New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-02-26
BROOKLYN ITEMS.

In the Common Council on Monday
evening, Aid Rice brought up report from the
Ferry and Water CommIItee, in favor OF drawing on
the $1,000 heretofore Appropriated to employ Coun-
sci to conduct the case, IN regard to the Montague
Ferry, which is to be argued before Judge Roessveis
In NewYork on Saturday next. Tue question to DC
decided Is, whether the night OF establishing the
Ferry from Montague 70 Wall st. belongs 10 New
York TO the Co nmssioners appointed oy the
Legislature of the State The persons who have
taken Montague Ferry have claimed RICH! to
ground on the Ne~-York side, and Jury vas 81 n
noned frcm Westchoster County to decide the
damages but when about TO perform the duty an In
junction was served upon them and further pro-
ceeoirgs were stayed. motion 10 grant The necss-
saiy fumes to the Committee was carried, after an
elaborate discussion.
Conrad Wolfe and John Rode, in
dcted for assault and battery, with intent TO kill
The circumstances OF this case are briefly these {:
Some time in November iast the defendents fired at
target which was placed against the fence oil a
yard On Adams-st. the bail perforated the fence
and struck John Benton, the complainant, who was
Standing on The s;oOp of the back door of his
II siceIce In Fulton-st In the groin, whereby he
was disabled for considerable length OF time. 1t
vas evident that 10 malice existed, and the Jury,
after delIberaiug for nearly al hour, returned a
veroict Of guilty OF assault and battery only, with
recommendation TO mercy.
Two important alterations have been
made in the Fire Law now before the Legislature.
The fret relates 10 the time allowed for the Depart
merit to bring suits for violations. In the printed
law the time specified is eighteen months. In the
copy before the Legislature the nme Is changed to
three mosths. Also the section designating the
parties liable for violations has been altered, and
now includes but the master mason, carpenter ana
roOfer.
Workmen have commenced breaking
ground for the Of buildings to be occupied
as stores ceilings on the lois formerly belong
ius the Sullivan estate on the corner of Fulton
aud Nassau SITS They were purchased a few weeks
srce BY Wm. II Carey, Esq, for 33,ooo-the cor
leT lot bringing $4,000 Each building is to be four
slories high, ana eighteen by seventy feet deep
" III brown st BE fronts, handsomely finished.
The annual report of the Brooklyn
Savings Institution shows that the aggregate amount
OF dtposns in hand on the LIST OF January, was
mortgage $3.50, City of Brooklyn Bonds at cost,
5l2 65l IS; Cash on deposit, bearing interest, and
secured by stocks, $500 Cash IN Brooklyn City
Bank SAFES, Interest upon deposits, $l,lslS IS.
In 1910 the population of Long leland
wss only llo35 in 1850 it had reached to the num-
Der of 5s7, and in all probability in 1860 the pop
aiaton Will exceed 100000. At the present time
LcDg ISLAND has larger population than any one OF
the seven small States which have two Senators
each in Congress
MIR. A. B. Underhill has found in the
DAY adjoining Huntington, L. L. oyster containing
forty beautiful pearls. He has also COW weighing
1900 lbs and DR. Rhinelander, the celebrated hor
Henry Scudder has pig that weighs 800 lbs.
The fence which was erected to in-
c'cse the yapd of the County JAIL at the time of ex
ecution, was rather q costly concern. Tne fence
was of light boards, about ten or fifteen feet long,
and six feet high and the cost of erection was only
$40
"A touching case of restitution is pre-
sented by family Of three persons, a Mrs. Doan,
her daughter in law and a child, living at Ne. Q
Doughty.st. The benevolent are invited to visit and
relieve them.
Margaret Hanna was fined $40 yester
day morning by Justice Truman Smith, for assault
ing her brother Henry Hamilton, ct Jackson's
Hollow.