New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-27
NETWORK CITY.

Mamie Horton. the whistler
A number of ladies have opened at No. las West
Thirty second-st free cofeehouse for the poor LII
Is entirely nonsectarian, and will DO supported by
voluntary subscriptions.
A Jury was empanered yesterday before Judge
Cowing TO try James Nolan for murder In tne nfse
degree In killing Emma Buck
An invoice of Peruvian cotton has arrived here
destined for a New England mill Its peculiar hore
makes II valuable for knitting yarn, and Its glossy
texh,re gives 1t place in the manufacture OF imita
ton silk goods.
olebrnargarlne is now extensively taking the place
of other grease in the preparation of cartridges
Turkey quills in comparatively largo quantities are
being exported from the South
as. J. R.s-The Pacific Mall Steamship Company is
building steel steamship Of 5000 tons displacement
which is to be completed by September.
Tickets for the free Health Talk Series arranged
for the Friday evenings in March by the twenty
third-st branch OF the Young Mems Christian ASso-
citation are being freely called for The course when
is for young only, viii be as fonows' Msioh l.
asurrical Emergencies Dr. F. Hartley; March 3
The Nervous SYSTEM Dr. Frederick Peterson; March
Is aFoods Dr. John woodman and March -. rer-
sonal Purify DR.. Charles scudder
To aid the Church of the Beloved Disciple. in
Eighty ninth-st number Of ladies' who are members
Of the church VIII manage bazar until March /.
Charles Collins. receiver of the former firms OF
POTTER knight. Ainsworth & Co. and knight. Loomis
Co. offered for sale yesterday morning all the plates,
copyrights publication contracts and stock ON nand
NJ these firms A largo number Of purchasers were
present. including William NJ Scribner. tho originator
of series of publications on bookkeeping and copy
books for use in schools MI. ScIiDner began the
bidding for all the plates and copyrights used In con-
nection with the manufacture OF these publications.
and after a spirited competition tho property was
secured BY Aker, Hamln Co.. Of this city, for
$40 100.
The Police Commissioners yesterday asked Cor
poration Counsel Beekman to draft a bill for the
legislature to save the Police Pension Fund. by
tho terms of the proposed bill an extra sum Of Sloo'
600 of the excise moneys. would be paid into the
pension fund every year.
The snring Garden Street Methodist Episcopal
Church, of Philadelphia. has asked that the Rev Dr.
Merritt Hulburd. who for the last three years has
been pastor of the Trinity Church in East one-hun-
dred and-eightoenthst, this city, become us next
PASTOR 1t is believed that DR. Hulburd VIII be as
signed TO this church.
John Fiske, of Cambridge. will begin a course
of six lectures on American History on Saturday
morning yarch 2, at No. % East Nfty-'ourfh-sG
These lectures Will be given under the auspices OF the
Young ladies Of the Misses GrinneIs School for the
benefit of tho Frcsh-Air Fund for Crippled Children
The Rev. Dr. j. G. Oakley viii deliver a lecture on
KFrom the Metropolis 10 the Golden Gate and Be
vond or the Grand Army Of the Republic Marching
Across the Continent Wheels" at the Seventeenth
Street Methodist Episcopal Church, Tomorrow evening
Colonel T. Sherman Iectured on the subject of
Flowers before 81. Marks Literary Society. last
evening in the lectureroom Of the church Bunchos
Of flowers were handed to every lady who attended
she entered the Ioom
The Museum Of Natural History VIII be open this
evening until 10 p mr. and all the galleries will be
free.
There was an informal meeting Of the committee
Of propertyowners who hold lands embraced In early
city grants at No. 5S Liberty-st yesterday. The
propertyowners object to the proposed city assess
mont of 5000 lot. 1t is expected that bill VIII DO
introduced in the Legislature making satisfactory
adjustment Another meeting VIII be held soon.
At special meeting of the Executive Committee
of the New-York Mercantile Exchange. held yestcr-
day resolutions favonng the passage OF National
bankrupt law passed Copies Of the resolution
were ordered to be sent to the Associated Whoesa ale
Grocers Of ST. Louis to be presented to the meeting Of
the representatives of commercial bodies TO be held
in st. Louis tomorrow.
The Board of Estimate yesterday advanced the
effort of the police sergeants to increase their salaries
one degree by instructing the Controller TO find out
and report whence the extra Sj3,333 required TO pay
them can be transferred If the Controller can dis
cover an account with surplus of that amount, II
Is likely that tho sergesnts VIII have their hopes
81, GOO year each.
Permission to drive advertising wagons through
the streets of New-York granted yesterday by
the Board of Aldermen to p T. Barnum for his circus
beginning on March 49, and also for parade ON the
evening of March ~. If pleasant; not on the first
fair evening thereafter.
Charles N steen of No. PAL East Seventy ninth-st
SAYS that he invites Professor Hermann 10 make good
his published challenge in which he agrees TO duplicate
at sight any manifestation of socaed spirit phcnom
ena performed In his presence, fofeiting $500 If he
Will explain his own Mrs. Stems three tests
After the meeting of the Martin Luther Society
held at the Academy OF Medicine. No. IL West Thirty
frstst last evening, adjourned, conference of pas
tors and members of the Lutheran churches Of New
York and its vicinity held TO discuss the advisa
bity and feasibility OF closer union Of tho Lutheran
churches committee appointed to set the time
for other meetings and take general charge Of the
movement
William B. Zimmerman, house painter of syria
cuse, NJ Y, came to this city In search Of work In
November, and disappeared on December 1. His body
was found in the East River, off Jackson-st. yester
day The body was identified by letter which had
been sent 10 him at his boarding house, No. 1,15s
Third-ave.
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