New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-05
NEW-YORK CITY.


Art reception. National Academy OF Design, p. IN.
NETWORK CITY.
Strawberry Short-cake has made its appearance
In the restaurants.
The Cotton Exchange decided yesterday to keep
holiday on Good Friday, but not on doly SATURDAY
and Easter Monday.
Students of the Cooper Union won't to Greenwood
yesterday to lay flowers on the grave OF Peter
Cooper, il being the aHnversary oil ms death'
Three hundred steamftteTs met last night in Mil
itary Hall, NO. 1913 Bowery, and resolved 10 organ
lie a union.
The Americas Land and Water Club has been in
corDorated The trustees are John G. Smith Ed
waTd / Price Jackson Mcclellan Samuel L. Nc
Gill and Henry III. Ilford
WRIGHT HELD FOR EXAMINATION.
George T. Wright, at the Essex Market Police
Court. yesterday, on the charge of attempting to
extort money from George Herbiner, OF No. 3sl
BoweTy, was held in $500 bail
POOL SELLER HELD FOR TRIAL.
Richard Clarke age thirty-four, at the Tombs
Police Court yesterday was held in 5000 bail for
violating the Penal Code at No. 2l2 Broadway, by
selling pools on the New-Orleans races
REMOVING THE BODY OF Mr.. PARTRIDGE.
The body of James K. Partridge, ex-Ministcr to
Peru, was taken from the steamer klysla yesterday
by his brOther-in-law, w: G. Woodward, who III
the evening started with it for Philadelphia, where
the burial Will take place
SENDING GOLD TO EUROPE.
The engagements of gold for shipment to Europe
to-day amounted yesterday to $l62S,00O, of which
all except 100000 is in gold bars. The total eX-
pOrts OF gOiQ the DPFln0lng Oh lue present.
movement amounts to $l4,9l3,OOO
TO PROMOTE MISSIONARY wORK,
Senator Warner Miller will preside at the ami
We sary of the Home and Foreign Missionary Society
of the Methodist Episcopal Church tonight, III II.
Pauls Methodist Episcopal Church. Addresses VIII
be delivered by Bishop Andrews General &. b. Fisk,
and others.
TRADE REPORTED TO BE BAD.
The regular meeting of the Amalgamated Trade
and Labor Union was held last night at No. 10
StantOn-st. The reports from the unions showed
that trade was ia a bad condition, with number
of men out OF work. A. Strasser and j. Lynch at
tackled the Central Labor Union ard rld4culed lis
pretensons to a membership OF $1,000.
DAMAGES WANTED FOR BEING RUN OVER.
Isaac II. Norton, of No. "a East Eleventh-st, was
crossing Broadway at N!nth-st; Yesterday I morn 10,
stage and seriously cut about the lett ear ara
temple. The driver was arrested. An action VIII
be begun against the company 10 recover SoOOO
on the ground of gross negligence
TIE BRIDGING OF STATEN ISLAND SOUND.
Erastus Wman, president of the Staten Island
Railway Company, has written 10 The IBIBUNEe X-
planinp the position of the bill IN Congress for the
bridging of Staten Isl land Sound. The bill is or
posed by the New-Jersey representatives,. lie
urges that ali the commercial bodies of New-1Ork
which are interested i'll cheap storage should unite
to demand the passage OF the bill.
THE LAST OF HOME FOR CHILDREN.
This week will see the Ell of the otd Union Home
for Soldiers and Sailors children, which was estaD-
isbed i'm 1861 at misunderstanding frst-st.
and the Boulevard Owing the expiration OF the
lease and the lack of support the Board OF Directors
decided some time ago to close the institution, ana
advertised for parents and friends to remove the
children. Mrs Judge Daily, the president, and
Mrs Admiral Faragnt the ylGe-Pleiidemt nave ov
made strenuous efforts tOesabllsh tile home IN new
quarters, but without success.
THE CONDITION OF THE BOULEVARD.
