, 1873-02-18
Tho Case OF StOikcs--Thc Now Jury
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The ScanneIl Msirlor Trinl--n1lscol.
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Tho Cnso OF Stoikcs--The Now Jury
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Tho Scanne1l Murder Trinl--n1iscel.
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Special Despatch to tbs chtenao Tribune.
New YonK, Fob, 17.-Tho question is e7ory-
whero asked, In what way is Davis decision in
tho Stokes case to operate bar to It's final ad-
judication7 Tho case now goca to tho General
Term, or full bench Of tho Supreme Court,
whore 1t is pnsaed III rovlew upon tho bill Of OK
ceptions. Should tho rulings Of tho
Judge in tho lower Court bo sustaineds
counsel for tho prisoner haya the
right, t,-nnd, Of course, will take advantage Of
it,-to carry tho case up to tho Conrt of Ap-
pealsl tho deosion Of which ia final. Tho Gen-
eral Term meots In this city In March, but tho
e. aasy. c s
By somo good judges 1t Is asserted that Stokes
! III oafe for two yenrs longer. He will DO re-
moved In few days to tho comforts Of his old
h1r. D. q. Craig, announces that new system
Of automatic telegraph, on which ho has been
engaged for several years. ia finished and In
practical operation. By this system, 1t is claimed
that It IL entirely feasible to telegraph and 70;
words per minute betwoen Washington and Now
York, and that by the use Of certain kind Of
nptomatio repeater, messages can be Hont any
number OF thouaaude. Of miles at tho
Aak2 u alA uuuQE9A HOIuH UGE
minute. Tho matter to bo sont by this nav sys-
tenn is prepared BY means Of perforating ma
ohinos, the uac Of which Can eaai1y DO learned
BY any person Of ordinary intelligence In ton
days. time. These perforating machines can
tnrn out the message ready for automatic trans-
miasion at the ratio Of from 100 to 100 words
minute.
Dr.. McG1yun is nanaod to succeed tho Into
Father starra as Vicar General Of tho New York
fTo fh4 Assocfoted press1
i NEW YoRK, Feb. 1.-THE new city charter, az
amended. which Will probably pass the TegfBla-
ture this week. and Is to become 9 law upon it's
passage, will romoVe evcry present head Of tho
departments aud create the other changes Of q
sweeping character heretofore reported. The
Board Of Assistant Aldermen IL dispensed with
Tho Police Commissioners arc ahorn Of great
doal Of their present power, and the suporin-
tendont Of Police has his poworB enlarged.
Certain newspapers having criticised the doci-
sion Of Judge Noah Davis on the writ Of osror in
tho case Of Stokes, IT il proper to stato that tho
decIaion is universally regarded by the Bar as
ono which, under tho circumstances, no Judge
could hare consofentiously or judicially avoided.
Judge Davis ia jurist Of eminenco, having been
On tho bench Of tho Court Of Appeals, in .thia
State, and has the very highest reputation for
Js NssW Yoan, aus 1t Feb. H.~rhe Supreme Court, in
doneral Term this morning, decided in the case
ot tho People against Barclay, that the nov Jury
law is constitutional
AL tua 0GhlASA cas0 ILLS A401AAuk3 14HsA4ot
Attorney Phelps made tho opening address.
Edmund stevenson and Sheridan Shook testified
One of tho civil suits against Tweed WAS to
have been argued to-day but for engagements
Of tho 1awyef connected with tho PROSECUTION.
Tho caao weo laid over.
The funeral OF ex-Mayor Kalbaeisch took
place this afternoon at his late residence, Brook
1yn, and Waa attended by q large concourse Of
people. Tho Board OF Alderman. nearly all the
living ex-1ayors Of Brooklyn. and Mayor Have
meyer, OF this city, we're among shoae prasont