New-York tribune., 1884-02-28
NEW-YORK CITY.

| The great Produce Exchange clock is no longer
! without hands
The German Society will hold its annual meeting
| tonight at LiedeTkranz Hall.
A fair will be held after Lent to reduce the debt
of st. Leo's Roman Catholic Church.
| Theatre goers call for the suppression OF the
! cheek buyers as well as the ticket spectators.
! The forty hours devotion will be begun in st.
! Patrck's Cathedral in Fifth-ave on Sunday next.
Amission will be held in st. Vincent Ferrer 8
! Church, by the Rev. c. H. McKenna. o. T., next
| day.
Rev. w. Pardon, S. j.. will lecture in st. Francis
! XaVieT's Church on The Cruelty OF Tolerance,
| Ou Sunday eN ening.
The water in the new reservoir in Central Park
measures twenty-eight feet in depth. The capacity
! of the reservoir is forty feet.
The improvements promised on the, Hamilton
! Ferry have not been made, and long Delays anu
overcrOwded boats are frequent.
! The collection of duties upon foreign goods
entered at the Custom House on Tuesday amounted
| TO 81 3 127, 600, and on Monday SSSo,Ooo.
| There was delay of ten minutes shortly after
noon Yesterday on the Third Avenue Elevated
Railway. 1t was caused by the swapping of one Of
the pistOn-rOdS of the locomotive.
A WINTER VACATION.
o. r. Cauchois freight agent of the General
Transatlantic Steamship Line, owing TO i'll health
from overwOrk has obtained a leave of absence of
several weeks. He will sail to-day for Nassau,
CienfuegOs and Havana, on the steamship Santiago
THE CONTEST AT DRAUGHTs.
draHehts between j. Dempster and DIR. Schaefer
the contest beng postponed by mutual consent
until this evening. The record now stands; Schae-
fer 7 Dempster, 0 4; drawn, ..
FOUND DROWNED IN THE NORTH RIVER.
The dead body of an unknown man was found In
the North River last night at the foot of King-st
The man wore dark clothes, was of dark complex
ion, and had Sl4 in money III his pocket. Ihe po-
lice sent the body to the MOrgue.
THANKS PROM COMMODORE UpsHUR.
Commodore Tpshur has written letter TO Theo-
fanf Of no aCf
Route, thanking him for the use of the Iron Steam
boat pier for the DeLong procession. Thanks are
given also to h. G. Tucker for his personal interest.
YOUNG DOCTORS UNDER EXAMINATION.
The winter term lectures in the Medical Depart
ment of the University of the City of New-York
closed on Tuesday The 5 examnatiSGns ions began yes
ment Will be held in the Academy of Music on
March IL.
CARRYING OUT +. D. MORGAN'S WILL.
In order to comply with the provisions of the
will of the late Edwin d. Morgan, for the payment
Of certain legacles his four executors have executed
to the Manhattan Ll1e Insurance Company twen-
ty-sX assignments OF mortgages Tor amounts aggre-
eating $350,OO0.
CUTTING HIS THROAT WITH A RAZOR.
While dellr1ous from the effect of liquor, late on
Tuesday night, Thomas w. Carey shoemaker,
age tiity-hve, cut his throat with razor, at his
home, No 334 Ihird-aye. He failed to inilict
dangerous wound, and the police took him to Belle
vue Hospital as prisoner.
TO PARADE ON ST. PATRCKs DAY.
convention of the Irish societies in the city was
he at Central Hall, in East Forty-seventh-st.,
last night to consider the expedleDcy of having
the regular St Patricks Day parade on March II.
1t was decided that the parade should take place as
usual, with the exception of the Joness Wood
demonstration, which was abandoned.
PRETENDER UNDER LOCK AND BOLT.
Frank Keller, alias Carl f. Kepler, the young
swindler who went about the country pretending
to be brother of the artist Keppler, of Fuck and
obtaining considerable money, was brought
from Philadelphia yesterday by Detectlve-Sergeant
Frink, of Inspector Byrnes's squad, and locked up
at the Police Central Office III this city.
STORY OF CLUBBING NOT CONFIRMED.
Frederick Nes, who after being arrested for
drunkenness on Sunday night, hanged himself in n
cell III the Mercer Street Police Station was buried
from his home No. 2O5 West Tenth-st, yesterday.
No confirmation has been found of the theory
originating with some of his friends that he had
been dubbed to DEATH and 1t is said that his family
did not authorize any such report.
NEW AMERICAN STEAMER.
The new iron and steel steamer San Pablo, now at
Pier No. 40 East River, taking cargo for China
and Japan, by way of the Suez Canal. was built
by Cramp * son, OF Philadelphia, has capacity OF
4,200 tons dead weight engines of 2,300 horse
pany and is designed to ply between San Francisco
and Puget Sound, or the Sandwich Islands and
China
PREPARING FOR BARNUM's SHOW.
Preparations making Mt the Madison Square
Garden for the opening of Barnum's show. Three
rings, each fOrtytwO feet in diameter; an elevated
stage of 90 by so feet, and $500 seats are being
erected. About half of the building Will be given
up TO the museum and menagerle The flooring IS
being strengthened 10 sustain the weight of the
forty elephants,
LOTTERY FOR CHILDREN
Special Detective Orem, OF Anthony COmstOcks
staff, stood watching lille Of little boys and girls
entering and leaving candy store at No. $40 West
Thirty -eighth-st. yesterday afternoon. -, Simon
LOwensteIn, the stOrekeeper, was busy selling his
small customers sticks OF chewing gum for which
they paid penny. Every purchaser of pennys |
worth OF gum put his hand Ill a big receptacle III |
the shape of All Easter egg and drew out piece Of
jewelry as prize. Orem secured a warrant, and
Tod InNua Sfai Ct nj OH a
quarters he was bailed out by Justice kllbreth.
RAPID TRANSIT BY CABLE.
The counsel of the Rapid Transit Commissioners !
are engaged in preparing the articles OF association
for the company designated to construct cable |
roads upon the routes laid out by the Commission.
Application has been made to the Brooklyn Bridge |
for the privilege OF operating the cable
road across the bridge by the National Cable Rail
way Company. This corporation proposes to run
trains of three or four cars aud carry 10000 pas
sengers per hour at fare of two cents for each |
passenger.
THE STRIKE AT sTRAIToN AND STORMS.
The strike of the cigarnakers at StratOn g.
storms is at an end, far the firm is concerned
hey now have "A sufficient number of hands at
work to prevent any embarrassment to their bus-
Iess, and constant applications are being made for
work. The strikers say they are still hopeful Of
uccess They held meeting yesterday inoIaing
L the COncordia Assembly Rooms. and n COM
nttee was appointed TO engage Cooper Union Hall
or mass meeting on Monday night.
WANTS HER MONEY If NOT HER HUSBAND.
Catbarlne Jung, with her husband and two chill
rem arrived here on the steamship Amerique OH
aturday, and went to a hotel IN GreenwIcb,st
yhen size awOko yesterday morning she found that
er husband had disappeared and had taken with
i'm ]. 200 francs which she said was her own hard
armed money. she fled a complaint OF her hus-
ands misconduct with the Commissioners of
emigration and begged that they would get the
Money back. She expressed no wish for the return
4 her husband.
OLD FIRE BADGES WORTHLESS AFTER APRIL l.
The Fire commissioners yesterday decided 10 cal
all the old fire badges and TO issue new ones. All
Olders Of old badges are required TO return them
0 the secretary of the Fire Department before
pril l.. A cash deposit will be demanded OF every
ersOn not u member of the Fire Department who
eceiyes new badge. which will be circular In