New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-05-12
BROOKLYN.

Deaths last week. 2Gs births 22j; marriages,
ZIG.
John OConner was sent TO the Albany Peni-
Tertiary Yesterday for term OF hye years Tor pass
ing counterfeit 80 bills
The body of James Duffy Of No. ~ Warrcn-st
who was believed to have drowned himself on
March 20 through grief at the loss Of child, was
found in the water at the foot OF Amityst, yestcr
day.
The German Evangelical Church in Schermer-
horn-st., has invited the Rev. j. j. Heschman, of
st. Peters Lutheran Church, to become ITS pastor,
as successor To the Rev. Theodore Dresel, who was
dismissed several months ago.
An absolute divorce is sought by Mrs. Susan B
Harding from James A. Harding. with whom she
became acquainted while spending summer va
cation on Marthas Vineyard The case was sent
to q referee yesterday.
Tive Italians, who gave the Celtic names Of
Michael Bricks and Tony Dcnohue were fined 500
each yesterday for violating the health ordinances
in having decaying bones stored IN the hallway of
the tenement-Eouse No. &c Adams-st.
new opera called Arctic" was presented in
the Academy of Music last week, but it did not
prove pecuniarly prOlitably. Only small per
centago Of the salaries due to the performers was
paid gu Saturday The managers however PROM
ised to pay In full this week.
The will of Peter c. Cornell, who left an estate
estimated at 81 O,O0O, was offered for probate
yesterday. The sum of $1,000 each, was left TO
Grace Chapel, in Highest the Brooklyn Hospital
the Church Charity Foundation, and the Protestant
Episcopal Missionary Society. The rest of the cs-
tate was bequeathed to his legal heirs.
A suit has been brought by Mrs Sarah f. Rose
against the Brighton Beach Racing Association to
recover So 600 damages, because the plaintiffs
husband hickman, spent all his money buying
pools and liquor on the grounds of the as
ISOLATION last summer An order was granted yes
teTday for the plaintiff to show cause why a bill Of
particulars should not be served
The opening of the Brooklyn Elevated Railroad
will take place at 2 p. IN. Tomorrow, free trains
being run for invited guests and subsequently, for
the public On Thursday regular trips on schedule
time will begin Tie time from the Bridge 10
Broadway is twenty minutes Trains will run at
five minute intervals troI a. Il. to midnight
Charles Bucksbaum, age twenty-nine German
cigar-maker, who was sent TO the Kings County
Insane ASYLUM year ago, committed suicide YES
terday. He used one of his suspenders made from
a stout piece of bedclothing for a moose. and at
tached il 10 the broken sash-cord Of the window of
his ROOM In the basement One of his hallucina
tons was that ghosts were around him all the
time.
Policeman Harry Hill, of the Central Once
Squad was on duty at the Tax Office yesterday.
when tall well-built young man, wearing broad
brimrGed hat, asked him If there was a policeman
named Harry Hill tho force. That is nay
name" said Hill. "Then am your son" responded
the stranger. II had been twenty-five years since
the policeman had seen his son. lie entered the
army when the war broke out, leaving the boy III
the care of an aunt his wife being dead. The boy
ran away and the father after the war could learn
nothing OF him unit. about three years ago, when
he heard that his son was In Texas. Tho happy
father secured an excuse from duty for the rest OF
the day.