New-York tribune., 1876-09-01
NEW-YORK CITY.

| There are 974 cOnvicts con the Island"
"Flooting and pleteing done is an Eighth
sign
An uptown florist has pineapples growing
| in his greenhouse.
The turn-stiles have. been removed from the
The "month with an r in itn has come,
and oysters must die
Firemen, like their trained horses, retire at
night partially harnessed.
Sprays of Hartford vine" were offered for
| sale on Broadway yesterday
The pavement of the Bowery between Prince
and Spring-sts, Is being relaid
The unvailng OF the Seward statue has been
| postponed for two or three weeks.
School children now count the last days OF
vacation aud grudge the hours as they pass
The telegraph poles of the police depart
ment are now marked with band Of green paint
The foundation for the large fountain at
sixty-second-st and the Boulevard is now completed
A hearse belonging TO west side undertaken
has pyrimda bouquets immorteles instead OF pmcs
Thomson and Prince-sts. are SO thrOnged
with children ON pleasant evenings as 10 oe almost III
passable
Butchers are serving ice to their customers M
at rates considerably lower than those offered Dy Ice
dealers
Ragpckers are just now reaping harvest
the rubbish thrown cut OF houses that are peihs
overiauied.
The Eighth-aye. cars run only as far as One
while the large sewer Is being
constructed at that spot.
The new arrivals at the Central Park Mu-
seum are ratLesnaEe gioDose cufasso"' ah a'o'ho
woOdcbuck, and two albino rats.
The Floating Hospital made an excursion
down the bay yesterday with sOs SICK Children accom-
panied by their mothers, on board
A resident of Orange Mountain N. j. has a
telescope powerful that he cn read with IT. IRON hi'
hOusetop, the signs on BrOacway'
A woman confined 20 years in the City
LunatIc Asylum makes paper peacoeks pen-wpers' anu
cushions watch she sells 70 Visitors
The Police Commissioners have ordered an
immediate inspection of the old police boat Sehecd anu
IL IL thought tnat she VIII he condeinned.
At meeting Of the Committee of Admissions
Of the Ecwlo stock Exchange yesterday, l. krkner
aud s. H. Hazard were elected nlemOers
One of the trained nurses in the Charity Hos
pita on Blackwefs Island has lost an eye irom tne
effects OF a contagious disease contracted there
An apple-woman on the East Side, who
knts busy while tending her sia mas pavau @ % on ne'
Street bands have almost entirely disappeared
fcm thorougaiares lined by private lesdehcss Wnetr
two weeks ago they we're 80 numerous as 70 DC nS
The statement that the failure of c.. IL.
Marvin, a aOwnCwn broscr, was announced on Wednes
day Is now shown TO be an error Que 10 similarity III
names.
There is an organ grinder on the West Side
who blind aud dear ana has cork leg is htIie son
gui cs h picks up money, and adInOaishos hIm when
one tune is ground out.
Controller Green signed warrants yesterday
Fund ss2O,13. 81 Cgo;On Nattf
Public st:uction, Ss,9S7 Is
The Australian Rifle Team will go to Creed
Today to shoot for positions on the tea, pr0per
MIN an gondIy' Tie scotcn Team Will also go to
| Creodmoor their first days practice.
Twenty cases of linens, imported by Sloan,
Black Company Ot No l53 Cnurch-st, were seized yes
erday by Cpl Charles n. Braekeit, special Treasury
| alton. Jhe goods will be appraised to-day.
The brig Salye has arrived at this port, after
voyage Oi 1874 days, ICON AoUuta Capt johnston re
ror that they encountered very rough weather during
the passage The heavy sen toye ~ the cabin doors and
half filed the cain with water. Inc vessel was laen
| with sugar Tor J. c. Philips.
The Canadian yacht Countess of Dufferin,
winch was defeated in sue OF Aug IL and - tor
he America HundI cdguine Cup" by the yacht Made
eino. at anchor of stplcOn. where It Is stated
provements Will be made upon Ler. IN the spring an
| other moy De sailed for tue America Cup.
| The work lricd on at the Childrens Sea-
institution has been unusually successful this
Twelve companies, averaging 100 children each
nave been cated fer AZ the Aoiae, eacA eha remaining
week. lhe season will close sept 23 Trains leave
Greenwood Bath at intervals Of 80 minutes and those
Interested iu the work invited TO visit The home
| The trial of Officer Cortlander of the Fourth
Precinct, ctug-o VIA brually assaultng an ola man
,reaEing two OF fbs, place yesterday morning
| before Police Commissioners Smt0 ami wheeler Tue
old mans testimony to the alleged brutal conduct OF TIE
u1cer corbOlated by that OF his wife and dangter
d OF Two men VINO Witnessed The elubDng Tue oitcer
claimed that he struck the Old man N setiecnse wnlLe
the latter resisting the arrest OF ills son. The case
| refereed 10 tho lull board.
The locking up Of Patrolmen Carr and Henry
on "Wednesday uight In tho OF 1heodOe Allen, ut
No. % Biceckerst created considerable excitement IN
the Fittctn5l Ward. Capt Yag Duscn denied that he
usd given the any orders u remain IN tile building
Mr. Allen called on superintendent Walng yesterday,
ana stated thAt after the Oicr5 had exnined the room
he asScd gO he wished TO close up the place.
they persisted in tcGlumg aud he locked the doors.
At length Ar Alien freed the two officers, and they
| hasteBed away without word The Police Commits
sioncrs arc 10 investigate this case to-day
| BRO0KLYN.
There 124 births and u marriages last