Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-04-06
Reaction In Little Rock in Favor
of the Railroad Aid Bill
Good!
The Last Murder in jackson, Miss.
Senatorial Dodgers Must
Vote.
Curtis aud the Civil Seryice-An
Old Case Of Indian Commits
sion Steal Revived.

AhOOiIOA NAN AAAtOu W pAhO AhVA'
Horse, and Two Blown to
Atoms by Boiler ExplO-
sion, Etc.
Mississippi News.
Special to the Appeal.l
JACKSON, April 5.-Thomas Johnson,
whose bowels were cut out by Allen
Smith. died this evening. After the cut
ting Smith made himself scarce till
this morning, when he gave himself up
to Horace Barr, justice of the peace,
who released him on two hundred dol
lars bonds, taking Rolla Williams, well
known as an ice-cream vender, preacher
and Radical politician, as bondsman.
Financially and morally, Williams is
not worth two shakes of cats tail,
and Esquire Barr is worth three times
as much.
The senate passed the following bills !:
Making an appropriation to defray the
expenses of the sergeaDt-at-arms for sta
tionery, etc.; appropriating ninety-five
thousand dollars to the lunatic asylum,
referred; appropriating thirty-five thou
sand dollars to the deaf and dumb asy-
lum, referred to the finance committee.
A resolution was adopted denouneing as
exhibiting contempt to the senate any
senator who refuses to vote on a ques-
tion, or who shall evade vote by
lodging out when questions are up, and
providing that such senators be pun
ished accordingly. The effect of the
resolution will be to make all hands face
the music. The senate adjourned pend
ing the discussion on the bill for the re-
lief of the blind asylum. The house
considered the committees substitute to
the educational bill to the twenty-third
section, and passed several local bills.
Arkansas Matters.
Special to the Appeal
LITTLE Rock, April 5.-No senate
session to-day. Business dull in the
house, a reactory effect from yesterdays
buster. The judiciary committee re-
commended the passage of bill limit
ing sheriffs' term to two years; made the
special order for Monday. Also recon-
mend the passage of q substitute bill
prepared by McVeigh, prohibiting dis
elimination iu favor of men over wo-
men, as teachers of public schools;
passed with some opposition. McVeigh
earnestly advocated the measure, and
the introduction and pessage is mainly
credited to him. The ladies won't for
get him. The bill defining the rights
of purchasers of State lands was made
the special order for Thursday.
struck by lightning.
DUBUQUE, Iowa, April 5.-Last night,
at Masonville, Iowa, the lightning de-
stroyed the property of S. T. Oviatt,
amounting to ten thousand dollars; no
insurance.
Two victims of Boiler FIareup.
CINCINNATI, April 5.-A boiler in the
sawmill of Multerspaw & Co., at Cadiz,
Indiana, exploded yesterday, instantly
killing John Multerspaw, one of the
proprietOrs, and probably gentleman
with whom he was talking, as he has
not been seen since. The body is prob
ably under the debris.
A New Wrinkle in the Goodrich Mys.
tcEy.
NEW YORK, April 5.-The newest
phase of the Goodrich mystery is that
James w. Knox, a prisoner in the
Brooklyn jail on the charge of forgery,
claims 10 have information that would
result IN the detection of the murderer,
but refuses to disclose it unless the
charge against himself be dismissed
Knox was four years on the New York
police.
Another Railroad Victim.
DUBUQE, Iowa, April 5.-Peter Vogel,
a fireman who was injured in the rail-
road accident last night, sustained such
internal injuries that his recovery is
doubtful. The engine, by force of the
collision with the rock, which weighed
five or six tons, was thrown six feet in
the air and turned completely upside
down in the river. But for the breaking
of the coupling link between the loco
motive and baggage car, the whole train
would have been precipitated into the
river, entailing fearful loss of life.
Concerning Civil. Service Befoim.
NEW YORK, April 5.-The following,
which is furnished exclusively to the
agent of the Western Associated Press,
explains itself:
WASHINGTON, D. c., April ).
Contradicting statements having been
made concerning the continuance of the
civil service regulations and the resig-
nations of George William Curtis and
Hon. Joseph Medill, the two lead
ing members of the civil service
board, the following, obtained from
high authority, we know to be
facts: 1t is the intention to con-
tinue the competitive examina-
tion in the departments, which are fixed
in the regulations, but the appointments
will not rigidly depend on these. 1t is
known that Hon. Joseph Medill ten
dered his resignation as member of the
board last fall, on account of not having
the time to spare to go to Washington to
sit with the board. The President de-
clined to accept it, and Mr.. Curtiss urged
him to hold on awhile. On the seven
teenth of January, the President issued
a general order against the holding of
federal offices or appointments by State
the latter, this to take effect March 4,
1873. In March Mr.. MedilI called the
Presidents attention to this order, and
notified him of his resignation of men,
bership of the civil service board. The
letter of resignation of George William
Curtiss is as follows:
WEST NEW BRIGHToN, N. Z, March, Is.
My DEAR SIR-As the circumstances
under which several important appoint |
ments have recently been made seem to
me to show an abandonment both of
the spirit and the letter of the civil SER
vice regulations, I respectfully resign |
my position as member of the advisory
board of the civil service. In so doing, |
[ beg to assure you of my warmest |
wishes, and of the continuance of my
most earnest efforts for the success Of
your administration. Very respectfully |
and truly yours,
His Excellency the President.
An Old Case Revived that Promises |
Rare Developments.
ST. LOUIS, April 5.-Judge John w.
Wright, of Washington city, against |
whom q number of indictments have |
been found by the grand jury here for
forging Endorsements on drafts, arrived |
here yesterday and voluntarily ap-
peared before Judge Primm, of the /
criminal court, and was bailed in the
sum of twelve thousand dollars. VIM. |
FL. Scudder, president of the merchants
exchange, and n. d. Griswold, presi- |
dent of the Ohio and Mississippi rail- |
road, signed the bond. Judge Wright |
was accompanied by his son, Irwin B. |
Wright, and Ex-COngressman Dodd, of