Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-02-16
B Y Ell E G R A P q,
LATEST TO NOON TO-DAY.
Dispatches to the Southwestern Press
Association.
NEW YORK.

New York, February i6 The case
of Roxana Rodgers was concluded yes.
terday in the Essex Court by verdict of
gully of manslaughter. The jury was
on. twenty one hours. In their verdict
the jury made strong recommendation
to the mercy of the court. The sentence
was not pronounced and the prisoner was
remsuded. She is said to have expressed
her resolve to commit suicide.
A Byron banquet is to be given in this
city on the 9th of April next, the ami
versary of Byrop's final departure from
England, by the aid of large number of
prominent bankers and lawyers who pre-
pose by this homage to the poet to testify
their reprobation of the ISLANDERS heaped
upon his memory.
A Havana dispatch states that twenty
FIVE Cubans and Americans have been
murdered in the streets of Havana since
the funeral of Castamon.
The appointment of Gen. Jordan as
commander in-chief of the Cuban armies
is fully confirmed. The Cuban Con-
gress, composed mostly of men elected
last fall, made the change.
Late Partisan journals show that the
notorieiy achieved by Traupmsun has
created an epidemic Of crime in France.
Following the execution of the Pantin
hero, q terrible tragedy occurred in the
Rue de Fouburg. st. Hopore Francois,
footman. residing with NJ. lambert,
formerly French Consul General in In
dia, having quarreled with his mistress,
few at her with knife and severed her
head nearly from her body. The murder
was committed in the presence of the
husband, who is a paralytic, and was un-
able to move from his seat FRANCOIS
gave as q motiys for the crime that his
mistress had charged him with stealing
bottle of wine and getting drunk. After
his arrest he took the affair very coolly,
and asked for water to wash the blood
from bio hands.
Three other French murders are re-
ported.
The faculty of the colleges of New
York dismissed eighty-six students last
week for proving deficient at examina-
ton.
At a meeting yesterday of the credi-
tors of Ealstead, Stiles 4 Co., wooden
goods importers, of White street, it was
unanimously agreed to accept q COM
promise of sixty-6ve per cent, payable
OF three, nine and twelve months.
The West Side Elevated railway will
be opened to the pnblic March l..
Alta special term ofthe Supreme Court,
had in Brooklyn yesterday by Judge Pratt,
the recent decision of Chief Justice
Chase, holding that the principals and
interests of all contracts entered into
prior to the passage of the legal tender
act Of July IL, 1862, are payable in gold,
was practically applied in the case Of
johnson Lsake VS.. Alfred Doubleday
and others. The plaintiff sued for the
close Of q mortgage Of $4,000, dated July
/, 1857. Judge Pratt gave judgment in
favor of the plaintiff for principal and
interest, to be paid in gold, or the
equivalent Of gold in grseubscks, acting
under the Supreme Court decision above
referred to.
SYRACUSE, February l6 The city cleo
ton yesterday was closely contested BY
the Rspublicans, who reelected Mayor
Clarkly by three hundred and fhy-six
msjority, and elected one OVerseer Of the
Poor and one Justice ofthe Peace. TIE
Democrats elected one Justice, one Over
seer, en- Assessor and one Supervisor.
The Republicans carry FIVE Of the eight
wards on Aldermen. The Common Couu.
ell stands: 5 Democrats Republican,.