The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-10-31
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New YoRK. October 20.-The Stokes
verdict was uianslaughter In the third
degree. 30 Was se:.sIosd 20 :o1T yasr5,
at hsrd labor Judge Davis aaid: .'In
rendering this verdict, Stokes. tho jury
have exhausted and more than exhaust.
I'D all mercy in your oase No appeal
20 this corrt can diminish the sentence
from the highest penalty affixed by the
statute In the degree in which you are
convicted, aud that is too light and ap.
parentIy triaing ae compared with the
great crime yon have committed. 1"
Stokes was surrounded and embraced by
his male relatives and was then hurried
to the Tombs.
WILMINGTON. DEL, October 3d.
Captain Dougherty, chief clerk of the
post office. has beeu bailed in Sc, 900 for
q $3. 600 defaioation.
NEW York. October 30.-The sus-
pensionB OF Williamson, Schmidt & Co.,
produce exporters. and Hoyt. Sprague
& Co., have been announced. Hoyt,
Spragae 90. do not deny tho failure,
bat decline O statement .bout their con-
dition.
Theodore Tilton has been expelled
from Plymouth Church, for refusing to
testify in the Beeoher scandal.
HARTFORD. October 30.-The railroad
shops have reduced hours and wages
twenty per cent.
RICHMOND. IND, October 3O.-A fight
with small arms and six-pounder can
non is progressing in this County over
the location of the County seat aud pos
| session OF the County records.
LOUISVILLE. KY. October 30.-Ex.
Mayor Phii. Tempest ls dead.
LITTLE Rock, October 30-A heavy
frost, with clear weather, aIlays yellow
fever approximations.
MEMPHIS, October 30 For the twen-
ty-four hours ending at 6 o'clock. last
night, there we've nine yellow fever
deaths. and nine from other causes.
The Board Of Health officially notify
absentees that they may safely return.
NEW YORK. October 30.-Judge Davis,
in addressing the grand jury. directed
tlem to Investigate the complaints
against lottery and policy dealers.
A despatch from Pittsburg, Pennsyl-
vania, says the blast furnaces of More
head g. Co.. on the Mouongahela River,
lave suspended, and said suspension
foreshadows tho closing up of the re-
rla;nder of such furnaces in this city
and Monongahela and Shenandoah
valleys. There are eight of these fur
naoes, employing about III, 900 men.
The case of Lord, II ,miiton & Co.,
suspended, who have large interests in
the Pennsylvania suit OF VIM. E. Brit
ton against Benz. f. Butler, to recover
45. 900, the amount of two drafts
seized by Gen. Butler in 1862, while he
was Military Governor of New Orleans,
came up for q hearing before Judge
Woodruff, in the United States Circnit
Court. to-day. Gen. Butler was present.
and advised the United States Attorney,
who defended the action on behalf of
the Government. The counsel for Mr..
Britton stated that, in 1862, man bear
ing two drafts, drawn by the firm of
which Brittou was o partner, doing busl-
ness in Natchez, Misc, was arrested
while attempting to cross from the rebel
lines into New Orleans. The drafts
were then valueless, bat General Butter
compelled Mills, Judson & Co., who
were agents in New Orleans for Britton
& Oo, to endorse them, aud then got
them cashed. He claims that Britton
"oo NV ~ OnCLuJ Cuo " OtAL96,
and that bis property could not, there.
fore, be confiscated by the agent of that
Government. The Case is still on.
PHILADELPHIA. October 30.-The Aqe
is advertised for sale
Morgan, Young, Altemus e. Co., dry
goods dealers. have suspended. Lia-
bilities 100000. Will be able to pay
seventy-five to eighty cents. The houae
sold 81, 900. 600 OF goods annually.
WIN. NJ. Lloyd, banker, of Allentown,
has suspended. Lloyd has half dozen
Offices throughout the State.
WAsHINaT IN. October 30-The Pre-.
sident has accepted an invitation to lay
the cornerstone of New York museum.
Sayile, chief clerk OF the treasury,
las gone to Europe. on business con-
nected with the syndicate.
Secretary Richardson says, if the
forthcoming debt statement does not
show over S5. .0OU,O00 increase, he will
not be disappointed.
Probabilltics-For the South Atlantic
States, South casterly winds, partly
cloudy and haZy weather.
SAVANNAH, October 3O.-The mortu-
ary report shows Savannah to be more
healthy than at any previous season,
there being only sixteen deaths this
week, from sll causes. Reports from
BAinbrid1e atata that thars ora Eya co,,,