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engaged in another direction, which, it is rumored, promises further disclosures. The answer to the bill of Receiver Frelinghuysen, of the Mechanics' National Bank, will be filed by the counsel of C. Nugent & Co. this week. DistrictAttorney Keasbey said yesterday that he had from the first believed Cashier Baldwín's statement that nearly all the bank'sfunds had been absorbed in the Nugent business. Baldwin had excepted $50,000 stolen by Marchbank, and another amount of $8,000 which Baldwin accounted for. It had not been proven. he said, that Baldwin lost money in Wall Street speculations. As regarded Theodore Baldwin, the teller, the investigation had shown f that he lost $100,000 in speculations in Wall Street. It was suspected, but not definitely known, that E this was the bank's money. LONG ISLAND. WESTBURY.-Mrs. Ann Titus, of Westbury, recently bought some cows in New-York. After she had received them it was discovered that they were afflicted with pleuro pneumonia, The farm has been quarantined, and Mrs. Titus prevented from selling milk. JAMAICA.-Long Island farmers who put away quantities of celery and spinach, in anticipation of freezing weather, have found indications of rot and The will be compelled to dispose of them quickly. recent rains have had a damaging effect upon the lettuce grown in hot houses. HEMPSTEAD.-Daniel Thomas, of Hempstead, 3 miser who went about half naked and picked up pieces of wood, rags and old iron in the streets, was sentenced to six months on Barnum Island on Friday as a vagrant. His house was searched and $254 found concealed under some rubbish. Dix HILLS.-Pla Smith. age sixty, of Dix Hills, spent Friday evening with some friends at the Greenlawil Hotel. About midnight he started to return home. In backing his horse from under the wagon shed he was thrown from his wagon, and struck his head on the ground with such force as to kill him almost instantly. SOMIHTOWN.-Henry Jones, a woodchopper, living in a small cabin in the woods near his work at Smithtown, on Monday last hired a strange man to help him. Yesterday morning Jones did not awaken until nearly 10 o'clock, and he felt as if he had been overcome by chloroform. He found that his best suit of clothes, silver watch, $40 in money, and the stranger had disappeared. STATEN ISLAND. NEW-Dorp.-Andrew Doyle, son of Justice Doyle, of Clifton, while gunning in the woods, near NewDorn, on Thursday, acct !entally@discharged both barrels of the gun into his right leg. The shattered limb may have to be amputated. New-BRIGHTON - A person passing Erastus Wiman's house at New-Brighton Thursday evening, saw through a window a blaze in one of the upper rooms. A masquerade party was being held in the parlors. Analarm was given and the names were extinguished with slight damage. The fire was caused by the window curtain igniting from a gas jet. CLISTON.-Thomas Miller and John Kelenis, captains of sand schooners, were arraigned yesterday before Justice Vaughn at Clifton, charged by the Highway Commissioners of Southfield with stealing sand from the beach. The commissioners alleged that the prisoners 111 removing the sand endangered the new boulevard running along the beach. The prisoners were committed to jail in default of $25 fine each. WESTCHESTER COUNTY. MERRITT'S CORNERS.-A post-office has been established at Merritt's Corners, in the town of Newcastle. and named Pocantico. PEEKSKILL.-Eugene Pringle, an employe of the Union Stove Works at Peekskill, fell dead while returning home on Friday evening. He was a prominent Odd Fellow and a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He leaves a wife, but no children. The cause of his death was heart disease. WHITE PLAINS.-At the opening of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, at White Plains yesterday, District Attorney Baker moved that sentence be passed upon Onoferio Mangano, who was found guilty of murder in the first degree on Wednesday night, in having killed Charles Williams, a fellowconvict. in the State Prison at Sing Sing, on December 9. The counsel for the prisoner opposed the motion on the ground that the proper notice in such cases had not been given as required by the new Code, and further, they had moved for a new trial, on several grounds. Judge Dykman said that he was unwilling to pass sentence of death upon any one until the matter had been reviewed by the General Term. The argument on the motion for a new trial was postponed until Saturday next.
