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The New York herald., 1873-12-17
COURT Of GENERAL SESSIONS.

Highway Robber Sent to the state
Prison for Ten Years.
Before Recorder Hackett.
In tnis court yesterday Michael McNamee pleaded
guilty to an attempt at robbery in the first degree.
The charge was that ON the 5th OF this month he
took Q silver watch and gold plated chan worth
violence, in Mott street. The prisoner was sent 70
the State Prison for ten years.
Burglary.
Michael Gafney was tried and convicted Of an at
tempt at burglary In the third degree. An oflicer
detected him and another man. who escaped, in
the act OF breaking the door OF Herman Meersse's
grocery store, No. 200 West Fourth street, on the
evening OF the Goth OF october.
Larcenies.
Eugene Wilson, who on the goth OF November
stole $500 in bank bills, the property OF Henry
Koch, which was in the compainants coat, pleaded
guilty to an attempt at grand larceny. James
Mclaughlin and Henry Meyer also pleaded guilty
to the same grade OF crime They were charged
with stealing pieces OF iron pipe, valued at $50,
the property of the city and county OF New York
These prisoners were each sent to the State Prison
for Two years and six months.
Assa ult with an Axe.
John Griobin was tried and found guilty OF an as
sault with dangerous weapon with intent to do
bodily harm. The complainant. John owen,
charged that on the night OF the 5th OF
November, while In an oyster and drink
ing saloon, corner OF Frankiort and Pearl
about payment for drinks. and that Gribbia, the
barkeeper, struck him on the leg with large axe,
iinfictng severe wound. He had been confined
In the hospital ever since. The statement OF Crib
bin and the proprietor Of the place was that Owen
and his party created disturbance and broke the
door, and tnat they had to defend themselves as
best they could. AS counsel for the prisoner was
absent when the Jury rendered their verdict the
Recorder remanded the prisoner for sentence.
An Acquittal.
John McCarty was tried upon charge OF as
aaultinp Frederick M SchafYer on the 9Th insU and
attempting to take his watch at Catherine slip.
Assistant District Attorney Rollins was satisfied,
after hearing the prisoners statement that he
was no pickp0ckeU, but, on the contrary an honest
disciple OF ST. CrIspin and o resident OF the City Of
Churches The jury rendered verdict of not
guilty.
The New York herald., 1873-12-17
SUPREME c0URT-cAAMBenS.
The Private Ear OF the Comptroller.

The Private Ear OF the Comptroller.
Before Judge Ingraham.
In this Court application was made yesterday for
a mandamus against the Comptroller to pay
clam OF about So, 500 to the Tutte Bailey Manu-.
facturing Company for supplies furnished the Court
House. Mr.. Andrews, Assistant Corporation Coun-
sci. asked for further time to prepare for argu-
ment, as important questions OF law were involved
as to the powers OF the Board Of Estimate and APP
portonment. The claim, he added, was stale one,
being over two years old. Mr.. Brewster, for the mo-
ton, admitted that the claim was now stale, but 1t
had stale the treated
The result was that the company would no longer
trust the city, but sold goods to parties who had
large profits from the city. After some further ar
gument the case was set down peremptorily Tor
argument on next Friday.
Decisions.
By Judge Fancher.
BruG vs. Security Insurance Company.-PetitiOn
granted.
Duncan vs. Welsh.-Order to compute granted.
Inness VS.. Inness.-Report confirmed and judg-
ment OF divorce granted.
Adler VS.. Seligman.-Motion for reference
Underhill VS. Thain.-Order granted.
Platt VS.. Covert.-Chamberains certificate
Oriental Savings Bank VS.. Grinith ct al. two
cases).-Order granted.
Treadway VS.. Treadway.-Mem for coun-
Barbarossa vs.. Lapaugh.-Judgment granted.
Kavanagh VS.. Decker.-Judgment granted.
Westcott's Type Setting Company vs.. New York
Type ana Electrotyping Company.-Und taking
approved.
In the Matter, &C., Kitchen.-Petltion granted.
Campbell vs.. Hope Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany.-Memorandum for counsel.
Wyman VS.. Conover ct a.-Judgment granted.
Friedman VS.. Ripper.-Let an order be submitted
with this application.
Arostega vs.. Antigudad.-Motion granted. &c.
Chesterman VS.. England.-RepOrt confirmed, &C.
In the Matter. Gc.. Ferrls.-Report confirmed and
order granted.
BY Judge Brady
Manhattan Savings Institution vs. Dodge.-0rder
granted.
The New York herald., 1873-12-17
MARINE CoUnT-pART 2.
Action for Trcspass.

