New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-04-28
NETWORK CITY.

w Tower is TO build store at No. col Broadway
TO cost 500 600.
Among the callers on Mayor Grace Yesterday
were Mayor Low aud several members of Assem-
bly,.
RE. acknowledgements Cemetery was in
corporated in 1888. The first lnterment was In
1S40
Captain John Deakeu, of the steamship City Of
Pnebla. who has been iii for two weeks was out
yesterday.
The Spanish steamship Alicia grounded near the
Barge Office yesterday morning. Alter several
hours she was hauled oil.
The family of Louis Herzfeld, the missing boy
maker of No 21 East Observation-Disclosures
received ne tidngs of him yesterday.
AtCastle Garden Yesterday immigrant sup
posed to have typhus fever was sent to the Wards
Island Hospital by Dr. Schultze' the ieSueht phy-
stefan.
Mayor Grace has approved the Aldermen's resou;
ton nroyiding that hackney coaches and cabs shall
stand at certain designated places when not en-
ployed.
A petition, signed by many members of the Pro-
duce Exchange. was handed to the Mayor yester-
day, asking him TO re-appolnJ fHe NOmnllssloloA
Van Colt.
The Rev. DR.. Howard Crosby will give free
lecture on Babylon and Assyria in Connection
with the Old Testament " in his church tomorrow
evening.
In Sullivan-st on Sunday evening Long Lung
cut off the nose of William Milllgan with DIRK
knife In the jefferson Market Court yesterday
Lung was remanded.
Father Riordan, who has charge of the Catholic
Mission at Castle Garden. yesterday received from
Lawrence Callahan $3.50 for the fund for chapel
to be built near the Battery.
The funeral of Isaac w. England will take place
fronlC hrst Church, Ridgewood N. J at $3.50 o'clock
to-day, soon after the arrival OF the Erie tram
which ayes this city at 1:45 p H.
The steamship Oregon, the greyhound OF the
ocean, which was recently chartered from the Gu
nard Line by the British Government, has on her
side sid in large white letters " Transport No. o."
Plans were filed yesterday by Ottmann, Kcppler
and Schwarzmann for q seven-story building az
Houston and Mulberry sts. on the site OF the old
Convent building just torn down.
Josephine Flynn and Mary A. laden, young girls,
inmates of the Dominican Convent at Slxty-thiId-
ST. and Flrst-aye, escaped lrolh INC instVu'ion oi
Sunday night.
The vocal music classes of the Young Mems
Christian Association will give reception ana con-
cert at Association Hall, tomorrow evening.
Tickets may be obtained at the association build
ing.
REwARDING FAITHFUL ORGANISE,
reception and 81 900 were given last night in
the parior of the Broadway Tabernacle, TO Mrs.
Marion Christopher who has been the organist of
that church for twenty-five years. Dut mas just
resigned.
CAR LICENSE FEES RECOVERED.
CORPORATION Counsel Lacombe yesterday sent TO
Controller Loew $22,717 16 received by him IN
settlement of tue suit brought against the Central
Park North and East River Railroad Company, Tor
car license fees for 1882 1913, 'S4 and 'S5.
UNWILLING THE POE MEMORIAL
The eleventh seni-annual exhibition Of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art will be opened by a
spring reception on next Monday afternoon from
to q o'clock. The ceremonies OF unyeiling the Poe
Memorial will take place at 3 o'clock.
PRKFERRING ELECTRICITY TO GAS.
The Aldermen yesterday requested the Gas Com
mission TO consider their recommendation 10 con-
tinue lighting certain streets and avenues with
electric lights. notwithstanding the increased ex
pnse on the ground that the taxpayers will cheer
fully pay the increased cost.
RAISING COTTON IN BRAZIL.
A paper on Cotton as it is raised in Brazil and
the methods of Cultivation was read last evening
by John c. Branner, of Scranton, Penn. TO the
New-York Academy of Sciences, at Columbia Col
Iege. cotton grows there in wild state, he said
There are piany varieties, one being yellow cot
ton of coarse fibre. The belt in which IL is culti-