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NEW-YORK CITY. Amber ornaments are coming into fashion. The .. gentle Spring" organ has but one stop-at night. Pastoral scenes painted on ivory fans are new and pretty. Goats are fashionable pets because they are fond of bunting. Oixdized silver cloak-clasps are all the rage for dolmans this Spring. Conductors complain of the large numbers of pewter five-cent pieces in circulation. Wild strawberries were sold in market yesterday. They are much cheaper than the cultivated varieties. Stealing lunch from children while on their way to school is the latest form of meanness practiced by tramps. The steamship Frisia, which sailed yesterday, carried foreign mail consisting of 29,594 letters and 67 bags of papers. It may be suggested to suburban farmers that the way to cure potato bugs is to discover just what is the matter with them. The wards of city hospitals are now made attractive by the bouquets placed there by members of the Flower Mission A harp made of forget-me-nots, with gold tinsel strings, was a design for souveair to all artist in music, made by a Broadway florist yesterday. People are beginning to owe for a lodge in some vast wilderness, relieved by the thought that the proprietor does not require pay in advance. A enrious feature of a Fourteenth-st. oyster house is a miniature giant composed entirely of oyster-shells It is the work of a fisherman in Stamford, Conn. The Aldermen's Committee on Streets will meet this afternoon to hear persons interested in having freight cars run by steam on the Belt Railroa with coance ing tracks on the wharves and piera. The steamship Huntsville, which arrived here yesterday, passed a ship on fire in la.itude 349 57' longitad 72 58. The name could not be ascertained The vessel ap peared to have been burning two or three days. By the light of the moon last evening Murrayst., near Broadway, presented a festive appearance. The broad sidewalk furnished a platform, an accordeon all that was required is the way of music, and 15 or 20 couples de spite the heat, danced until a late hour. A paeamatic engine is housed in the stables of the Second Avenue Railroad near Harlem River. It is propelled solely by atmospheric pressure, and can carry at a rapid raté a number of cars It will soon run between Sixty third- st. and the upper end of the Island. A large number of friends were present at the funeral of the Hon. Charles H. Wheelan, ex Member of Assem. biy from the XVIIth District, which took place yesterday at his late residence, No. 126 East Fourth-st. The pall-bearers were John Keily, Thomas J. Creamer, M. C. Gross, S. Mont. gomery, L. J. Leonari, Edward Lambert, Thomas Smith, and L. Hennessy, Mayor Ely, Jackson S. Schultz, and Daniel O'Brien were among the callers. Attorney-General Fairchild sent a representative yesterday to the banking-house of the suspended German Savings Bank in Morrisania. to consult with depositors in re gard to the appointment of a receiver. Each depositor was required to show his pass-book and indicate his preference in riting. There was but little interest manifested Mr. Hoeland, the late cashier said that if harmony should prevail among the creditors of the bank they would get at least 75 cents on the dollar. The police of the Eighth Precinet were informed yesterday that Mary Robertson, age 37, was dy ing at No. 197 South Fifthave, Capt. McDonnell proceeded at once to the place, and found the woman suffering greatly She said that she quarreled on Saturday with Sarah Feeny, who threw her down stairs. The injured woman was taken to the Chambers Street Hospital, and it wasfound that her ribs and arms were broken, and she was much bruised on the head and body. She was afterward removed to Bellevue Hospital, where thought that she will recover. Her assailant has not been arrested. Songs, piano solos and duets, recitations. and other exercises filled up the programme at the anniversary exhibition of the New York Institution for the Blind, last evening, in the presence of a large audience, at Steinway Hall. On the stage were seated the pupils of the school Calisthenic exer elses, performed by a dozen boys and girls, called forth much applause. The recitation in arithmette was also well received. The multiplication of large numbers was performed by the use of a blackboard, on which letters representing figures were placed, and the calculation of intereston a large sum of money for any number of years, months, and days was made with ease and rapidity. The instructor of this class was blind. Geography was also illustrated by means of dissected maps. L. E. Howard, brother of James M. Howard, who committed suicide at the Vanderbilt House on Wednesday morning, saysthat his brother had not been drinking liquor on that day, as reported, and that he W38 temperate man. He believed that the loss of his watch had depressed his brother's spirits 80 greatly that he took his own life. The police had re covered the watch and arrested the pickpockets before the suicide was committed, but Mr. Howard did not know this when he killed himself. Michael Norton, John Harrington, John White, and William White, the men accused of stealing the watch, were yesterday before Justice Fiammer, at the Fitty-seventh Street Police Coart William White was dis charged, the evidence being insufficient to convict,him The others case. were remanded to enable the officers to complete the BROOKLYN. The summing up in the Kingsley & Keeney resrvoir reference suit against the city was postpolied yesterday for one week on account of the absence of the senior counsel for the city. Some of the florists whose shops are near Greenwood are hired by the season to keep crosses of flowers on graves. These crosses are placed dat on the mounds, and are just the length of the graves. Justice Guck yesterday held for the Grand Jury Mary Scott and Nellie Page. two pretty shoplifters, each about 20 years old, who were arrested for stealing a number of valuable articles from Eastern District stores. The Police Commissioners yesterday dismissed from the force Michael Devlin of the Tenth Precinct for drunkenness. They also fined Michael Boyle of the Twelfth Precinct and Richard A. Daryea of the Ninth Precinct one day's pay each for being their posts. Messrs. Price and Farrell were appointed last Monday by the Common Council as clerks of the Aldermen's Committees, and on Wednesday took the oath of office. Isaac o rane, the former clerk, declines to surrender his office to the new appointees until next week.on the ground that ananimous consent was not obtained from the Aldermen. The Mayor de clines to interfere. Thomas E. Cable's $10,000 four-in-hand and English drag will make the first trip of the season from the Pierrepont House, on the Hights, to Coney Island. It will run from the Pierrepout House and the Astor House on alter nate days. The coach will carry four inside and twelve out and side the Ocean passengers Parkway, The route will be through Prospect Park The sixteenth anniversary of the Howard Mission and Home for Little Wanderers, of No. 40 Bowery, New York, was celebrated at the Academy of Music last evening About little waifs, nearly all dressed in white, were seated on the stage and gave songs and declamations Addresses were made by the Rev. Dr. Reuben Jeffrey of Brooklyn and the Rev. M. H. Posgen of St. Louis, Mo. Contributions were taken for the assistance of the mission. Sheriff Daggett of Kings County receives35cents a day for the board of each prisoner in the Raymond Street Jail. Local politicians have lately been discussing the pro priety of reducing this amount The Supervisors' Jall Com mittee were directed yesterday to report at the next meeting the proper rate that the Sheriff should receive. The Commit tee on Salaries were also instructed to report as to the advisability of reducing the salaries of other county official.
