New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-13

I cbairmen will be George William Curtis, the Rey'
pr, Henry satterlee and GnaIl T,ost PANE and
| the Rev. Edward Everett Hale OF boston' anu
others
RUN OVER BY STREET CAR AND KILLED. m
John Huffman, q German aoorer. OF NO. Luz
run over by street car at Fortieth-st and Third
ave-. on Sunday afternoon. lie was taken 70
Bellevue Hospital. He had received compound
fracture Of the left leg. He was IN comatose con.
dition, ard died about II o'clock on Sunday night
without recovering rem the shock.
CIVIL SERVICE IN THE NORMAL COLLEGE. ,,
Miss Elizabeth Garrett was the successful cand,-
date for critic teacher IN the Normal College at the
recent examination. President Hunter said yeSter-
terday that the young woman was q graduate
Of the college last year., She has since taughtT
Importance of this appointment, he added, was that
it was in the way of civil service reform.
OFFICERS or THE LAW INSTITUTE.
At the annual election Of the New-York Law In
stitute last night. the following officers were
elected: Charles Tracy presidents Samuel Blatch;;
ford, first yicepresident Joseph Ii. Choate, second
vice-president; Stephen p Nash, third vce-presl-
dent; Cornelius Van SantvOOrd, treasurerj Joseph
S. BoswoIth. recording secretaryi benjamin ID.
Sliman. corresponding secretary Aaron j. Wander
poel, librarian and assistant treasurer.
A SIMILARITY IN NAMES.
The article printed in rHg TRIBUNE Of Sunday In
regard to a young man in -hundred-anc-tW twenty.
ffth-st. who was thrashed by two brothers OF
whose sister he had spoken slihgtngIy, was not In
tended to refer in any way to John Fettretch, the
well-kuOwn builder of No. 14S West One-hundred-
and-twenty ST., who is flftydve years OF age
and who never knew or saw any OF the persons con-
cerned in the affair." The man who was beaten was
named EettTetch, but he was not this tettretch.
COSTLY BUILDINGS FOR VARIOUS PURPOSES. ,
Plans for library and dOrmitory building for the
General Theological Seminary, 10 be erected NJ
Ninth-ave and Twenty frst-st at a cost of
$4,000, was filed yesterday at the Bureau OF
Buildings by E. A. Hoffman. Aten-story apartment
house is TO be built by the trustees OF the Paran
z d
st. The es mated cost is 100000. William -
Gessner Is to erect ve-story iat-house at Fourth
ave. and Eighty-seVenth-st., at cost of SlOOOOO.
AN IRISH METHOD OF SERVING STRING BEANS.
A girl from the Emerald Isle, who "undershtO0d
the aart of cooking intiorey" was hired from Castle
Garden on Friday lat by family qR60Tw cans 1 foT
dinner. When dinner was announced the family
was surprised to see IN the middle OF the taDle
huge piece Of roasted cOrnod beef, with the beans
all tied one by one to long string. Inc seryanit
excused the delay in getting dinner because 1t TOOK
50 long " to toy the banes on the shtring,"
"uMD IRVING sURRENDERs HIMSELF.
Fx-Assembvman +" JimD Irving, whose mani
fold diseases kept him from appearing IN me zen
eral Sessions Court Room on Friday, surrehdere9
was taken before Recorder Smyth. He was nc
cOmpanied by ex-senator Grady, his counsel. Inc
Recorder remanded irving to the custody OF me
Sheriff to begin his two years Imprisonment IN the
penitentary for assault on Richard NJ. Daring
in December, 1882 Irving Is almost entirely pima
and had TO be led about by his counsel and the Of
fcers
PRODUCE EXCHANGE FORM FOR BILLS OF LADING.
The Committee on Bills of Lading of the Produce
Exchange yesterday made report opposing the
bill now before Congress on bills of ladlng, and
recommending a form for the document which, 1t Is
thought, will be acceptable to both shippers ana
steamship owners. A resolution was passed by the
meeting of merchants and steamship agents asking
the Governing Committee of the Exchange TO
adopt the form TO go INTO effect september, l., A
committee of ten was appointed to decide whether
any changes should be made in the form to satisfy
both shippers and steamship owners.
An INTOXICATED PAINTER AND HIS PONY.
James H. LuptOn, an intoxicated painter and
white-washer. driving from his store on Sands
ST., Brooklyn, across the Bridge yesterday. The
breechlg-strap became loose and the wheel came
in contact with the wall and threw the driver on
the pavement where he lay insenshle, and bleeding
freely. The pony continued. with additional terrors
derived from the rens, which were trailing along the
ground. The gateway leading to Chatham-st., was
closed and the pony full tilt against IT, and was
thrown back iin a heap falling upon his side.
Neither the horse nor the wagon was in pred. Tho
driver remained insensible for several minutes.
Dr. Yard examined him, and announced that he was
unhurt but full of beer. and he was carried oil in
an ambulance,