New-York tribune., 1894-04-19
NEW-YORK CITY.

growers Hill at Black Rock near piius @ 20. 80,
Conn. are TO he sold az public auction next
dev April o. at o'clock in the Afternoon" y" Wv
premises. cut.
Allan c. Washington. president OF the morn T,.st
,,,n,ng Cornanv. whose works at Frisco Ctah
a-, -" <., oro a fortnight ago returned to this
s.,, ,,as,ardov from the West AT the udnSieA
orsce No 80 Broadway. it was said that 'he lo'S -
the coupanv would be about $lo""' ana Tue r,
Many would omit two dividends for TINS reason i"e
flames burned down the SHAFT 70 Tue '"''N
but work has been resumed
Tho New-York Mineralogical Club VIII hoio It's
nnusl meeting and election of officers Tor 'he yeai
,h,s evening at s O'Clock. at the Rutgers Feinale
COLLEGE. No. "a West FiI,y-ifth-st'
D- r de Guervile will deliver. in Hamilton
Han this afternoon a lecture, illustrated with tNe
s,ereoptlcon before the students of Coiumpia Coi-
Ice an .J-n Voyagcur Francois dams IhAt'ei"e
Orer..'
The animal dinner OF the Law Department OF the
University Of the City Of New-NorK VIII tame p''
q. Delmonico's this evening at oclocA' Om'
hundred and thrty-fve Of the graoua'eS "a '0
schoo, have enrolled themselves in an alufhh asSo
citation with the small annual dues OF S-' ".,'' ~
bartlett, Judge OF the Supreme Court is preSlueH'
Of ,he Association and Elihu Root. vice-presiueh'
The annual dinner of the Old Guard OF the lZtn
Regiment Will be held at the Mah"d''"'' ~
Club on Saturday evening
no
will celebrate the thirty-third anniversary OF 'he
riza,,,r Of the regiment on April q, at Congress
Hall. No. l92 Third-aVe
The Wilson Industrial School and Mission NO. 10
S. Marks Place Will have anniversary exercises
at II a tomorrow
The Boston Aldermen visiting the city to inspect
,bs trades Industrial schools did not call on Mayor
Gllroy yesterday. 1t was reported theE lh'eHueu
., do The Mavor said before leaving the Cl'y nan
M had received no lntndlloH IiOHI
the Boston CITY Fathers thar they contemplated
calling upon him.
The collection % art and historical objects per-
tanning 10 Napoleon and the First Empire. maze D!
the la.e Comtesse de Moenes of Paris VIII De soid
at the Fifth Avenue Auction Rooms NO. 2SS fHth-
ave. beginning this afternoon at o'clock Inc COZ
lection includes an autograph Of Napoleon and
large number Of miniatures rare curios' etc
A delivery-wagon belonging to John Miller & SON.
Of No 634 Nnth-ave.. was run into by caDe-cai No
oi on Broadway at Twenty-seVenth-st at lo;5o a. m
Yesterday with such force that the wagon was
thrown against s,reet-sprinkler ana nearly
wrecked The driver thrown from the wagon
md was kicked by one of the horses before he could
extricate himself. but he escaped serious injury
The accident did cause serious delay in travel
P,sbon Potter Will administer Holy Confirmation
IN the Church Of the Holy Nativity West One
hirty-siXthst, near Seventh-ave' TO-
night at O'clock
who happen 10 De IN tIe EONti! IA
the early hours Of the morning are many umes
treated TO race between newspaper wagons
Nearly every morning these wagons race with one
another and thus make 1t dangerous to pedestrians
who cross the Accidents have already oc-
CURED and the practice should be stopped at once
The thirty-fourth Ladies' Day" reception and
matinee of the New-York Athletic Club will be
given on Saturday next The eighth annual art loan
exhibition will begin on the same day.
Rudolf Crasemann. president of the Chamber OF
Commerce Of Hamburg arrived here yesterday on
the North German Lloyd steamer Aller from Bremen
and Southampton.
A. A. Zimmerman, the champion bicycie-rider'
sailed yesterday the American Line steamer
New-York for southampton. He has been hereto
fore the champion amateur. but now goes abroad
10 become professional. He will ride in England
France and Germany.
Charles Petersen. a Norwegian seaman in The
British bark Duleep Singh. was arrested yesterday
at the Erie Basin upon charge Of numbering
fellow-seaman. John Shields. on the high seas. lie
was taken before United States Commissioner
Morle and turned over TO the New-York authorities
He is now in Ludlow Street Jail He will be sent
10 England for trial Petersen alleges that he com
miIed the deed in sef-defence.
These subscriptions were received at the Mayors
Office yesterday for the fund for the Relief OF the
Unemployed. contributed by the city employees;
Charities and Correction Department, $iG1 81; Police
Department SlN These with S5s2l S3 already con-
,ribu;ed make total Of S6G &c. most of which
has already been distributed among the charitable
societies Of the city. The fund viii remain open for
two months longer
The violet has been displaced by another spring
flower in the stock offered by the Fourteenth-st
and Broadway venders They call the bright yellow
blossoms buttercups; bu that they are not butter
cups every country boy knows who has gathered
them along New England brooks.des either for the
flowers themselves or the greens furnished by the
tender shoots OF the plant COWS slips. or COW
slops" IS the name by which they most COM
monty known. though IN some paris Of England
they are called 'May-blobs" and meadow butter
cups" The plant really bears closer resemblance
10 the buttercup than to the cowshp family: the
b0ancal name is "caltha palus;ris." These dis
tinciively rural blossoms seem strangely out Of
place in the crowded streets OF the city
Sxty-hve talesmen were examined yesterday in
the trial OF Or. Henry G. F. Meyer in General Ses
sions bat no juror acccped Six seats are
sill 10 be filed. Maude Winfield Yesterday struck
Mrs Meyer in the Tombs in drunken frenzy.
After two days session in the Federal Building
me chief clerks Of the principal postofices Of the
States Of New-York Pennsylvania. Delaware and
Maryland closed fheir annual convention last
ing The subject which mainly occupied the atten-
tion Of the delegates was the improvement Of the
postal service.
Theodore +. Quintard. who died at South Norwalk
Conn. Tuesday at the Of hfty-four years.
was assistant cashier Of fhe Continental National
Bank Of this city. Tie had been connected with the
institution for thirty-four years and vas highly
esteemed by his employers and associates.
The Gamma Chapter OF the City College OF the
Phi Beta Kappa Society held a meeting at Clark's
No % West Twcntyf hrd-st, last evening 10 trans
act business. including the initiation OF mem
bers. and 10 listen TO the reading Of interesting
paper by Professor Henry =. Johnston. OF the col
lege '"rhe Origin Of the American State Form
OF Government"
A public meeting in behalf OF the Hampton In
stitute held last evening in the lecturc-room
OF the Madison Square Presby Church. the
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