Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-19
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NEw YoRK. MAY l9.-The difficulty
between the National Turf Congress and
the Trainers aud Drivers Association
has been amicably arranged until the
meeting Of the Turf Congress-. Mr. A.
=. Bruce has pledged himself that what
the drivers ask shall be incorporated IN
their rules when said Congress convenes'
Rule nine has been alter q so that when
aver ole driver is ordered to take the
Mace of another driver in race he
shall be paid fifty dollars by the Ma
tional Association. al
10 TO a late hour last night Jackson
Who murdered Mary Jane Sullivan on
saturday morning. has not been ar
rested. There are no new Developments
In the case. The police are puzzled to
account for the blood in the clubhouse.
The British Consul General denies the
charges made against him by the ship
ming agent, and says some months ago
he revoked the privilege from these men,
owing to repeated complaints OF seamen
who were swindled out of threeiourths
of the money due them. On the other
hand, one shipping master afhrms that
he had repeatedly taken men before the
Consul who we're refused shipment be-
cause they had not been engaged through
,ha Cousurs branch Office. In proof
that the money paid BY the seamen into
the Consurs branch office goes into the
Consurs pocket, the shipping master
showed a number Of letters from cap
tains of British vessels who complained
of The manner in which shipping at the
Cousurs Office is conducted. One OF
them. the captain OF the ship Tanner
lane. wrote to the Consuls Office for
shipment Of crews.
Reports from Sing-Sihg says whole
gang of conyicts while being marched
from the mess room to their cells in the
male prison, yesterday morning, the
gallery on which they stood suddenly
gave way, and procipitating some thirty
or forty men to the ground floor, dis
lance of several feet One convict was
killed instantly, while many others we're
injured, some of them fatally. 1t IS
said that the galleries of the prison are
in a rotten condition, and the attention
of the authorities has been called to the
matter several times without avail.
The Herald publishes further details
of the wholesale poisoning mentioned in
the dispatches last night. From the
Herald report, it appears that the pols-
oning occurred in the house OF Judge
Bladford's father, an old .and respected
citizen, residing at No. G East Four
tenth street, and that several OF his SER
wants were poisoned from arsenic ad'
ministered in their food, two OF whom
are said to be dangerously Ill, and from
the facts obtained, it appears that none
of the family of Bradford, but the ser
wants, we're poisoned, but by whom Is
not known. They we're afflicted imme-
diately after partaking dinner on Thurs
day last. Considerable mystery is at
tached to the case, and coroners IN
yestigation will probably be made.
Considerable dismay was created IN
financial circles on Saturday by the an
nouncement that extensive frauds had
been perpetrated on New York bankers.
Who the victims were was the subject oil
general inquiry. Efforts were made to
ASCERTAIN the houses involved, when it
was found that Brown Bros & Co. we're
the only sufferers, and that the culprlt
was their Mobile correspondent. Early
in the day it was reported that this GER
respondent had made over.drafts for
great amount, and had made too great
advances on cotton for account OF Brown
Bros. Il Co., and later rumor had II
that he had forged paper on them. The
total loss is variously estimated between
$500 900 and 100000. Brown Bros. d
Co. say the loss is moderate. Appllca-
ton TO James NJ. Brown elected the
information that the loss would not ex'
coed $4,000, and that they had dis
missed their culpsble correspondent.