Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-07
New York liens.

NEW YORK, Mlrcn h.-COOk anu
Harrington, charged with completely
in defrauding the Government in
LIQUOR guaging, have been acquitted
by Commissioner Bills. Cook was
subsequently arrested on other charges
on a warrant obtained by Collector
Bailey, and gave bail in the sum Of
thirteen thousand dollars.
Jerome Bradley, convicted OF the
larceny of 100000 worth Of bonds
from Morrison Il Hutchinson, was
sentenced to serve five years in the
State prison.
J. r Harding, wealthy English
man, committed suicide to-day on
TWenty-seventh street.
The Legislative Committee on Com
merce made a searching investigation
into the cause Of the recent riot among
the immigrants on Wards Island, and
concluded that the complaints of the
sO-called rioters were not without SUI
ficient foundation, and that reform
was very much needed. The testi-
mony taken was all to the same pur-
pOrt-foOd bad, and not enough OF It.
There were only two w8sh-ha5ins, and
but two towels for six hundred per-
sons, and these changed but twice a
week. No reading matter OF any kind
was provided; clothes poor, some OF
them being covered with Vermin;
beds hard and uncomfortable, and
bedding not often changed, and gen
orally dirty.
A petition is receiving many sigra
lures here asking Congress to vote no
more of the public lands to the ad-
vantage Of railroad companies, but to
/ save the remaining acres for the bene-
fit of immigrants and settlers.
The extension of the HackenSack
1 branch of the Erie road to Hillsdale,
tWenty-one miles and half from Jer
| sey City, opened yesterday.
1aborers on the Delaware and Lack
awana railroad, at Paterson, struck
| for higher wages, but contractors refuse
| to accede to their demand. The trial OF
! ex-Judge Fullerton will pOsitivele be-
! gin tomorrow, in the United States
| Circuit Court. An enthusiastic friend
of the accused yesterday offered to bet
! $4,000 against three cents, that he
would not be convicted.
Alexander RinO was sentenced to
| twenty years in States prison, for out
raging a child two years old. He has
| received pardon fFOm Gov. Holman,
| through exerti0ns of the Russian
minister, on condition of leaving the
/ country at once. His father is an
officer in the Russian army, and a
member Of the personal staff OF the
Gar.
Emanuel MailOck was acquitted, at
Trenton, on the charge of embezzing
5000 while acting as paymaster nthe
navy.
The Sunday NetCs pronOunces false
the story of last week that Nathan
Kingsley absconded with thirty thou
sand dollars.
Michael Toben,a butcher and sheep
dealer, was knocked down, last night,
in Thirty-fourth street, and robbed OF
twelve thousand dollars, by two men.
The near approach of gold to par
occasion denunciations on the part OF
members of the Gold Exchange To-
day, and several eXpulsions from the
room were talked of,
1t appears that in the stormy pro-
ceedings in the Fenian Senate, last
night, Mehan was shot. The dispute
was in reference to an invasion o.
Canada, which 0'Nen urged, but u
which the majority of the organiza
ton were opposed and condemnins
such a movement before all branches
: of the Brotherhood were united, a
rash in the extreme.
: George w. Haverstick, of Erie, Pa.
died here suddenly, to-day, of hear
disease, aged 45.