New-York tribune., 1884-01-02
NETWORK CITY.

Tptown Grocers complain of being swnded with
counterfeit standard silver dollars.
1.-THE proper study of mankind is man" IS the
motto overthe bar IN a Harlem grog shop
The third annual ball of the Joseph III. Tooker
association will take place tomorrow evening at
1ammany llall.
A Centre-st. liquor seller resembles samuel tIc b;
Tiden so much that when he appears on inc
street he is mistaken for the Sage.
An effort will he made by the management Of
Bowery museum to secure Sergeant Mason, VINO
shot at the assassin Guteau.
DYING IN A THEATRE.
yOung man with light complexion, who wore
dark suit without an OvercOat, fell IN mt IN the
gallery of Miners Theatre, in the Bowery, yestGr-
day afternoon. He was carried down STAIRS 20 the ne
vestibule and died before an ambulance could Do
summoned.
Nr-sFJrNs OPEN on SUNDAY.
Superintendent Walling yesterday received from
JnspectOr Murray reports in regard 10 tour BOwery
museums which we're open to the public last sun
dav An entrance fee of ten cents was charged at
each door, and the persons who entered were sober
and orderly. The police magistrates VIII De asked
if the exhibitions are unlawful.
EXTENDING TFLEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS.
The Bankers and Merchants Telegraph Company
has bought the contract OF me Lengh Ps
pole line in Eastern Pennsylvania. Inc company
opened offices at Savannah and Charleston yeSter-
day and is urging construction on ITS line 10 Sew-
Orleans. In the West it is building lines from
Cleveland to Chicago and St. LOUIS.
THE CONDITION or GENERAL MACKENZIE.
General Mackenzie arrived at the Bloom
ingdae Asylum at midnight on sat Saturday' nr
Middleton of the Army and, corporal
The assistant superintendent of the asylum
said to TRBUNE reporter Yesterday fotitITn
Mackenzie is nearly recovered from the fatigue
incident to his journey. lie has Oeen nero roo hnor
a time for us 10 arrive at any definite conclusion as
TO his chances of recovery. He looks much broken
i'm health but is cheerful and hopeful. He made no
objection to coming here, and complies readily win
all advces given him by his friends lie is at times
hilarious, but never noisy.
DESCENDANTS OF OLD RESIDENTS oRGGANIzING:
few descendants of people who lived III TINS clty
in 1888 met at the Hotel Brunswick yesterday
afternoon and organized the Society of 49," with
John Austin Stevens as president, John Austin
stevens, jr., secretary, and George Schuyler
Bowdoin, treasurer. A committee on admission was
appointed consisting of Johnston Livingston, Ed
ward +. Delaney and William Jay augustus I van an
j. NJ Narnum were appointed as stewards. Inc
membership of the society was limited ior the
present 10 two hundred and fifty and an mutation
fee of s. was fixed. It was decided to hold two
meetings in each year. one for business on the Sat
urday before Easter and one for dinner OH EYac-
uation Day.
BROOKLYN.
Arthur Andrews, of No. 2S3 Graham-avc., was
arrested Yesterday charged with apprOprating
$50 which he collected for John Jenkins. proprie-
tor OF the Echo Farm Dairy, at No. SOB Fulton-st.
The house of Anton lIeuGst, at No. II . Union-st,
was entered by sneak thieves on Monday evening,
and S2SG was taken from bureau drawer, which
was opened with jimmy.
Sarah Gilchrist servant in charge Of the house
of c. i. Gillctt of No. GG South POrtland-avc,
in the absence of the family in Europe, was
awakened yesterday morning by noise in her
room and saw a burglar. She screamed and
the fellow ran hastily down stairs and escaped by
the front basement door. He had entered by a rear
basement window. All that he secured was 81.
JERSEY CITY.
Trains on the New-York, West Shore and Buffalo
railroad began to run into the new depot ID
Wcchawkcn yesterday.
A crowd Of drunken men went into John Dolan's
rum shop at No. III Nayne-st., yesterday after
noon and gave Dolan severe beating bccausc he
refused TO give them drinks for nothing. They
knocked him down. kicked him and jumped on him,
fatal.
NEWARK
Early Yesterday morning burglars broke into
the drv goods store of Theodore Gates at Walnut
and Paciic-sts and carried away silks, satins,
saWls and dress goods to the value of over , 600
The rear door of the store so heavily fastened
with iron bars that to effect entrance the thieves
had TO tear away the frame work.
LONG ISLAND.
RrvFRHEAD.-Nrs. Lane, while driving in a
slsi n with her son yesterday near AquCbogue, was
Iun into bv runaway horse attached to a Sleigh
Mrs Lanes sleigh was overturned, and she was
seriously injured.
BRooKuAvFN-,Johna and Robert Ireland and a
man named Floyd attempted to cross the Great
South Bay on the ice yesterday. When some dis
tance from the shore the ice broke and they could
neither 90 forward nor return. Their cries for help
Point. who went 10 their assistance aud with
Ityyr