New-York tribune., 1884-01-22
NEW-YORK CITY.

There are sixteen private detective agencies in
| New-York city.
A West Broadway householder has turned his fire
| escape into poultry yard
The Police Commissioners yesterday appointed
| twenty patrOlmen.
The left wing of the list Regiment will parade
! for battalion drill tomorrow evening.
The cold weather is too much for the clock on old
ST. PauPs 1t stopped again yesterday.
The building at No. 1S9 Broadway has been pur-
chased by William Remsen for Sl54,OOO.
A strip of land about an inch wide in Fifty-ffth-
st. west of lhird-sve., was recently sold for SG20
A basement bootblack in Cortlandt-st announces:
"No waiting inside. Five artists constantly in at
tendance"
"a hot fried oyster. clam fritter or a fish ball
served with each drink " is the 10 est allmement OF
a Bowery resort.
A blight has attacked the violets and they do not
abound In the florists windows. They sell readily
for SO IA hundred.
Portraits of Henry Irving and Mary Anderson are
more numerous IN shop windows than those OF any
other stars"
Italian sellers Of placques and statuettes have
become squatters on the front steps OF many large
downtown buildings.
The East River yesterday was field of ice from
the Brooklyn side twO-thlrds across. Ihe Ice
caused many veXatlOus delays.
Two urchins attempted to skate on the slippery
walks i'm City Hall Park yesterday. They were
chased of by poHce.an'
The Harlem River draw-hrilgc at Thrd-avc. was
frozen tight 10 the bridge approaches yesterday
morning and resisted all attempts 10 open 1t for tine
passage OF boats.
The ice on the Central Park lakeshas been cleared
OF snow. Yesterday nearly %u,UOO persons Nlsllcu
the largest lake.
Nayor Edison yesterday received q chcok for $500
from G.. " Chi.d~, of Philadelphia, for the Peter
Cooper monument fund.
AMBIGUITY ~ 4 rrEGYEnAr.
Posted high in the ladies' cabins of the IIohokcn
ferry is this somewhat ambiguous notice:
These seals are exclusively for ladies. GentcInen
viii not occupy them anti the ladies are seated
TRADING AFTER FOUR O'CLOCK
Several of the younger members Otthc Produce
Exchange were found guilty yesterday ot violating
the rIiics that prOHlblt trading after p. IN 4,
being tncir first offence. sentence was suspended
ArrrNPrlSG SUICIDE N A CELL
Ancc Smith. q dISepqtcd young woman.
locked up in the EbiId lr-,t police station on
Sunday night. Soon after midnight she hanged
herself TO her cell door win a handkerchief. Inc
doormau cut her down. she was scnt 70 hospital.
MANAGEH on THE HAUoNAL TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
George T. Williams, one of the district supcrln-
tcudcnt- OF the Western mon Telegraph Com
National telegraph Company, which controls the
telegraph system OF tnc Ncw-Yorl West shore and
BJiao aud ,uc NcW-lorA, Chicago and ST. LodIs
| Railroad lines.
MINISTERIAL SUCCESS.
A a meeting of The ministers OF the Reformed
! Church yesterday morning the Rev. J. &. Davis of
! Newark, y. D. read paper on Ministerial Sue
! cess The paper was commented on by a number
of the ministers present and the met 4Od JdN Ocdtcd
/ in the paper were approved.
LECTURE oN GREEK ART.
! At the request of President Barnard of COlum-
! bia College. Bishop Henry &. Potter, George VII
| liam Gurus Dr. Howard Crosby john Iay lUr john
ston and many other prominent citizens Dr. Charles
/ NaiGstcn VIII lecture on 90 lhe Lesson OF creek
/ Art III Chickerng Hall next Friday evening.
yoT SHOWN 40 BE TIE DIAMOND RuBBER
John C. Carpenter arrested for supposed COM
plIcty in the robbery Of diamonds valued at 500
coo from store III Maiden-.4ne' Was dscuaiged
| Police Court owing to insufficient evidence.
sofa CHINESE FESTIVAL.
/ The cosmopolitan population of the Five Points
| quarter were attracted to the corner Of Worth
and Baxter sts. last evening by the hZzng and pop
ping oI Roman candles, suppoNlng that Chinese
ir. iya was IN .gr.s. II was only an cbulitIon
! OF the patriotism oi CHOW der club.
MIR. DuIENHOEFEB REFLECTED.
| The German Republican Central Committee of
! l1Ni met last evening al No. 3NJ BOWcTy, and
elected as president 4. i. Dttcnhocicr; yce-pTesI-
dent. Frederick Bernhard; recording secretary,
LOUIS II. SchOlOtthaubcr corresponding secretary.
/ Leopold Wild; treasurer, Dr. Louis Nauman, and
| an Executive Committee consisting OF one from
| each district. Mr.. DIttenhoeier sand that he ac-
crpted his election 10 the chaumaushlp OF the COM
| mlttcc for the eleventh time.
DlRTCIOR~ or THE NINTH AVENUE RAILROAD.
The following directors of the Ninth Avenue Rall-
road were elected Yesterday: william II. Hays,
George Law, jr Paul \. Sponord, stephen ii. Her
riman. q. Granville Wright, Edward -. j. Hays,
Joseph J. ODonohuc OtIs ". Randall, Heman b.
wilson. MiuluoInt lOIHphlu@t j.. W llIdll hANtS-
| teyn James e.. Atieck, James Afflrck. The com
| pany paid no ydend III the past year.
DIR. DESIRE A. PaouNs CERTIFICATE.
Civil Justice StccLer the counsel for DR.. Desire
! A. PrOtin who was fined in the Court of Special
Sessions OH u charge of not holding i properly n-
dolsed medical certificate appealed 10 the tOUrt of
! General Sessions on the ground that the law was
defective. Judge Gildersleeye yesterday set aside
| the Judgment of the Court Of SPECIAL Sessions.
He CONFESSED MS GULL
| Thomas HartmDn a messenger boy employed by
| William f. Parks of No. 81 Maiden-lane, ar
rested Yesterday 10y Post Once Inspector Newcomc
| ployer. Mir Parks had missed many letters, some
| of Them containing money. The amount lost was
! about Sl3O. The boy Acknowledged his guilt and
was committed by Commissioner shields to await
l trial.
| ATTACHMENTS AGAINST 4 TTENINAL COMPANY.
| Justice Barrett granted attachments in the Su-
preme Court yesterday against the property of the
| West Shore and Ontario Terminal Company in til,