New-York tribune., 1885-02-05
NEW-YORK CITY.


| The paintings and water cOlors of James c. Thorn,
| now en- exhibition at No. 200 Flfthaye, Will DO
| sold tonight and tomorrow night.
| Charles NJ Da Costa has begun a course of lee
| lures in the Columbia College Law School On the
jurisdiction and practice OF the Federal courts.
| An Immigrant yesterday picked up pocket book
in the post office corridor 1t conta ned considera-
Bile money, and some papers, and was taken TO
| Castle Garden.
| The Cable Railroad Commission met yestarday at
| the City Hall aud adjourned to meet Oh next Mon
day in Room No. 1. IRIDUNE Building, where their
| sessions will hereafter DO held.
| building IS to be erected by the Commissioners
| of Charities and Correction at the foot OF East
| Twenty-sixth-st., for the use Of prisoners and
patients awaiting passage TO the Islands.
| PROVISIONS OF MR.. GUNTHER's WILL.
| c. Godfrey Gunther left all his property to his
widow, Mrs Amelia Augusta Gunther, to go TO
their children ON hcr death. The executrix is Mrs.
| Gunther and the executors are George "A. Guntncr
and James Miller. jr
| REUNION or ZETA PSI.
| The Central Association OF the Ieta Psi Fra
ternity will hold its annual reunion ut Sleghort.
| ner's tomorrow evening. Judge Van Wyck, OF
| Brooklyn is president of the association. Leta
Psi Is one of the most hourshinS of the college
| societies.
| FIVE YEARS FOR STEALING AND sTABBIyG.
| David L. Binklcy, twenty-tbree years old, was
sentenced yesterday, by Justice Barrett IN the
Court OF Oyer and Termnsr, TO five years in the
| and stabbiDg in the hand Policeman Connolly, who
arrested hun. The jury found the young man
| guilty of assault Ill the second degree.
EX-u.YoR EDsoN's ANSWER TO oBRIES.
! The affidavit Of ex-Mayor Edison, in answer 10
| that of John O'Bren, published In TIE TRIBUNE
Yesterday. not the one filed IN court on Mon
day. The one filed did not contain recital OF tho
circumstances connected with the award and execu-
| ton of the contracts for the new aquednct.
INrER-MTLITARY ATHLETIC TOURNAMENT.
! The inter-mitary athletic tournainent VIII take
| place at the 10Th Regiment ATmory next Monday
evening. In addition 10 the games for which there
| are over ninety entered there vii! be exhibitions
| of walking. bicycle riding and boxing by we'll
! known amateurs
POISON IN SHIRT DYE.
| 4 Young man went 10 the sanitary l'urcau yes
| tcrlay with blue woOllcn shirt III bundle. ic
| told Dr Cyrus Edison that he had purchased tho
shirt in Fultou-st. aud that after his mother and
sister had altered Il 10 it him their hands became
| covered with a rash.
| SIX OLD GUArpsNRN co TO \ BALL
| A Adetachmcnt Of six members Of the Old Guard
under the command of Adjutant +. ,. Belton lett
the Grand Central Depot e p IN. yesierhay ITO 10
Veterans, which took place last night at New
| Haven.
| MINING uNGrNHERs To MEET.
Tho American Institute of Mining -ngineors VIII
! hold its annual meeting IN this city on February
! II. Tho hrst meeting VIII he held at the Fark
! Avenue Hotel. There will be . iye-day, session.
meetings To be- hold in the Academy OF Medicine IN
| Thirty-irst-.t. The institute viii spend one day
AZ tho Tiiiie Poster iron mine at ircwster@, New
York. where concrete pillars are bclng put M and
! the ore pillars that supported the roof removed.
| nrRNrD TO DEATH WHILE Lighting ms PIPE
| Bartlett Clccsc. an old and inigm lrIshmau, was
| burned 10 dc9th Yesterday IN his home at No. Isl
! East Forty-fourtd-st II was his custom TO sleep
n one in tho basement aud light his pipe from the
kitchen stove early III the morning. lie was found
| went to the ba ,cmcnt soon after dayb HIS
clothing was partly burned from HI, body and hls
nughtcd pipc lay on the iioor. In trying to light
| his pipe Ia had set ire 10 his clothes
| 4 STEAMSHIP GrNF's XIV SCHEDULE.
