New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-10-18
NETWORK CITY!

The remaining days Of rs0,otion IN IN" CITY viii Be
october &c and q.
The Jubilee services Of the East Baptist Church. al
Madison and Gouvcrneur ste., will be continued this
evening, when a number Of prominent Baptists will
take part in the ceremony of the burning OF the
mortgage, Addresses will be made by the Rev.
Messrs J. J. Bronner and W. C. Biting and tho Rev.
Drs. A. Fl Birmingham, Joseph F. Elder and X. s
Macarthur. The jubilee services will DO closed to-
morrow evening.
Next Sunday at the Grand Opera House Professor
Cromwell will take his auditors through Ireland on
jaunting car. During their journey he will de-
scribe the country its past and present history,
the manners Of the people, their wit, etc.
ladics fair for the reduction of the debt on the
Church of St. Nicholas Second-st, is now in
progress.
number Of prominent athletes have been invited
to accompany the Spartan Harriers on their walk TO
Pecllskill Sunday, October 90 The start Will be
made from One hundred and ynfth-st at a M.
and attempt will be made to lower the record es
tabshed by them last year.
The trustees of the Normal College at a meeting yes
to-day adopted the bylaws for the regulation Of the
business of tho trustees Miss Maud Frank was
appointed a teacher in the Training Department Of
the college
An itinerant jewelry hawkcr In the conventional
buggy has been drawing large crowds in Broadway
recently He sells watch chain and charm for
25 cents and throws in watch for nothing His
hands are kept busy handing out the articles to small
boys and others who ured by the generous bargain
he offers From the number of quarters that arc
handed over the wheel Of his buggy 1t looks as il every
man in New-York would soon own watch, such as
II is.
The juniors of Columbia College were the first
class TO elect officers this year. After spirited
contest the following were elected yesterday Pres-
dent, NJ. T. Bogart vce-president, ii. A. Glider
sleeve IT, secretary, c. L. Livingston; treasurer
C. II. Mann; historian, 7. B. Penncld poet, W. j.
warburton. The sophomores will elect officers to-
day.
The Board OF Engineers of the San Francisco Fire
Department has sent to Chief John McCabe, Of New
York, handsome fire badge of gold studded with
diamonds and rubies. 1t is token OF their esteem
for the chief who I'm San Francisco last month.
board of officers of the Engineer Corps Of the
Army whose duty II will DO to fix the harbor lines
of New-York and its adjacent waters under the Act OF
Congress Of August IL last met yesterday for the first
time at the Army building General Henry L. Abbot
presided, and the proceedings were private.
Tho delicate Fameuse apple, almost as tender as
a peach and rich with perfumed juice, is In market.
It IS Of French origin and is highly esteemed as a
dessert fruit
Troops Of Brooklyn damsels who are engaged all
day indoors in New-YorB seem commercially deter
mined to keep the natural ruby" of their cheeks by
walking the Bridge morning and evening.
The plot Of ground on the northeast corner Of
Madison ave- and sixty-sxth-st has boon mortgaged
by the Church of the Holy Spirit to the Mutual Life
Insurance Company for $4,000.
At the American Horse Exchange yesterday HTG.
stevens held his annual sale of harness and saddle
horses carriages, etc. The bidding was brisk and the
majority of the lots realized good prices.
II any one thinks women incapable of headwork
lust let him notice the baggageladen, feminine Italian
immigrants or their sisters who walk away with
sections OF torn down buildings
At the request of Thomas Costgan. supervisor Of
The City Record Mayor Hewitt yesterday directed
Commissioners Of Accounts Sherman and DAILY to
make a prompt and thorough investigation of Mr..
Cosigans bureau In view Of the charges which have
been made against him.
Policeman Cullen Of the Brooklyn Police force. who
was arrested recently for picking mans pocket in
the Catharne Street Ferry house, was arraigned at
Jefferson Market Police Court yesterday and held for
trial IN 81, 600 bail
Policeman 4. D. somerindyke. Of the Twenty-sixth
Precinct, who recently absent from duty without
leave and then appeared with surgeons certificate
in which was a forged date to correspond with his
absence, dismissed from the force yesterday.
Don Pedro Perez zeedon, Minister from Costa Rica
to the United States, with his family, arrived here
Yesterday on the steamer Ailsa-
Colonel Edward Hericken, ex-president of the
Produce and Maritime Exchanges, yesterday received
the hearty congratulations OF his fellow members In
recognition Of his seventy-sixth birthday.
The managers Of the Christian Aid TO Employment
Society will meet at No. At Bible House at p. IN.
to-day. The object of the society is to assist work
ngmen and workngwomen TO secure employment
under conditions favorable TO the development Of
wholesome morality and selfrespec and to encourage
them In tine habits Of industry.
BROOKLYN.
The merit and last day Of repatriation in Brooklyn
ciH be October 90.
Serious charges against the Rev. Mr.. Lyons, OF
in the South Third Street Zion Methodist EpiscOpaI