New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-04-04
NETWORK CITY,

The Armory Board yesterday advised the SINK S-
ing Fund Commission to renew tho tease Oh . .no
22d Regiment Armory In Fourteenth-st. 1or t"o
years at $40, 1000 year.
that subscriptions for the Barthold1 Statue redes
tai should be sent to Henry +. sPanldmg Ieasu-
rer No. 10 Nassau ST., New-York CITY.
An order OF the Board of Police passed Yesterday,
will make deductions of 20 per cent. for the beDent
of the pension fund, from all rewards gwen W
policemen
FALSE REPORTS ABOUT THE CITY OF ROME.
sensational report was published III some oi .ho
afternoon papers yesterday, to the effect that tne
Anchor Line steamship City OF Rome nad gonse
ashore in the Lower BAY; The vessel reached ,niod
Quarantine aud discharged her passengers AT Ao'@o
a. H.. and reached her pier about p. IN.
KNowLEDGI GAINED BY EXPERIENCE: 4,
James f. Wynans of Newburg, who went forth
to SEQ the sights on Wednesday evening WIN ms
brother but becoming separated from the iatter
excited some alarm by his absence, turned up saiey
the following evening with an enlarged knowledge
of city life
BREAKING HIS NOSE BY A FALL.
Mathew Ireeyy of No. 100 Second-ave., paint
err age tbirty-slx fell from a scalOld at University
place and feminist. Yesterday. lie stepped oack-
ward over the edge and sustained no more
INJURIES than various bruises and compound lrac-
lure of the nose. He was taken to St. Vlncenps
Hospital
BAIL OF $4,000 FOR THEFT OF 40 CENTS.
While Patrick Carenegcn, cJachdrlver, VINO
lives mt No. z Morton-sl., was passing through
Washington Square yesterday morning-two men
robbed him of forty cents Mcnae Bowl ne
chanIc, of No. l2S West uOuston-st" was aiioSeeu
and held in $1,000 bail.
PFw BUSINESS FAILURES THIS WEEK.
The business failures occurring throuehout tno
country during the last seven days as reported 10
r. g. Dun a. Co.. of the Mercantile Agency, yester-
day are the fewest IN any week TINS year. In Ine
United States there were 1877, and In Canada of
In this city the assignments are hight and lew.
ASSISTANT 10 THg REV. DIR. swOPE.
The Rev. I. ID. Martin. rector of st. Andrews
Episcopal Church in Merden, Conn, mas accepted
q call 20 become an assistant OF the KEY: "
Swope of Trinity Chapel in West Twenty-tifthst
A dispatch in The Times Yesterday incorrectly
stated that Mr. Martin was TO. be an assistant or
the Rev Dr. Morgan Dix of Trinity Church. Mr..
Martin is a young man ana IS hishly regarueu III
Merden.
HOSPITAL ORDERLY KINsEILA MISSING.
James Kinsea. an orderly in tie sixth ward OF
Bellevue Hospital, disappeared on March - ana
has not been heard from SINCE. lie had BEEN
dTinkinp Int not to excess He came from Dubi
several years ago. is about tweniy-three years old
8 feet inches high, weighs 60 pounds, has snort
black hair and small mustachc. lie wore oiack
frock coat and ghG trousers when he left he hos
p1a The police have been informed OF his disap-
pearance.
OVER GOO POUNDS oF CHICKS.
The Sub Treasury paid in March pension checks
TO the number of ls4,sOO. IL paid over $4,000 IN
one day. As the number was unusually large, some
compuiations were made at the sub treasury yes
terday Ii was found that If the checks were
placed in one pie they would make column sew
eoty-seven feet IN height, and II In the form OF
checks weighed GIG pounds ayoirdupois. The great
bulk OF the checks was in small amounts.
MoHr Porrrafrs op GENERAL GRANT.
Among the food Of new portraits Of General
Grant comes q steel engraving issued by II. IS
IIalPs Sons when Mrs. Grant proaounces most
excellent likeness, and another by the well-known
engraver Marshall. concerning when Colonci
Grant speaks even more warmly. j. III. BunOrd 8
Sons also issue a fair Autograph OF good picture
by Bogardus representing tho General as he APP
reared about the time of bis European tour
lanes NJ. Brown. Henry A. Oakley and George
MacCuoch Miller, committee OF the board Of
Managers of ST. Lukes Hospital, have issued a
call for conference of the officers and trustees OF
ali Protestant, Hebrew and non-sectarian instltu-
lions which receive any money from the city or
State treasury to be held at the Hospital Fifth
ave. and tifty-fourth-st. on MONDAY evening
when the Freedom of Worship bill will be discussed.
MAYOR GRACE on RECENT APPOINTMENTS.
Mayor Grace returned TO the city yesterday. Ho
said he was much pleased by the appointment OF
Colonel Roberts as Minister TO ChiIl ana oy Nr.
Pearson's reapDointment as Postmaster. A large
proportion of the business men OF tins CITY had sup
ported Mr.. Pearson. and IT was graceful thing on
Ire part of che President to recognize these claims
and those Republicans who supported him. Colonel
Roberts is personal friend of the Mayer aud he
believed he would make good representative OF
the United States Government IN South America
THE CENTRAL AMERICAN CABLE eAFE.
Mr. Batros, the new Minister from Guatemala and
Honduras, and Mr. Baiz the consul for those codn-
tries, have sent communication 10 the PRESIDENT
of the Central and South American Cable Com
pany In which they say that Guatemala had and
still has intention TO cut his or that OF any
other company: They also state that the report
arose from the fact that steamer intended To land
a passenger on the coast by means of small boat.
and they assert that the news IRON La Llbertad,
Salvador. coored by the censor to the detrlment
of Guatemala aud Honduras.
BROOKLYN.
The sum of $25O.O0O is to be expended in repay
ing and repairing the streets. The work will begin