The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-05-01

yesterday, at his office ut the Toombs the body 4
James Monahan, the young man who stabbed 1.
the heart on Sunday afternoon. The four prisonars
William Thompson, Jonathan Illngworth, James
Quinn, and James Eustce--were brought into the OF
fee in charge Of officers Watson and Dowling anl
seated bench in order to hear the testimony TAKEN
material facts elected from those we gave ye
terdoy The negro, William Queen and jane Moss
testify positively to seeing Thompson stab the eased
with pocket knife, and then shut it up, and put IL
away In his pocket. woman by the 81 Catha-
rne Mack, testihcs to standing in Anthony street,
talking with the deceased, when the accused parties
along and of them spoke to her, and the
ceased took 1t up. and fight was t.e result. DR..
Holmes who made the post mortun examination of the
body, stated that he found punctured wound about
two and quarter inches below and little to the right
of the left nipple On opening the chest and tracing
pass through it into the right ventrice of the heart
here about four six in the percardum
The wound seemed to extend in an upward direction;
ii passed between the fourth and fifth ribs and suf
fcient to cause death. The evidence then sub.
mited to the jury who, after short elaboration
turned the following verdict" That tho deceased,
James Monahan, came to his death by wound in the
chest, inflicted by William Thompson, while engaged
in ARRAY in Anthony street, on the afternoon of
April Goth 1872 Upon the rendition of this verdict
the Coroner committed Thompson to prison for trial.
and discharged the othor three men from custody.
Thompson is laboring about 80 years Of age and
has wife and child. He in the employ of Mr.
Ash, the plumber in Broadway. The cause of all this
difficulty terminating in the fatal result the effects
Of intemperancc appears that Thompson and his
three companions had bsen dining together, and were
at the time Of the ARRAY considerably under the inu
cncc of liquor.
MAY DAY HAS CoMr.-of all the,days of the year .h"
one which beams upon the earth is the most d,a-
greeabo in Gotham. The whole city is in commotion
and hundredsyca, thousands of families
their place OF abode; many, doubtless merely because
IL is custom of oden time and they could net be like
the generality Of people did they otherwise. Old and
young male and female are engaged in the arduous
work of taking down and putting up bedseads examn-
ing the furniture to how much they have lost by
the change, and pronounoing hard sayings upon the
carmen because bureau may chance to get scratch
or piece of crockery broken. But the carmen
not 1t is day of feasting to them they can demand
d n
those who unfortunate as to be unable to
rlete their moving before to-day, have to pay tho
largest price for It, Such destruction Of small things
will take place to-day, was hardly known be-
fore from the fact that tere will be greater number
Of changes, especially in the upper wards where nearly
two-thids Of the houses few months since bore the
pacard of ito let" But there those who still
more unfortu natcthosc who have no house to
to- and up to late hour yesterday had no prospect of
obtaining They have been unsuccessful in many
lords They are generally persons IN the more limited
circumstances of life, and who dependent their
daily toll for the sustcnance Of their families. The
rents Unfortunately high and many of them too
honorable to enter into contract the conditions of
which they know they cannot fulfil There is another
cause the houses are generally of such character
| that very small portion of one of them will command
greater price than tho whola house would few years
since TO such people, the day is looked upon with
will pervade the tcnements of all who change to-
will be heaped, pcl NELL and tho only thin /,
desired to be known, is how it may DO arranged and
what shall be the first article to begin with Being
the kettle and for tea after which, ii they have
found table chairs they to work in tho confused
pile There Is trouble with the childrenperhaps
fayorte cat has been left, trihng
causes such delay that for the night nothing more
will be done Truly this is day Of labor and sorrow
FiREsA fire broke out at IL o'clock Sunday night
in the roof of house No POI Clinton street. caused
| the burning OF II chimney. which put out with
night in small dwelling house in Thames near
| Greenwich street. which put out with trihing
damage: fire broke out about hafpast nine O'Clock
| last puIf in f1Ip
occupied by Henry Erbcn organ factory, the
fourth and fifth stories of which entirely destroyed
The amount of damage could not be ascertaned but
must be considerable The fire originated in the fourth
story
The OID House. OF WAsnNcroN.-That ancient edi-
fee the Battery, in Broadway formerly the resi-.
dcnce Of General George Washington, is now being
converted into restaurant. There many incl
dents connected with this house. could they be known
which would be interesting. 1t was ut time occu-
pied by Lord Howe the head quarters of General
Putnam. and the residence of Aaron Burr 1t was in
this house that Benedict Arnold formed the conspiracy
against the American army in tho great struggle for
liberty 1t is a relic of the times that tried mems
souls and it is pity that it should be converted
into house where every description character may
assemble and rob it OF that interest which has always
hung about it,
SERIOUSLY HuRr-A stranger in passing through the
Five Points, Sunday night accidentally fell into the
of house No 1O4 Cross street by which he was
seriously injured. He was conveyed to the hospital
FATAL AccIpENr.--A man named Francis Boles was
accidentally drowned last evening, at Williamsburg,
while attempting to jump board Of the ferry boat.
Every exertion was made to him. but when taken
out Of the water he dead The unfortunate man
was ship carpenter by trade and had been employed in
Patterson Perrinc and Sacks ship yard He has left
q wife and five children.
Patent HEAT RErArNrR-A curiously constructed
Spite for the retention of heat in the hues steam
boilers or stove pipes, has recently been discovered
which is likely to be of great benefit to those who
steam or fire in stove, it will at least twenty
five per cent in fuel. 1t has passing around the
centre Spite in an inclined plate which threw
all the heat from the centre to the
fue, or stove pipe as the may be- In the ues of
boilers 1t is accompanied with kind Of crank which,
being turned, makes the iue perfectly clean 1t Is
curiosity, and will certainly the purposes for
which it is intended, having been tried with perfect
success. 1t was invented by Mr.. Chapman, who has
filed an application for patent, and who will shsw
the invention to any who may call at his Office No. Oh
West street