Before Chief Justice Shea.
Philip Martin VS.. August Schaefer.-Tne plaintiff
occupied portion of the defendants premises No.
81 First avenue, and in March last the defendant
had the roof of the house removed for the purpose
OF putting on additional story and plaintiff al
leges that after the roof had been partially or
wholly removed a violent rain storm set in and
the water came down into his rooms to such an
extent as to greatly damage his carpets, bedding
and furniture generally, and obliged him to re-
fendant claims that while the work was In
progress all necessary precautions were taken
into the building and denies that the
plaintiffs property was injured to any extent.
he Court charged the jury that this action did not
arise from the relations OF the parties as landlord
and tenant. so far as this case was concerned,
they occupied the same relations as two owners OF
adjoining property. The defendant II liable nj al
was liable az a trespasser. He had right to
remove the roof aud put on an additional story,
provided he caused no unnecessary injury To his
The New York herald., 1873-12-17
BROOKLYN COURTS.
CITY C0uUT-TRIAL TERM.

The Spencer Divorce Case.
The second trial OF this noted case occupied the
whole of yesterday, and will not, 1t now appears,
be concluded until this evening. The testimony for
the plaintiff was all heard yesterday. and several
witnesses for the defence were examined The
testimony Is precisely the same as that given on
the first trial. when the jury Jailed to agree upon
verdict. The case does not excite much interest
outside the parties directly interested and their
acquaintances.
The New York herald., 1873-12-17
COURT OF SESSIONS.
An Infuriated Woman.
Dar0ro Iudna Mnnrn

BEFORE JuuRe MOoTes
Margaret Stephenson, wicked looking woman,
was tried yesterday for stabbing James Mcmahon.
On the 18th OF November the prisoner, while infur
ated by liquor, met the complaining witness in
Hicks alley and attacked him with knife, stab
bing him several times; in addition to which she
beat him with her fists. Her defence was that she
was drunk and not accountable for what she did,
The Jury did not take this latter view OF her case
and found her guilty Sentence-Imprisonmen in
the Penitentiary lOr one wear.
The New York herald., 1873-12-17
SUPERIOR COuaT-SpEClAL TERM.
Decisions.

Decisions.
BY Judge Freedman.
Boylan vs. Boehm, ct al.-M0tion granted.
Devlin vs. Howe and Another.-Motion denied.
Bocklen vs.. Hardenburgh.-Order vacating judg-
ment.
FalKenan and Another vs. Fargo.-Present
order granting an extra allowance OF 500 to de-
fendant.
ing injunction.
Hun vs.. HuIf.-Order OF reference.
BY Judge Sedgwlck.
Patterson vs. Stettaner.-0rder Of reference.
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BnD0rs, who in this case were his tenants but,
Al he did the work In such way as to cast the
water from rain storm IN upon his neigh1or's
In law, for the damages which resulted to the
plaintiff. The Jury rendered verdict for the
plaintiff for $3.50
The New York herald., 1873-12-17


