Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-04-18
Brooks to Contest BaXter's Guber'
material HOnOrs in Arkansas
Causes and Effects.
important TO the Railroad Com
munity-An Old Tennessee
Journalist Gone.
The German Troops Eyacuating
French TerritOry-The Expo
sitiOn Buildings at Vienna
Not Completed.
ARKANSAS.

ARKANSAS.
Special to the Appeal
LITTLE Rock, April l7.-In the SEN
ate to-day Mr.. Torrance introduced a |
bill to abolish circuit school sHperin- |
tendents. The senate went into COM |
mittee of the whole and adopted the
bills reported and passed in the house.
The house bill protecting farmers was
indefinitely postponed. The bill estab- |
fishing an insurance bureau was spe-
cially ordered for tomorrow. The house
bill was passed allowing cities to extend
their corporate limits; also the bill re-
quiring railway trains to stop at incor-
porated towns. a bill was passed au-
thoriziRg boards of supervisors to locate
and arrange the rates of ferries.
Much time was consumed in the dis
cussion of the bill providing for the fore
closure of mortgages on real estate.
Bank Sumpter moved its reference to
the judiciary committee, and it was car
Iied. A joint resolution may be intro
duced in the house tomorrow allowing
Brindle Brooks the contest for Baxter's
seat-simply a dodge to force Baxter in
to their measures. Brooks has formed
an alliance with the very men that were
his bitterest enemies during the canvass.
These bold, bad men propose to induct
old Brindle if he will approve the rail-
road bill, the metropolitan police bill,
the senate election abortion bill, and
give a congressional certificate to
Asa Hodges. The Democrats will
not consign themselves to ignOminy
by indorsing this hellish scheme. In
augurate Brooks, and Arkansas will be
pandemonium. Many think that this
demonstration is to intimidate Baxter
and develope the strength of the move
ment, and then threaten with no remote
idea of inaugurating old Joe. The very
men now fOndling him, hate him as
they can no other. J. H. Berry, OF the
house, B. j. Brown, of the senate, and
three other Democrats, have consulted
with Brooks, and advised him TO aban-
don the contest, as he can accumulate
no strength, and the result viii be un-
favorable for him. BaXter's safety Is
uuquestiOned. Clayton and Tankersly
are supposed to be pulling Brooks's
wires. This will only strengthen Bax-
ter with the people.
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE.
Special to the Appeal
JACKSON, April 1.-THE friends of
education that have gathered in large
numbers at the capital lately, received
fearful set back to-day, as the house
passed the bill requiring superintendents
of each county to be elected; said
friends of education who have been al
ready nominated and have Ornamented
the Jackson schools for sometime past,
must pack up and travel, and their loss
will be their landlady's and washerwo-
mans loss. Colonel E. P. Jacobson,
district attorney for the southern dis
trict of Mississippi, has rendered his
resignation. Felix Branigan will prob
succeed him. The house passed the
general appropriation for the year as it
came from the senate, with amend
ments; concurred in fee and salary
bill amendments by senate. 1t is
dubious now for the reporter to
ask for bills, to see the nature
of them, as so many have been
lost of late that the special deputy, a
very gentlemanly young man, remains
at the door of the clerks room and al
lows no entry. 1t is sinful to thus class
members of the press with members OF
the Legislature. The house passed the
senate act making an appropriation fol
rewards for the arrest of murderers and
forgers. This bill provides for the ex.
penditure by the State of ten thousand
dollars. Out Of this amount eight thou.
sand goes 70 G. s. Bell, minus fifteen
hundred, which Mary Mcbride takes
! The agitation on this subject was inter.
esting, not to say exciting. The proba.
bility is that the governor will not
veto the bill, as by so doing he will
stop the appropriation, and Mcbride
gets her fifteen hundred dollars, and
Bell gets his, and Black gets his. The
senate considered the bill providing fol
the payment of three thousand dollars
to Joseph Willis, State architect, for the
drawing of plans and specifications fol
a new penitentiary. Killed: The bill re.
garding a provision of three thousand
dollars for said labor, but it was recon,
sidered and then passed. Indefinitely
postponed: The act Incorporating
the improvement and manufacturing
association of Fayette county; the ac
, extending the time of sheriff7s fina
settlements; the act amendatory to al
act incorporating the Water Valley
savings bank. The committee on the
| lunatie asylum made a report regarding
repairs on the asylum. They reported
that Keary d Stanton had received
| from the State one hundred and clever
thousand and ninety-tbree dollars
} while vouchers in the hands of thu
: committee charged the actual expendi
| ture of one hundred and thirty-fou
: thousand one hundred and ninety
five dollars, and presented a bill t
/ provide for the balance due. The re
+ port states that the contract wa
| filed in a manner highly creditable {,
t the contractors, and the work is a credi
to the State. As the last day draws nea
t the sinners are making their last efforts
= and the only comment to be made b,
me, is that the senators should not ioil
: the third house and rush ON the lowe
house after the senate adjourns.
Associated Press RepOrts.l
: Death of the Mother of Chief-J ustie
= Nicholson.
3 NASHVILLE, April 1.-THE motht
n of Chief-Justiee A. o. P. Nicholson die