General City News [March 1868]






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Anniversary Edition
From the Brooklyn Union of March 1868

Spring Baths at the Ferries
Occasionally some hasty or careless person will plunge into the water at
some of the ferries, be fished out by the ferry hands or police, and go home
cooler and wiser, but it is seldom that more than one such incident occurs
in one day.  Last evening was an exception, for there were no less than
three persons overboard at the ferries in the course of four hours.  At 7
1/2 o¹clock a woman named Ann MC MAHON, residing at 17 Cherry Street, walked
overboard at the Hudson Avenue ferry.  She was rescued by the ferry hands,
taken to the station house by Officer QUINN, of the Forty-second Precinct,
and afterwards went home.  Mrs. Ellen POWERS, No. 25 Flushing Avenue fell
into the water while leaving a Fulton ferry boat at ten minutes to ten
o¹clock last night.  She was rescued by the ferry hands and taken to
Meschutts Hotel, and afterwards to her residence by Officer KINNEY, of the
Forty-second Precinct.  A man, named James DUFFY, a resident of Flatbush,
fell overboard at Fulton Ferry, at a quarter past eleven last night, was
fished out by the ferry hands and taken to the station by Officer STRONG, of
the Forty-second Precinct.  The police represent DUFFY as under the
influence of liquor at the time of his bath.

Well Lighted.
All the street lamps in the Forty-ninth Precinct, comprising most of the
Ninth Ward and a portion of the Seventh Ward, were lit last night, almost
for the first time "within the recollection of the oldest inhabitant."  The
police record the fact with evident satisfaction, and it is reproduced in
these columns in a like spirit, with the hope that similar reports may come
from other parts of the city.  Let there be light.

Cleaning Fulton Street.
Workmen are actively engaged in cleaning Fulton street, and they reap an
abundant harvest of mud, to the satisfaction of all pedestrians.  It is
rumored, but upon what authority it is not known, that other aldermen intend
to follow the example set by Aldermen THORN and MERCEIN.  So may it be.

Attempted Suicide.
At an early hour this morning a man, named John ST. JOHN, residing in Floods
Alley, near Johnson Street, attempted to commit suicide by trying to shoot
himself in the head with a pistol.  The attempt was frustrated, however, by
the man¹s wife, who struck up the pistol, and finally succeeded in getting
possession of it, whereupon the man jumped from a second story window, but
was not injured by the fall.  The assistance of Officer CHAMBERS, of the
Forty-ninth Precinct, was obtained by the wife, and ST. JOHN was secured and
locked up.  An examination made by physicians this morning showed that ST.
JOHN was laboring under an attack of delirium tremens, and measures were
taken to have him removed to the hospital in Flatbush.  For some time past,
ST. JOHN, who is an ice cart driver by occupation hand bears good character,
has been drinking hard.  On Sunday night last he signed a pledge, and the
sudden reaction, produced by not drinking anything strong, after a long
indulgence in intemperate habits, brought on the fit of delirium which came
near to causing his death.

Transcriber: Mimi Stevens
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