Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-01-28
NEW YORK.
The News OF a Day From the Great
MetrOpOlis-The Credit MObilier
Report.
National WOrkingmen's Association
The Tweed Theft Case-MOre
Proof.
StOkes's Application for a New Trial
Reasons Why it Should be
Granted.
The Coal COmbinatIOn--Th Snow Storm
"A Family PoisOned-General
Items Of Interest.

| neaVy makes cOnIlnneS falling, threaten
ing another blockade.
NJ. Paul Mesant, French Journalist
and a resident of the United State
since 1869, died on Long Island yester
day.
1t is stated that some four thousan,
sheep. suffering from contagious skin
disease, were recently sent here from
! Illinois and slaughtered, and the mea
distributed throughout the city. n,
alarm exists, however, as it is though
| the mutton Is nearly already disposed O
that most of the sheep have arrived.
There is every indication that the At
lantic Mail Steamship Company mus
soon pass into other hands than tn,
present management, if the line is no
altogether discontinued. Some forty
processes alleging debt are said to have
been prepared against the company, ag
gregating one hundred and sixty-tWc
thousand dollars.
The annual session of the Grand
Lodge of the Hebrew order of B'na
Birth, was held here yesterday.
Charles H. Pfeifer, who was murdered
by Nixon, was buried yesterday at VIII.
liamsburg. An immense multitude wit.
messed the ceremonies in the church, in
cluding several tribes of the Order OF
Red Men, of which deceased was mem.
Der. The white horse Pfeifer was riding
when shot followed the hearse.
A special to the Herald from Wash
ington says that Poland's Credit Mo.
bilier Committee, in presenting their re-
port to the House, will not express spy
opinion as to the guilt of the parties i'm
plicated, and will base their reason fol
SO doing on the fact that they were moi
appointed to pass judgment but to in
vestigate. 1t is not probable that the
investigation will be closed Tuesday.
Yesterday, about half-past one O'Clock
in the morning, while surprise party OF
ladies and gentlemen was leaving the
steamer Armenia, at Pier 50, North
river, Mrs. Lavinia Smiley, formerly
wife of the notorious Bill Poole, who
was murdered bere nearly twenty years
ago, fell from the gang-plank and was
drowned. Her body was recovered.
1t is stated in Washington special
that the case of Phelps, Dodge 4 Co.
was settled there Saturday for the origi-
nal offer of two hundred and sixty thou
sand dollars.
AT meeting of the Federal Council,
in the National Workingmen's Associa-
ton, on Saturday, committee was ap-
pointed to confer with the Cuban Junta
and to proffer the aid OF the Interna-
tiOnals in their cause. Resolutions were
passed calling upon General Grant to
veto the bill granting lands in Iowa to
railroad corporations. A movement is
on foot by the Workingmen's Union of
this city TO have rural homes erected for
them. They have resolved to petition
the State Legislature on the subject.
In the Tweed case to-day the exanfi-
nation of Tilden was further made. to
connect defendant with the contempora-
neous transactions of deposits of checks.
Witness testified to finding these items
in the Broadway Bank not testified to
before, namely: Deposits by Garvey of
S4S, 900, S6O,000 and $40, 600, and on the
same day similar items to IngersolPs
account; also, on same day, SI25, 900
was entered to the check side of Inger-
solPG account and the same amount to
credit side of Woodward's account; same
day deposit by Woodward and a SINH
lar entry to the credit of Tweed. The
aggregate of Tweed,s deposits from Nav
to December, 1870, was S12,S44 SIS.
was the corresponding de-
pOsits of SOS, ,S5S 80. The total of Wood
wards account from May to September
was s., $50, 600; of that sum ISL, 600
in amounts with the COM
pany's liabilities throughout. Recess.
After recess, Tilden again took the
stand, and resumed his statistical testi-
mony, which continued to the adjourn
ment.
T., 3ba No,,r+ ,f O1,o~ ~ ~.
his evening, the counsel for Stokes pre-
iented afiidsvits prepared in support of
he bill Of exceptions. The afffdavits
tate substantially that during the
rial juror went to the
Grand Central Hotel and pos
'essed himself of information which did
lotcome up atthe trial; also, that anoth-
II juror went to the pistol-store to get in
Ormation on some point which was
lot clear to him; that during the trial
he prisoner once left the courtroom
Without the knowledge Of his counsel
md was absent some minutes while the
estimony was being taken, and that
Turing the summing up by the prosecu.
ion Judge Boardman left the court |
DOM and was absent some time; also
hat some OF the jurors can be proved to |
lave been imbued with hostile feeling
swaId the prisoner. Judge Davis made !
he order returnable on Friday morning !
,efore Judge Boardman.
The middlemen are preparing for q |
rigorous resistance to the coal eombina- |
ion. The movement is denounced. The |
Delaware and Hudson Coal Company
ave fixed the prices of coal for Febru- |
ry at thirty cents per ton higher than |
q January.
The snowstorm continues, and travel |
) greatly impeded-
Recorder Haekett has provided for the
lolding of double session of his court |
uring the February term in order to |
ring to trial numerous persons in the
'ombs.
1t is reported from Troy that at the |
'illage of Nassau, near by, mother
nd two children died recently from |
'oison, il is supposed, in drinking cider
rom brandy cask from which the con-
'eras had not been washed.
During the morning it commenced to |
haw, and the snow turned into a slight /
ain.
The Treasurer Of the Atlantic Mail |
steamer Company to-day said he had /
trong hopes that the steamers now in |
he hands OF the Marshal would be re-
eased. The creditors of the company,
le said, are protected by liens on its
The Havana mail viii go by |
mother route.