New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-05
NETWORK CITY.

Tho poIiccmcn were directed yesterday TO CO.
operate with the iircmcn ~ Keeping he iirc-cscapes
| on tcnrmcnt-houscs free from cucnmhrahc'~.
BRIDGET Corrgau. of No. - Westinghouse, fell
INFO the river at the lron Steamboat per a. m.
/ Yesterday. Sho was rescued by two policemen.
/ benefit performance OF " The Magistrate will
! take place nc Days Theatre on Monday IN ard OF
/ 81. NIucents Retreat for the Insane.
Aunt Polly Ba-,ct's Yankee Singing Skcwl "
/ will give an cntcrtainmcnt this afternoon IN
Chichrung Hail under he auspices o! the Ladies
/ Committee OF he NcN-lOrk Infant Asylum.
/ Tie Police Board Yesterday decided to try the
/ tolcphonc system instead of the old d'aI telegraph
/ system as mean, OF commun cation between Police
| Headquarters and the police stations.
/ 81 Reader" The ush"rs should not wear even
/ ing suits whom the bridegroom wears IA travelling
suit.
The fair Of tho American Institute will close to-
| pitlt The list 81 awards will he given at .
/ o'rlo, L. The kuickcrbockcr Roller skating Club
/ viii begin its second season next saturday.
| TIE business failures throughout the country in
the last seven days, reported to H. g. Dnr y Coz
OF the Mercantile Agcncy, number for the United
States 2l3 aud for Canada 20, against 2lI last
week.
Druni, Nolan, ncc forty, a, plumber; living at
Sixtcth-st. aud Sccond-ayr. dropped dead ycsicr-
day while 1t work on TIE new binding IN one
Ihiludrcd-aud-itth-s'.,n near Icnth-aye.
The Washington Heights Century Club has
elected the following officers: President, Hosea
g. Perkins treasurer, Isaac Lewis Rect; secretary,
Murray Darlington.
FINrp roE SELLING oLeoMAEGNRINE.
benjamin j. HI, grocer havlngstoies on second
aud 1cuth ayes. who was recently convicted of a
violation of the ant-Olcomargarlue laws, was hHcd
yesterday by judge Cowiug 800.
OLD ENOUGH TO HAVE KNOwN BETTER.
Mrs. Annie Fcnbere rode in a Fourteenth street
| cnryest~iday and missed her pocket-book. Eliza
| beth Jackson. age slXty-twO, left the hur-
richly and Mrs. Fc,nbcrg followed her, recovered
the missing purse and had hcrancstcd
To FILL ADFAD ASSN BLYMAN's PLACE.
The County Clerk sent to tine Aldermen yostcr-
dav a copy Of tho proclamation of the Governor
ordering an election on tuesday, December %, IN
the With Assembly District to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Asscmblyman-elect Will
lam Hall.
TRoURIr CAUSED by RABY's FOOT
Ono of Captain Willilmss policemen picked mp
babys foot In the gntt,r Ia front Of NJ 6S2 sixth
| ave Yesterday. lie took IT 10 the police station
and The dead wagon and the coroner were called
upon TO deal with It,
HOLDING IFS nUNpRrDTH ELECTION.
Society of Mechanics and Tradcsmen yesterday
Charles +. Galloway was chosen president; Gil
| i Burnct; secretary. Stephen NJ. Wright, and col
| ector, John {. Wandei.
| GYMNASTICS WANT FREE TICKETS.
The Police Commissioners yesterday gave orders
! that any person falsely representing himself as
| connected with the Ponce Department should be
| arrested They had been informed that canvasSers
| for n history OF the department had been gaining
admission to theatres on cards bearing the words
Police Headquarters"
INSANE FOR SEVENTY YEARS.
DIR, Brown, OF inc BloOullnGullt hSA lull, OfAItI-
day sent 10 the Bureau of Vital statistics certlil-
| cate stating that Elizabeth PierSon, age eighty
five had dicu in that institution after having been
| insane Tor seventy years The cause OF death was
| piycn as darIhna, and the contributing cause
chronic mania he woman admitted to the
institution on January |, 1857.
RrMENBERING THE REVOLUTION.
The Sons OF the Revolution yesterday ate their
annual dinner and elected officers IN the long room
where General Washington badc farewell to Gen
cral Knox and his other staff officers on December
| f. I7S3 in Frauncc's Tavern Wow Etzels Inn, at
Broad and L, arl sts. Frederick - Ialmadge was
elected president, Thomas ii. Edsall yice-pre5l-
dent and Austin Huntington, Treasure
Ex-ALpERMAN KENNEY's FUNERAL.
The funeral of ex-A ldcrman Patrick Kenuey, who
| represented the NYIllth District for three
wear, up to lSS (, took place yestc rday. solemn
! Tcauiein mass was celebrated ut 1T. GabrePs
Church IN East JhIrty-seventh-st by the Rev.
Father d. j. Mcmahon, assisted by the Rev. Fathers
| tendance including u delegation from the Thomas
Jefferson club. The burial was at Calvary Gene
| terry.
| TEMPERANCE ~ PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES.
A temperance meeting Is to be held Tomorrow
evening III the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church,
nj which addresses will be made by Drs. John
| Hall. Samuel NJ. Hamilton and William Y. Brown,
corresponding secretary of the General AssemblyS
Permanent Committee on Temperance. This is the
| first of series of Sunday evening temperance
meetings which are to DO held in PTesOy terrain
churches this winter
FIVE YEARS FOR CHARLES " SERGEANT.
Charles V. Sergeant, who persuaded Mrs. Mary
Smith OF No. Battery place, to convey to hlm uer
property, valued at $500. TO secure it against her
| part of It, aud sent part To his own wife IN Phia-
4 delplla as con ylCtel Yesterday tho General