! CThc Alexandra. Nsw-lork. Cuba and Mexican
| Steamship Linc!segins running on new two-years
Ia Nov fFlA#Tt ff-
| dsy The CITY of Puebia, Commodore Deaken. -
,hc inst vessel to sal under tho new schedule: In
addition TO touching ut Havana, Progress aud Vera
| Cruz. She will stop at lnmplco ANA Iuxpan on
The down tIir and not at those ports on the return;
| he next steamer, the City, ot Washington, wilI
! touch at tampcche and frontcra, instead
! of Iampco aud IuxpIn, and alternate vessels
| will MAKE the same routes.
ARREST OF HOTEL DOoRNTrPrR.
| Felipe \. Costa, Peruvian, was bookkeepcr in
! tho Lenox House. at No - Fitth-ave. until Janu-
arv II, when hc disappeared. Detective ScrgeantS
! Heidelberg and Doan traced him 20 Philadelphia.
Baumore, aud back to & t&hs cIiy. Yesterday icy icy
Jefferson Market Court, he was charged with steal
ing $50 from Mrs. ClaIemcnt. tho proprietor OF
tho hotel and wearing apparel and Jewelry worth
800 belonging Ia guests. Pawn tcket' represent
ing the properly found IN his possession. lie
pleaded not guilty and was held II -. 900 bail.
CHARGED WIN NUMBERING SEAMAN.
Assistant United States District-AttOrncy Foster
made "A complaint yesterday on communication
from stephen B Packard, the United states Consul
~ | wei
tbr second mate and Frederick kalpn the boat
swain of the American ship IL. Chapman, were
undcr arrest in England charged with numbering
Peter Jansson seaIna OF lle EosS9ii D oD N.yaRc
from san Francisco 10 Liverpool Their extradl-
tion has been already ordered. Six witnesses sea-
men on the vessel, were sent by the Consul on the
Alaska from England to tins country 10 be USED as
,vtuessc. IN the case. Mr. Foster VIII dctain the
witnesses until the arrival of the accused men,
BROOKLYN.
Henry Brco recovered $500 in the, Supreme
Court Yesterday for injuries caused by the bite OF
n dog owned by Paul Bauer, Coney Island.
Jndge Moore discharged the petit Jury i'll the
Court of Sessions yesterday and sad AS a mat
Tar nf fact there has not been time III the history
az inrs County for years whom there was so little
serious criminal business III the county as there Is
al prescut and consider 1t very credltable TO u
cou.ty containing 700, 900 inhabitants that such Il
remark can bc truthfully made on that subject"
The first lot OF Bridge tickets printed, numbering
oio 900 ~ already sold. An equal number was
ordered by the Bridge officers yesterday.
Michael Seitz, whose brewery was seized on
Tuesday for violation of the revenue laws, gave
bond yesterday for $4,000 to appear when
wanted.
A conference was held yesterday by Mayor Low
with George G.. Herman. president, and Dr ); A:
blanchard. medical superintendent, of thc fort
Hamilton Inebriates' Ho@e In view oi the Iact
that brooklyn pays large sum of excise moneys
TO the home and sends drunkards to IT,, whiie nav,
ING no supervision over it, Mr.. Low characterized
the relation of the c ty to the some a. aphJii %
unnatural ana uhuesIapio ho i"'"'' " e
in tho law.
Park Commissioners d. II. Houghtalng and
Henry W. Maxwell resigned yesterday on acgHuiv r.
of lack of time to attend 10 'hqil Ia a''S H. Maxl
,vsii resigned from the Young Republican Club TO
accept the office. lie Is the managing director OF
The long Island Railroad Company, Of which his
hro,hsr ,no I n. Maxwell is vice-presldcnt Mr.
Houghtaling is president OF the Oxford Ciup ana
dealer III teas.