New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-28
WHAT IS GOING ON TO-DAY.

Ex
Railroad Commissioner f W. Rinsley. Of Boston
WHAT IS GOING ON TO-DAY.
Trustees Of Museum OF Natural History before Park
cosse Of Pharmacy commencement sinway Hail.
Harlem Republican Club No. "a East cue hund'ed'and
pe4arture Of Henry living. Ellen Terry and Josef
o%a py M ~ Conference First NJ e. Church Ho
Staten Island Athletic Club West New. Brighton g. L.
Real al Estate Exchange Committee on Rapid Transit
Haueduc. Commissioners meeting p M ,.,.u. fleet
Meeting in Opposition 70 Persona m0er
onu Dus Ssss Judge Mceow Ii
" Levi. Fraser. address before eroler Club. No. "a
"' Old Guard annual election. Armory. pm
The city Of Newark advertlses, in another column
for 900 loan to pay for her new sewerage I'M
provcments. She offers four per cent and e1pects
to get many bidders at q good premium.
The failure of the cotton broker, James W. Harle
which occurred three weeks ago. was officially posted
at the Exchange yesterday. D, @. Gardner was posted
as unable to meet his mercantile engagements. HIS
liabilities are small
The veteran battalion Of tho Old Guard VIII hoid
Its annual meeting to- night and elect major, TWO
captains two first lcuenants two secono heu'ohsn''
eight sergeants, and ten corporals
The Mount Morris baptist Church will hold series
of services In connection with the opening OF It's
new building in Fifth ave., between One-hundred and
twenty sixth and One hundred and sts
beginning on Sunday, April l. The new puldine
was begun about year ago, and VIII DO ono OF tho
handsomest church structures in Harlem 1t has peeh
built under the supervision OF f- o. Chiioh' W. IL
Sutton, and william Hills
william wallace Decker, age sixteen, has run away
from his home at No. Merntt-st Brooklyn, expecting
to get and fortune by Joining circus company
The police are looking for him and also for John X
yengocchea, of the same age, who ran away from
bis home at No. 1928 BergeD-st, Brooklyn, with
n collection Of foreign stamps worth about 300.
The sale OF the Francis collection OF autographs at
Bangs q Companys finished yesterday. The
bidding was, as on Monday, spirited, and good prices
ruled The largest price paid was $50 for letter
by Edgar Allan Poe dated Newly DIRK, February 20,
ls4s, In which he describes his habits Of life.
The @hum Of Industry" IS again to DO heard at the
Norfolk Navy Yard Orders have been received from
Washington to begin the work Of making the spars,
toats blocks and buckets for the gunboat Petrei'
now building at Baltimore.
The Mayor sent to the Aldermen yesterday, tho an
pua report Of the trustees of the Sailors Snug Harbor
the Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix. Captain Ambrose Snow, and
Charles s. Smith. The receipts for the year wers
s34s $50 TO- Of which s2s4,57s from rents dis
bursements, s312,7s6 IT: Assets, including funds,
building bonds and cash, so71,459 81; estimated In
come for 1888, 1927, GET.
Tho Aldermen yesterday adopted resolutions In
honor OF the memory OF Ex-Governor John T. Holman,
In which his career Recorder, Mayor and Governor
/, referred to In euoglstIc terms. The resolutions
direct that the flags the city public buildings shall
DO placed at halmast the day OF the arrival OF the
exGOvernors body in port and that, IL the family
DESIRE 1t shall lie In state In the Governors room In
City Hall. committee, consisting Of Aldermen Clan
cy, Diver, Rincbhon oa'hoy, c0ri0' nfod"IAS ana
the President appointed to attend the iuneral'
and to draft appropriate resolutions
Three hours were occupied yesterday in securing
three more Jurors to try Francis W. Pitman, who is
accused of murder in the first degree In killing bis
| daughter Rachel
James Watson, who also bore the nams Of James O.
WALKER was convicted yesterday before Judge Benedict,
IN the United States Circuit Court of passing counter
felt five cent pieces at various candy stores In THIS
city. His wife has large boarding house. at No. IA
| Wilow-st, Brooklyn, and has many friends who
tried to assist her when her husband was arrested
Elk Mayor Whitney, G. c. Leigh the prohibtonist and
| Mr.. Lain among the Brooklyn men OF prominence
who testified that " atson had good reputation Ho
| was remanded for sentence.
Princeton College invited Charles D. Kellogg, Of the
Charity Organization Society, to address the students
yesterday the question Of tie relation OF the pros
porous to the depressed classes or the problem OF
| poverty and pauperisln-
| A downtown dealer has an odd clock in his show
| window. The back is o dsh while oyster shells
mark the hours. knife and fork servo for the hour
| and minute hands.
The newly organized Amateur Baseball League will
be composed Of FIVE clubs instead Of four IS generally
stated.
A walst baseball enthusiast said yesterday that
the New-York club did not need new players so much
as 1t needed careful playing from tho old timber In
tho team
A policeman yesterday morning found that some
nscreant In the night had fastened over the area rail-
Ing Of The Evening POST building the contractors
sign: Rubbish may be shot here" The @copper"
let It stand
The coroner was Informed yesterday Of the death Of
Andrew McNally, of No. SO Mangn-st, who had frac-
tured his skull on St. Patrfcks Day at Newark by
being struck with q beer glass thrown BY James
Gallagher Of that city The Hudson County officials
have rearrestod Gallagher, who was out on bail
The Delta Fappa Epsilon Club gave a rccepti,a
t. ihs Fhi Chapter of Yale ct the club bouse, No
43o Fifth ave. last night. c. F. Lewis, OF the class
OF '63, presided, and several Yale men made shor
speeches
At a meeting Of the BLACK Diamond Association
focal shoveiersl held last evening at No. 1l3 kingst
Secret airy Michael Dillon offered resolution which va
passed. Indorsng the bill before Congress for Thu
payment of subsidies TO tho owners Of merchan
vessels built In America
Tho praise of a great many young dramatic critic
IS like an old Queen Anne muskel-it ends with srea
big but.
The profession OF bill poster is not to be con
dempod with that of tho gambler because DO " does
nothing but pla cards.
man names his horse bad egg, to lessen th
chances of his being beaten.
The scamp caught stealing q rooster at the poultry
show Was found guilty Of cock-rObbIn'
Treasurer Eugene Kelly, Of the Irish Paramentar
Pund Association, has decided to send TO lrean
10000 Of the balance which has been held sine
tho collections ceased