New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-07
NEW YORK CITY.

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| Publishing Company on Thursday night had a pleas
ant termination. The employees Of "The Chronicle
gavc to william +. King, president Of the company
handsome gold and enamel badge In recognition OF his
services managing lccr of the journal ana aro iof
! his kind and honorable treatment OF The employees.
| Dr. McGynn will deliver address at the first
meeting Of the Ncw-York Temperance Union in tho
Masonic Temple at Twenty ,hrdst and Sixtha'c. TO-
morrow afternoon at O'Clock, subject Consistent
Temperance" J. b. Gibbs has started this new tenn
peranco union, but dies not propose to run an EN-
| ployment agency IN Connection with IL.
At a meeting of the Irish Homo Rule Club on Thur
| day evening I'm the Morton House, John T. Lynch
| chairman of the committee appointed to get up
testimonial to tho Goth Regiment, stated that judge
Edward Browne had promised to oban the CO operation
| OF influential Irish Americans outside the club, and
for this purpose special meeting VIII DC hcid al the
| Hoffman House on January Ia.
James Mcdonald, alias &" Milky" the bank burglar
was again renanded trial Jefferson Market Court
yesterday.
The Manhattan Chess Club has elected the following
cflcers: PRESIDENT, SEBASTIAN b. schleslnscr; cor
responding secretary. Dr. Z. Cohn; recording 'ccrc-
tary, g. d. Eaton; treasurer, l. d. Cohn; directors
j. s. Curry. G. T. Green, Paul Stockmann .. Lap
schultz, II. seymour and E. T. Westerieid
Edward IsIy, tho coffee agent, who took dose OF
laudanum on Thursday night, was discharged by JUS
ce Murray in the YohSville Court yesterday morning
Ho lives at No. 3lS Newark ave-, jersey Ciiy'
Dr. Henry Van Dyke, of the Brick Presbyterian
OF literary piracy under the light Of The moral law
and the Biio.
The Rev. T. F. Dealy, S. j., formerly rector Of the
Church Of st. Francis Xavier, this city, and once
president of st. Johns College, Fordham, has been
transferred TO Boston,
william Rankin treasurer of the Foreign Mission
Board Of the Presbyterian Church who has filled the
duties of that Office for thirty seven years, recently
resigned the Position, but s fuiils the dics vi the
office.
Most Of the :Tammany Assembly District organizar
tions met evening in their headquarters and Or
ganizcd for the year. also choosing delegates to tho
committee organization. In the With District
tho organization, headed by Deputy Sheriff B. r. Mar
supper Tho Tammany General Committee will meet
on Thursday evening next to organize
"w Er-A diamond wedding is given only at tho
end OF scventyfvc years Of married ife Hence they
extremely rare.
Colonel r. S. Cheves Of Georgia, an officer during
the war in the Confederate amy, will appeal In behalf
Of Southern soldiers TO Northern soldiers to join
them In National warfare against the liquor traffic.
Tho address will DO ceIvcred at cooper ohioh OH
Sunday II 3 clock
The members Of the Produce Exchange were ycster-
day furnished with the rules adopted by the Clearing
House committee aud notified that the system
clearanccs would be put in operation on January 1t"
A heavily loaded truck broke down at the Biidgc
entrance yesterday. long and tirc'ome blockade
rcs"'eu'
Tho New York and Poughkccpse polo clubs will play
at Suffers Rink, Harlem, 10 night.
Sandcrson & Son, the consignces Of the British
tramp steamer the Newcastle CITY, which was lost on
Nantucket Shoals two weeks yesterday received
word from Washington that the Secretary OF the
Treasury had ordered the Revenue utter oalldlln
20 from Boston to the Nantucket south shoal
Lghtshp with provisions for the shipwiccAcd crew,
and also 10 try TO take them OH.
Tho Holland Society will give Its annual dinner on
Tuesday, Janar7y 10, at hafpast O'Clock, at the
Hotel brunswick.
