Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-17
NEW YORK.
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| New YORK, Oct. 16.-The Womens
Congress attracted large audience to-day
and many mssculines had seats on the plat
form. Mrs. Cooper Bristol read paper
on enlightened motherhood, A free dis
cussion followed and strong ground was
taken against inlanticide. One woman as
serted it was not the business Of every mar
| ried couple to have children and another
who persisted in telling too plainly ali she
Knew about infanticide was repeatedly
called to order and sdmonishsd.
Low EssinAase fer q Lady OF Color.
Judge Friedman and sjury in the Supe-
nor Court to-day tried the suit Of Charlotte
Gilbert, colored, against the New York q
charleston steamship company, Claiming
| ten thousand dollars damages for being ex-
Guided from the st2teroom of the steamer
Manhattan in 1870. The plaintiff obtained
verdict 10 her favor for seventy-fiye dol
lars.
Wants TO Fight.
Joe Cobourn says he will fight Tom
Allen in West Virginia or in Conada, in
four months, for from $500 to 5000.
A Battle of Spades and Clubs-Onc
MAN Killed and Several Wounded.
Charles Mellon, son of VIM. F. Mellon
sugar refner Of this city, died at Irvington
yesterday from injuries received at White
P#ins the day before, during 8 row growing
OF Of dispute about horse race-seVerai
others were seriously injured by the ham
mers, spades and clubs used in the fight.
Cheap transportation.
At the session to-day of the Transporta-
ton Committee of the United States Sem
ate, Carlos Cobb, of Memphis, made
favorable statement concerning the transfer
facilities and storage capacity for grain at
this point. He said the lighterage delivery
performed by middle men compels the
shipper of grain to pay an uncontemplated
charge of Of cent per bushel for unload
ing the carriers vessel, while the world
over the carriers load and unload their own
vessels. This weighing is done in the pro-
cess of elevation, for which there Is charge
of per cent. per bushel, divided between
the shipper and buyer. In the present
system of railroads the shortage varies from
J to 10 per cent. One to per cent is not
uncommon, although the average shortage
should not equal per cent. Thefts along
The line and from railroad lines
have not been of unfrequent Oc-
currence. Overcharges are Of fire.
quent occurrence either in the rate OF
freight or quantity. The remedies proposed
were that the railroad guarantee quantity
and charge rate of freight covering ordi-
nary waste, and that each grain-carrying
road should erect at Its terminus bere elevs-
tors of such capacity as would contain de-
liveries Of eacl road for, say one week;
large los should be kept identical with
small lots under charge Of an inspector and
should be buIked. Grain should be handled
by such elevator and held subject to order
OF consignee for q reasonable time, after
which it should be subject to moderate
charge.
Removed.
Jay Gould has been removed from the
Presidency of tie New Jersey Southern
railroad, and A. N. Zerrot elected bis sue
cessor. Gould is not even in the Directory
now.
SI,IeO for Memphis.
Eleven hundred dollars from the Produce
Exchange, was forwarded to Memphis to-
day.
The DefauIting Treasury Cashier.
ALBANY, n. Y, Oct. 16-Charles II.
Phelps, the defaulting cashier of the State
Treasury, was to day brought before the
Police Court for examination, but at the re-
quest Of the District Attorney the case was
postponed till Saturday, and Phelps was re-
manded TO Jail.
The Tigress i'm Search of the POlsris
Crew.
The Worlds st. John, New Foundland,
special announces the arrival there of the
steamer Tigress, from her search for the
Polaris survivors. On the All of October
the Tigress left InitugI, all on board being
in good SPIRITS and hopeful of finding the
objects of their search. On the 9Th great
gle sprang up, but did not do serious dam
age. On the 9Th, however, perfect hurri-
cane arose, which took them off their
course, for a time but did no
| great injury TO the ship. To-
ward night it subsidized, and with some tTi-
| fling exceptions the Tigress escaped unhurt.
On the 7.b, the crew having become impa-
tient at their forced delay, party started
northward in search of whalers, expecting
to find Capt. Buddington and the remnant
| of the Polsris crew on board one of them.
A light northerly gale still prevailed, and in
4 consequence OF the presence OF much ice,
| which impeded navigation, Capt. Greer
was advised to stand to south
ward as an early winter had evidently set
in. Acting on this advice, Capt. Greer on
| the afternoon ofthe Sth stood for st. Johns,
| keeping in the known track of whslers and
still hopeful of meeting With the lost men.
The crew had been much reduced by ex-
posure to excessive cold and by fatigue. ALI
! on board, however, are well and as far IS can
be learned the Tigress will remain to I'M
dergo some repairs made necessary BY the
severe knocking about she suffered during
the hurricane on the 9th. She will sail in
8 week, and Capt. Greer expects to arrive
in New York by the 10 of November.