Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-04-17
NEW YORK.
Trains Mental Condition Undeeided-
The Failure Of Couple OF Wander
bits Nephews Creates an Excite
ment on Wall Street.
Forced Sale of Railroad PrOperty-An
Atlantic Lady Passenger Heard
FrOm-A Postal Blunder-
News In General.

NEW YORK, April 16.-The investi-
| CATION as to the mental condition of
| George Francis Train was to-day re-
sumed before Judge DAILY and special
| Jury. District Attorney Phelps opened
the proceedings by stating the object for
which the Jury had been impaneled,
namely: To discover whether Train
was or was not insane, the result of
which inquiry would determine whether
he could be tried under an indictment
! for publishing an obscene paper. DIR.
Thaddeus w. B. Cross was examined,
and testified that at the request of the
| district attorney he and DR.. Hammond
| had made an examination Of Train, and
/ from the conversation, manner and ap-
pearanee of the subject of investigation,
! he had formed the opinion that he was
of unsound mind. The witness visited
Train twice, and conferred with him on
politics, religion, Grant, Greeley, and
] his property in Omaha. Train said he
was the pagan dictator of this country,
and the nation could not get along
without his leadership; that Greeley
had been poisoned, and that within
sixty days from March 18th every brick
in the TOmbs would be leveled, and the
streets would run with blood. He
Train knew this, and he was the only
person to stop it. DR.. Durant had forty
thousand dollars of his, and paid him
eighteen per cent interest. Wall street
and the banks were rotten, and would
have to go up. General Chatfield,
Trains counsel, crOss-examined DR..
Cross very severely, asking him if he
/ thought Bacon, Newton and Socrates
were insane because they formed theories
/ l,f t1tafr in al ira.f 70 he.
belief of their era. At the conclusion
of the testimony Of this witness, the
court adjourned until tomorrow.
London papers at hand to-day state
that the first dispatch received by the
owners of the steamship Atlantic an
nouncing the loss of the vessel, attrib-
uted the disaster to the watch on deck
mistaking Sambro for Devils light. 1t
appears that Miss RowdOn, reported as
among the cabin passengers, ,disembark-
ed at Queenstown.
| A telegram from Hudson says that
the body of James Head, who was
drowned above this city three and a
half years ago, was found in the river at
this place yesterday.
! Barton & Allen, brokers, nephew
and grandson respectively of Com
modore Vanderbilt, have failed.
I
There is much excitement in Wall
street, and stockshave generally
| ly declined. The cOmmotion which fol-
| lowed the announcement that Commo-
dore Vanderbilt's relatives had failed is
rapidly subsiding, and it is now said the
affair does not amount to much. The
commodore is represented to take care
of himself in Wall street, and allows his
relations to care for themselves, if they
can. He is just now fully occupied with
his contest with the government relative
to taxation.
! The locomotives and engines of the
New York Central and Hudson river
railroad, seized at Albany by Collector
Bailey and replevined by the company
on Saturday, have been returned to the
collector, who has announced their sale
for April 23d. Tomorrow the necessary
papers will be filed removing the COM
pany's suit from the State court TO the
United States circuit court.
The recent burning of the First Bap-
tist church in Harlem, is attributed to
ineendiarism, growing out of the feud
between the pastor and his flock.
A Washington special states that the
| President appointed DOTman Eaton, OF
New York, and Hon. S. Shellabarger, of
| Ohio, TO NIL the vacancies In the CIVIL
service board, caused by the resignation
of Curtis and Medill.
George w. Allen, of Milwaukee, COM
missioner to Vienna, to represent the
leather trade of the country, responded
for the western merchants at banquet
given last evening to Jackson Scultz, by
the members of the shoe and leather
trade, over which Isaac Baily presided.
The Erie road now puts immigrants
through to Chicago in forty-eight hours.
Three hundred of them are now at Cas-
tie Garden, and arrangements have
been made to send to Illinois, Nebraska
and Southern Kansas. all who can
measurably support themselves.
A BRIDGEPORT, ,COnneticut, dispatch to the
Times states that the Howe sewing ma
chine company appears to be involved
more than half of the employees having
quit work for non-payment Of six weeks
work.
| Owing to blunder on Saturday, d
large portion of the mails FOR Europe
were left on the dock, and had to be
held over for the steamer Russia, sailing
| to-day