New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-10
NEW.YORK CITY.


Umbrella borrowers abounded yesterday.
Umbrellas keep lent if their owners do not.
Spanish lace is used for trimming woolen costumes
| Columbia College has abolished all its money
| prizes.
ombre silk shaded from very dark to light gray is
very beautiful.
Nature seems to have started an opposition street
cleaning bureau.
The pavement in the upper part of Lexiugton-ave.
| is in q wretched condition.
Yulcanized rubber tires are now made for'wagons
| and carriages to reduce the noise.
Marpuertes and hyacinths are the latest additions
| to the treasures in florists windows
Some uptown storekeepers say that they have
| nearly as many beggars as customers nowadays
Younp women With poodle attachments are nu-
merous in the streets There is now no rear OF the
| dog pound
Cardinal McCloskey will celebrate to-day the
thrty-seventh anniversary Of his elevation to the
episcopacy.
The Board of Excise yesterday rejected fifteen
applications for licenses because the applicants keep
| disreputable resorts.
Pedestrians who were compelled to navigate som Q
| downtown streets yesterday thought Water-st.
| appropriately named.
brace Of stuffed partridges, duck or q, quail,
hung on large PLAGUE of light wood, Is used as an
ornament for dining-room.
1t lakes one hour and ahalf to wind NJ the clock
in Trinity Church. The wire rope Is 2So ieet long
and sustains weight of 800 pounds.
THE LEGITIMATE TRADE IN sAw-DUsT.
There are about 800 vendors Of saw-dust in the
city. doing business amounting to more thaq
| S2,000,000 annually. The capital invested ID not
less than 100000.
ONLY FOR CITY LADS.
"New-Yorl5 boys wanted is the sign on a num-
Der of downtown windows. Not encouraging TO
country lads seeking work, of whom there are many
in the city just now.
NEW METHODIST CHURCH IN HARLEM.
new church edltice is to be built for the One;
hundred-and-nineteenth Street Methodist Episcopal
Society. The site ia the north side OF One-hun-
Observation-Disclosures. between First and Second
NEW MEMBERS OF MR. BKRGH's SOCIETY
AZ meeting of the Board of Managers of the So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Aulmas yes
terday, the Rev. DIR. Morgan Dix, W. =. Schermer.
horn and Parke Goodwin were elected members Of
the Board.
majority of the Open Board of Brokers Building
Association applied q few weeks ago for dissOlu-
ton of the corporation. and Justice DOnohue aD-
pointed yesterday Samuel F. Randall as receiver OF
It's property. -
collection Of oil paintings, including works by
BoutibOnnn, COOmans, Frcre, Lesrel, MORGAN floerL
Verboeckhoven and others, will be sold at tho
Scbenck Gallery, No.37 Nassau-st., tomorrow AFTER
noon at o'clock.
THE USE OF FLECTRIc LIGHTS IN THE STRTETs.
The Gas Commission, consisting OF the Mayor.
Controller and Commissioner of Public Works, met
yesterday and designated March 30 as the date for
opening bids for lighting the public lamps. The
United States Edison and Brush Electric Light
Companies sent communications asking permission
TO erect poles and lay wires through the streets IL
was decided TO ask the Corporation Connsel 1or MS
opinOn of the powers possessed by the Gas Commits
sion relative 70 electric lights.
BROOKLYN.
Deaths last week, 2i4 births, 100; marriages
Mary Schuman. age eighteen, Of No. 1873 Ever
Rreen-ave., was fatally burned by the breaking OF
kerosene oil lamp Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Eliza Martin, ago fifty. of No. 200 Clifton
place who was burned by the explosion of kerosene
oil lamp February TO- died yesterday at the Hom9o-
pathic Hospital.
TIE Hew-York Avenue Methodist Episcopal
Church, which has been enlarged will be re;dedi-
Gated next Sunday morning by Bishop W. L. Harris.
assisted by other clergymen.
Detective Charles 8. Frost, Of the Police Central
Office, was retired yesterday on halfRay at his own
REQUEST after active service in the Police Depart
ment since 1851. He will receive $3.50 year.
Thomas King of Feet-place and Myrtle-sve., who
fell forty feet by the breaking OF swinging
scaiTold on which he was painting Tuesday, died
yesterday at the Long Island College Hospital.
As the result of the recent examination in, the
Central Grammar School, 100 candidates will be
nromoted and % graduated. The graduating eIer-
cises will be held IN the First Baptist Church, March
90.
The Gravesend Board Of Health has given notice
to the Manhattan Improvement Company that by
letting sewerage flow into Sheepshead Bay the laws
of the Board OF Health ara violated, and that the
nuisance must be ab2ted.
For stealing $3.50 from the apartment of RoSauna
Pointz. at No 81 Park-ave.. John Remington, age
sixteen. William Lynch, age fifteen, james hogan.
age fifteen and Daniel Sheridan, age sixteen. were
arrested Yesterday afternoon by the detectives of
| the Fourth Precinct.
The trustees Of the 1'ompkins Avenue Congrega:
tional Church last week purchased the church and
cha bel used by tho society for 81 100 less than
ona.balf of the original cost. Sunday morning the
pasor the Rev George +. Pentec0st, called for sub
| scrptions and in few minutes the entire sum was
| pledged.
Maria c. Grace. age eighteen, daughter Of John
| Grace of No 81 Douglass-st., Brooklyn, was ar
rested yesterday upon the complaint of her father
for dIsorderly conduct. She was taken before JUS
tice Ferry in the First District Court and was sen.
| fenced 10 six months in the Honse Of the Good
| Shepherd. for reformation. OF Mr.. Graces four
| children three are now in prison on bis complaint
rho inrv returned n verdict of 81, 800, the full
| onount sourht in the suit of Mrs. Catherine
Schaefer against Antonio Tesoriere. Mrs schaetfer