BELLINGHAM.-In Brooklyn, on Tuesday, Decem.
Der l6, 1873, MARGARET BELLINGHAM, relict OF
John Belingham.
of her son. James II. Bengham, and her son-in-
law. Hugh O'Reilly, are respectfully invited to at
tend the unera mom nep dse Nr NO. iso %
1873, at two p. NJ.
BENNErT.-On sunday, December "a, at his rest
dence No. 20S West Twenty seventh street, THOMAS
The remains will be taken to Jamaica for inter-
for relatives and Irends on arrival Of the ten
O'Clock train from Hunters Point.
PARK LODGE, No. Sic, +; AND A. M.mBRErHREN.
752 Eighth avenue, on Thursday morning, Decem-
ber 49, at hafpast eight O'Clock, promptly, for the
purpose OF attending the funeral or our late
brother, Thomas A. Bennett. Members OF sister
lodges are ra'ernaly nyed nrIS ~ GToSr Master
BENNIT.-On Tuesday, December is, EDITH WOOD
HULL, daughter OF Henry O. and Eureka Bennit,
aged months and is days.
Notice Of funeral hereafter.
BLAETrERLEN.-Mrs. y. BLAETTERLEIN, In the
esd year Of her age.
late residence, No. 52s Court street. between
Church and Garnet, Brooklyn.
BRITToN.-On Sunday, December IA, MAGDALENA,
widow OF Abraham Britton Sr., IN the seth year OF
The relatives and friends OF the family are re-
spectfully invited to attend the funeral from the
Church OF Ascension, at West New Brighton, s. l.,
this "wednesday afternoon, at two O'Clock. Boats
BRowS.-on Monday, December is, WILLIAM R.
BROWN, aged 81 years.
Relatives and friends are invited to attend the
nue., on Thursday. December is, at one O'Clock.
CAMBLo5.-On Monday. December 15, 1873, HARRY
SHAW, only son oil II. >. and Kate Camblos, III the
9th year OF his age.
Funeral services this "wednesday afternoon,
at four O'Clock, at the Gramercy Park House.
The remains 10 be taken to Philadelphia.
CLARKE-On sunday, December IL, HUGH
CLARKE aged Is years.
The relatives and friends OF the family are invited
nj knnd funeral. from late rcsideuCe. $40
East Twelfth street, on Wednesday, December ~,
at two O'Clock r. n.
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MARRIAGES AND DEATHS.
Married.

Dos PAssos-HAys.-On Tuesday, December 16
by the Rev. J. +. Elder Mr.. JOHN r. Dos PAssOs to
MARY d., daughter of g. Hays, all OF this city.
FENNING-DE LEvANTE.-On Saturday, December
13, at North New York. by the Rev. John Hughes,
p. G. FENNING, OF New York, TO Miss RACHEL
RICHES DE LEvANTE, OF London.
HALL-ToTTEN.-At the home OF the BRIDES father,
Westhed, Staten Island, on Tuesday, December 10,
by Rev. J. S. Beagle, OF Trenton, N. j. assisted by
Rev. Isaac yansant Mr. JOHN @. HALL, OF New York
CITY, to Miss ELLA g., youngest daughter OF Hon.
f. j. TOtten, or Tottenville. Staten Island.
WEEKs-FosTER.-In Baltimore. on Tuesday, De-
cember 16, at the Madison avenue Methodist Epis
copal church. "North,n by Rev. ]. 8. Deale ID. D.,
assisted by Rev. ]. II. Dashiel, Mr. FRANK M. WEEKS,
OF Morrisana, N. Y, to Miss LIMA, youngest
daughter OF Ambrose Foster, OF Baltimore, Nd.
No cards.
The New York herald., 1873-12-17

JxrANTED-A PARTNER PRACTICAL GROCER
w with cash capital of $4,000 to sl5,0 in the gre
cery wine quor and cigar trade for Chicago house
For particulars inquire Of E. II. GARBUTT CO..
Warren street.
The New York herald., 1873-12-17

STOCK OF FANCY GOODS, IN ORIGINAL PACK
n ages, at wholesale price ($SOOON, at bargain or
x BLoMQvIsr DO Nassau street.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-03-29

