New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-12-05
NEW-YORK CITY.

. Owing to the exhaustion of the appropriation for
copying old records in the Registers Office, Register
Fitzgerald yesterday ordered the discharge of twelve
clerks. whose salaries were 81 1000 a year each.
An adjourned meeting of the American Dante So
6iety for the adoption Of a constitution and the election
Of officers will be held this evening at & O'Clock in the
Law School Building. Columbia College.
The failure Of s. N. Parker was announced on the
Cotton Exchange yesterday. Mr.. Parker has been en-
gagged IN business in Chicago for the last year or moro.
His liabilities are small. Formerly he was q large
dealer hero IN tobacco and cotton.
The alumni Of Drew Theological Seminary will have
. dinner at No. % West twenty third-st. tonight.
Tho bazaar at No. 1876 second-ave.. organized by the
Association for Befricnding Children and Young Girls
at the House Of the Holy Family, attracts a large num-
Der Of visitors each day. 1t will close tomorrow.
The board Of managers includes Mrs.. Eugene Kelly,
Mrs. J. W. Drexel. Mrs. Brockholst Cutting and Mrs.
H. Duncan Harris.
A'mectine of boatmen was held in Kingston Hail.
No. 10 ~South-st. yesterday. a committee was ap-
pointed to raise funds to pay counsel to represent the
interests Of the boatmcn at the coming trial OF the
grainelevator case soon to come up before the Oniteo
States Supreme Court in Washington.
The Tribune yesterday received the following con-
~tributons for the sick and destitute family referred to
on December 3: Henry I. Sloane. SO; "Cash,' 80;
Anonymous" So al. z. r." 81.
Rear.Admiral Bancroft Gherardi will give a recep-
v ONdy ~ auuuIdl va = "bN VNN
of the two Brazilian cruisers. The reception Will be
given on the flagship Philadelphia.
Mayor Grant received a silver matchbox through the
mail from Paris yesterday. 1t is Of quaint design, and
contains places for matches and coins. The Mayor
paid the duty and seemed much pleased with the match
box, although he said that he had no idea who sent 1t
10 him.
Andrew Finnegan. o hackman. brought to Mayors
Marshal Engelhard yesterday a valuable FUR CLOAK
xrhich bo cold had hccn loft in his cab on Wednesday
night. The cloak was afterward claimed by a Union
League clubman, who said that it was the property OF
his wife and had been left in Finnegan's vehicle through
forgetfulness.
The Rev. J. T. Quinn. of ST. Columba's Roman Cath
ole Church, in West Twenty fftllst., has been trans
ferred to st. Mary's Church. in Newburg.
Eadmus Jansen. a German. forty five years old. COM
mitted suicide Yesterday in his home at No. 138 East
One hundred and tenth-st. He made a moose for MS
neck with a leather belt and hanged himself to his
hedstead. An incurable sickness drove him 10 commit
tho act.
William Gocbel, a German Of middle age, whose
home was in New York ave-, Jersey City Heights, en-
tered Elmer & Amends drugstore. AT Third-ave. ana
Eighteenth-st., yesterday afternoon. and complained OF
illness. He evidently was suffering from hear' as
ease, and 10 was seated in q chair near an open window.
A moment later he tainted and in a few minutes he
died.
The dedication services of the new Carmel Baptist
Church, at Onehundred and twenty.third-st' near
ThIrd-avc. will be held next Sunday. The sermon will
be preached in the morning by the Rev. Charles A.
Raymond, the pastors father. AT 3 p. m. a meeting
will DO held, at which the keys OF tho new church VIII
bo formally presented to the trustees by J. c. Over
hiser. chairman Of the building committee of the Bap-
fist City Mission. In the evening a sermon VIII Dc
preached by the Rev. DR.. G.. d. y. Pepper. Other
special services will be held during the week.
The Manhattan Railway Company is securing new
equipment as fast as practicable, in order TO supply
fresh facilities to its patrons. The company is re
pciving the instalmeut Of fifty new cars recently Or
dercd. The directors have just authorized the purchase
of fifty more new cars, and a constant addition 10 the
equipment will he made for months.
The County Cork Mems and the County Kerry Mems
associations have subscribed 800 each to the Irish
Famine Fund.
A public meeting Of the Ncw-York kindergarten AS
ISOLATION will be held in the reception rooms OF inc
Ienox Lyceum at 4 p. m. today. President Scth LOW
of Columbia College: the Rev. DrS. X. Hcbcr newton
and r. Winchester Donald. superintendent McAillster'
NJ the kindergarten Association Of Philadelphia; Pro-
lessor Butler and others arc expected to speak.
Tho annual election Of the Southern ana A'lahuc
Telegraph Company. whose lines are leased to the west
~ Union. resulted Yesterday in the choice of the Old
toard of directors. as follows: Norvin Green. Thomas
r. Fckert. John Van Horne. II. ii. Rochester, D. Is
Van Every. Charles A. Tinker, Arthur b. Graves
Charles NJ. Fry and Henry Hentk. TIC boa'u VIII IT,
elect the present officers at a subsequent meeting
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Douglass arrived from Wash
tnrton Yesterday afternoon. They went lmineoiaoel9
10 Passaic, y. j., 10 spend the meh' WIN Ut =. "
p,oun smear. an oldtime Abolnionist, who lives a
Psssaic with her son, A. swan brown MI. anu 'r9'
Douclass will sail for Hayt tomorrow.