New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-03-20

MANY Of the West Side marketmen are forcing the
season in the matter of straw hats as well as vege-
tables
peculiar sensation passed MP the back of many
winter overcoats Yesterday whenever the three gilt
balls were sighted
The steamship Rhynland. with 962 immigrants,
the Lake Manitoba with 1852. and the Mose, with
7JJ. arrived yesterday.
Trinity churchyard, along the Broadway front, is
used by degenerate Knickerbockers rs a depository
for orange peel. banana skins and cigar stumps.
Dennis Barrett. age twenty-four, of No; 40 New
Bowery. was found dead in his bed yesterday morn
ing at the lodging house at No. lG4 Chatham-st.
IIe had to say neutrality-suspicious. No. -, Third
Avenue Elevated train yesterday" Chatham
Square change for Full take the hOrSe-carS for
City Hail.
Work is to be begun Immediately on the new
church-building of the Harlem Congregational
Society at Madison-avc. and observation-disclosures
twenty-first-St.
PASSING COUNTERFEIT MONEY.
William Grady, fifteen years of age, was charged
nv Oficers Cuff and Mc(iOwan of the Nineteenth
Precinct, in the Yorkville Police Court YESTERDAYS
with passing counterfeit money. He was remanded
to await the action of the United States authorities.
AN UNwELCoME VISITOR.
-Four cases of smallpox were reported yesterday.
One was that of man who went to Police Head
0uarters with an eruption upon his face, which the
attending doctor pronounced to be smallpox pus
tules. He was hastily sent to the Riverside Hos
pita -, ,,,u, o,,, ..
"No death y is the novel Inject of lecture now
being delivered in different parts of the city The
lecturer takes the ground that souls transmigrate"
eternallv from one human form to another. He
indres himself to be about 5000 years old. He is
accompanied by brass band.
ANNIVERSARY OF THE PARIS COMMUNE.
The German and English SOciallstlc Labor Party
celebrated the eleventh anniversary OF the Paris
Commune yesterday afternoon III the Gerlnanla AS
sembly Rooms, by musical entertainments. 1here
was large attendance; the entrance fee was 10
cents and women made up almost One-haH of the
audience An address was made in English by Mr..
Won Patten who explained the principles OF the
Commune.
STEALING VALUABLE sEALSKIN GOODS.
Detective King, of the Central Office. arraigned
before Justice Smith Yesterday at the Iombs Police
Ouc-hundred and forty -frst-st., on complaint OF
Frederick BOos, of the firm of J.. Boos IL Co., No.
449 Broadway, for having, while In their employ
lnent as salesman, oil December 10, stolen seal
skin sacque valued at 1925. and q sealskin cloak
valued at $500 on January II: They wero traced
to the possession Of James 7. Matthews, OF No, Sl7
broadway a broker. who asserted that be had adj
yanccd 1915 them. 1t was charged that DE
Forest had stolen other sealskin goods, valued at
40 800 He was committed for trial on two charges
of larceny in default of $4,000 bail. He had been
for two years i'll the employ of the Lrm.
BROOKLYN.
While on her way to church last evening, Eliza
Squires of No. 81 Hart's-aliey dropped dead IN
CantOn-st.
w. Mcdonald Wood lectured before the Spread
the Light Club, at No 365 FultOn-st., last night,
on Free Trade and Socialism," He urged protec-
ton of the laborer instead of the capitalist.
While Policeman Reilly, of the Third Precinct
was taking Thomas F. Dunn to the police station
YESTERDAY the prisoner tripped him and made his
cape. The policeman fell so heavily that he fiac-
tured his left knee. Dunn was recaptured.
John Nolan was discharged at the expiration of
his tenn in the Kings County Penetentiary on Sat
urday morning. He was found with stolen over
coat in his possession before night and arrested
He and a companion stole the coat from the hquOr
store of Frederic Elfers, III FutOn-st.
A prize fight was attempted by two young men,
Robert McEwen and Charles Butts, yesterday at
the foot of Dock-st. crowd of fifty men and boys
had gathered. and several rounds had been fought
when the police appeared. Warning was gwen by
some men in a canal boat, and the contestants and
spectators fed before any arrests could he made.
A public meeting was held III the South
Second Street Methodist Episcopal Church.
BROOKLYN, Yesterday afternoon for ora the the
Excise Board in the steps they have taken in clos
ing up the liquor saloons of the city on Sundays
About / 200 persons were present ]. VI. Holly, one
of "A committee of three appointed to wait on
Mayor Low in behalf OF the temperance people with
regard TO closing Oh Sunday, reported thar Mayor
Low had used these words TO Inn: " While ! am
MayOr of the city, j am not maker OF the laws.
While see that the license law Is enforced must
give the licensees their nights. will appoint such
men as Will enforce the law in its present state"
Resolutions approving the action OF Mayor Low
"''' "'''''''' STATEN ISLAND.
pleasant PLAINs-Max Maretzck will live here
after on the hill at Pleasant Plains.
WEST BRGHTON-The Rev. Jesse S. Gilbert
preached his farewell sermon yesterday IN Grace
Methodist-EpiscOpal ChuTch.
CLFToN.-William Keser reported at Police
Headquarters in Stapleton, last eyGning. that a
said that some boys playing ball near klttletachc
farm heard two pistol shots and saw man fail.
The BOYS becoming frightened ran away. Officers
were sent to make an investigation.
WESTMINSTER COUNTY
NEW RoCHELLE.-Ihe Republicans Oh Saturday