New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-02-22
BROOKLYN


BROOKLYN
The Brooklyn Library will be kept omen to-day.
There was good skating on tho shallow ponds in
| the suburbs yesterday.
new terminus has been built for the steam cars
| running from Brooklyn to Fort Hamilton.
A dram and fife corps composed of thirty-iye boys
from eight to fifteen years Of age il making itself
heard in South Brooklyn.
OF the $50 pupils in the public schools who en-
tered the examinations for graduation just com
| pleted, 22j have succeeded in passing.
aforementioned Philip H. Sheridan will visit
| Brooklyn and rcyiow the Grand Army of tho Re-
public on Decoration Day. He will be the guest of
| Mayor Low
Mrs. Jane Smith, age forty-three, of Bush and
Columbia sts., died Yesterday in St Peters Hos
pltal from burns received when trying to light %
IRE at her home. She used kerosene,
Surrogate Bergen admitted to probate yesterday
the VIII of William S. B0gart bequeathing his
property, amounting TO $4,000. 10 Charles 5.
Walker, which was contested on the ground of
mental incapacity.
Superintendent Campbell, of the Police Depart
ment, was informed yesterday by the Police Super
lntendent of Washing on, that the body of
drowned man found In the Potomac was believed
10 be that OF George Cooper, Il harness-maker, for
merly OF Brooklyn, where he had relatives living.
Mrs. Bertha Levy, age fifty, of North Oxlord-st
and Park-aye who had been suffering from maaria
lever for some time, and whose mind was affected
by her disease stabbed herself in the neck with a
dagger IN bed yesterday morning while her hus-
~
but was prevented from cutting her throat. Her
injury will probably prove fatal.
Mrs. Nellie Babcock, alias Nellie Wilson, who was
dlScharged recently on her own recOgniZance after
being found guilty of grand larceny in the second
degree, because she promised to reform, was taken |
before Judge Moore yesterday on bench warrant,
II having been found that she had gone back to her
Vicious Why's, and she was sentenced to tive years
and three months in the penitentiary.
An order for the publication of summons was
granted by Judge Cullen yesterday in the suit for
limited divorce and alimOny, the ground of de-
sertiOn, brought by Mrs. ROsalind A. Boyd against
John K. Boyd. The defendant is wealthy being
the son of Edward A. Boyd, of No. 81 West Fifty
slIth-st., New-fOrk, the head of the firm of Ed !
ward A. Boyd d sons, importers of plate glass; of
Nos. 81 and SO WoOser-st The parties TO the suit
were married in November 1882, against the |
wishes of the defendants father who it is said |
told his son that he would disnhert him unless he |
gave up his wife. The defendant has been in !
Europe since he deserted his wife.
A committee of the itizens' Public Market Com
Inlttee, composed Of ex-MayOr Hunter, John ODon- |
ncil and Edwin Beers. called on Mayor Low ycster-
day and suggested that the use of the parade
ground OF cOncOurse adjoining Fort Greene Park, ut
hyrtlc-aYc. and CantOD-st., be granted by the city
Tor farmers market. No building would be needed,
they said, and the farm wagons need not be allowed
to remain later than 10 a. IN. Ii a lee of twenty
i've cents was charged it was thought revenue of
500 day would be secured, which would keep the
concrete pavement clean and in repair. Dir. Low
ald his first impression was favorable to the plan
md he would lay the matter before the Park Com
nlssOners.