New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-10
NEW WORK CITY


Colonel j. III. MaplesDn on Monday night was
elected an honorary member OF Company d. ZZu
Regiment
Ike Grant Monument Fund was increased 81
yesterday by William Allen Broom maKluS inc
total $I04,216 IL.
Octavla LandOn, who came from Canada recently,
and lives at No. 3G4 East Seventy-second-st, was
found insane yesterday at Thrd-ave. and Seventy
sixth-st
Collector Hedden yesterday added nine new names
to the Custom House pay rolls Five OF the new
appointments were made to MI vacancies causeu
by renewals and otherwise.
The Brotherhood of Commercial Travellers was
formed yesterday, and Charles >. Plumlner was
elected president, and A. E. Hopkins vlce-pres-
ident.
A Christmas appeal has been sent ont bv the
officers OF the Chidrcn's Aid Society who desire TO
give warm clothing and hot dinners to many needy
children for Christmas presents.
The Council of the National Academy OF Design
on We lnesday adopted resolutions expressing the
great loss sustained by the society by the death OF
James Smile.
The ladies' connected with the Reformed churches
in this city and It's vicinity will meet this alter
noon and evening in conference in the church at
Iwenty-ninth-st and futh-aYe
POLITICS AT \ BALL
The second annual ball of the Young Mems Re
publican Climb OF the NNISt Assembly District will
take place tonight IN Lyric Hail. number or
prominent men IN the district will speak on the
political situation i'll the district
LECTURES BY MR.. HAwrIS.
Under the management ofthe Library Committee
of the Normal College Associate AlumuH the Rev
II. H. Hawcis will deliver two lectures IN Chicken
ing HalI-On Saturday evening on Muslc ana
Morals aud On Monday on wagner ana Ills
School"
FAIR AT TIE CHURCH OF ST. IGNAIIUs. =,
The ladies' of St. Ignatlus Church in West For
tieth-st are having their sam-annual sale Of use
ful and fancy articles III the basement to reduce
the church debt. The articles are made by the
ladies of the parish The lair closes Friday night.
TO EXAMINE THE EXCISE BOARD TOMORROW.
John n. Beck ev, Of Rochester, recently appointed
by Governor Hill to bear testimony relative TO the
charges against the Board of Excise, sent word 10
the Commissioners Yesterday that ho would begin
the hearings at the GIlsey House Tomorrow
ADAY IN TIE ToMBs FOR TAKING poison,
John PcChata, of No. 229 East >evehtY-thrd-st:,
who swa lowed nitric acid November 20 and suf-
fcred greatly consequence. was arralgned yeStti-
day before Judge GllOcTslccyc. lie pleaded guilty
to charge of attempting suicide and was sentenced
to one day III the City Prison.
ARRESTED FOR MISUSING THE MAILS.
Dr. A. Hamley Heath, who has small Once Mt
Broadway and Rrale-St was arrested yesterday
by Deputy Marshal Jefireys on the complaint Of
Anthony Comstock, VINO charged that Dir Heath
used the mails for sending obscene books to sum
mt. n j. The defendant was held III Sl.oOO by
Commissioner shields.
THE PARK BOARD TO KEEP ITS PRESENT ROOMS.
1t has been determined by tho Park Board to re-
rent its present quarters IN Union square for an
other year. proposition had been made to secure
rooms in the Stewart Building, Chambcrs-st and
Broadway, the rent of which would be $4,000.
The present quarters are more roOmy, but not ~
sFCoND IXCINERATIoN At Mt. OLIvET
The relatives of Martin VI. Goldschmidt, whose
body il to nc crcnatcd at Mt. Oivct this afternoon
at o'clock, have decided that the incarceration
shall be strictly private, aud no one Will be adj
mitted 10 the building except the Immediate friends
of the dead man.
RECOVERY OF THE TRICHINOSTS Patients
The sixteen persons who made i'll with
trichinosis by eating ham at IS KIngst on Thanks
| giving Eve, were recovering yesterday. Dr. Ci rus
Edison SAID they approaching the last stage OF
the disease when the tTlchlnc cease active work ~
| the muscles. As cysts form about the para
| sites the patients probably will not be troubled
| further.
| SEMI CENTENNIAL or A METHODIST CHURCH.
| The Eighteenth Street Methodist Episcopal
! Church. of which the Rev. Dr. George f. StrobrIdge
is pastor been und .rgOng extensive repairs and
| will he rcopencd on Sunday. Services Will be held
nightly during the week aud will be presided over
| by ministers of all denominations. For Sunday
December 20, the scmi-centennIal OF the church,
! special programme has been arranged and tic Rev
! Dr. James VI. King, the former paster, will preach
BEATING HIS sTFPDAUGnTER.
Michael Gallagher, of No. lGG Varck-st., was
| taken before Police Justice Smith at the Jefferson
| Market Police Court yesterday charged by Officer
Wilson of the Society for the Prevention OF Cruelty
We've Simpson, age sixteen. Since the death OF heI
father, years the girl has been IN the care
of the Sisters of Mercy in BROOKLYN Sac left them
| three weeks ago to live at home. She appeared III
| court covered with wounds some of which were
! bleeding and an eve was badly swollen and
| bIackcncd. 1t was said that Gallagher began 10
beat his wife aud when the girl interfcred he threw
her across the stove and beat her until she liz
sensible He held for trial at General Sessions
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