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WESTCHESTER COUNTY: WHITE PLAINS.-At the annual meeting of Hope Engine Company, on Monday night, George Foster was elected foreman, John T. Rebill, assistant: Lewis C. Platt, Jr., treasurer, and Edward Potter, secretary. Last year the company's receipts were $246 27; expenditures, $214 10. It has an active membership It is reported on excellent of thirty-five men. authority that Mrs. Jules F. Reynal, of New-York City, will soon erect a Memorial Catholic Church here at a cost of $100,000. Mrs. Reynal has a country seat at this place, and her donations to St. John's The Church have been exceedingly liberal. superintendent of the lower division of the Harlem Railroad and the road master and the train despatcher will soon make White Plains their headquarters, and for their accommodation work on the erection of a Joseph Murphy, new building has been begun, one of the three burglars concerned In entering the house of Mr. Tier. the florist, of Mount Vernon, recentif, with which crime Pascal Barquet was unjustly charged, was arraigned yestorday in the Court of e Oyer and Terminer, when he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to ten years in the State Prison. The cases of Murphy's confederates In the burglary, Charles Peck and Adolph Oster. have not yet received the attention of the court.' Nelson Kennedy, of Jersey City, indicted for stealing some surgical Instruments from the Catholic Protectory at Van Nest, was let off with a light sentence of two months' inprisonment in the county jall. YONKERS-During the absence of ex-Judge M. H. Ellis and wife on Monday 'night, a burglar entered their house and stole a gold watch, which Mrs. Ellis had presented to her husband many years ago; also several breastpins and other articles of jowelry. The thief also brought down staffs into the dining-room a quantity of silverware ready to be carried away, but he was prevented from doing $0, It is believed. in consequence of being frightened away before he had The 111th completed his work of plunder. anniversary of the birth of Robert Emmet was celebrated on Monday night at Mustc Hall by the Montgomery Club. The hall was handsomaly decorated with flags and bunting. A attering address was dedelivered by Colonel Mathew H. Ellis. WASHINGTONVILLE-At a meeting of the members of the Citizens' Union, B committee consisting of Messrs. Wilhelm, Ehrenfeld and Koedding was appointed to work for the obtaining of a village charter to include Washingtonville and that portion of Wakefield lying in the township of Eastchester. LARCHMONT.-It to said that the Larchmont and New-Rochelle Yacht Clubs contemplate sending to Europe some of their fieet yachts to bring back the Cape May and Brenton's Reef challenge emps, earried off by the owner of the Irex. NEW-ROCHELLE.-About 8300 is still In the hands of the receiver of the New-Rochelle Savings Bank, due to sixty of the depositors. The receiver, R. P. Carpenter, has for the last two years been endeavoring to find the depositors and pay off the amount 01 the last dividend and make his final accounting in the matter. PLEASANTVILLE.-Eert Banks, the Democratic postmaster of this place, offered his resignation last week, when a petition was immediately started for the appointment of B. C. Moore, a Republican, and President Cleveland at once made the appointment. TARRYTOWN.-The lower Hudson River being now free from ice, the Tarrytown propeller will begin today making her regular trips between New-York and this place. The steam forryboat is expected to resume Monday. her trips between Tarrytown and Nyack on ALONG THE SOUND. BRIDGEPORT-The steamer Waterbury, of the