New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-02-08
NETWORK CITY.

Several able-b0died beggars do" the coIII"oA'
of the Post Office at night.
Strings Of wild ducks ornament the iron fence al
the of the Custom House.
A fair in aid of St. Vincent do Paurs Church
French Catholic will be held after Easter
The twentieth anniversary of the James NJ. Il;
Church, i'll West FOrty-tourth-st Will DeceleDraIeu
on Sunday.
William Kramer, proprietor Of the Thala Thea
tire, denies most emphatlcally that he has disposed
of his theatre.
Mile Aimee and Grau's Opera Company, ffty-six
in ALL were passengers to Havana yesterday ON the
steamship British Empire.
Diminutive faro tables were sold in Broadway
Yesterday for 80 cents each. They were purchased
eagerly by the rising generation
More money is taken in at the City Hall station
of the Third Avenue Elevated Railroad than at any
other station on any of the INES
Felix Moschees, the artist, will talk on art and,
to Illustrate his lecture will paint portrait Honl
| life in Steinway Hall this afternoon.
A mud-besmeared Chnaman was observed drain
ing beer kegs in Chatham-st. yesterday. us To-
! mato can was of the regulation size and pattern
"Mrs. "Tom Thumb applied to Mayor Edison
Yesterday for license to open museum I'D the
| Bowery. She introduced by Police captain
| Steers.
| The Rev. William J. O'Brien, recently from
! Ireland has been appointed by the Cardinal one OF
the priests of ST. Mlchacls Church, IN west Ihlrty-
second-st.
| A woRKINGMEN'S HALL.
| A plan is to be submitted TO the trades unions
| shortly for the raising of fund to build work,
! ngmen's hall, where meetings can be held aud
| lectures, balls and other entertainments gwen
COINS THAT WERE NOT FOUND.
A boy dropped several coins in Broadway yesteF-
day, near the Post Office. He began to search for
! them. In ten minutes a large crowd had collected,
! and for an hour canes and umbrellas stirred the
soft mud on the cobble-stoucs. But the coins were
not found.
RESTRAINED FROM SUNG A CORPORATION.
Justice Van Brunt, in the Supreme Court yes
| terday, granted an injunction, on the application
of Charles +. Woersholer, restraining al ann
ants against the North Riy Construction Company
! from bringing suit against that corporation untll
| further orders from the court.
| TIE EGKs' BALL on ST. VALENTINES NIGHT.
The seventeenth annual ball of the Benevolent
Protective Order of Ellls will take place at Aladi-
| son Square Garden on February Ia ST. Valentines
| night The 22d Regiment band under the personal
direction of p. 5. Gilmore will furnish the PRONE
! made music.
ANEW PACIFIC STEAMSHIP.
| The new iron steamship Santa Rosa built by
! John Roach N Sons for the Oregon improvement
| Company, arrived from Chester yesterday. she
will sail for San Francisco on February -. Her Ill;
mansions are $40 feet IL length, 32 feet beam. and
% feet depth of hold. She Is built IN compartments
and has Accommodations for 20O saloon passen-
gers. -
! Specal Agent Brackett made q seizure of eighteen
cases of black cOney fuTs worth about SS,OOO from
! A. b. Brackelier IL Co. IN December, because they
! had been imuorted under valuation. The apprais-
ers valued them at 100 per cent above the invoice
and the owners demanded reappraisement, which
was made yesterday, aud the former decision was
confirmed.
A MUSIC PUBLISHERS ASSIGNMENT.
Richard A. SaalGeld, of No. II Bible House who
made an assignment yesterday TO John II. Brown,
has been in the music-pubshing business in
this city since 1877. He prefers f.. o. Saaield for
So 900 and three others for smaller sums HIS total
Indebtedness is about $4,000, and his assets,
which consist of sheet music plates, ETC., are nom
inally worth much more.
