New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-31
NEW YORK CITY.

Finks Office.
NEW YORK CITY.
Matthew Arnold will deliver his lecture on En-
erson next Friday evening, in Association Hail.
Work is advancing slowly on the new spire OF
Grace Church.
"Thcse are shams and not worth stca Ing is n
sign on a rack filled with sample umbrellas in
! FultOn-st.
cred noses cuts and scratches, perfectly, con-
cealcd," appears on a placard displayed by
! Chatham Square artist.
Many of the better class of cheap lodging houses
| in this city are owned by Iaans-notably three IN
| the BowcTy and two in Chatham-st.
A cylinder weighing $4,000 pounds, for the new
steel cruiser Atlanta, was cast at JOhh hoac snip
! yard at Chester, on Saturday.
The members of the Dartmouth College ,Associai;
ton of New-Y1rk. will have their twentieth annual
dinner at Pinard's on Friday evening
ANNOYANCEs To PEDESTRIANS IN HARLEM: -.
crowd of young ruhians frequent the vicinity
! If LexinrtOn-aVe and One Hundred and Tween
tieth-st and make the life of the pedestrians in
that neighborhood miserable by throwing snow
| balls at them.
| THE DEMAND FOR DARTS.
! Statoners say that the demand for diaries Is
greater than il has been for number OF years ne
! wife Of the average man will be surprised az !he
number of entries marked sundrics iRshe should
! examine his diary IN about week.
| PASSING 4 BURNING VESSEL.
The Swedish ship Edward, from iayTe, which ar
| rived Yesterday reported that on October p, IN
! latitude 1875 longitude u she passed burning
vessel. which proved 70, be the flQla Feledo, OF
| Genoa. No person could be seen on BOARD ana she
| burned 10 the waters edge.
LOW TIDES AND STRONG CURRENTS.
There have been unusually low tides and swift
currents in the Hudson River Tor The last tW3. OF
! have been strong northwest winds which blow he
water out 10 sea. and the ircshct caused by Tie
! snow and rain storms.
CHINESE SHOPPING ON SUNDAY.
II is noticeable that great many strange China
men visit New-York on Sundays and carry bags,
bundles, and baskets away win them. Ih'f conc
| from jersey City, Newark, Paterson, and other
places near Ncw-iork, and purchase their supplies
of teas cofccs soaps, opium, &c. ON Sunday. New
| York is their chief depot for supplies.
! prIIGnTfNG 10 BEAT MS MOTHER AID SISTER.
! A. j. Earl. of No. 400 East SXtccnth-st.. was de-
scribcd i'm the Yorkyiile Police Court Yesterday
as man whose chief delight was III 9,4iIng ing, anu
abusing hIs aged mother ana sister, win Nh1,t u,
/ lives lie threatened hi, broth .l-in-law Robert
/ splitter aud stabbed him in the thigh with "a ioih'
/ He was held ID $1,000 bail for TRIAL
FRYE HEADING FOR BOYS.
The FREQ Reading Room for Boys, al No 10 East
| Fourteenth 81, under the ausplr oil ING luuhE
| Ladies, Christian Temperance Inon ana me 10Y
/ LOYAL Legion, viii bee open on NrN-l ears day To
receive Their boy-vaTrn-, "a wei r nose VIZ" my
I desire TO become" better acquainted win TINS
| char Of prevention.
CHARGED WITH -TNEEGNG ms WIFI.
In the Essex Mar 81 Police Court yesterday
Pauline }cuc-ch % NO. i"S lIl.h-.t, charged h'r
Of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Win
| having assaulted her on Saturday evening ".'h "a
| carving-knlr. inn defendant declared that ihr
stabbing was accident, but ur vas nclG lul u al
| in default OF 81 900 bail
ACCEPTING ACAIL FROM BAPTIST CHURCH
The Sixteenth-,t. Baptist church i'm West Six
tocnth--t near Elgnth-avc. extended call 70 'hc
Rev Mathew H. Pog-on, pastor OF the First Baptist
church of bridgeport, Connecticut which in letter
! read at the morning services Yesterday, he &C
cepted He will enter on his new ddtics ON the first
| sunday i'm February. Mr.. P0g-un has been IN
! Bridgeport for SIX years, coming there rom 81
| Louis.
