New York Daily Tribune 2 August 1847 BROOKLYN AFFAIRS: ACCIDENTS - Mr. J. GILDERSLEEVE of Babylon, while bathing, on Saturday the 24th, swam a great distance from the shore and never returned. It is not known whether he perished by a shark, by the cramp or by exhaustion. He was about 40 years of age and left a family. On the same evening a young man named John SNEDIKER was drowned at Oyster Bay Mill. He tried to swim too far and sank from exhaustion. Mr. Wm. Hughes, of Columbia-st. Brooklyn, stevedore, while at work on board the British ship Tuscan, at the foot of Pine-st New-York, last Saturday morning, was thrown to the bottom of the hold, some twenty-five feet and died in half an hour. He was about 40 and leaves a wife and family. MARRIED: On 30th ult, by Rev. Dr. POTTS, James P. ROGERS to Olive M. daughter of Thomas W. HARREY, Esq. of this city. DIED: On Sunday morning, of consumption, Dr. Charles H. STACEY, Curator of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, aged 22. His friends and the Medical Profession generally, are invited to attend his funeral on Monday afternoon, at 3 1/2 o'clock, from the residence of his father, H.C. STACEY, No. 42 Franklin-st. At Coney Island, on Saturday evening, July 31, Louise, youngest child of S.S. and Elizabeth SMITH, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Her remains were interred at Greenwood Cemetery on Sunday afternoon. [Cincinnati papers please copy.] At Bloomingdale, on Sixth day evening, 30th ult., Mary G. wife of Hezekiah WILLIAMS, and eldest daughter of Capt. Laban GARDNER, of Troy, New-York, aged 57. The funeral will take place this (second day) afternoon, the 2d inst. from No. 10 Bank-st, at 4 o'clock. The friends of the family are respectfully invited. At Nuevitas, July 12, Don Augustine MUNDZ aged about 65 years. He was for many years a merchant at that place, and to the time of his death was largely concerned in the American trade. On the 15th July, at Athens, Georgia, (where she had gone for her health,) in the 34th year of her age, Maria T. BOARDMAN, wife of Joseph M. BOARDMAN, of Macon, Ga. And daughter of Joseph L. LORD, of New-York.