OPINIONS DIFFER.
miniature model of the steamer Rhode Island 5
steam engine is ON exhibition in the entrance hall
| of thp Astp HOuCp. lDrOuUluG IN
in the stand on which it rests sets 1t in motion.
Different opinions prevail as to the reasons Tor
placing il there. 10 draw custom" of course,
suggested ex-senator Sullivan. "Oh, noW says
Manager Lansing; " it is to drive out the surplus
customers.
REGISTERS OFFICE NOTES.
The Standard Oil Company has purchased from
the De Pau estate and Others the buildings Nos u
and 20 Broadway. extending through to Newest,
for 1900 900. The New-YOrk Presbyterian Church,
which recently sold its ediice III West Eleventl-St
for $52, 800, yesterday bought four lots on the
northeast corner OF Seyenth,aye: ana Ohe-huhdred-
and-twenty -eighth-st for $4,000.
MISS PARL0A At COOPER UNION
Miss Parloa continued her instructions to her
cooking class last night, AT the Cooper mon. Her
pupils respond with military promptitude to her
orders. At the word OF command One cup OF
Hour" every head drops and every pencil goes 70
paper. How to make corned;beef hash, bread pud-
ding and cream sauce ana now 10 COOK rice, were
shown last night.
MR. oLNEY's CLERKS NOT PAID.
The clerks in the District Attorneys Office are
!
Controller refuses to sign the warrant, it is said
because District-AttOrney Olney appointed Adolph
L. Scharfe his law clerk, and Henry Mertzbach his
messenger, without requiring them 10 be examined
under the Civil Service law Both men are law
yers, but do not appear in court as representing the
| District-AttOrneys Office.
NEW LAMP FOR 4 CHURCH.
A new lamp has just heenplaced in the sanctuary OF
the Church of St. Francis Xavierin West Sixteenth
st. 1t is copy of the one hanging in the chapel of
St Sulpce in Paris. Ii is piece OF bronze twenty
etht inches in diameter and il contains seven lights
surmounted by angels WI outspread wings. The
laInp is suspended from the ceiling by an antique
hraIPs linked chain. four inches i'm diamater and
sixty feet long. The lamp cost 81, 500, including
the duty, and is the memorial Offering OF James
Dwell
TO HONOR THEIR DEAD COMMANDER.
A number of the graduates of the st. Mary's
ol-ship, who served under Lieutenant DE Long
when he executive officer OF that vessel met
on board of her last night to take action upon a
communication received from Commodore Upshur,
commandment of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, inviting
them 10 take part in the reception of the body Of
The commander of the Jeanette. Committees were
appointed TO make the necessary arrangements.
The graduates probably will march near the hearse,
| in company with the students OF the sch0olship,
in command of oae of her officers.
SALE OF bones FOR THE ARION BALL.
The sale of boxes for the Aron Ball began last
and two-thirds of the 500 boxes were disposed of.
Those remaining unsold will be disposed of on sat
urday, at$o SO Liberty-st. The ball will take
place on February u. Among the rchasers OF
boxes are the following: Mayor Edison, the Police
and Fire Commissioner, Jay Gould, George Gould,
! w H. Vanderbilt Or. G.. Dix, j. j. OBrlen, George
Ehrot. j. Rupert, Mr.. Darcy, of the Spanish lie
CATION, Mr.. French, of DelmonicO's, Judge NehTbas
and Judge McAdam.
NATIONAL GUARD NOTES.
Captain stephen +. Ryan has been detailed as
president of the delinquency court ordered TO con-
vene at the 60th Regiment AmOry on February 20
for the trial OF non-cOmmisiioned officers and men
charged with delinqncncles during the past SIX
months The commissioned officers, including field
and staff are ordered 10 assemble for instruction on
February ~ in fatigue uniform, swords and gloves
The 22d Regiment paradcd with full ranks last
night Although admission TO the armory WAS linn
tied TO the holders If tickets the reserved space fO
visitors was crowded. Company Is, TN Regiment
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