New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-04
NETWORK CITl.

largely uIltuucu'
The Authors Club, now holding fortnightly meet
ngs in the comfortable usrters of the TIE Gun,
Will move into its own rooms, just OH Maoson
Square, next month.
MITCHELL AND EDWARDS TO MEET,
Neootiatious are pending for glove fight between
Charles Mitchell and William Edwards, the light
weight champion pugilist. TO take place III MaclSon
Squi.ce Garden early Dext month";
The list New-York QIincoln) Cavalry Assoelation
will hold its first regular annual meeting, as l1ed al
the late reunion, on Saturday, Aprll 10, az y h''
in the Knickerbocker Cottage, In Slxtn-aVe.
CONGRATULATIONS FROM MEXICO.
Leno Nova the postmaster of the City OF Mexico,
has sent to Postmaster Pearson letter congratu-
lating him on the opening of direct railway cohid
nication between New-York and Mexico.
THE BODY OF MR.. PARTRIDGE.
The body of Mr. Partridge, ex-Minlster to Peru
which arrived yesterday on the steamer ESs ,,as
consigned TO Collector Robertson MI tInaso
recently committed suicide in Spain.
THE CASE AGAINST THE RRv. Mr.. HUMPHREY;
Rev Grifith III. Humphrey of the Welsh Presby-
terrain Church, in Thirteenth-st.. was required TO
pay SO week for the support OF the chlld Of LauI"
c. Jones. His counsel gave notlce Of appeal
AN AUCTION SALE OF DAMAGED PRINTS.
William A. Topping. Of No: 50 Wh'te-st, az MS
auction rooms yesterday, sold 10 cases OF Sphes-
toCa prints for James and John Hunter Oh Tnll n
delphia. They had been injured by Ire ana were
sold quickly at from one-half cent TO cent ana
half under the net trade Prices
POLICEMEN RETIRED ON PENSIONS.
Patrolman John Randolph, OF the tlrst fIeclhGt
vho recently. became permanently disaDleu ny
disease within month after his appointment as 90
policeman. retired yesterdayon pension OF 20
YEAR PattisOn Jolly. nold poncehan' "da ieliiou
on pension of 5000 year.
NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR DELAYED KILOGRAMS;
A cable dispatch has been received from inc III
General of Telegraphs Of Brazil, by the Bra
ziGan Consul-General in this city, declaring that
the delays complained Of IN tho tronsmlssl3n OF
kilograms from that country are not INC iault VI
the Government lines.
RAPID TRANSIT COMMISSIONERS.
The meeting of the Rapid Transit commissioners
Yesterday was attended by all the members OF tne
Board To the new commissioner, Eoward - l.
Hedden the work of the Board was explained. nc
law requires that the books OF subscription 10 inc
capital stock Of the new company shall Ne opeAeu
al some banking house before next Thursday.
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM EXAMINATIONS.
An open competitive examination OF applicants
for positions in the State service VII De hela at
New-York and Brooklyn on April n. Applicants
for nositions at Castle Garden will be examined
then All applications must be made before ApIl
Ia on blank forms, which will be furnished by the
Civil Service Commission at Albany upon request
by mail.
TWO SALES OF BOOKS.
The sale of the law library Of V. Dalrimple' OF
Morristown, n j., was continued yesterday at the
auction rooms of Messrs. Bangs q CO.. Nos. 739 and
TAI Broadway. The lists contained treateslsos, dl.
gosts ana M Irs george A. Ieaytt
q Co.'S Clinton Hall, the sale OF the library oA INC
Rev. L. Clarke was continued.
PLEADING FOR PROHIBITIONS.
Tho Rev i Benson Hamilton, OF Providence,
r /. told an audience of 800 persons at cooper
Union last evening " How the Rum Botte Ills Iue
Tear Bottle" His lecture vas Plea tof pGo4 3ft
stereopticon views were thrown upon canvas lot
fine admiration and instruction of the audience.
