New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-11-19
NEWBORN CITY.

The third silver medal clocutionary contest among
the young people of Trinity Church. one-hundred and
eghteenh-st Tenth ave-, VIII be held at p.
tomorrow.
Many of the employees in the Post Office are be-
coming courteous.
At the present rate of rebuilding East Broadway
Will, in a few years, become a street of handsome
fats.
John o'Conner Power who formerly represented
County Mayo in PARLIAMENT and lost his seat because
he foreswore his Homo Rule pledges. IS about to
turn to Ireland. having spent several months in this
country.
The boss Of the County Democracy was at one time
a Powerful ally. Nobody troubles about him now
The Historical Society Is looking ont for moro com
modious quarters than its present ones In Secondave
near Stuyvesant Square.
Some kindly American citizen Is about to remove
the laughable inscription over Tammany Hall: Pub
lie Office is public trust.'
In the table of figures entitled Insanity on the
Increase there is no mention whatever of the Mug
wumpS.
Mayorelect Grant Is going to sell his fast horses
and retain his fast friends
The next meeting Of the New-York Sunday school
Union viii be held in the Church Of the Epiphany on
December 10
Some costly improvements being made in the
interior of the Church of ST. Paul the Apostle, in
Ninthave poor working girl gave $500 for an
altar in Of the side charels.
But one-fhh of the amount needed to erect a
statue TO Father Mathew in Central Park has been
collected.
The Redcmptonist Fathers TO build convent
in Onehundred- and fftieth-st, next to their new
church, at early day.
The annual meeting Of the Board of Education of
the Methodist Episcopal Church will be held on
Wednesday.
The Irish Plotectionists of the city will hold a
Jubilee meeting this evening at Cooper Union to com
memorate the victory of the American National sys-
tenn over the British free-trade colonial policy.
fair in aid of St. Benodct's Homo for Poor Col
ored Children VIII be held in the 9Th Regiment Armory
Broadway and Thirty-sixth-st, beginning tomorrow
night and continuing until December
Some members of the Gaelic Athletic Association.
who intend 10 live permanently in this country have
in conjunction with members of the Gaelic So
ciety, formed branch Of the organization at No. II
West Twenty clehth-st
The foundatlon-stone of the New Progress Club,
Fifth-ave and sixtv-thrdst, will be laid on Thanks
giving Eve.
The annual retreat for the members of the St Vim
cent dc Paul Society begun last evening in st.
Francis Xavler's Church, in West sixteenthst.
The solemn mass in connection with the fifth an
niversary Of the blessing Of the Church Of ST. Benedict
the Moor, for colorcd Catholics, in Bleeckerst.
celebrated yesterday by the Rev Dr. BurtselL
The annual entertainment in aid of the Roman
Catholic orphan asyuns will take place Thursday
afternoon and evening in the Metropolitan Opera
House
Congressman W. Bourke Cochran WILL lecture this
evening before the Cathedral Literary society on A
struggle Of Centuries
The Rev. Dr. Maynard will deliver his new his
al I. RE- Of
illustrated, on Wednesday afternoon at Chickering
Hall
All tho plants exhibited by the New-York Horti-
cultural Society at their chrysanhemum show VIII be
sold auction this morning, at IL o'clock, in the tent
at Broadway and Fourteenth-st
The crisp, biting air of yesterday brought out
large number Of sealslins.
These who are far-sirhted already beginning to
lay In their stock Of Christmas presents in order to
escape the fancy holiday prices.
The trouble with the Democrats is all In single
letter They hoped 10 win by using soap and now
they must console themselves with SOUP
If any one doubts that winter IS here. Re has only
look into shop windows. The piles of odlooking,
shining skates there make one SILVER
Tie body of an unknown man was found in a pool
Of water near the river at West Onc-h ndred-and
forty sixthst. yesterday. lie had two suits OF
clothes and about thrtyhve years old
Deputy Coroner OMeagher held an autopsy on DR..
Porcival H. Flynn who died in the apartments OF his
sister, Mrs T. A. Foster, at No. 34s 81 Nicholas ave.
Saturday morning, and found that the cause OF
death morphine poisoning The Coroner believes
that the morphine taken by the doctor whiIc nc
suffering from temporary insanity.
william Cotter, a policeman, Of the East Sixty
seventh Street Station. assaulted and brutally
beaten by Benjamin Van Arsdale. his brothcrin-law,
yesterday. The assault made in Cotters home,
at No. 140 East Eighty fourth-st., and Van Asdac
used Cotter's club a weapon. Coitcr taken 10
the Presbyterian Hospital. Van Arsdae escaped.
The Cunard steamer Umtria which cut the Iberia
in November 10, aTriV ed at Queenstown at
10 p. yesterday Apparently The collision in no
way affected be, speed.