Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-05-31
Erie Stocks in LOndon-POstal Regula-
tiOBs InVestigGted-Credit MObi-
lisr-Discharge OF Train.
Excitement ever the Boston COnnagra-
tiOn-Trail Charges One Hundred
Thousand Dollars for his Ser
vices at the TOmbs.
Sab-Treasury EnbezElement Suit A
COlored Nay Festival Winds Up
WITH a General KnOck-DOWn
General Items.

New YORK, May 90.-George Nc
| Henry has addressed letter to the New
| York stock exchange, advising that the
Birschafistein party are making siren
Uous efforts TO induce the committee of
the London stock exchange to permit
! dealings in Erie shares without rise of
/ the Farmers Loan and Trust company,
and saying that the practical effect
would be to neGtralize the advantage of
| that rise at New York, for if the shares
can be unlOaded in London, without
! limit, that market will be weakened, and
will react upon New York.
A Washington special says that Post
master Cresswell has examined the pos
tai code to see If il would admit of a
free transmission of newspaper exhanges
of papers published within the county,
and has come TO an adverse conclusion.
A Washington special says the counsel
for the defendants in the credit moDilier
suit will, in a few weeks, file demurrer
to the bill in equity, taking the ground
that the act under which the bill is
drawn is unconstitutional, and that con-
gress cannot enact for the benefit of the
government what is denied to individual
suitoTs: and that the act is in direct vio-
lation of existing laws, under which the
defendants have the right to ask protec-
ton: and until they are placed on an
equality with the plaintiffs there can be
no equitable proceedings. This will
carry the case to the supreme court. 1t
is admitted that this objection of the
defendants may quash further proceed
ings.
The sherif7s jury having declared
George Francis Train to be sane, he was
discharged from custody to-day.
The announcement of the great fire in
Boston caused much excitement in this
city. The insurance offices were nearly
all closed, but sool the principal officers
of many were en- hand running over the
books to see if they had risks in the dis
trict burning.
No markets tO-day-holiday in New
York and Buffalo.
The congregation of the African
Methodist Episcopal church, at Dean
and Schenectady avenues, Brooklyn,
held their May festival in the church
last evening. IN the singing of psalms,
one of the sisters felt herself aggrieved
at some remarks of one of the brothers.
A male friend of the woman sought out
the aggressoT, and from words they came
to blows, and in short time a general
fight ensued. Chairs and tables were
overturned, and soon the floor was COW
cred with a rolling and struggling mass
of men and women intermingled with
capsized ice-cream, cakes and jellies, of
ali kinds. The police were called, but
before they succeeded in separating the
cOmbatants two of the force were
knocked down, and nearly all the breth-
ren and sisters were marched to the sta
tiOnhOuse.
Ex-Mayor Hall in the United States
circuit court to-day argued the demurrer
taken b. him against the indictment
charging George +. Dunning with hav-
ing embezzled moneys in the sub-treas-
ury in this city, Mr.. Hall cOntending
that the indictment was drawn under
the statute of 1923, which he claimed
was repealed by the statute of 1866. In
the course of his argument he said that
the sub treasury act had been repealed
by the blunder of clerk. 1t had been
intended to repeal that part of the
act which related to copyright,
but by an error of the clerk who drew
the biu. the whole act was repealed, and
so passed congress, since when the sub
treasury is not legally in existence. The
ldistrict-attorney admitted that a blum
uEt udu DECn DAe N--~-e ~NeeDA0NJ
General Williams has decided that as
the intention was only to repeal the
copyright clauses, the remainder OF the
act was still in force. Decision is re-
| served. Ex-Mayor Hall says there are
numbers of such cases pending, but none
will probably be called until the next
congress meets, when the blunder will
| be Iemedied.
George Francis Train, it is said, will
sue the city for false imprisonment,
claiming one hundred thousand dollars
damages.
An increase is reported in the number
of horses sick on Coney island in the
stables. At Brooklyn the disease is said
to be spreading TO other stables where q
large number of horses are kept.
| During a quarrel last night between
John Burns and his wife, in Brooklyn,
the latter was so severely beaten that
she died soon afterward. The husband
was arrested.