New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-05-23
NETWORK CITY.

ington-st. was badly mangled III some haciiinery
that he only lived few minutes.
Students of the Normal College and College OF
tho Citv of New-York are preparing for the annual
examinations, which begin next week Inc COLI
mencements will be held on June 20.
The sprine timetable on the New-Jersey central
and New-Jersey Southern Divisions of the Phlla-
dephia and Reading Railroad VIII take eneo' W
morrow.
The Board of Police yesterday gave Captain
Williams permission to receive handsome album
from residents of his precinct. but resolved tiaV
such presents tended to be detrimental to good DIS
cipline.
Commander f. Ruizdel Arbal and Paymaster
Ramon de Agulrra of the Spanish Naval Commits
sion Yesterday obtained permission from CoLleGtor
RobertsOntO board the Normandle, upon wmcn Is
Vommander Pedro de Ossa, of the Spanish Navy
NOT A VICTIM OF THE YELLOW FEVER.
Captain John Rettig. of the City of Washington
arrived from Havana on THURSDAY. III had 9 pSoIa
reported that he had been attacked with Yellow
fever and sent to the hospital. His robust frame
and ruddy countenance belied the reports.
MANY FAILURES IN THE SOUTH AND w 5sl. 90
reported to X. q. Dun Co., NUMBER Ior tne
United States pa, and for Canada 70, as aga1 s1
220 last week and 246 the week previous. More
than two-thirds are in the Southern, Western ana
Pacific States.
MAILS FROM AUSTRALIA AND HAWAII
The steamer Zeaandla arrived at San rianoiSo44
Hawaii, due in New-York for first delivery on MAY
2e. The next mail for those countries Will CLOSE
here on May 80 at p m.
FEET AND HANDS GONE:
The BODY of woman was washed ashore at
Northumberland irty-eighth-st and the East
River Yesterday. 1t was much decoBposed ana the
hands and feet were missing The body was sent
to the MOIgue.
ENTERTAINMENT BY BUSINESS ALUMNI.
The Alumni Assoclatlo1 vi a01 toi,,ent
at the college rooms, No. SOD Broadway last Night
SAMUEL MARSH WILL NOT BE A CANDIDATE:
Samuel Marsh, having been stIongy urged 10
reconsider his determination not to be candidate
for trustee of Union College, has written that ne
cannot be candidate and urging bis friends 10
support DR.. p. h turbeck.
DECORATIONS FOR SOLDIERS GRAVES
Naval Post No 516 G. A. K. will hold memorial
services at the Church of the Sea and Lana, AT
Market aud Henry sts, tomorrow at . p H. vi
Decoration Day they will decorate the graves OF
the J. 100 officers and seamen who lie buried I'D the
grounds attached TO the Naval Hospital, Brooklyn
AN ENTERTAINMENT AT THE JUVENILE ASYLUM.
The semi.annual gathering of the directors and
officers of the New-YOrk juvenile Asylum TOOK
place yesterday at the institution. at Ienth-ave
aud Observation-Disclosures venty-sixth-st. lherc
were singing and lectations by the pupils, and the
Rev. DR.. Roderick Terry made an ADDRESS 10 Ihe
children.
TO CELEBRATE THE FEAST OF PENTECOsT.
The Feast OF Pentecost will be celebrated at the
Church of ST. Agnes, in East forty-thlrd-st, next
Sunday. Bishop Conroy will celebrate the . Pon-
tifica Mass at IL a. M, and administer INC sacrd-
ment of confirmation at 4:3O p I'D.
TO RECEIVE THE BARTHoLDI STATUE
President Sanger, Xice-President Jaehne and
Aldermen De Lacy, Mulry and Van Rensselaer,
were appointed committee yesterday 10 MAKE ar.
rongerneuts for formally receiving the Bartholdi
Statue The Mayor was requested to act with
them and also citizens associations.
A CAB-sTAND NOT MOVED.
