New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-09-30
THE COURTS.
PROSPECT OF A BUSY MONTH.

IhOcfECl VI a bOc1 NUM- d.
TEE ASSIGNMENT OF JUDGES FOR ocroBER-rNrER-
ESTING CASES IN OCrOBBR-A GRATIFYING
CHANGE IN THK SUPERIOR COURT.
The October term of the State Courts will
open next Monday with heavy calendars staring the
Judges in the face. The month promises lively
OF work. although as is usually the case the first week
will be taken up with the preminares OF actual bust
ness and the arrangement Of calendars The Court
house viii present altogether aspect agreeably
changed-espeoally the lawyers eye-from the spec
loneliness and dizziness that has been witnessed
al Summer Already there is noticeable increase In
the number OF applicants for NATURALIZATION pa
pers in the Court OF Common Pleas. the Supe-
rior. and Supreme Courts-sn accompaniment OF
the Fall campaign as every politician knows.
This political transformation scene wherein foreign resi-
dents become United States citizens, has all the elements
OF life and animation just now The Judges are very
in their scrutiny, and frequently applicants
retire from their with lugubrious faces
indicative OF disappointed ambition Three applicants
were rejected by Judge Loew, the Court OF Common
Pleas yesterday because their vouchers could assign
beyond the best of their belief" for swearing
that the to this country before they IS
years old.
The assignment OF Judges for October is not clearly
made yet. at least in the Supreme Court Chief Justice
Davis aud Judges Brady and Daniels will sit in the
General Term. The Chambers branch will be held by
Judge Barrett, and Part l. BY Judge Lawrence who
may go into the General Term account of Judge
Brady's engagements In the Court of oyer and Ter
miner which there will be session of Part
Part III. will be presided over by Judge Van Brunt and
Judge Donohue win Part III Tbere Will be no
Special Term until November
Judge Brady WILL it is expected, have busy months
work the Court of oyer and Terminer It Will be re-
membered that when this Court adjourned before the
Sumner vacation the term continued by Judge
Brady provide for accidental cases, that the
preaching session is simply extension Of the old
for trial
including crimes Of all kinds the important is the
case OF John Scannell. who shot Thomas
D0nohue in JOhnsOn's Pool Room account Of
an old feud between the two families
which had already resulted in the shooting by Donohue
nell has already had two TRIALS in both Of which there
was disagreement OF the jury. and the coming con-
test II occurs during the next term VIII Dc one OF
great interest on account OF the horrible features OF the
tragedy ana the display OF legal talent during the tra
IAt tlal OF Ponce COMMISSIONERS Iaruner anu mar
hex also set down for October. rney both con
vctcd during the last of this Court of INSIDE
iAeanOr' but only on one count mere are three Otef
which they TO be tried, beside the new in
General sessions and since transferred to this Court
II Messrs. Genet and sharkey should have the magma
Will have hearing of kind during the month.
In the Superior Court judges Freedman. Curtis, and
Spier will hold the General fern according 70 present
assignments Chief Justice Mcneil viii sit III Part and
held by Judge Curtis The calendars Of this Court for
the coming month do not present any cases OF paTtcu
lar interest outside or the usual casualty SUITS 60
against railroad companies. OF which there is regular
supply pleasing feature the fact that q better
class reforming the ranks OF practlclng
tOrueys this court When Judge McCuDn was at the
bench the detection OF lawyers very marked, and
kr BOese Clerk OF the Court. and Mr. Haviland, Clerk
OF H. who has served in that capacity for q years,
stated with pleasure yesterday that the cream OF
the bar coming back 10 the Court that while Nc
Gum aud those whom he did not care to name were
judges there swould frequently be days when the
whole calendar would De called through without
single response OF ready from either plaintiffs de-
PENDANTS COUNSEL circumstance almost as usual as
unfortunate The change Is compliment 70 the present
judges.
In the Court Of Common Pleas Part I. has the Chief
Justice, the Hon. Charles DAILY. The calendar unu
suay heavy twenty being set down for the nrst
day the term Among the number is the case tried
once before, in which there was disagreement by the
iury-Charles B. shaw against David Babcock-which
iuY reported In THE TRIBUNE at the time VI trial.
questions issue bring curious details OF
methods in which bills pushed through
the Legislature, BabcOck being contractor aud
Shaw an attorney claiming 10 have been employed
by him 20 have a bill passed. John Z. Deveiin is
counsel for Shaw, and Henry L. Clinton Tor BabcOck.
Brown, Hall Wand eTpOel have two or three important
suits-One entitled TURNKEY agt The Central Park,
North aud East River Railroad Company. the cause OF
which a railroad catastrophe in which married
Part L has been reInOdeled during the Summer, aud
renovated throughout, tasteful new carpet having
and the arrangement OF the Judges seat
and the having been changed Tor the better
The room the prettiest III the Courthouse
Business this part promises 10 be very brisk Part
H. has large calendar the Justice beng Judge Joseph
r. DAILY. Judge LOew OF Judge L2TTemOre may SIT IN
Chambers while Judge Robinson viii be one OF the
associates IL the General Term.