New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-04-13
GATHERED ABOUT THE TOWN


Professor Rosser W. Raymond who has inst ne
turned from visit to Egypt, will give two lectures
In Plymouth Church the evenings OF Monday and
Tuesday OF next week. April 90 and 81 tho subjects
Of which will be "Calro and the Nile" and "The Re-
dempton Of Egypt" sereopticon views will illustrate
them.
The funeral Of John Lowery detective sergeant Of
the police force attached to the Central Office will
take place tomorrow morning at the Roman Catholic
Church Of st. Charles BoTomeo, in Sidney Place. He
was unmarried, and HIS nearest relatives are three
brothers. His home at No. eli IL Bergen-st
Detective Lowery the police force for seventeen
years, and was one Of the bcstlHnown in his de-
partment, and had many firm friends.
More than dozen Methodist Episcopal pastors be-
gan their work yesterday in pupits as the result
Of the appointments made by Bishop Foss at the an
nual Conferpce last week. They included Dr. j. O.
Wilson, in Simpson Church; DR.. W. W. Bowdish, in
Embury Dr.. r. S Pardngton. in First Place ". d.
Thompson. in Central; F. B. Upham, in Carroll Park ;
Crandal I. North, in Fleet street II. Lightboun in
Fourth Avenue; Gustav Laass, IN St Paups; j. B.
Merwin, in Cook Street. c. s. Williams, In Francis ;
Thomas Stephenson in Leonard Street; n. HubbeI In
Powers street; and Robert WATSON. in st. Lukes.
f. Edwin Ewell will lecture before the Rembrandt
Club Of Broohlyn tonight on the Contrast Between
the Greek and Modern Schools of Sculpture" The
lecture viii be at the house OF John s. James, No.
Pierepontst.
In a quarrel early last evening between Frederick
Maringer, of No 147 DevOest., Williamsburg. and
August Richter, both boys nine years old. Richter
seized stone and struck Maringer the head, and
the blow inflicted compound fracture OF the skull.
The attending ply sicans say the boy cannot live.
Edwin Becker, Brooklyn newspaper man, was at
tackled last night in KnickerbOckerave. by a large
dog which bit him severely on the right hand. The
wound was cauterized by physicians at the Eastern
Hospital. His clothes also torn In his struggle
with the brute.
The Rev. sam Small, president OF Utah University,
will lecture upon The American Mafa" in the Me-
mortal Methodist Church, at Clark and Henry sts.,
Friday evening
"The Moral Aspects of tie Bridge Question:" re-
ferrlng to the projects for connecting the Eastern Dis
trct with New-York by a bridge, were discussed
by Dr. A. Stewart Walsh, Rufus L. Scott and the Rev.
;. Gifard Nelson in Trinity Baptist Church last
evening
The April meeting of the Bridge Trustees will be
held this afternoon.
The Republican General Committee will hold It's
regular monthly meeting in the Criterion Theatre to-
morrow night.
At the spring meeting Of the NewYorl1 and Brook
lyn Congregational Association In the Park Church to-
morrow the Rev. S. ". Butler and the Rev. c. II.
TyndaIl will discuss in the afternoon the topic, The
Sunday Evening Meeting: How TO Make It Successful"
In the evening Dr. Parhurst, Of the Madison Square
Presbytelian Church IN New York, Will deliver SER
mon.
Professor Thomas Davidson delivered illustrated
lecture upon The Evolution of Sculpture" in the Sec
ond Unitarian Church last evening, before members OF
the Rroohlvn Ethical Association. The subject was
discussed Iy F. Edwin Elwen and others.