Tho IeavItt who was arrested in the District 1t
torney's Office Wednesday charge of disOiterly
conduct, not Samuel Lcavitt of No III Mactbug-
ST.
Petro Cassago, Italian born lp Germany, arrested
for dsoldcriy conduct and carrying in his pocket
,ungshot Of a peculiarly dangerous kind, was sen
tenc-d yesterday by Recorder smyth 10 TWO years
and eleven months iii Siarc prison.
Josephine Field, teacher, age fifty, was burned
seriously yesterday by the explosion Of an oil stove at
her home, No 2il West Thirty SIKH ST.
The Police Board yesterday went through tho an
nua form clectine stephen b. French president, and
John AlcClayo treasurer. Mr. French has been
elected presidcn of the board eight times and Mi.
McC.avo enters ON his fourth year "a treasurer
The police and the friends of the missing minister,
the Rev. Edward +. Miles, still without trace
of him yesterday
Tho storm yesterday detracted largely from tho at
tendance at the Week Of Prayer service. Tie day was
devoted TO prayer for missions, In increasing the In
tcrest IN the work and for the CONVERSION of Jews,
Mahomctans and hcathens. Dr. Eidcr lei ire ser
In the Madison square Presbyterian Church, the
Rev W. O. Walsoa ia the calvary Baptist Churcr, and
DIR. Ramsay in st. James, Methodist Episcopal
Church in Harlem
An examination for fourth class clerks who desire
promotion to the third grade held yesterday in the
federal ling. About twenty clerks were examined
1t is generally believed that Irlshmcn cIagscratc
greatly. Was 1t an instance Of this and It the
eloquent BourEe Cochran the offender when the
Papal Jubilee meeting in Cooper Union Judge DAILY
referred TO the Pope ruling 2OOOCO,oOO Catholics,
while tho Zig Con gessnan vino follow ell him spok3
confidently Of the Popc's 23OooO,00o subiccts?'
Collector Magone has appointed Bryan g. Nc
Swyny's brother. Cornell a Watchman at salary
of $e40.
member Of the Bacon and Cabbage Club, an Irish
social organization, asked last light to pay his
dues for tho past year. For what r. he asked In
establishment. Membership dues" IN be hanged
IL d." he replied What good was II for me to bo
member when resolutions were always rejected p
Rocky Mountoin' O'Brien of the best known
Of tho hish Nationalist leaders In this city, has just
sent to Father Palmer, parish priest of Calaragh,
County Cork, OBren's birthplace, a new bell, 200
pounds weight for the Catholic Church Ia that place.
new club is forming In this city which is
composed entirely Of extreme free traders, though II
calls itself the Reform Club" +. +. Doyle, the
tary, has circulars everyone WHO he
thought would be likely to join such organization.
lie has received some sharp answers. .lbon Man, OF
No. 81 broadway, writes TO him Z" ONT believe In
fee Trade doctrine, and do believe Your Reform
club Is wrongly named II should he called We're
English, you kDOT,' or The AntilrOsperity Club,
Refuge for Political Cranls The other request
printed the circular, VIII you attend the dinner
MIR. Man dlsmisses with an emphatic No, thank you"
Walter Kirk otherwise known "lrenchy,7 who
D December IL was seen leaving the Of Mrs.
Emile Barrier at No. 2l0 Woosterst., where a burg
larry had been committed pleaded guilty. yesterday
before Judge CowIng and was sentenced to eight years
In tho state prison.
"B1ly" Perry, known also a. George Graham, and
by many other names, who was arrested Tuesday
a charge OF breaking Jail at Bennington Vermont,
was yesterday turned over Ia sheriff James L. Mccall,
of Bennington, at the Onibs.
"short Hiss" donation Of S5 for the relief OF C.
Anthony sclaa Of No 300 Second ST., Jersey City,
hV haah o.