FUNERAL RITES OF FRoNTIERsMEN
Bishop Vail, of Kansas, tells little tale
that illustrates forcibly the free and easy
way of life of tho frontiersman, and the
scant ceremony with which his funeral
services are conducted. "In ono little
graveyard whore | happened to be walk
ing" said the bishop, "thcre were twenty
seven graves, and my informant, who
discharged the Office of undertaken, told
me that the occupants of twenty-six OF
them were killed in aifrays, or, as he
pithily expressed it, died and were buried
Vith their boots on." The twenty
enth grave was that of n child.-HdIPeI's
Mdgdzine.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-03-29
SATURDAY. MARCH 30, 1873.

VERDI's MUsIc.-The Figaro has the
following skit upon the character of Ver-
dis music: IN. p. had become deaf
by degrees, so deaf that he could not
hear the sound of pistol fired close to
his ear. His doctor was in despair, when
at last brilliant idea occurred to him.
He called upon his patient as usual, and
appointed meeting at eight o'clock that
evening at the Boulevards des Italiens.
The patient was punctual, and the doc
tor took him to the Italian opera, taking
care to place him in stall near the big
drum. The opera was I'll Trovatore.'
Toward the fourth act the invalid mani
tested considerable surprise the terrific
noise of Verdi's music had unstopped his
ears. Doctor p he exclaimed, you
have saved me ! hear again, l hear =
The doctor did not stir. Il tell you,' re-
peated M. X, shouting in the DOCTORS
ear, can hear perfectly pray speak to
me- The doctor appeared unmoved.
His client was cured but he had become
deaf himself"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-03-29
AN ANECDOTE OF GRANT.

Mr.. l.. V. Pierce writes letter to an
Ohio journal, in which he tells the follow
ing anecdote of his own experience in the
late war
"While our army lay at City Point,
on the James river, at the mouth of the
Appomattox, in Virginia, my duties as
Assistant Adjutant-General of United
States Volunteers, called me there to
consult with General Grant. One after
noon, while walking out with the General,
Che being in military dress with nothing
to indicate his rank) we passed boy of
ten or twelve years of age fishing.
Grant-Bub, have you good luck to-
day?
Boy-Not very; they don't bite well
to-day.
Grant-You have n few here; won't
you give them to mef
The tears started in the little fellows
eyes as he said, ~ have had no breakfast
to- day, and no dinner, and if don't sell
my fish l shall have nothing to get myself
n supper.
Gen. Grant inquired as to his history.
The boy was native of Michigan, and
his mother was widow. To obtain
money to support his widowed mother,
he went into the army as waiter for
Captain of the Michigan troops, whose
name l cannot recollcct. The Captain
was dead and he had not friend left.
Grant-Bub, you know where Gen.
Grants headquarters aref
Boy-Yes, sir.
Grant-Bring your fish up there at 10
o'clock and he will buy them.
Punctually at the time the boy was on
hand with the string of fish, but was
promptly stopped by the orderly in front
of the quarters. Gen. Grant overhcaring
the order, stepped out, took the little fell
low by the hand, led him into his quarters
and becoming satisfied with the truth OF
his story, procured him suit of clothes,
II hat, II free passage on the railroad home
and gave him $50 in money.
Now, Gen. Grant may be n bad man
| am not going to argue that question
but | don't believe you can make the
mother of that boy believe it,"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-03-29

ANOTHER BOTTLE SToRY.-An Ala
bama exchange says that sealed bottle
was picked up short time since in
Grants Pass, on the coast of that State,
which, when opened, proved to contain Il
memorandum dated of the coast of Alas
ka, June 20, 1870, on board the ship
James, and in the Russian language, an
nouncing that the ship had foundered and
broken in pieces. This bottle must have
driitcd through the North and South
Pacific oceans, doubled the Horn and in
its voyage through the Atlantic, fallen in
the great equatorial current, and been
swept by it into the caribbean Sea, where
the Gulf stream caught it, and carried it
round the circuit of the Gulf, landing it,
after its voyage of two and n half years,
in the pass where it was found.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-03-29

