New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-17
NETWORK CITY.

NETWORK CITY
A correspondent wishes to know Whei,hgtr rTbo
Hyacinthe will lecture in French OF EhgliSH' i"0
P6re does not speak English ,.,ouo
In some parts of the Bowery the furniture uetIgls
take possession of over half the sidewalk Inc
blockade is growing nuisance
KILLED BY A FALL. 90 Oh,
Thomas O'Connell, a labOrer, of No IA OHeI ~
st fell from the seventh to the thru hDoI III inv
building at Broadway and Cham9eIo-s" 3''''i0''
morning. He was instantly Kllieu'
To CoNBINE BUSINESS WITH PLEASURE. a,
ND. OConnor, general passenger agent Oh ' ne
Monarch Steamship Line, Will san I HIb 9 AZ
Tuesday on the steamship Lyulah M ;, hHsrass
will be absent three months combining ouSAhos'
with pleasure:
BYLAWS TO BE RECONSTRUCTED;
At recent ballot for proposed aHf dng for "a
aTatuty fund, majority OF one only was oDlanttu.
Much dissatisfaction was EXPRESSED ana aho'heI
ballot has been ordered for December ..
HONORs TO DAVID VAN ARsDNF.
At n meeting of the Inspectors of the surveyors
Department at the Barge Office yesterday, Peter Z;
Bensel presiding suitable resolutions were adoEtSu
in respect to the death of David Van Asdale Inc
inspectors will attend the funeral tomorrow
MoXSIGNoR CArEI,s SUNDAY DIsCovRsEsI
MOnsignor Cape will preach IN St AIMS Oa!n-
Ole Church in East Twelfth-st. at IL a. NJ tGI
morrow, and in the eyening, az > q ciGoA WI W.
lecture in ST. Francis A9vier ElLCiI W,d wen
Sixteenth-st, on Man and the Other NoiIu'
ANNIvERSARY OF A HOsrITAL.
The anniversary of the Presbyterian - H0spltal
will be held tomorrow evening Id 'I Fot y,egfb
hel?T be Rev DE- Jo6n Hall Of this city and the
Rev. DR.. Arthur Mitchell, OF Cleveland OAlo' Will
speak.
GRACE CORTLAND N NEW ROLE -,
Grace Cortland the woman who made l2, Herseit
notorious by her attempthg 10 q? i!inS ,4 in
Milwaukee, now iggres e'nSplS2nTIy II Do oreGt
Fortune Teller and Mind Reader
An OLD ACQUAINTANCE OF YALE MEN.
Theodore Ferris blind cOlored man, peter
known candy Sam WHO ioTafLiy SOFA . co ar
fections TO tho students of Yale College, was ar
raiCned before Justice Duffy at jefferson, MaIhef
Police Court yesterday afternoon on ihe cnaIgG Oh
street begging lie was released WIFI Warning
WHAT TIE POLICEMEN WANT,
Tho policemen of the second grade held meeting
at the Gemania Assembly Rooms, Iwenty-siXth-st'
near vent t5nt Ey wou be satisfied With three
grades 81 600 for the first year $I,lVo tIo Sc
ond and 81 ,20C the third. a graded system makes
good policemen.
FAILURES FOR A WEEK.
The business failures of the l3,t seven DAYS
throughout the United states and CaSa a. Neg-
camille Agency, number go as against 10 laSI
week. Failures continue numerous IN the western L
Soutb and in New-York city, though in this city no
important assignment is to be noted.
BANGING SMALLPOX FROM IRELAND.
Thomas Curley, age seventeen, who came 10 TINS
city from Ireland two weeks ago, was found su1eI-
ing from smallpox in the tenement house NO. 81
Nest 70 be disease before &c left
Ireland. lie removed to the RlVelslde hoSpItdl'
1t is several months since person caught INC
smallpox III this city.
A GIFT FROM LORD coLERIDoE..