INTEREST IN THE WEST SIDE CLUB.
The West Side Club of when the hey' II; IN Iepet
Eighth-ave. and Ffty-fourth-st. last evening, ..
o. Wood, presiding. About sixty of the young men
who have signed the roll OF Were second
floor in building in Eighth-ave as soon as POSI-
be- which will be open each evening 10 ali young
men The club has 5000 in the treasury.
PREVENTING CRUELTY TO CHILDREN.
AT the meeting of the Society for the prevention
of Cruelty to Children yesterday 200 complaints
were reported as having been recelyed during
March OF these, 124 cases were reported ny msgls-
trates; 1O7 prosecutions were made and iOZ con-
yictions were obtained. The case of Ida Miller who
was recently severely whipped by MISS heSelo
discussed by the Board, but no action was taken
regarding 1t.
VALUABLE PAPERS MIsLAIp.
Billings & Cardozo, lawyers, at NO, 40 Broao.
wav advertised yesterday for the return of some
p pnssSIS q the Ponds Extract Company
who died few days ;d ago . a ' fTo " sons
When his lawyers looked for the viii, which
MIR Billings had drawn up short time before, IL
missing together WIN R qfeG 10 IS anEoRps
md lie does not believe that they have been
stolen, but that MIR. HURT misiaid them.
THE PROPER SMELL OF soURKRAUT
Mrs Kendall of No 161 West Tenth-st., took 20
the Sanitary Bureau yesterday pail OF sourkraut
which emitted such rank odoT that the CLERKS IN
the bureau could not remain near IT, enc san tnSt
mann in Waverly- place. and that its smell was 80
oyerpowering that she could not use it. Dr. Cyrus
Edison thought that the sourkraut was unit Tor
food. The grocer said that all good sourkraut had
strong smell IN the spring, and the small quantity
which fe had sold TO Mrs. Randall was not worse
smelling than il ought 10 be when II left his store
THE RETAIL DRUGGISTS UNION.
A secret meeting of the Retail Druggists Union
was held Yesterday at the College of Pharmacy
The committee for the country at large announces
strongly in favor of the Union. The plan submit
ted by the manufacturers in this city, following III
the main Campion plan, was strongly recon-
| mended by the committee, and was accepted after
| discussion by the Union. 1t is now proposed 70
unite the New York Druggists Union with the Ma;
tional Retail Druggists Association and 10 extend
the system into all the leading cities of the
country.
EXTORTIoN OR CoNsPIRACYf
| George +. Wright, who says that he IS an agent
of the Society for the Prevention of Crime, was
Yesterday held in the Essex Market Police Court 10
answer a charge of attempting to ext0rt 800 from
George HeTbner proprietor OF stem hoteI, no SSd
Herbiner fined and his license taken away for
selling beer on Sunday, unless l1erblner paid him
tbe money; and that he had accepted an envelope
containing a SO bill that had been marked by
| Captain Mccullough, Of the Seventeenth Precinct
The bill was not found, however, when he was ar
rested He declares that 1t is conspiracy to de-
feat the purpose Of the society.
TuIFvING CLERKS on THE WAY TO EUROPE.
Samuel Eichberg and William Reimsn, the jew:
oilers who were robbed by their clerks still refused
! 10 give any information yesterday. lRlBUSE re-
porter learned however that the name of Mr.. Elch-
! berg's abscondng clerk is Joseph Young, and that
! the two Young men arc probably on the way TO
! Germany In company with young woman. On
| Monday when Young failed TO appear at Mr.. Eich-
| berg's Office package with his address on il was
| open.d by Mr.. Eichberg aud found to contain two
packages of visiting cards with an address in Ger
! inany The names Of the persons were unfamiliar:
| IL was afterward learned that two young men had
purchased tickets in these names fOT Europe by one
| of the foreign steamers
BROOKLYN.