New-York tribune., 1888-03-27
NEw-YoRK CITY.

Tho Health Department steamboat on Sunday carried
three men to tho smallpox hospital on North Brother
Island. One sufferer from tho disease was found In
Ono hundred and forty -fourth-s Brook-ave and
the other patients removed from houses In Lex
ngton ave. near Thireth-st and in City Hall Place
Tho Seniors of tho Law School Of Columbia College
have elected the following committee To arrange for
their Commencement exercises H. A. Tenney, chair
man; ]. D. Baucus, J. v. Bouviertr., A j. Clark, W.
A. Douglas, p. O. Frost, H. B. Gayley, F. r. Kellos
and p. p Sandford.
The funeral of Joseph ". Drcxel. who died on SUM-
day. will bo held tomorrow. The burial viii be In
| Philadelphia
Mayor Hewitt is about to publish useful book OF
reference for young politicians, called The Complete
| Lettcrwriter."
The Rev. DIR. Horny Van Dyke, pastor of the Brick
Presbyterian Church. started for Florida on Saturday
to be gono three weeks His pulpit will be flled
temporarily by visiting preachers.
Norman L Munro, the publisher, and family arrived
yesterday by the steamer Seminole from St. Augustine
Munro has greatly enjoyed his vacation trip which
has wonderfully improved his health.
aTho NewYork Law Journal Is the name Of a new
daily publication that made its first appearance yester-
day. 1t covers substantially the same field as The
Daily Register" that is tho calendars and proceedings
of the courts and all real estate transactions. But 1t
does this upon different plan gives all the news
of the courts In newspaper form and with fulness
and detail that the ordinary daily newspapers cannot
AFFORD the room for, but which must prove OF great
value to lawyers The idea seems to be to publish
all tho opinions Of all the courts Of record In this city
as soon they are handed down. The publisher
George W. Pcarce, Is a newspaper man Of extended
xporonce and under his direction the publication ought
to provo q success.
Over 5000 immigrants landed at Castle Garden yes
terday.
,ieciox1 apOa rad Vh
routine business yesterday and took no action as to
bids consideration OF which was postponed until We'd
nesday.
Tho Produce Exchange decided yesterday to close
Good Friday.
The Hebrew Feast of the Passover, which began last
night lasts eight days. Isaac Wolpert, OF No. 60
Henry-st, was held for trial yesterday by Justice
OReiy for kecping his grocery store open on Sunday
"The Jewish holidays begin to-day" said wolpert
when he appeared In court and kept open on Sunday
to accommodate my customers"
Tho Harlem Republican Club will open its new club
house at No. "a East One hundred and twenty ffhst
tomorrow evoung. There will be speeches BY we'll
known Republicans.
. Governor Hill, who came down from Albany on
Sunday, went back early yesterday. He said that he
came down to attend church services but 1t is said
that his meeting not religious In character Lut
moro Of social order Indeed, it is said tho Gov
erpors bachelorhood may end
A kcptomaniac is an individual who suffers from
fits of abstraction.
challenge has boon received by the Columbia
Freshmen from the Yale Freshmen to row them
two mile race on the Thames at NewtIIondon within
the week Of tho Yale-Harvard Varsity race. Tho
Columbia men favor such q proposition. but acting
upon the advice of the boat club they will probably
refuse the challenge.
The iacl-tar who was heeced In the Bowery yester-
day, complained to the police that hc knew thing or
two the craft In the river but that the craft In
tho street was too much for him.
Mrs Allison, whose eighteen-year old daughter
Beatrice ran away from home Last Tuesday, 1t was
thought with the intention Of entering convent now
says that she perfectly content that the girl should
remain at Halifax, where she now is.
Quill pens fashionable and pretty but arc
dangerous to write secrets with. They arc apt to
split
At the Chapter Night" Of the Delta Kappa Epsilon
Club this evening all the club members, irrespective
Of chapter, are invited
Tho meeting of the New-York Academy Of Sciences
postponed last evening at Columbia College, owing
to tho storm.
The legal acumen and astute philosophy Of Judge
Duffy were transferred the Tombs Court yesterday
But Harlem mourps the loss of the genial judge II
only for day.