The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-07-24
Brooi.Iyn C,ty Intelligence.


TuE PROJECTED LugATic ASYLUM FOX kiSes CoCNTr. =
few weeks since the Board of Supervisors selected the
Cfooke Farm, in the town Of flatlands as site upon
Which to erect Lunati. Asylum and made the necessary
aIrng ments for its purchase IL contains about eighty
OF upland and thousand Of salt meadow
and upon the property several buildings including
large gris mill which supplies the population ofhe neigh
borhood The cost of the whole is about S25000 At n
meeting of the Board. held yesterday evening at the
county jail rcmoDstanoe against locating the proposed
asylum upon that property was presented. en-
bracipg several reasons among which are, that the
price j. exoTbaut, and heavy tax would be i'm
po'od on the county IN consequence OF tho purchase
that the building should be erected along With other
pubic BUILDING on the County Farm that the cree.
ton of all such buildings injurious to adjacent
property and are nances: that the cost OF transporta
on ~ persons and provisions will hereafter be moro cx
pcnsyc than at present which will materially increase
the cost CT budng chat the erection of hospitals poor
houses and pest houses would prevent persons from
coming to the mill on the farm, whore they have right
TO bc served that the location Of the building would
generate disease and consequently ipure property and
that the premises only accessible through popu
lcus neiehboboods or by water the danger would be
great The mupicetion referred to the Lunatic
Asylum Committee, for report at the next meeting
Cour oLEThc intense heat Of the weather for the
past few days has affected quite number Of pcrtoP. in
this city-naves NJ well as foreigners-aud in several
instances the consequences have proved fatal Yeter-
day information was brought to the Coroues Office that
oolorod woman named Marin Johnson Frustrated ~
the heat, while walking in Vanderbilt avenue in coupl
ny with friend and expired after The dag pre-
vious. iaborer in the employ OF contractor n8incd
pougHerty. was also fatally effected while engaged in
digging cellar ON the corner Of Columbia ana Warren
streets.
DRowsED BaTmsG On Tuesday night. man
named Thomas sherry drowned the dock foot
Of Gold street, while bathing His body conveyed to
the residence Of his family in Water street Bridge
BuReIARy.-somc time during Thursday night. an en-
france effected into the dry goods store Of Henry
Badord in Fulton street by breaking through the back
basement door A number Of pieces Of the valuable
goods in the store carried away in all amounting
between 4co and $500 The perpetrators were not do
tected.
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on Thursday, the engine on the Mexican Gull Rail
road ran off the track about twenty miles below
this city, AMI Mr Il H. Blake was killed and three
Others were seriously injured u appears that blr
Blake was standing on tho platform Of one Of the
cars, and when the engine ran off the track, he
thrown between the car upon which he had
been standing and the one in front Of it, and both
cars having come together with great violence Mt
the instant, he was terribly crushed. He spoke
afterwards. but lived only Il few hours. Mr. Il. H.
Blake bad been employed M conductor on
The Cauollton Railroad and was merely on plea
sure trip, when he lost lis life He was a Young
man. aud had been married only eight or ten months
His body was taken 10 his residence at Csrroton
We have not learned the names Of the other three
men who were injured by the accident, but arc in
formed that one was Spanard, who was briDgrug
vegetables to the city This unfortunate man had
both his legs ken, and is said TO have called upon
those present, after the accident, to get axe aud
cut The muiilated limbs Off Another man had his
jawbone broken The third was not 20 seriously in
jurcd az his fellow sufferers. Nclg O,leqaS Pica
yp',e, Juty IL.
SENTENCE OF THE OTsEGo BANK RoBBER =
In she case Of the People VS.. Abijah Larned who
was convicted at the Juno term Of the Otsego
Comfy Court of Oyer and Tcrminer for the robbery
Of the Otsogo County Bank. the Superior Court
row sitting in this village QDelh) have just de-
cioed upon the bill Of exceptions, and refused 10
grant new trial. The prisoner having been
brought into Court BY Seth II Field, Esquire,
Sheriff Of Otsego county, was then called rp and
sentenced by the Court to the State prison Mt hu
burn for the term Of five years. IL is Understood
that the Hon. Daniel &. Dickinson. one Of the pri.
soaers counsel il preparing writ Of error to carry
the case TO the Court Of Appeals. There is con.
siderable excitement here in reference TO the mat.
ter, and quite general feeling that II the pri-
soner could have now trial. he you'd be no.
quilted The defendant Is young man about
twcntythreo years Of age; rather tall IND sm, and
Of q very gentcel appearance When the sentence,
which woe prot ouDccd by Judge Shsnkisnd, was
eitn To the prisoner, he seemed but very little II
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