Too FoNp OF Loo.-A mild and aflec-
tionato wife in Lancaster, overheard an
acquaintance remark that her husband
was to fond Of Loo. She waited up for
him that night, and when he came home
that night, demanded to know if he had
been spending his time again with Loo.
The unsuspecting husband admitted that
he had, when without giving him time to
explain, she went for him with Il fire
shovel. The husband does not exactly
remember how the interview ended, but
he never could convince his wife that
Loo was a game at cards, and always
plays euchre now and gets homo before
ten o'clock.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-03-29

THAT WAS sFAIR.-"Patrick, the widow
Maloney tells me that you stole one of
her finest pigs. Is it correct ?'
"Yis, yer honor"
"What haye you done with it ?"
"Killed it and ate it, yer honor"
"Oh, Patrick, Patrick when you are
brought face TO face with the widow Ma
loney and her pig on the judgment day,
what account will you be able to give of
yourself when the widow accuses you of
stealing ?'
"Did you say the pig would be there,
yer reverence ?"
''To be sure l did,"
swell then, yer riverence, I'll say,
Mrs. Maloney, there's yer pig y"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-03-29

HERE is q singular story of coinci-
dences. The detectives of Boston, in a
case given them to work up, wanted n
man named w. II. johnson who had a
glass eye. They found such person in
Bangor Maine, and he was the wrong
gentleman. They found another w. ii.
johnson in Salem, Mass, also with a
glass eye, and he, too, proved to be an
innocent man. They then received n
telegram from Newsburyport, Massa-
chusetts, stating that w. III. johnson
with a glass eye had been arrested there
and he likewise proved to be the wrong
customer. There is fourth w. IL.
johnson with glass eye, somewhere,
and the Boston authorities would like to
have him that is, unless he happens to
be the wrong w. Ii. johnson with n
glass eye.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-03-29

TELL Your WIFE.--Yes, the only
way is to tell your wife just how you
stand. Show her your balance sheet.
Let her look over the items. You think
it will hurt her feelings. No, it won't do
any such thing. She has been taught to
believe that money was with you, just as
little boys think it is with their fathers
terrible hard to be reached, yet inexhaust-
ible. She has had her suspicious already.
She has guessed you were not so prosper
Gus as you talked. But you had so be-
logged your money affairs, that she, poor
thing, knows nothing about them. Tell
her right out that you are living beyond
your income. Take her into partnership,
and We'll warrant you'll never regret it.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-03-29

WANTED A WITNEss.-A New Jersey
couple made up their mind to get mar
ried and straightway sent for minister.
The latter gentleman, on entering the
rustic abode of the damsel, found her
clad in homcspun, with sleeves rolled up,
busily engaged in churning. Rufus was
called from an adjoining field where he
was cutting wood, and taking his place
with Amanda Jane before the man of au-
thority, informed him that they were
ready to be wed. But" said the rev.
erend sir, il is customary to have a wit
ness" Whereupon Amanda Jane went
into an adjoining room and drew in a
cradle containing plump, rosy checked
child. The minister "saw the point"
and at once proceeded with the ceremony.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-03-29
GETTING YOUR MAIL.

ARTICLE |. As in mailing letters, keep
watch for the mail coach TO arrive, then
rush in and before the bags are emptied
commence to enquire il there is anything
for you, and keep asking so that the post
masters mind may not be on other bust
ness.
ART. Never close the outer door I'M
til you have inquired for your mail and
the postmaster has had time to examine.
n. B.-This rule need not be observed in
mild or warm weather, but only in very
cold weather.
ART 3. If the Office be kept in store
and the postmaster is in the office, go and
stand in the furtherest corner Of the store
till he comes to you-then ask him il
there are any letters you.
ART. 4. If none for you, call again, or
send other members of the family to in
quire and when you receive any, never
forget to ask, Z" Is this all?"
ART. 5. Again If no mail for you,
ask the postmaster what is the reason,
and when he supposes it will come.
ART. 6. Drive up in front of the post
Office, and if the postmaster is very busy
and don't seem to notice you, strike your
whip on the Office window till he comes
to the door. This rule may be applied
when calling for your mail, and when
you wish 10 mail letter-especially il
you have no stamp on it and wish the
postmaster to change bill for you.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-03-29