The Network State Bar Association or5 cbi h9s
Containing history of the house Of Arundel being
an account of the origin of the families OF Montgon.
cry Abini, Fitzalan and Howard, from the time OF
the conquest of Normandy by kOllo the Great
A COLLEGE FRATERNITY coNvENnoN.s -.
The thiTty-seYenth annual convention 81 the
Theta Delta Chi Fraternity will be held at MaTtl-
nell's in Fifth-ave., on November ~ and 20 under
the auspices, of the PIN Charge iTTenty y no
Columbia, Cornell, Hamilton, Troy, PoIytechnlG'
College of the City Of New-lork, Hobart, Harvard,
Dartmouth, BOwdoin, etc. The banquet Will take
place ON Friday, at p. IN.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN FEAR OF TENANTS.
Frederick HowrOwtz, Bohemian glove maker,
age forty-three cut his throat with razor at No.
80 Centre-st., early yesterday morning. He owned
the two-story building in which he lived and
worked and he let b stores S on to s' a0d bean
proceedings to dispossess them. lie imagined that
they Intended to do him bodily harm. ne was re-
moved to st. Vncent's Hospital as prisoner
ACCUSED OF ROBBING An IMMIGRANT
John Stz an immigrant arrived here few days
ago and stopped at a boardng-house NO. ~
the haSement' and to hiIn Sitz gave $lj for safe
keeping. Shz asked Reisingerfor his money yesler-
Jav aud received only SO, Resinger declaring that
he had been robbed of the rest the night before.
Stz accused him of lying, and thea Land the matter
before Secretary jackson, at Caste Oaideh' WHO
THE DUTIES on ANTIQUITIES
Judge Wallace, of the United states Circuit
Court yesterday reversed the decision rendered III
the District Court in regard to the duties to be in
posed on sixty-6vo terra Gotta and other an
tiQuities imported 10y Mr.. De Morgan. The decision
is 10 the effect that under clause of section 2,jOj
Of the Revised statutes only collections of an
Equities specially imported and not for sale are
exempt from duties and that previous clause of
the section does not apply to all collections OF
antiquities.
FAITHFUL SERVICES REWARDED
II. p. Hager aJewelieT Aas Deeh ioI elght years
ouarerTIaster of Reno Post, No. a, g.. A.. r.. Of
which Henry c. Perley is commander. AT the time
he assumed the office the treasury contained only
few dollars but it now has a balance of $4,000.
on Thursday evening a large party of his friends
met him al Tie Enc depot tc bid him God-speed on
ap to Colorado for The benefit OF MS health
A check for $3.50 was presented to the departing
comrade by Commander Perey! as a testimonial
the affection III which he was LeIu ny inc uicAI'
bers OF tbs post.
EXAMINATIONS FOR PLACES ~ TIE CUSTOMS.
Tie secretary of the United states Civil Service
Commissioner has given notice that Oh December
there will De a competitive written examination OF
applicants from other grades in the Custom do1 n
81 SEQ and 50, 200 cleTkshIps-the promotions to be
by successive grades There will also be coupe
titive written examination of applicants for the
position Of chief clerk of the warehouse division to
succeed Frederick Wight, recently promoted to
deputy collector. This examination will be open
Duly 10 clerks receiving $2,0CO IiOIc year as
salary. Tie examinations will be held in Room No
i07 Post Oiice Building, and applicants must hle
their requests by December /.
HELD FOR A DAYLIGHT ROBBERY.
William j. Lambert, age twenty-seyen, OF No. 0S
West Fifteenth-st., who was arrested on a charge
of highway robbery, was held in $1,000 bail for
trial Yesterday by Judge Duffy at the Jefferson
Market Police Court. Mrs. Bessie X. Frances, of
No Al West Twenty -second-st., the complainant,
stated that she was on her way home early on
Thursday afternoon, walking through Fifth-aye.,
when Lambert stopped her, and Threatening her
with knife demanded her money, or otherwise be
said he would kill her. Fearing for her life she
handed over her pccket-book t. him. When he left,
size cried for help ard three young men pursued and
captured Lambert after long chase. In eXtenu-
alton of his crime the prisoner said he was drunk