Mr. ODwyer moved IN the Board OF Aldermen
yesterday that the cabstand at flfty-nlnth-st ana
flfth-ave be moved to Flfty-ninth-st. between
Seventh and Eighth aves., on the ground that IL
was nuisance. Messrs. Quinn, Reilly and Hart
man declared that the STAND was not nuIsdhco'
The motion was lost
THE FLOWER MISSIONS GOOD WORK.
The rooms of the New-York Flower Mission, No.
c30 Fourth-ave., will be open every Monday anG
THURSDAY until October for the reception of flow
ers for hospitals homes and asylums, and OF deli
eaces and supplies for the sick poor IN e Tenement
condensed milk are especially requested.
PROCEEDS OF THE PURIM BALL
the fSs OF s nhe Of 900 he
various charitable societies, including $Z5OO 10
the Young Mems Hebrew Association. l,50O to
Hebrew Chart es $3.50 to the Sanitary Aid Society
for the Tenth Ward, $500 to the Institution for
the Ruptured and Crippled, etc.
CRUELTY TO A CANARY BIRD.
In the Yorkville Police Court yesterday W. II.
Davenport, an artist employed by Tiffany living
at the st. Nicholas Hotel waived an examination ION
trial in 500 bail The complaint against him
alleges that he went in Thess's Garden In East
FOurteenth-st Thursday night with a paper bag
In which was canary bird and that he filed the
bag with smoke from cigar.
PROBABLY FATAL ENDING OF SPREE.
John Brennan, who wound up a long spree on
Thursday night by shooting himself IN the left
breast, Just above the heart, with small callbre
pistol and was taken to the Chambers Street Hos
pital was in q critical condition yesterday. The
ball penetrated the lung, and no attempt was made
to remove it. he has only slight chance OF re-
covery.
REFUSING TO TELL HOW HE WAS STABBED
B. II. Day, who went TO the Chambers Street Hos
pital on Thursday ght suffering from stab wound
IN the left side was suffering from the shock yes
terday and the oxtent Of the injury was not fully
ascerfaIned. He refused to give any information
as 10 how or where he got the wound. and he was
not known at No. 33S West Twenty-sixth-st., the
place that he gave as his home. There was hight
In which several men and women were engaged, at
tie foot of rwentysixth est, and 1t is thought that
he was engaged in 1t. lie VIII probably recover
NOTE BROKER COLLINS AGAIN IN COURT.
Richard M. Collins, the note broker OF NO AZ
BIoad-st, who was arrested on tuesday on a
charge Of receiving commercial notes. selling ths
same and not accounting tor the proceeds, and
who was again arrested on Thursday nlg9t on
another charge of similar nature, preferred BY
Charles w. Clark, of No. 23S West One-hundred-
and-twenty sIxth-st, was arraigned before Justice
Welde, in the Jefferson Market Police Court, and
$1,000.
UNWILLING A MEMORIAL TO SIDNEY p. NICHOLS.
The police captains yesterday had meeting to
make arrangements for the parade on Wednesday,
and for the unveiling of the memorial to Commits
sioner s. z. Nichols in Greenwood Cemetery on
Monday 1t was decided tkat captain, a sergeant.
roundsman and two patrolmen from each precinct
sbonId attend the unyeIllng ceremonies. Inspector
Murray said that Chauneey M. DepeW would de-
liver an address.
REORGANIZATION OF THE POSTAL COMPANY.
The scheme for the reorganization OF the Postal
Telegraph and Cable Company has not been per-
fected although it is understood that 1t has been
signed by so large an amount of the bondhoders
that it is likely to preye successful In that case
John w. Mackay, the California millionaire, VINO
Is the largest owner, has promised TO advance
enough money 10 place the company on sub
etanfial foundation and enable it to complete It's
projected extensions. IL the plan should fail OF
approval it is feared by its officers that the COM
pany would have to be placed In the hands OF
tecelver.
NEW FISH FROM MEXICO.