The New York herald., 1876-07-13
Increasing Complications in
Divorce Suits.
THE AUSTRIAN EXTRADITION CASE
Suit by the Government Against the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company.
The Western Union Telegraph
Company Dividend.

The heated term does not to abate In the
slightest the ardor Of counsel in divorce suits or
could hardly ba supposed to affect the parties
to the suits, their blood is supposed to be tho
boiling point, matter how the mercury ranges in
the thermometer There no less than three mo-
tions in three divorce suits yesterday, the points Of
which are briefly gwen below
In suit for divorce brought BY Elizabeth L. Ray
mond against Lewis H. Raymond, order to show
granted in October 1878, why the defend
ant should not pay certain arrears OF amony. 1t is
claimed by the defendant that he had obtained re-
lease in full from the plaintiff, who turn answered
thatthe release obtained by fraud. The
rclcrred to Charles Price. Recently an order
granted TO show why the reference should not
be set aside, which made relurnable
before Judge Curtis, holding Special Term OF the Su
perior Court Ii claimed that the referee reco we'd
IRON the defendant some $50 part payment of his
fees as referee. IL shown that the payment any
way would come from the defendant, ana the receiv-
ing OF the money under the circumstances not being
irregular or improper Judge Curtis refused 10 vacate
the order of reference
In suit brought by Thomas II. Harding for divorce
from Jane h. Harding, on the ground OF adultery,
motion was made yesterday in Superior Court, Special
Term, before Judge Curtis to confirm the roierecs
port which was IN favor OF the plaintiff The motion
opposed by defendants counsel the ground that
discovered the alleged adultery on the list of July and
shot the alleged seducer three days later did
with hs wife until August B. and even then, according
to OF the evidence very reluctantly and that ho
subsequently promised 10 marry her. On the other
side it claimed that tho evidence was as clear
strong and conclusive evidence such could
be. Judge Curtis took the papers
Rebecca Burns commenced proceedings for divorce
from her husband, Louis H. Burns, the ground OF
adultery. The referred TO Rufus f. An
drcws sole referee + E. Price appearing Tor the
plaintiff The referee decided in favor OF the plaintiff
IA motion yesterday made before Judge Wesbrook
by Colonel George Hart in behalf of the plaintiff TO
CONFIRM the report Of The refsroe Judge westbrook
took the papers,
AN IMPORTANT EXTRADITION CASE.
In the OF the application for the exiradition
Leopold Netci native OF Austria, by the Austrian gov
ernment through its Consul this port for alleged
offence against the laws OF that country Commissioner
Osborn decided few days since that the prisoner
be held under the Extradition treaty. Ex-Judge
Joachimsen, counsel for Netel, excepted to the de-
cson, and made application yesterday, before Judge
B!achtord in the United States District Court for
writ of habeas corpus and certiorarL In his petition
Nettel sets forth that the Commissioner admitted
illegal testimony that evidence given to prove
forgery the offence alleged that proofs OF the alleged
forgeries were not produced; that tho papers
put evidence showed that the prisoner
meet charge OF forgery, and that fraud IS
not an extraditabe offence and that hc should not be
held hero or extraded on any proof whatsoever of
such offence, if such had been committed by
him. that no warrant Of arrest was issued by the Aus
trian government the time OF Neteis arrest here
admitting evidence of Netteis religious belief with
q view of mpeac ing his crcdlbity oath Prison
ers counsel sustained the points in the petition IN q
lengthy argument which replied to by counsel for
the Austrian government Judge Blatchford rescrving
decision.