New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-03-27
NEW-YORK CITY.

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| trimmings upon some bonnets.
Colored laces are conspicuous among the laces
new this Spring Turkey red and yellow are the
favOrife coOrs.
The Rev. Robert Collyer will give free lecture
| Sunday evening on "Westminster Abbey" at the
| Church of the Messiah.
| Squares Of silk India null. stamped on the edge
| with vine of colOred flowers and finished with q
pleaiinR of LangucdOc lace among the newest
! designs for neckwear
An extensive manufacturer of tobacco. and snnff
| has taken up n novel method of ADVERTISING. he
distributes little books. bearing the notices OF his
wares. and containing thirty pins each.
The large whale which was captured last week
where IT was placed on exhibition. i was visited
yesterday by between 1000 and 5000 spectators.
| German veterans of the War of the Rebellion
marched in a body last evening from thelr head
! quarters In the Bowery to Turner'S Hall where
they celebrated the reopenng or the lately Durned
| building.
The body of an unknown old man was fonnd IN
the North River Yesterday at the foot or ltroorne-
st. He had dark hair and beard tlnged with gray;
and was dressed in a blue coat, black trousers and
| white shirt
| PICTURESQUE hats for midsu wear ut the
watering places of sheer white muslin shirred IN
| the required shape and trimmed with clusters OF
| flowers. Deep fchus of the same material VIII DO
| worn with Them
painter at work on the Elevated Railroad sta
ton at Fiftieth-st and Ninth-avc. fell yesterday
from the scaGold. His skull was fractured The
| police took HIM TO the Roosevelt Hospital. Inc
| mans name is not known.
| Many Of the new parasols are heavily embroidered
| with the Persian colors, intermXed with g"id ana
silver threads their entire surface. while others
have a wide band of those colors and others still
! vine of flowers and foliage.
The concluding lecture in the Cooper Union Free
! Course for 1S70SO will he delivered tins cy9nng
! in the great hall by Professor c. + Chandler. of
! Columbia College. on THE Chemistry of the At
mosphere," with illustrations.
The steamship Weser from Bremen has brought
large number OF wild animals. all OF which are for
| j. +. Barnum. Among these are a pair OF immense
royal tigers, an hlop0potamqs a par OF glraiirs'
! Zebras. kangarOos birds, monkeys and boa CON
! strictor thirty feet in length.
Verdicts of death by accident were found yester-
day by coroners uTies in the cases OF FatrlGk Glib
! train on the ew-lIaven Railroad on 81. PatrickS
Dav and Michael Plunkett, who fell from scaiiod
! at the 81. German Hotel, on February II.
Rodgcr OHalloran. an eI-policeman, and John
| Grey, hoardcrs at No 769 tourth,aVe'y became IN
! voved IN drunken quarrel on tuesday evening"
| Patrick Murphy assisted Grey, and o llaoran was
! knocked down and stamped upon by the two. II IL
feared that he has sustained internal injuries OF
fatal nature. Murphy and Grey have been COM
! mittcd
The front wall of the building recently damaged
by fire nj White-st. and Broadway appears 90 be IN
danger Of falling 1t has been slowly bulglng out
ward since the fire and has drawn away az the top
from tie bu ding adjoining 1t on the NoTth TO tne
! extent Of several inches It's downfall during the
| dav would probably be attended with considerable
loss of life.
Some novel stage features are introduced in the
play OF Miss at the STANDARD Theatre among
| winch are an old lime mail coach with ITS horses
and line TepTcscutaiiO ION of California mine WIN
| running water In the sluices. Miss Annie RiXley
~ FHss and j. f.. McDonouch ~ luOa BiU are
| much appa uded. The play will be continued for
| ONE time.
The Police Commissioners at their meeting yes
tcrday authorized the treasurer To pay - luoO ior
| The new tug-boat f. Dassor which has been DuT-
chased for the Strcet-Clcaning Department. W. II.
Rightmeyer was appointed captain OF the boat ut
salary of 81 40 n wear, and John Rooney engineer
] At pf | \
| business was transacted
A meeting Of hotel emplov6s was held last evening
| mt Washington Hall. in West Fourth-st, for the
| purpose OF organizing mutual benefit society.
Preliminary steps were taken 10 effect the organize
ton. The chairman said that th" society would he
! similar to one that went ont ol existence IN I0"':
/ but would lie opposed TO anything of the nature or
! strikes The principal feature would bc the relief
OF sickness aud distress in the families OF persons
belonging 10 tho society.
BROOKLYN
The concrete pavement in ScnermcrhOrn-st. is BE-
ing repaired.
The New-York East Conference Of the Methodist
Epi.copal Church is to hold its thirysccOnd session
in S,lmucrfcld Church AZ Washington and Greene
ayes, March 81 TO April ..
Warden Shevn, of the Kings County Peniten-
tigry has suspended the Waterman and the keeper
who had charge Of the hospital fIOm which two
conyicfs. Johnson and Connolly, escaped on Mon
day The prisoners have not been recaptured
The funeral Of Mrs May Agnes Fleming the
| novelist. took place
Roman Catholic Church of -. John the Baptist, IN
! Milloughby-aye near Lewis-aye. Father Mver
conducted the services. The remains were buried
| IN Calvary Cemetery.
The name of the workman killed on the Mnnhat-
ran Beach Railroad at Concy Island, on Wednesday.
was " lillian Kcnncy. He was htty-six years OF
age aud his home at No. 1,530 Deln-st., where
Ills wife and several children 1--we. The whee Is Of
the cars passed his body, almost cutting it IN
, | two.
Colonel Engelbert Schnepf, who died on Thurs lay
at his home NO ~ Ioonard-st.. at tho OF ftv-
nine was born in Baden. Germany. When twenty
one lie entered the German army in which ne
served ten wears. He came 10 tins country IN lSoo.
lilo served in the Union Army during tho war, and
attained the rank of 9f the 2Oth
Regiment Ncw-YorS Volunteers.
The Brooklyn City Mission Socety's report for
Narnh .Loyys Family visits by missionaries, 023
tracts dsfrhuted g. 500 praver-IncetinGS held, 81
children Gathered INTO Sundav-schOol, 10: funerals
attend = II visits TO institutions, services 40
rnssio and other stations 27 families aided. ~;
y ryr ,,l.d for aid 1914 so employment found for
IL =, rsons personal conversations with PRISON
, ers, 152.
The case Of Joseph Taylor. who pleaded guilty to
bigamy recently came up before judge Moore yes
terdav Tavlor's counsel having procured aiiihavts
IN show that the prisoner insane After scparat-
ing from his first wife by mutual consent Iat Tor IN
( August last married Miss Augusta Belt ten Judge
koore SAID that he would send two physicians To
tbo iail to examine Taylor. Martha W. Taylor, his
. FIRST wife. has begun al action for divorce.
p A. Il. smith, who calls himself q g magnetic
healer brought an action before justice bloon
= against George Il. Alexander, to recover Ti4O Tor
: medical services rendered 10 the defendant we
VINO died IN July, 1879. Tho plaiutit admitted,
( when the case was heard Yesterday, that ne had
k never been authorized to practice medicine n
!. dinlona from "A medical society or from any state
RdaTd and on this ground the Justice dmisSed the
9 complaint.
Iustice Senior on January sentenced Thomas
Farrell 10 fifty days Imprisonment ID the renteu-