Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-29
NEW YORK.
Another Loyal widow.

Another Loyal Widow.
NEW York, Dec. 2s.-Prominent mem
bers of the Union League Club OF this city
have taken measures to raise some money
to place Mr. Stanton's family in COM
Portable pecuniary condition.
StOck-BrOkerage.
A very important case TO Stockholders
was decided in the Court of Appeals yes
terday. The subject of decision is that
broker who sells out his customers
stock after his margin is gone, but with
out givinghim notice of the time and place
of sale, is liable to his customer for the
highest price of the stock down at the time
of trial, because the customer owns the
stock, and the act of the broker is a
wrongful commission. This was a test
case selected by the Brokers Board.
| ARaIher Tragic Comedian.
A theatrical squabble broke out at the
Grand Opera House yesterday, Alice Dun
ming applying to Judge Dodge for war
rant of arrest against her husband, Viii
liam Needham, alias William Horace
| Lingard, the weIl-known comic singer and
mimic. Mrs. Needham Lingard Dunning
alleges that her husband habitually abuses
her, and that yesterday he threatened to
blow out her brains with pistol. Justice
Dodge issued the warrant. Both sang as
usual last night.
Doubtful Bank. 0
A rumor was in circulation yesterday
afternoon that irregularities have been dis
covered in the Merchants Exchange Ma
tional Bank on Broadway. The bank
officers neither admit nor deny the truth
of the report, but say that committee is
examining the accounts, and that if it
should be discovered that defalcation
has been committed, information of the
fact viii be given to the public.
100000 DeHciency.
The statementtot the effect that irregular
tiles had been discovered in the Merchants
Exchange National Bank proves to be
true. The committee now in session have
discovered so far deficiency of $3.50, 900,
and the amount will probably prove much
larger. So far no names of the delin-
quent parties have been known. The
bank claims to be fully equal To meet the
defalcatiOn.
The EUening Post places the loss of
the Merchants Exchange Bank, by the
irregularities Of Cashier Oakley, at
100000
Tennessee Bonds.
The committee of Tennessee bOndhold-
ers will meet tomorrow.
Important Decision Against the
Stock Exchange.
In the Supreme Court to-day, Judge
Barnard sustained and ordered a contin-
uance of the injunction granted by Judge
Cardozo in the case of Alexander I.
Compton, of the firm of Pardee & Co.,
against the New York Stock Exchange,
in the matter of certain transactions in
gold with one Foote, member of the
Exchange.
The court ruled that the plaintiffs prop
erty cannot be reached against his will
but by due process of law and through
regularly constituted tribunals. The Stock
Exchange is a voluntary association
of individuals unknown to law as
a court of justice, and it can
receive no cOuntenance from this
court in any attempt to stretch its authori-
ty, either directly OF indirectly, through
tAAt AuGAANAAl VI a W lIltlSlllJ ONNl DGA~
sons or property which have never been
voluntarily submitted to its control.
The Sword of Gen. Twiggs.
A motion was made to-day in the case
of Rowena Florence VS.. BENZ. f. Butler,
brought to recover. the value of Gen.
Twiggs' swords and other property, seized
by Gen. Butler in New Orleans.
The motion is to vacate the order of
arrest against Butler on the ground that
the taking was under the orders of the
United States, and that there was no con-
version. Decision reserved.
Long Lost Treasure
A bundle containing $50, 600 worth of
bonds, stolen fifteen years ago, was left
at one of the police stations this morning,
by boy, who escaped arrest.
\ Postal Hitch.
The European steamship lines refuse to
carry mails after the 1st of January for
the sum Offered by the Postmaster Gen
cral, viz: Two cents per letter. Mr..
Creswell is now here endeavOring to az
range matters.
He declares his determination to carry
out the provisions of the Postal Treaty
with Great Britain at any cost.
Easy Escape.
All the conspicuous persons implicated |
in the drawback frauds, the Times says,
with two exceptions, have been taken as
government witnesses The latest addi-
ton to the number is Samuel d. Batch
ford.
Widespread Distress.
The Star says there is great distress
among the Cigarmakers of this city. Some |
of the heaviest manufacturing firms have
discharged at least one hundred hands |
within three weeks. Other trades and |
business are suffering in like proper
ton.
Owing to the unsettled condition of the |
gold market, wholesale clothing firms |
whose employees are numbered by tens of |
thousands, have almost entirely closed |
manufacturing goods for future sales
The same is true of carpenters, brick |
layers, labOrers, COOpers and others. |
Thousands of wOrkmen are being obliged !
to leave the city in quest of work in other
localities.
Symbolic.
The Eric ferry boats, Jay Gould and
ANTS fish, bl.s NDlllhtu VIII bClllBiG
force this morning, midway in the North
river, beween Esd street and Jersey City
slips. The Gould ran into the Fisk amid
ships. crushing in her sides and hull, the
Gould having her bOoms badly STAYED.
The Fisk was tOwed in an almost sink
ing condition to Allison's ship-yard, where
she now lies. The Gould is mOored at
the ferry wharf at Erie depot. None of
the passengers are injured. The damage
is estimated at $4,000.
Quiet.
There were no signs of activity on
board the Spanish gunboats at quarantine
to-day. The men are being recalled in
this city for various YaCt Mt positions on
the gunboats. 1t is now considered i'm
possible for a departure to be effected be
fore next week.
Thomas Hays, night Waterman,
while on duty this evening at the foot of
Montague street, Brooklyn, was shot by
Edward Perry, junk dealer, and died
Immediately.
ILLINOIS.
Drowned.
CHICAGO, Dec 2S.-A daughter of Mel
son Whitney, a farmer living about six
miles from Bloomington, fell into a well
yesterday and was drowned
lucky.
Mike Dugan, track-repaireT of the
Chicago & Rock Island Railroad, has re-
covered a judgment against that road for
$4,000 for injuries received while in its
employ.
MINNESOTA.