New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-07


FIFTH AvENUE-Ex-congressman Jay =. huopeh.
Of Michigan; Senator J. soat Fassctt OF Emira ana
Lieutenant 7. D. NJ. Mason. U. NAVY. 81. JAMES
Stuart Robson. UNION soUARE-winam a. franc
Lalnnesta Minister Tor eua'emas
At washington wINDsoR-General J. T. Tsrrence and
John D. sherman, Of Chicago.
WHAT Is GOING ON TO-DAY.
Board Of Aldermen
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Trial Of the citys suit against the United States IL
Illuminating Company. supreme Court .,,,
Miss hizabeth Hubbs's breach "a promise sui'
against DR.. Charles Biiss Supreme Court
Meetings Of Baptist Preachers and Afformed fas'of'
Meeting Of the Grant Monument Association. No. 14e
Columbia College trustees meeting. 4 p. m.
Nev.York Conference Temperance Society, No. 300
Republican Union and Protective Club. No. 100 West
Hamilton Republican Dub. No. ase West one-hundred
anG.twenty- nfthst.. 8 p. m.
Lecture By the Rev Dr. Charles H. Es'on 0ho''n III
Dinner Of the Cercle Francois DO PHarmone' HON.
House. p. m. w.
Academy Of Sciences Columbia College. D. M
Academy Of Political Science. Columbia College, 3
Meeting Of the ofncers of the 11sh Regiment evening
NETWORK CITY
Pacific Mail paer to-day for the flagship Trenton Of
the Pacific Squadron, which is ut Panama They
viii be shipped on the steamship Newport, to sail on
Thursday.
The Feast Of the Epiphany was celebrated yester
day in the Roman Catholic Church Of the Epiphany
Twentiethst and Second ave-, Of which the Rev. Ut
Richard L. Burtscll is pastor, with elaborate cerc
monies and in presence of congregations that niied
the church during the celebration Of the several masses
which went on from O'Clock In the morning until
IL, when solemn high mass was offered up; four
priests taking para Priests representing many other
Catholic churches in the city were also present The
sermon was preached by the Rev. John f. Burke,
rector of the Church Of st. Benedict the Moor
asmilng Mickey Hughes, the well known baseball
pitcher has refused to sign contract with the Brook
iyn team for the Insignificant salary Of $1,000.
Unity Congregation, of which the Rev. Hugh o.
pentecost Is the minister one year old yesterday
and the occasion was commemorated BY q large con-
gregation in Masonic Temple. MI Pen'ecost to
viewed the work Of the society during the year.
Tho new Church Of the Holy Trinity tEpiscopan
which is building at Lenoxavc and Ono hundred and
twenty st, is nearing completion, and 10 Is ex-
pected to be ready for occupation by April l. Ser
vices were held In the chapel Christmas Day, and
the parish house viii be finished in another week
Readings for the benefit Of St. Luke's Hospital, at
Jacksonville, Fla, will be gwen in the Berkeley
Lyceum on the evening Of January IL, by Mrs Julia
ward Howe, Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson
and Charles Dudley Warner The Berkeley Quartet
ana Walter Damrosch will also take part
Tho Rev. Thomas Harrison, the well known re-
vfvalst BEGAN yesterday morning series OF revival
services in tho Bcckman Hill Methodist Epscopai
Church Services were held at the following hours
At 40 q m, pentccostal and preparation service
10 80 a m, preaching and revival; $3.50 p m,
ny.~ Wa q n m. pcOple'S
meeting: 7:3o D. m, revival services. Mr. .iare
rison did not reach the church for the morning ser
vico until nearly IL o'clock The audience was
largo ono, considering the state Of the weather
Tho Metropolitan Temperance Society held we'll
attended meeting at Masonic Hall yesterday. Miss
Bertha Bronsill gave several violin selections, and
addresses wero made by the Rev. ". c. Steele and
tho Rev. George }. Minsns
Isaac Bell IRIS. condition was somewhat better
yesterday. His chief trouble Is blood poisoning Dr.
Polk performed an unimportant operation in the after
noon. by which Mr. Bell was made considerably
easier
The table showing the number Of storage and cabin
passengers landed at this port by each steamship line
during 1883, compiled by Captain John T. Moore
Landing Agent at Castle Garden, gives the total OF
the former as 3s3 $685. and eso2 Of the latter They
came on 500 steamers, average OF 523 on each
Beginning to-day. the meetings for The week OF
prayer this city, under the auspices OF the Evan
eeucal Alliance, VIII be held every afternoon at
4 O'Clock at the Washington Square Methodist Ep's-
copal Church, No. 1877 West Fourth-st; Broadway
Tabernacle, No. $50 Sixth ave; BIoomingdaic Re
formed Church. Boulevard and sixty-eighthst !;
Mount Morris Baptist Church, Fiffh-sve. and One
hundred and Twenty -sixth-st-
The Rev. Stephen Merritt, pastor Of the Jane Street
Methodist Episcopal Church, spoke words OF cncour
asoment to the ProhIbonists yesterday afternoon in
his address before the American Temperance Union
At Chickering Hall.
Yesterday was the seventh anniversary Of ihc
founding Of gJerry' McAuley's Cremone Mission. at
No. 104 West Thirty-second-st. The occasion was
marked by an unusually large gathering both after
noon and evening. Among the speakers wcrc tho
Rev. DR.. s NJ. Hamilton tho Rev. Dr. s. b. Rosslter
the Rev. Dr. Josiah Strong and the Rev. II. ID.
Harlan. J. Noble stearns presided, and Spencer w.
Coo directed the musical part of the proceedings.
Julius Hamburger. First United States Deputy
Grand Master Of the Independent Order Free sons
Of Israel, installed the officers Of Daniel Webster
Lodge No. 3o4 last evening at Teutonia Assembly
Rooms.
Justice Duffy administered a little poetic justice
at the Jefferson Market Police Court yesterday morn
ing by discharging mar who admitted that he had
struck tho first blow In fight while he assessed a
fne Of $40 against the one who had insultcd him.
Charles r. Hobkirk, young clerk, Of No. 55 East
Eighty sxthst. the nned whiic his assailant
wss Alexander MacCollum, jr, son Of tho dry goods
merchant at No. 33s Broadway.
Tho steamer La Normandie, among whose pas
sengers Charles A. Dana, Ballard Smith and Fred
erick vneB, was sighted of Fire Island last night
OYsTBBLOvERs, BE NOT ALARMED
Fish Commissioner Blackford said yesterday that
the rise Of eight cents bushel in Chesapeake Bay
oysters would not affect the consumers Of this city,
who draw their supplies from the bays and estuares
Of Long Island and NewJcscy and the waters in this
neighborhood "a few boatloads," said Mr. Black
ford eomo here from tho Chesapeake and Virginia.