Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-04-08

SPECIAL to the Appeal
LITTLE Rock, April The senate
Judiciary committee recommended the
passage of the house bill authorizing
school districts to levy a tax to build
schOolhouses. A bill passed creating
cinsuit clerks in counties of ten thousand
inBabitants. A bill repeating the act
authorizing counties to subscribe stock
in railroads, was posponed until
tomorrow. The house was occupied
receiving reports Of the committee on
State lands, and creating new counties.
The bill creating Faulkner county,
Bramed for the famous Arkansas travel
ct, passed, comprising parts Of Conway,
Pope and Pulaski. The bills creating
Howard and Stone counties passed.
The house then took recess until eight
o'clock, when it again convened, and
the house memorial to congress to so
amend the bankrupt law as to allow
Arkansas to go into bankruptcy,
was called and tabled. This memo
rial was introduced by Mr.. Sumpter.
Mr.. Sumpter is a liberal, useful and
prominent modernized Democrat. The
bill regulating and establishing uniform
ity Of railroad freights was made the
special order for tomorrow. The bill
was passed creating LOnoke county from
Pulaski and Prairie counties. The
slill allowing the counties to fund
their debtJwas recommitted. The great
railroad bill will be 80 modified that
misapprehensions and differences Of
opinion and prejudices may be allayed,
NEith a specific decl aratiOn that no more
bonds are to be issued, as advocated and
understood by the APPEAL from the be-
ginning. Governor Baxter, it is thought,
viii not then interpose his veto. His
party and the people have unbOunded
confidence in the governors intentions
10 consult the welfare and prosperity OF
1he State.
associated Press Dispatch.l
LITTLE Rock, April THE senate
ta-dav passed a bill creating the Office OF
cirslit clerk in counties containing
twenty thousand inhabitants. The
lIOtise passed bills creating three new
counties, Faulkner, Howard and Stone.
The majority Of the committee on the
S.-deral relations of the house, all DEM
orrats, reported favorably on memo
rial TO congress asking that the benefit
Of the bankrupt laws be extended to
Arkansas.
Prem France.
PARIS, April THE Republicans car
tled the municipal elections in Nantes
and Marseilles.
Prom Italy.
ROME, April THE pope, owing TO
his feeble condition, is forbidden to leave
his apartments.
RAtOu Rouge Municipal Election.
BATON ROUGE, April THE munie-
male election to-day was quiet. The
MeEnery ticket was elected without op-
position.
A sI5, geo Lawsuit.
New YORK, April Miss Laura
Keene. actress, has brought suit against
4. NJ. Brelsford, of the American itera-
nv bureau, to recover fifteen thousand
dollars damages for alleged libel.
AYouug Murderer Convicted.
BALTIMORE, April 7.-Thos. Hughes,
aged seventeen, who killed james MIL
Ter, in November last, by striking him
on the head with a wrench, was this
morning found guilty.
a Husbands COuducf Causes the Death
Of his Wife.
COLUMBUS, April Z. - Mrs. A. j,
Reynolds, a most estimable lady, and
wife of the abscOnding sheriff of Athens
county, Ohio, died at Athens on Sunday
morning, it is said from grief Of her hus-
bands conduct.
Legal InsubOTdfnRti0n.
FRANKLIN, April Henry Train,
the Republican judge Of the third judicial
district, arrived this morning and OPEN
ed the regular term Of the district court.
The members of the Franklin bar pos