuaIy
arrivals is 5S1, in February, 2s6, and IN March,
1.493.
The Avery collection Of Oriental porcelain is still
on view at No. $40 Broadway. Tickets have been
distributed among the art students Of the National
Academy of Design, of Art Students League
Cooper Institute, Decorative Art society ana ionhg
Women's Christian Association. The exhibition
Will also be open on Wednesday evenings April 2
and Q, without charge.
Mrs. Mary c. Murray, widow of the late Brigadler-
General Edward Murray, living at No. 352 Fifth
ave-, is annoyed by a man named Walter Lotos VINO
imagines that he is married to her. Justice Duly,
before whom L0tos has been twiGe afralgned ltp
keep the peace. LotOs appears and acts IKE de-
ranged man.
The rooms of the New-York Horticultural Society,
No 50 West Thirty-thTd-st., will he opened TO the
public free this afternoon from o'clock to A. dur
ing which time an attractive collection of plants
and flowers will be on exhibition. Special prizes
olarias pelargOniums and many other classes OF
plants and there will be in addition fine display
of the newer kinds of japanese NAPLES and the Ike
with specimens of and stove plants Ill VARIETY
paper on the gladious and its cultivation Will
be read by Mr.. c. l.. Allen.
The night-school attended by the newsboys,
boOtblacks and strectbOvs of the Eleventh ward
was closed with appropriate exercises last evening
The programme embraced reciatlons and readings
by Mrs Fanny Foster and Mr. G. T.. Dunwell !;
vocal music by Miss Agnes Lasar and an lnstru-
mental performance by Mr.. Gregory. The Hon.
Hooper G. Van Worst aud ID. Willis James made
five-minute speeches. At the close of the public
exercises the boys were RECALLED with Ice cream and
other refreshments.
BROOKLYN.
Work has been begun the new bridge over
NewtOwn Creek, connecting Greenpoint and Long
Island City.
CORPORATION Counsel Dewitt should oppose the
mandamus requiring the Aldermen to show cause
why an election for successor TO Alderman
OReIlly of the Twelfth Ward, should not be or
dered. The hearing is at 10 a. IN to-day.
The Holly system of steam-heatng by pipes in
the streets was brought before the Board OF der
men Yesterday and referred TO committee. 1t Is
proposed to pay 3 cents foot for the privilege of
LAYING the MAINS and to heat the public buildings at
one third less cost than last year. and 10 melt the
snow in the streets with steam.
meeting in aid of the Hungarian sufferers was
held in the Controllers Office Yesterday afternoon
Mayor Howell presiding Committees were APP
pointed to receive subscriptions and the money
will be turned over to the Hungarian Government
as quickly as possible. The manager Of the Park
Theatre has offered the Of that building any
or literary entert linment for relief funds.
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