Sunday dispatch. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1845-1854, 1852-04-18

throat Before, however, he could fully carr
out his purpose he was discovered
- True bills have been found by the Grand
Jury against William M. Doty for perjury in
the celebrated Forrest divorce case.
R1y A German woman named Wolf whils IN
a row with another woman on M onday even.
ing got her finger in her mouth and nearly bit
it off.
CY Max Stager, German, was stabbed on
Monday night in several places by two men
named o Keefe and Armstrong. The injured
man was sent to the City Hospital and his as
sailants were committed to prison.
t.Y Leonard Schaffer was tried for the muir
der of Basil Blair on Monday and convicted NJ
manslaughter in the third degree, the punish.
ment for which is four years in the State pris
on.
~ George H Lee colored man, steward
on hoard the bark William G. Alden, was com,
mitted to prison for stealing box containing
one thousand Mexican dollars from said ship.
- Jerry B. Johnson was committed to
prison on Monday evening for knocking down
and afterwards stabbing in the neck a colored
woman named Eliza Sample. Jealousy ap
pears to have been the cause of the dispute.
F-E@ Loretta J Stockton, girl of proposes
ing appearance, was committed on charge Of
having, ON Sunday morning, taken from the
person of Walter Alexander, while In house
of disrepute, watch valued $3.50.
~ Alice Tinsdale, 1877 Lawrens street was
committed to prison on Saturday evening" Tor
stabblng her husband In the arm.
esYs Christian Renseler was committed to
prison on Tuesday night on charge OF knocking
| down Matthew Proctor, native OF PennsylVa-
MIA, and taking from his person silver watch.
~ A mad OK escaped on Monday evening,
and after running through the first avenue, end
ed by goring laborer named Philips, whom he
flung several feet in the air. His career was
finally put a stop to by officer Erb of the Eigh-
teenth Ward Police, who shot him dead
~ The dead body of woman was seen
floating on Sunday evening in Buttermllk Chan
mel, Governors Island, by pilot boat, but ow
ing to the food in the river, 1t was Impossible
| to recover it.
- An unfortunate man, who had been un
mercfully elected from his boarding house, was
found, bv offcery McCatfery, in dying condl
ton on Friday night, and conveyed to the Hos
pital.
r5sys A blind man, named Stephen O'Connor,
was brought to the Station House of the Six.
teenth Ward, on Friday night, IN state of de
liriial tremens.
r-zp Thomas Shepperd a Free-mason, and
, member of the Lafayette Lodge, was brought
before the Recorder on Monday, charged by
Herbert HernsteIn, the Master OF said Lodge
| with having forcibly taken possession of the
= tin box containing the warrant and regala
| the Lodge as also $40 private property of the
t Master. 1t appearing that the charge arose out
e of internal dseensions in the body, the Recor.
der dismissed it.
G-Y" A very pretty French actress prefeneda
u complaint before the sitting magistrate at the
Tombs, on Tuesday afternoon, in which she
n charged a countryman of hers with having
obtained from her JewelrY valued at $1,000, and
, on which he raised 5000 in Wall-st, for the
- purpose of procuring, as he stated, license
y for theatre Since then she has not got back
II her property or its value.
N7Y@ The Fire Department, on Friday evening"
r elected Messrs Reese, Boese, Gregg and Mer.
5. ritt, as Fire Wardens for the term Of three
d years.
% r5g= By statistical report of the Post Office
l. of this CITY, it appears that the increase OF the
past quarter over the one Immediately prece
ding has been in letters-3l, ,l89, and in papers,
d 1859.
u ~ The Chamberlain OF this city, ShepVen
Knapp has received letter signed g Contrlte"
,e and containing $3.50, which the writer says be-
longs to the city and was misappropriated.
u On Monday morning, about O'Clock, a
= y box was found at the corner OF Twenty seventh
3 street and Broadway, which on being opened
s was found to contain the body of an infant.