PRooF.-A gentleman Of Waupacn,
Wisconsin, heard it intimated on the
street the other day that he was hem
pecked. He went home and thrashed
his wife, tore up two or three of her best
dresses, opened all the doors and win
dows in the house, and sat down in the
parlor with his feet on the center table
among a collection Of choice books and
smoked his pipe. He thinks the world is
convinced now that he is boss of that
ranch.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-03-29

THE LARGEST HoTEI..-The new Unit
ed States Hotel, TO be erected in Saratoga
is to be the largest in the world. The
principal fat will be 500 feet long by So
deep, with wing on the west end l65 feet
long. The kitchen will be 125 feet long
and the dining room 2lO feet long. The
main halls are TO be 26 feet wide and the
ceilings 20 feet high. The reception and
reading rooms, offices, parlors, etc., are
to be on an equally extensive scale. The
piazzas on both sides of the wing and
front will be half mile, eighteen rods
and two feet in length.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-03-29

AN editor is a man who lives on what
other people owe him until he starves to
death. A subscriber is one who takes q
paper and says he is well pleased with it,
and she ought to subscribe" After he
has subscribed about seven years, the
editor writes to him and asks him to let
him have 50 80 1.-TWO dollars and fifty
cents and then the subscriber writes back
to the editor and tells him not to send his
old paper any more, for there is nothing
in it, and then the poor editor goes and
starves to death more. - Shenandoah
Herald.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-03-29
LINES OF TRAVEL AND EXPRESS.

Canon city, Junction City and Wea-
serviiIe Express and Passenger Line
>. X. DRIVER, Proprietor. Leaves Weaver
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday morning
returns on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Hay Fork and WeaverviIIe Pass
enger aud Express Lime, j. s. HOYT,
Proprietor. Weokly. Leaves Hay Fork ON
Monday morning of each week leaves Wea-
yer Tuesday morning of each week.
U. y. Mail and Express Line. from
WeavervilIe to Arcata, JOHN CLIFF
FORD, Proprietor. Leaves Weaver every
Thursday morning. Leaves Arcata, every
Monday morning. .-.s...,.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-03-29

THE IDLER.-The idle man is an an
noyance-a nuisance. lie is of no bene-
fit to anybody. He is an intruder in the
busy thoroughiare of everyday life. He
stands in our path, and we push him con-
temptuously aside. lie is of no advant-
age to anybody. lie annoys busy men.
He makes them unhappy. He is naught
in society. He may have an income to
support him in idleness, or he may
sponge" on his good-natured friends.
But in either case he is despised.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-03-29

AN agricultural paper says strawberry
beds may be protected from birds by run
ming wire along the walk to which a
cat is chained. Her movements up and
down the length of the wire will keep the
birds away. Where there is no chain,
The wire can be run through the cat, and
heated to temperature that will fill the
,at with longing to keep moving.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-03-29

A SPRINGFIELD (Mass.) paper says !:
The windy beard of Kolius himself, and
all his succedaneous bags of atmosphere,
beswept our segment Of earth from long
ere dawn of yesterday through a bitter
twenty-four hours of extreme Winterness
and physical and spiritual shivering.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-03-29

In letter to his friends at home, an
intelligent foreigner states that "when a
great man dies in the United States, the
first thing done is to propose fine statue
in his honor; next, to raise part of the
necessary money; next, TO forget to order
any statue, and last, TO wonder what be-
came of the money" The remark shows
close observation and clear judgment.