New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-01
NEW-YORK CITY.

daughter, age fourteen to live III dlsordery mousse
kept by himself.
OPENING APRIL WITH BLOOM.
The New-York HORTICULTURAL Society will hold ITS
monthly meeting at Horticultural Hall, No; 70
West Twenty-eghths this afternoon. lhere
will be a brilliant display of roses, tulips, hyacinhS
and other flowers.
NEW RAPID TRANSIT COMMISSIONERS.
1t is expected that the Mayor will to-day appoint
National Bank. and President Deveau, OF the
Mount Morris Railroad. Rapid Transit Commits
sioners, to ill the vacancies In the Board.
EIGHT PHYSICIANS CT THE FAIR SEX.
The commencement exercises of the New-1ork
Medical College and Hospital for Women Will take
place this evening, in Association Hall, at Fourth
ave. and enty-third-st. There are clght gradn-
ates After the exercises reception VIII be held.
A PRISONER FOR ATTEMPTING SUICIDE.
While suffering from alcoholism yesterday morn
ing Patrick Murphy, laborer forty years Oh, cut
his throat with razor at NO; 1O2 Mestf hiItE
and the police sent him to the Roosevelt Hospital
as prisoner.
RUFUS HATCH las SUFFICIENT CAPITAL.
Rufus Hatch has made application to become a
member of the New-York Petroleum Exchange. In
the form signed by all applicants he writes, opposite
the inquiry concerning his capital the word suiil-
cient.p Fourteen new members OF the Exchange
were elected yesterday.
THE sERvIA OUTsAILs THE ARIZONA.
The steamship Arizona sailed from Queenstown
March %. about four hours ahead OF me Servla'
and arrived at Sandy Hood two hours behind her.
The best runs made by the Servia were 400 miles
on Saturday and Sunday each. The Arizonas best
run was 3S1 miles on Saturday.
CONVICTED FOR MAKING PRIZE GUM.
Charles f. Rungs and Charles Grimm. dealers in
TOYS at No. 254 Grecnwich-st., were convicted yes
terday in the Court of General Sessions ior con-
irving a lottery" The arrest was made by agents
of the Society for the Suppression of Vice. They
were charged with making prize chewing gum
NEW FLAT-HOUsEs TO BE BUILT.
Two fye-story at-houses, with rooms for thirty,
five families are to be erected al Nos 14O, 142 and
IA West Thirty thirdst, by Benedict Fischer, of
No. $50 West Fifty seventh-st., at cost OF $780,
900 Michael Bergman. of No. Is West Twenty
sixth-st., is to build four-story fiat-house at
Ninety -ninth-st. and the Boulevard, to cost T6oOOO
BIRTH. DEATH AND MARRIAGE STATISTICS.
DR.. John I. Maggie, Deputy Register OF Vital
Statistics yesterday furnished the following COM
narrative statement of births, deaths, and marriages
reported at the Sanitary Bureau during the months
Of January, February and March in ls63and 1854:
R Rs,,s. ! "a; ssi ga! 55s5
LANDING PASSENGERS At THE BARGE OFFICE.
In view OF the order of Secretary Foger to use the
Barge Office for the landing Of cabin passengers. the
Surveyor has requested that the rooms now occn-
pied by the Marine Hospital Service be vacated
One reason for the request - the danger ron the
exam: ton of sick sailors. One recently examined
there was found to be suffering from smallpox
after he had been sent TO Quarantine.
INSPECTING THE STEAMSHIP TIpTR.
The new North German Lloyd steamship Elder
was open to the public yesterday, and many people
visited her She was in holiday attire, with
the dag Of all nations and signal-lars and pen
uants f,ir., Among tie visitors were Cornelius
Vand.,.lHt Gustav sch Yah Joseph Le Rogue and
Judge barrett. The Elder 81 sail tomorrow
for southampton and BremeI.
J. .RAL or JAMES Y. RICE.
4 small company of relatives and friends as
seribled in of the parior5 of the RosSnorc Hotel
yesterday 10 .cicnd the funeral OF James n Rlce
and w G.. Rice. the son, Of the deceased man, and
jaw c. Slu n, Of tiCa, n member of the firm TO
which Nh RICE belonged The Rev. Dr. ia llandet
cOnd"cte The services. The BODY was taken to
Utica.