- John and Elizabeth Pinchelton werear
o, rested on Saturday and taken before Justice
D. King, of Brooklyn, for some very trifing OF
fence when during the course of their exam
QdblOn 6dCu party CllelSCN tiAO S'hSA "AFA NAeN
~ N.Y. On this being enquired into it was toun
+. to be fact and both parties were committed
q prison.
lu ry7 The charge against Mr.. John H. Acke
~ man for selling 5000 segars, the property, a
. alleged, of Emanuel J. Lemon, and stored wit
ed Ackerman, has been dismissed by the RecO
he der.
,ia N-9a James Hammond, 55 years of age, and.
,is native of New York, fell into the river at the
ie. foot Of Roosevelt street, on Thursday night, sa
rat before assistance could be rendered, he was
drowned.
st. ugg7 The examination of Margaretta Lohrens
tlv on charge of being an accomphce OF Otto Gm
his zig in the murder of his wife, was commence
on Friday and adjourned from that day to mex
Wednesday. The General impression is tha
the prisoner will be liberated.
" By an official report made to the Com
mon Council, Brooklyn, by John M Perry, ESQ
I'D. Commissioner of Repairs and Supplies it AZ
on, pears that the number of buildings erected
and that city from the lst of February 1851 to tn
zen lst of January 1852, was 1871.
Dy u Upwards of 100 pauper emigrants wer
.eI % refused admittance to the lodging house in CT
Sn 'Sn nal street, on Wednesday night. Captain Ga
III III rett of the Sixth Ward Station, however, pr
to lu1 ceeded to the building in question: and compel
"o ,Un ed Mr. Pagan, the Superintendent, to adm
"a them.
Of NsY The Seventh Regiment National Guard
in have organized a new Band, consisting of
ON instruments. 1t is expected it will be the fine
I'M in the United States.
lied " One of the Sixteenth Ward office
tey found young man of respectable appearance
ta9 ar! I'eli-= L d, wandering round the stree
ice, on Friday evening in state of insanity. I
had was conveyed to Jefferson Market Police Cou
ped and detained there.
lce ~ The twenty y-ninth anniversary of "
@ leu New York Lying-In Hospital was celebIal
~ ~ on Thursday afternoon, at the Asylum, 95 M
sne m ron street. From the annual report it appe'
hd' ed that 450 applicants had been admitted dl
nc; ing the year. The receipts were S3324
leu and the balance in the hands of the TreasuE
$50 after the expenditure 81, ,l23 A.
- I-9P Rat exterminator having obtained pl
49," 40 mission from the Clerk of Washington Mark
NV to try his hand on the rats in that vicinity,
hat about 1t on Wednesday night, and before MOI
rT ing he had destroyed some 1900 of them.
oye VT A resolution was adopted by the Boa
ick of Aldermen, on Friday evening, referring it
md the Committee on Streets, to inquire into IL
da. expediency of opening Anthony street, fro
On Orange street to Chatham Square, and OF +
ted grading Cross, Orange and Anthony streets,
On the neighborhood of the Five Points.
me D1gT The old Sugar Factory, corner of Tham
lR- st. and Trinity Place, erected in the year l7
in and used as prison by the British during th
an revolutionary war, is being pulled down a
nd present, with the intention of building largt
he jobbng house on its site.
~ An opium eater, named William Wood
s was arrested on Sunday night, in South St
Ill while in state of violent insanity for want Of
ity his regular doses He had left home without
es- taking with him a sufficient quantity of the
iys drug, and hence his distress. He had contract
Of ed the habit of using opium as a cure for the
he ague.
elr De9S Patrick Hogan, living it First Avenue
1T was induced to enter the house, l63 Armstrong
In street, on Monday last, by woman calling
IS herself Mary Ann McMarcy, who took fonhls
ne person $45 in gold. Hogan made complaint to
!Ie the police, who arrested the woman, but did
lal not recover the property. ~