The New York herald., 1879-01-05
SUBURBAN NOTES.

Frederick Morse alias Frederick Barnett has been
committed to Jail in default OF $4,000 bail by United
States Commissioner Whitehead, OF Newark. the
charge against him being that Of utering counterfeit
trade dollars.
c. T. Van valkenburg. who was arrested in Brook
1yn few days since. charged with obtaining money
under false pretenccs, tried before Judge Walsh
of that city, Yesterday and discharged from want of
sufficient evidence to convict him.
The referee appointed to take testimony in the
matter of the suit divorce brought in the Supreme
Court, Kings county. by George w. Davis against
Anna Anrciia Davis has concluded his labors and
yesterday presented his report to Judge Pratt in favor
of the plaintiff
Judge Pratt. Supreme Court. Kings county,
dered decision yesterday in the matter of the Con-
nersvillc Company the Chamberburg Woollen
Company. granting the motion to set aside $1,000
in the hands of defendants assignee fund to
pay Judgments.
Several tramps, who were committed last week by
magistrates at Tarrytown and Portchester to- the
Wes;chester County Jail, were most horribly frost
bitten while en- route to that place. Although they
arrived there on Friday afternoon they had Received
no attention as late as noon yesterday.
Samuel Pine, of Portch heser, has been arrested in
connection with burglary committed at the house
of w ID slawson, the indictment found against him
charging him with being accessory before the fact
Quite recently Pine was indicted and tried on this
same charge, but was acquitted through techni-
cality.
bill will be presented to the state Legislature. at
Albany, IN few weeks time, to consolidate the
Brooklyn Department of Arrears and the Bureau of
Water Rates with the Tax Collection Department.
Collector Tanner says that 800 900 or more could be
saved the taxpayers by consolidating the bureaus
named.
Sarah Mott, the colorcd woman who
on the Long Island Railroad. near Roslyn. last Tues
day. while she lay in t and had one leg cut of and
one shoulder dislocated was dying yesterday after
noon. She has had fit almost hourly since the
accident. that IL has been impossible to subject
her and the wounds Co proper treatment.
In 1870 the trustees of Jones Institute, North
Hampstead, l.. L., took mortgage for $4,000 on the
property of George Hammond giving him $4,000 In
ri, per cent Brooklyn bonds instead of the money
Hammond has brought suit to set aside the mortgage
on the ground OF usury. alleging that he unable
to realize the face of the bonds ii represented
that he could.
Catharine NJ. Wood. of Huntington, L. l., having
disputed with her husband, George O., left the house
in which they lived together and. claiming to it,
brought suit to eject him The tried before
Judge Pratt. who ON Friday filed his decision. He
decides that Mrs. Wood Is the of life interest
in the estate from the control and Interference
of her husband. who must vacate In her favor.
william II. sullivan and Lewis Cork living at Sand
Hill, about four miles from Bordcntown, y. j.. had
q dispute Friday morning. which ended IN
change of blows. sullivan was being worstcd when
he drew and cut his adversary several times
one of the cuts made with such force that the
keen edge OF the razor blade entered Cork's right
lung. 1hc wounded man, il Is thought, cannot re-
cover. sullivan made good his escape.