SUMMONED TO TAKE Az ANTg-MoErrN STATEMENT.
Coroner Levy was summoned from seat IN the
ITALIA Theatre saturday night t. take tho ante
norton statement Of Patrick Cunningham, IN the
Ncw-Yori, Hospital lie found the patient uIyrou-
scious. CUNNINGHAM was taken 90 the hospital nu
. December ., from No Z! Mott-st. Patrick Perry,
| who keeps blacksniths shop at that place. IN a
| FIGHT with Cunningham had struck him over the
! head with a pair OF black-miths longs. Tho in
jurcd man received conclusion Of the brain from The
blow lii- death is momwtariiy cNpc.tDd. Perry
was arrested by the police and locked mp IA the
Sixth Precinct police station.
TWO BUSY CROSSINGS.
The two busiest crossing Iu Ncw-lork are those
! way and CbambCrs-st. The service, of five police
men are required at each of these crossings the year
! round to prevent accidents and bl0ckadcs. From
early morning I'LL seven AT night, pedestrians nave
much difficulty in finding their way across tLcs
| thOroughtarcs between the croWdmg pushing
teams. Ii is estimated that fully thrcc-iOurtLs Of
the vehicles used in the transportation of merchau-
disc between HoustOn-si. and the Battery pass
! these points one OF more times daily.
THE FRENCH BALL COMMITTEES.
The Ccrclc Francois de rIlarmonic has appointed
the following committees fOs the fancy dress ball
! on January u NJ the Academy of Music, Irving
and Nilsson Halls: Committee of Arrangements
Me-srs. j. Dard0nvc, A. }. Dcloncst, j. c. Galou-
pcau, j. dc Grandmont J.. llaIauX VI. g.. Joullrct,
| n +. Lagarde, A. Mea,om, + Rcyssicr, H. Tisfot
! and j. 4. Guraud, president; Reception Commit
! tee, T.. Capcl, L. F. Duparquct, '. FOrtwcnglcr, H.
LafOu, &. T.. Martcl, ;. VI. Rcgniaut, j. de Grand
! mont T. A. BOnuaTd, Is. Cardaire, J. Genet, i. l..
| Gucrin, A. Flauraud, T.. lluot and {. Is. Waite.
The annual banquet takes place at the Hotel Bruins
wick on Monday next.
BROOKLYN.
Edward Ycrls, Of No. 107 Westinghouse. was
! taken to his home in Brooklyn on Saturday night
! in carriage by some friends who said that he had
fallen overheard at the Battery, New-York He re-
fused TO go the hospital. About four hours after
! he reached home he died.
NEWARK.
l. Seven physicians visited tho Jail Yesterday TO cx-
amino James Graves, who is under sentence to be
! hanged next Ihursdav, for killing Eddie Loden,
age thirteen. Ii is asserted that the prisoner, who
is sxty eight years old, is mbecile; and although
sentence his counsel will bring the before the
! Court again to-day. The doctors were: DR.. Il. 4.
| Spitzka, of New-York; and DIS OGOrman, Hagen,
! LehInachoT Stckney, Young and Kuechler, of New
| ark. After spending an hour with Graves the
physicians held q conference, and then drew up and
| signed an opinion which will be presented TO
! the Court Of PardOns They are agreed that the
prisoner is Of unsOund mind, and that 1t would be
| shameful to hang HIM. DR.. Sptzka said: Graves
is as AFFECT luuatic as was ever confined In an
asylum"
JERSEY CITY.
| conference between the Board Of Finance and
! representatives of the Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad Company has resulted in mutual under
| standing by which the city will receive $l5OOOO
| of back taxes due from the Central Railroad Com