New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-02-15
NEW-YORK CITY.

Manhattan College will have public literary ex-
ercises on Feb. ~.
New-York downtown, has one church to every
5000 inhabitants
The plasterng on nearly all the floors of the new
Produce Exchange building is completed.
An unknown colored man, age sixty, was drown
ed at the foot Of Barr0wst, early yesterday morn
ing
Daily union prayer meetings are held in Associa-
ton Hall, FOurth-ave. and Twenty -third-st., at
$3.50 p. N.
Land has been bought at One hundred and-twen-
ty-eighth-st ,and Seyenth-ave where Presbyterian
Church will be built.
The survivors of the First New-York Lincolnl
Cavalry will hold reunion at Knlckerbocker Cot
tage on Monday evening
The Madison Square Presbyterian Church has
given $4,000 to endow bed in the Presbyterian
Hospital as a memorial of George H. Lane.
John B. Van Zandt, who accused recently of
using the mails to extOrt money from Guild II Os-
born of Asbury Park, was discharged yesterday
The Secretary of the Treasury yesterday informed
Collector Robertson that all goods remaining
in bonded warehouses for three years to be re-
garded as abandoned to the Government.
Jacob Stacker his wife and three children were
landed from the steamship Rugia yesterday,
absolutely destitute. They came from the poor
house at Agershausen, Bavaria.
The auction business of the American Horse Ex-
change QiInitedl and Petor Kellogg d Co., after
March l will be conducted by the latter at the
building of the American Horse Exchange, which
is being enlarged.
KILLED BY AN ELEVATOR.
Robert NJ. johnson, porter at No. 100 Mercer
ST. got on the top OF the freight elevator in the
building yesterday, to ride to an upper floor He
was caught accidentally between the elevator and
one of the floors and killed instantly.
LEITER-CARRIERs AND VALENTINES.
The letter-carTiers were an oyerw0rked body of
pen Yesterday for, in addition to their usual du-
ties they had to distribute loads OF valentines, OF
every size and shape The provision for employing
an extra force of carriers had not been made this
year.
THOUGHT TO HAVE COMMITTED SUICIDE.
A general alarm was sent out last night from
Police Headquarters for Charles Stueitz, clothing
merchant, who, on Wednesday, LETT bis home In
East Seventy fourth after writing letter say
ing that his financial troubles were Sc great that
he intended to commit suicide.
SURE WORK THE SECOND TIME.
James Quigg, the undertaken, OF No; 2O4 East
Sunday by swallowing oxalic acid, had recovered
SO far as to be able to leave his bed yesterday He
managed to evade the watch set on him. and Selling
q large bread-knife, he cut his throat from ear 10
ear, killing himself instantly.
RoBBING HIS EMHOYERs.
Emil Heer, age twenty-four, OF No 326 West Ihlr-
ty-third-st., stock-clerk for Goldberg Bros d Co.,
dealers and importers of laces etc. at Nos. 46S and
47O Broome-st in the TOmbs Police Court yester-
day acknowledged that for some time he had been
carrying off goods from his employers, who think
that they have lost about $4,000.
"ADvIcE TO YOUNG MAN." -
Robert j. Burdette, of The Burlington Hatkeye, lee
tnred on advice to q Young Man" at Steinway
Hall last evening under the auspices of the General
Society of Mechanics aud Tradesmen.; The hall
was filled to its utmost capacity by delighted au-
dience. Mr. Burdettes superlatiye admonition was,
My son, get married if you don't do anything else
in life."
SANDY SPENCER RELEASED.
Warden Fox, of the penitentiary, handed to Chler
Clerk Sparks of the Court of General Sessions, yes
terday, 300 TO pay the fine of Alexander X. Spen-
Ger, better known as SANDY Spencer, who was
convicted of violating the excise laws spencer,
having served his term OF 80 days imprisonment
and paid his fine, was released.
THE SAMARITAN KRrTLEDRuM .
The annual fair and kettedrum for the Denest OF
the Samaritan Home for the Aged Will be heI~ III
the seyenty-frst Regiment Armory to-mofro" Ioll