GOOD WORK OF A DIsPENsARY.
The New-York DSpensary last year treated
81 SIS patients. Its uinety-iOurth annual report
shows that since the organization in 1890. 1919
no patients have been treated Evening classes
have recently beer opened for patients urable to
attend in the aytimc The expenses Of The Dis
pcnsary last wear were less than $1,000 The
work of the ls'Itution is being extended and the
expenses are ilCseasinC every year, 80 that addi-
tioual supper, Is asked for to prosecute this char
liable work
MDOSALD RFFOEE TIT Grand JURY.
William Mcdonald. who refused 10 testify before
the Senate Committee concerning Tho contracts he
had received from the Department. Of Public
Works, and who was Imprisoned IN the Albany
PenitcntiaTy for contempt, was before Judge Bar
ret yesterday on a writ of habeas corpus. applied
for ~ Att.rr Olncy at the request Of the
o,l'o,,d Tort,ino, q. I'D Jury who desire To ex-
am e him IN come, Ton with the Department of
Public Works. Judge Barrett ordered Mcdonald
10 90 before lut OIdhu Jury
AFRAID or yAGRANrs
''cn women aud nine mon were taken INTO custody
Yesterday by officers of .- Twenty nlnth Precinct.
who made tour of the "... 90 top the annoyance
of housekeepcrs 10y pro- "raj mendlcants The
raid was made NJ the 81. 49, .' of the Charity Or
QaniLatiOu society. The Hf-fr'S were aTraipned
before Justice Patterson, o., Jefferson Market
Police Court and several, AZ asst whom atlidayits
for yagrancy were taken, were sentenced TO SIX
month"; in the Penitentlary. OF the remainder, all
except one woman, who asserted that she WAS
Aiug work, were sentenced - the NoTkhoute
f., four months each for dsoIdc' ~ conduct.
,t.r or AND ~ TIE hoard n J. rwivrGrvG.
Alderman Charles n. Reilly, of the AAlld Dis
t~Ic, sent In his resignation "a a member of the
board 1t was accepted. lhen Mr. Duty moved
hat Charles II. Reilly be elected 70 al the vacancy,
!nis Was carried unanimously. Nr. Reilly was
Jerk of the With Civil Drstrict Court when elect
3D. aGd de- ,led 60 20 that position. he charter
expressly declares at no person can hold two city
Offices at once. Recently Mr. Reilly resigned his
clerkship In order I" remove any Question a his
leg iity an Alderman he also resigned 'hbt posi-
ti.n and a. elected 10 fill the vacancy.
4 vFi1-xvu,,v CONFIDENCE WOMAN II coUEr.
A vel .a.,'drnce woman, Carrie Morse, alias
Care v = s. ui.d- Carrie Mcdonald, thrty-eight
years % 80 taken before Justice Duffy ester
day e. M: Police Court after icing IN Lud-
i0a r. ~ .uT several months. Mis-. Mary Z.
Dewitt tos q ,hat on October Mrs. Morse came
80 her hou aud borrowed f6OO on house property
IN Boston. TIE security aiterward proved 10 be
fraudulent Mrs. Mary A. Bronx, of No ] 10 East
one-hundre' an4-twenty ;tourth-st, stated that On
IN Wall Street stock, and that Mrs Morse never re-
turned the mount 70 her. The defendant said that
she deposited II with Drexe Morgan * Co, and
that they lost IL With their own 'nOney. She gave
her name ~ Carrie l.. Morse, of s. West Thirtieth-
st. Bail for examination in $500 was required Oh
each charge.
A CHECK IN PAYMENT OF BEEF DIsHoNORED.
Henry Kohn, Of No. b67 Grand-st.. Brooklyn. was
charged with grand larceny before Justice Pater-
son, in the Jefferson Market Police Court yesterday
John Annett, OF No. 54S West Forty -seoond-st.,
agent for James 0Shea. Wholesale hatcher asserted