New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-23

have encountered unusually disagreeable weather,
she in continuous dense fog for about 800
miles until passing across the Banks Of Newfound-
land She also encountered strong head winds,
and high seas which continuously swept the decks.
SHEEP-RAISING ON LONG ISLAND.
THE sHINNECoCK HILLS REsERvATIoN--wHATI 1T Is
TO BE USED FOR.
1t was reported yesterday that Austin Corbin was
endeavoring to purchase the Shinnecock Hills
indianl Reservation. which is in the township of
southampton, L: L., about three miles west of
southampton village. to make there new summer
resort. ): A. Bowman, the president of the Bank
o. Detroit at Detroit, Minnesota, said. however,
yesterday to a TRIBUNE reporter: Il am the man
VINO IS buying the land and MIR. Corbin has nothing
because wn always G the got
9ince when am in the city. began negotiating
lSr 5ms Iands in April have beneht great deal
-and about thrce weeks ago secured seven shares
and contracted for more. The land consists of fifty
$500 acres in all. The owners are old men and
l W", slowly The laqd is eighty miles from New
intend making sheep Rancho S of III suo aSar s
have out West When get it started some people
from Montana will probably, ga, in with me aud
strip of about 400 acres is billy and sandy Ii is
the old reservation secured to the ShnpecoclI
Indians foI thousand years. The yearly rent was
one ear Of corn i IS stated The land was not
But every time the Indians attempted TO Till the
land their crops would be bestowed by the ira vel
across their lands Finally they gave up the at
tempt to cultivate t. g soil, and Tor very many
years have raised nothing. The remnant of tho
tribe. about 100 ill number lives by catching fish
an, digging clans: They have intcmlXed with
both blacks and whites, ana are dsappcaring In
1851, as it was feared that the Indians would lie
come burden to the town, the old reservation
exchanged for more fertile tract of land of about
600 acres, at Shinnecock Neck. which was gwen
twenty-five men secured the hills reservation"
:, Mr.. Bowman further SAID that the land cost very
little. Montana stock-farmcrs thought that the
comparatively short distance from the New-York
market would enable them 10 deliver the mutton at
less expense and in better condition than is now the
case in transporting the carcasscs from the West
The land is used for grazing purposes now.
DRUNKEN MOTHERS IN COURT.
Policeman mckinley, of the Fourth Precinct
learned on Sunday night that Mrs Ellen Quinn
was intoxicated i'll the of the fourth floor
oil NO. ~ Cherry-St, and that her four children be-
tween me ages OF one and eleven years. all girls
We're III furnishing condition, ragged, and suffering
found them almost destitute of fmrnture
ana tne atmosphere mtoler3bly offensive. He
t Mp Mrs. Quinn and her children into custody
When Mrs. Quinn and her children were arraig ed
yesterday before Justice Otterbourg, at the Tombs
monee Court, their appearance ava ened much SYM
ton Of Cruelty to Children stated the court that
Mrs Quinn was an old offender, and that he Society
had been Obliged to take charge of her children
before, and had had them sent once to charitable
institution for eighteen months Afterward Mrs.
Quinn having promised reformation her children
were restored her, buts elapsed into cr former
habits and her husband abandoned her At the re-
quest Of Mr. Chiardi, the children sent tempo
raTliy 10 hospital Tor the treatment of their ewes
before being placed under the charge OF the Sisters
oil ST. Francis. Mrs Quinn committed to Black
wells Island for months.
On Sunday night Policeman Musgraye of the
fourth Irecinct arrested IL who gave the
name of Joanna Hickey, age fity-five In Cen
ue-st, III "a state OF nt,xicaton, and Offering a
a child two years old, for sale. When she was
placed at the bar of the Tombs Police Court yestcr
day, Mr.. Chiardi immediately recognized her as
Julia McMahon, an old offender, recently released
from prison. She has been arrested four times She
asserted that she the mother of the child JUS
tce Otterbourg sent her to Blackwells Island Tor
one month. The child will he provided for by the
society Tor the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
For some time Patrick Lynch, with his wife and
Their two children Rose, age four, and Patrick age
SIX, have nightly visited the Eighteenth Precinct
Station asking for lodgings. On Sunday night
captain Chnchy had an officer of the Society for The
prevention of Cruelty to Children in waiting at the
station, and when Lynch and his family appeared
ihey were taken into custody. They were arraigned
before Justice Murray in the Yorkville Police Court
yesterday. Lynch stated that the downfall OF his
Mrs. Lynch was sent to the Island and her husband
was allowed to go on his promise to get work and
take care OF the chidre0, who We're committed TO
the Society of ST. Francis.
Elizabeth Cannon, alias Gillen who was found
drunk ana dlsOrderly Ill Janes-st. Sunday night
with baby IN her arms, and who has been sleeping
III wagons anu railways for some time, was, en- the
application of Mr.. Chiardi of the Society for the
Prevent1on of Cruelty to Children, sent TO Black
wells Island for six months by Justice Otterbourg
yesterday at the Tombs Police Court.