The Citizens West Side Improvement Association
met last evening al No. 40S West Seventy iTst-st,
William H. Barker. president, i'll the chair. A COM
mittee was instructed to confer with Commissioner
Thompson in regard to the condition OF the Boule-
ward and. if necessary, to endeavOr TO have an
ordinance passed by the Board of Aldermen au-
thOrizlng the Board of Pubic Works to level the
road-bed and provide it with cross walks.
A TAILOR HANGS HIMSELF.
William Kerns, a tailor, employed by Fechhemer
& Co.. of No. 7 Aston Place, was missing from his
low-wOrkman was sent to look for him. short
search revealed Kerns suspended by rope around
his neck from iron rod IN closet on the fourth
floor. Life was extinct when he was cut down.
The suicide thirty year. old, and lived with
his wife and family at No. 263 Mauger-st. Will
amsbuTg. "
Jacob Gerhard, fne-looklng German was
charged by his wife, in the Yorkvlle Police Court,
Yesterday with threatening to shoot her. lie is a
matster, living at No. 64S First-aye, and IS the
father of eleven children, His wife had one OF the
children in her arms, and led four others. she SAID
that he was jealous OF her. and ne replied that lie
wanted divorce. She then refused 10 sustain the
complaint but threw her arms round her husband
and nnplorod him TO return home. Justice Murray
aced Gebhard under 600 bail for good behavior
for six months.
THE WHIPPING IN THE CHILDREN's AID SCHOOL
j. w. Skinner, superintendent of the schools of
the Chlldren's Aid society, SAID yesterday that ne
had thOrou ghly Investigated the case of Ida Miller
who was WHIPPED by her teacher Miss O'Keefe and
was convinced that the girl had not been punished
and deserved, whipping. Most of her bruises
were caused by her struggling and hitting her
hands and arms against the school furniture. but
these bruises were not nearly serious as they
seemed for physician who examined the child said
that she had skin which became extensively
swollen and discolored from the slightest blows
PROBABLY FATAL CASE OF BURNING.
Kate Frayne age thirty. was given shelter by
Mrs. Emma Thompson, in Iiofm2n-St;, Fordhan, 9
he hot OH q
from aiHuence to poverty. On Wednesday night
Mrs Thompson spilled some Oil on the table, and, IL
lighting a lamp gnited the oil. The top OF th(
table bazed up and Mrs. Frayne jumped to hel
feet and gathering up her skirts, attempted to ex
tiDguish the flames. Her clothes were set on hre
and the woman ran ont into the street IN a blaze
Mr. Thompson caught her and wrapped her IN
blanket extingulshing the flames but the womanf
injuries were SO serious that yesterday she was re-
moved to the Ninety-ninth Street Hospital Hel
condition is critical.
BROOKLYN.
The drowned body of man was found at tn
foot OF North First-st. yesterday.
CITY Works Commissioner Fleeman opened ycster
day ten bids for cleaning streets for the next three
years.
Mrs. Rosa Hughes against Daniel Z. Hughes. Ihel
married. III 1870
The divorce suit of Reuben Ryle against Mrs
Matte Is. Ryle was tried in the Supreme C0ur
yesterday The plaintiff alleged crmlnallty OF
the part of his wife with Edward c. Gaus, pollc'
sergeant of the Ninth Sub Precinct. Gaus denied
the accusation. He the police officer who ARRESTED
Alexander Jefferson, the Crow Ilill murderer, ate
ne mad shot two men and two women, aud was II
hiding in hole under a fireworks factory. In
Jury instructed to seal up their verdict.
Mrs Catherine Van Beureu began suit in Brook
Iyn two year ago for limited divorce from her hus
band Adoph Van Beuren, ON the ground Of cruelty
lie was ordered TO pay his wife - week Re
Gently Van BeureD secured absolute divorce from
his wife in the Supreme Court, New York, alleging
that she had had undue intimacy with bis brother
Mrs Van Beurcn neglected 10 examine the paper
served on her. and defense was interposed