New-York tribune., 1884-02-26
NEW-YORK CITY.


Merchants from the South and West throng the
hotels.
Mushroom coors are novel for spring dresses and
bOnnets
The ice has entirely disappeared from the lakes
in Central Park.
The debt on the Church of the TRANSPORTATION IN
M~tt-st. is $40, 500.
The Clan-na-Gael will celebrate Emmets birth
day in Cooper Union on March i.
The students of ST. Francis Xay1eT's College are
trying TO free the library OF debt.
There are thirty-One synagOgues in this city and
the Jewish population is estimated at over $4,000.
Howard Crosby is frequent visitor to the rooms
of the Young Mems Christian Association III
Twenty-third-St.
The Rev. p F. Carr, of st. Vincent de Paul's
Church in West Twenty thiTd-st. has recovered his
health and resumed his duties at the church.
Five-minute sermons on the Gospel of the day
are a popular feature of the early masses in the
Church of St. Paul the Apostle IN West tlfty-ninth
st.
The Woman's National League has adopted resO-
lutions commenting the School of Industrial art
for Women, and praising the founder Mrs Florence
+. Cary.
Commissioner PurrOy for use in the dry goods dis
tIlct has been completed i'll The repair shops of the
Fire Department
BLrssIXG THE ASHES.
The ashes will be blessed by the priests in many
of the Catholic churches of the city at the o'clock
masses tomorrow morning ash Wednesday,
PRESIDENT OF TIL ELFCTRIC EXCHANGE.
George NJ. Hard president Of the Chatham Ma
tiOnal Bank, has resigned the presidency of the
Electric, Manufacturing and Niscel laneOus Stock
Exchange. John A. Beidin was elected to the
Office yesterday
PERSISTENT DRUNKARD AGE THIRTEEN.
Eli Green, age thirteen, was arraigned III the
Jefferson Market Pohce Court yesterday. He is
said 10 be an habitua drunkard. lie has been in
the habit of getting older boys 10 buy him liquor,
and since Christmas has been drunk most of the
time.
DELAY on TIE ELEVATED ROAD.
A delay of a few minutes was caused on the City
Hall branch Of the Thlrd-aye elevated railroad
about O'clOck last evening by the pulling out OF
the dIaw-bar heads on one Of the cars. New ones
were substituted at once. The other trains were
run without interruption.
WEDNESDAY LECTURES IN LENT.
The Bishop of Long Island will deliver the lee !
lures on the " Bishop Paddock Foundation" in ST. !
Peters Church III Nnth-aye.. at 8 o'clock on the !
Wednesday evenings. of Lent, The Christian
Ministry at the Bar of Criticism" is the subject Of
the first lecture tomorrow evening.
SALE OF COINS AND MEDALS.
The large collection of coins and medals belong |
ing to Isaac H. Wood was sold yesterday by Bangs |
d Co. Buyers were present from numisnatic firms |
and collectors in Philadelphia and other cities. !
One of the oldest Of the Washington medals sold |
for SIS 80; funeral medal Ct Old date brought |
$G 20.
THE SIX DAYS RACE.
Charles Rowell, Patrick Fitzgerald, Robert Nmt, |
George -. NOremac. Winston II. BuTTell, Harry /
Howard. Ernest Smith and George Hazael met at
the office of The 1urf Iied and Farm yesterday and /
the four first named signed articles of agreement
for six days gO-as-yOu-please race to begin at
the Madison square Garden on April 2S. The en-
T1es close on Aprll ].
ThE INCREASED APPROPRIATIONS.
Mayor Edison offered resolution in the Board OF |
Estimate yesterday requiring the Controller TO
prepare a statement showing the details Of the IN
crease in the appropriations of 1854, ETC. He said
that there had been considerable criticism ON the
action of the Board in granting larger appropria
tions. and the public did not seem to know TO what
the increase was due The resolution was adopted.
DISCUSSING A BRAINnN's BOOK.
An essay ON "The Oriental Christ" was read be-
fore the Baptist preachers yesterday by the Rev.
f. 4. X. Gesser, who reviewed PrOtap Chunder
Nlozoomdars book. lle said that the Orientals be-
ieved that they could better understand Christ
" no was himself an Asatic, than could the West
,rn missionaries who brought TO them Western
Christ with the spirit of an Engllshnan
OFFERING HER A HOME.
TIE TRIBUNE on February 13 contained an ac-
cunt of a young girl who tried 10 commit suicide
1y jumping into tire Harlem River; She was res
,ued by James Rice but she refused TO go home be-
ause her drunken father had turned her out of
loors. She would not give her name gentle
nan in Boston offers her pleasant home Ills ad-
Tess may be learned as The TRIBUNE ONCE
or THE NEw COTTON EXCHANGE.
The Building Committee of the Cotton Exchange
yesterday laid the cornerstone of the new building
{ the junction of Beaver, Pearl and Wllllam-sts.
n the stone was placed a large copper box contain
ng copies of The TRIBUNE and other morning
ewspapers, several weekly papers, several coins,
ne constitution and bylaws, officers and members
f the Exchange, and other papers. Walter =.
filler chairman of the Building Committee, acted
S master OF ceremonies.
ROUGH WEATHER AT SEA
All of the European steamships which arrived
esterday reported severe weather. The Egyptian
lonarch was seventeen days III coming from Lon
on. For six days after sailing she battcd with
ales and high seas. On the night Of February 13
ne barometer fell to 2755. A hurricane followed
heavy sea carried away part OF ihe saloon com
aDiOnWay "A long stretch OF the rail, the gangway
oder and damaged the boats.
UNITING THE WORK OF CHRISTIAN YOUNG MEN. {
The Rev, W. II. Ford, pastor of the Middle Re
,nned Church of Brooklyn, read paper ycster-
ly on "The Relation, of Young Mems Christian
ssociations TO the Church." before the Reformed {
lstors. He said that such associations were J
hristian clubs, and did good if conducted in q
amer TO help the church. but if they went beyond
lat and attempted 10 act in Il church capacity, '
icy became a source of evil.
MR. CoLIINss BODY SENT TO IRELAND
The body of jerome j. Collins, meteOroogist of I