New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-24
mnAr1s GOING ON TO-DAY.

ror,, Transit Commissioners Meeting, TRIBUNE Build
in County Medical Society, evening. ,-,...
Meeting Of New-York Presbytery Scotch Presbyterian
! Church, afternoon ,
! Baptist Preachers, morning
! Reformed Church Pastors, morning.
! Mercantile EXCHANGE election, afternoon
| Entertainment by Senior Class Normal college.
The Baxter Street Mission, on Baxter above
! Worth-st., supports free night school,
The four hundrcdth anniversary Of the birth OF
Zwingli. the Swiss reformer will be celebrated III
| this city on January u.
New evening classes in GERMAN French and Pho
| nograuhy will be opened in the Young Mems CIIlS-
| tian Association rooms on January and 81
James Leary, age thirty fireman on the steam
ship California fell into the water at pier NO. ~
North River, yesterday, and was drowned.
The North German Lloyd steamship Fulda rs she
steamed past the Battery Yesterday AFTERNOON was
covered with ice and her rigging looked Ike silver
ropes.
ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE FRENCH BALI. IN
The ARRANGEMENTS for the annual fancy dress p, ~,
of the Cercle Francois de pIlaruone on January ~
in the Academy of Music, Irving Hall and Nilsson
Hall include curious and novel features. Inc Bern
hardt- COlomber affair will be burlesqued.
FOUND DEAD IN 4 CELLAR,
A policeman yesterday morning discovered the
dead body of "A man in the cellar OF no i33 Char-
ton-st. II is thought TO he that OF refer ilaonu,
a native of Glasgow and fireman on the steamer
Avend who probably fell into the cellar WINE I'M
der the influence OF liquor, and died from exposure
aud cold
The annual reception and ball Of the 22d ReGi-
mcnt will take place at the New Opera house on
Januar, 7. The interior VIII be decorated WIN
military dew ices, aud fountain 9i pelIuHcd "alcI
Will scent the interior. General Grant and other
officers viii he present. The sale of tickets and
boxes has been large.
wINTRY MARCH BY MGIITIAMFN.
The second annual winter march of the Third
Company of the 9TH Regiment will take place
ON Satu DAY, December 20. The company VIII pro-
coed To Williams Bridge by rail, and march thence
., 10 II,t lr,n irk "a "A
served to the men. Last year the march from the
armory TO Yonkers was made in four bours.
ACnCKCH rwENrY-tIyE YEARS 9Ln; -
The ST. Johns Lutheran Church IN Christopher
ST held memorial services yesterday IN com
mcmoration of the dedication of the church
twenty-five years Ago. The Rev. Dr. A. g. Wcde-
kind the pastor, gave history of the society. In
the twenty-five years of the church's existence,
he said, there had been pogo MARRIAGES IA inc
church. In the evening the Kew Dr. conrad, OF
Philadelphia, preached.
PROVIDING FOR THE AGrD POOR.
The Little Sisters of the Poor O9oncd home Tor
the aged and iutirm poor OF both sexes eight years
ago in Scvcntccutl-st. near Third Avenue. Inc
buIldiug has been enlarged from time Ia time, aud
now shelters nearly three hundred persons. But
more room was needed. and the listers have opened
another home at No. 23l West ThiTty-clghth-st.
The Sisters 90 from door Ia door collecting food,
clothing and money. They have no other source oil
income.
HEBREW FEEE-sCHOoL RECEPTION.
The Hebrew Frcc-School Association held rccep
ti,n at 40. 20G East Broadway yesterday. Only
the regular attendants of Public schools were per
unified to attend, the tmc being To instruct them
i'm usc lul pursuits a. well branches of leumIug.
Through the liberaity Of Jacob SChtf the Asspcia-
ton has Obtained Library which was opened at
noon Samuel Grcenhaum made the presentation
speech which replied To by the President,
Niger :. Jacobs. Rabbi de Sofa Mcndes tlcn made
aud address.
PREACHING UNDrR DIFFICULTIES.
AZ three o'clock, yesterday afternoon, while
crazy broadway thermometer registered ten degrees
below zero, and properly regulated instruments told
ISL Mr. Kimhall. mounted the City Hall steps for
his usual Sunday work. His voice Is loud enough
almost 10 wake the dead but II Could not penetrate
10 ears covered with tabs muiiies or thckly Rovod
hands. Occasionally passcr-by had cuiloI
enough 10 uncover his ear and catch the ami 81
the cXhortation. But he speedily hurried on. Tho
man shoyclirg snow off the Park sidewalks stopped
occasionally, leaned on his shovel and nodded
approval The policeman ON duty. however who
if the story was too old for him. For fifteen minutes
the sGnor0us voice kept up its laundering There
was not an audience Of one TO hear It, and the
preacher moved on.
BROOKLYN
The Sunday-school Christmas festival of Mr..
Talmage's church will take place on Thursday.
The Rev. VI. c. Stiles preached his farewell ser
mon in the East Congregations Church Yesterday.
A council of Congregational churches VIII act upon
his resignation on Thursday Mr.. Stiles will remain
IN Brooklyn, devote his attention to the en-
forcement Of the excise law.
The Rev BENJAMIN Staunton was installed pastor
Of the Fort Green Presbyterian Church yesterday,
sncr~eding The Rev. Dr. Adam McCleland. The
installation sermon was preached by the Rev. A
McCullagh; the charge 10 the pastor was given by
the Rev. Dir. j. ID. Wells, and the charge to the
people by the Rev. DIR. I. l.. Cuyler.
LONG ISLAND.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Verify, age siIty-three q
stone mason, was drowned in shallow water near
the steamboat landing on Thursday night while III
toXicatcd.
OYSTER BAY-Chares Townsend, Of Locust Val
lev who died several weeks Gequcathcd 81 900
sbo anIa utpa mo ut at nd "
to the Locust Valley public school.
MAsP TH.-The cornerstone Of the new African
Methodist Episcopal Church was laid yesterday at
tcrnUOn, with appropriate ceremonies by the Rev.
j. PaytOn.
COLLEGE PoINT-A meeting was held in the
Presbyterian Institute on Saturday night, for the
purpose of taking action on the death of Conrad
POppenhusen. Resolutions OF coincidence were
passed and it was resolved to close all the stores
during the funeral which Will take place to-day at
Observation-Disclosures Willis. of WillistOn left a
will bequeathing the use of his estate worth be
tween S75, 900 to 800 900 to his widow during
her lifetime, and at her death one-haf was TO he
given his sister and tne other half 10 the Church
Chart Foundation of the Episcopal Church III
the diocese Of Long Island. The Will has been Of
fercd for probate, and the deceased mans brother
has lied notice of contest with Surrogate Town
send, of Queens County.
COLD SPRING.-Mrs. Worden, age seventy-two,
the wife Of Captain John WOrden. wandered from
mental alteration, and persisted in the woods from
exposure. On Friday her body was found under
the snow.
no" said George Henry, 81 didn't 20 there to
court the girl only called ~ occasionally to pass the time
you Know; but the first thing knew they had for
breach of promise. and you went 10 court at
last '-t8OsOn Transcript.