Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-03-22


There was continuous disorder Tor lou
: hours, when the committee rose.
:, Thereupon the house adjourned, an,
u the bills will come up again tomorrow
/. Hereafter, it is suggested, when th
il house goes into committee Of the Who'll
!. it will be made means of revenue t
the State, and an admission fee of ON
: dollar charged. 1t is well worth tn
a price.
Tonight the city council refused t
q swear in w. J. Murphy, recently elect
ed alderman, on the ground that he ha,
:. a contract to furnish the city with gas
and was therefore ineligible. Ehman
the defeated candidate, was sworn in.
? Special Correspondence Of the Appeal.
' LITTLE Rock, March 20.-The gen
l eral assembly of Arkansas is, very justly
s perhaps, condemned by the people. Fo
: nearly three months the peoples money
; has been squandered in the vain effor
I to enact such laws as the local and gen
eral necessities of the State demanded
But one good law has been made
and that the passage of the constitu
tiOnal amendment liberating the intelli
gence of the State from political pro.
3 scription. The necessities of the people
can be fully relieved by the passage Of @
half dozen bills; expenses of govern.
ment should be largely cuTtailed and
: prOfligate expenditure OF public moneys
be checked; the credit and finances oi
the State restored to q healthy status
the penitentiary properly disposed of;
the school system modified to better suit
: the educational interests and the crippled
condition of the finances; the general
, election and registration law, unsmoth-
ering the voice Of the people, be passed
at once; and other measures looking 10
immigration, such as appropriations
for He71Ty'S Resources OF ATEdRsds, and
/, the bill to have our State history writ
ten, so that the "woTld and the rest OF
mankind" may learn something of the
characteristics OF our soil, climate, re-
sources and people. Everything else is
of a secondary Importance. The inae-
i tivity of the general assembly is charg-
able to no one individual or party. The
Democrats are perhaps more unified in
their line of policy than the Republi-
cans, who have not quite cemented
since the division upon the senatorial
contest between Judge Bowen and
! Colonel Dorsey. The social relations
between men of all parties are of a most
agreeable neutrality-suspicious. OfpOlitics
forming no barrier to mutual, social
intercourse between men of different
contending political factions.
To one who gets his news OF Arkansas
from distorted press reports, and who
has never been TO Little Rock and been
brought in direct contact and association
with the politicians who are shaping for
good or evil the destinies of the State,
he thinks we are reveling in a constant
pandemonium. But not so-DemOcrats
and Republicans eat, drink, sleep, and
play cards together; and, out of official
relations, q man is not known OF meas
ured by his politics.
The Rnti-BaXter movement is forever
epitaphed. Inits death-struggle 1t made
a bid for the Democrats to strengthen
the movement, but very wisely the
Democrats concluded to "let well
enough alone" The governor is now
safely fortified by all the good and hon.
est men of bis party and the well-wishes
of the whole people of the State. Under
his government, inducements to immi-
grants and railroad builders will beget
a new epoch in the history of the i'm
poverished people. Arkansas is not un-
mindful of the debt of gratitude due the
APPEAL for the conciliatory and wise
policy toward the legislature and the
governor. The State and people should
never forget the services rendered both
by the APPEAL, which has done most,
not only politically for Arkansas, but in
making known the States resources.
Your correspondent has been assailed
by nincompoops, simply because, in
writing OF Arkansas, his reason has not
been warped or ideas discolored by pre-
.judices.
MeaI-PaekIng Statistics.
CHICAGO, March 21.-The CONNER
ciqE Bulletin of this city to-day gives the
total number Of hogs and cattle packed
at this point this season, viz: Hogs,
!, ,425, ,O70, against 1,2lS, SIS last season;
cattle, Is, ,755, against 16, $50 last season.
Total number Of barrels Of mess pork
packed, 5S,385; other grades, 1861
tierces OF lard, l96,054.
Another wiEe-Slayer hung.
BOSTON March 2l.-James MeElha-
ney, who murdered his wife, was exc
cuted at Suffolk Jail here at twelve min
utes past eleven this forenoon. There
were about four hundred spectators
present. He walked firmly to the scaf-
fold. He left six thousand dollars
worth of property to his child.
1t is stated on the authority of Neil
haney's spiritual advisers, that the men,
bers Of his wife's family refused to allow
him TO see his child, Nellie Emma, aged
two years. a letter seconding an after
expressed wish on the part of the
condemned to see bis child was sent by
Sheriff Clark to the family, but without
effect.
Fires.
New YORK, March 2I.-The passen-
ger depot Of the Erie railroad company
in Jersey City, took fire about noon, and
viii probably be entirely destroyed.
CHICAGO, March PA fire at Gale
ma, Illinois, this morning, DESTROYED the
grain elevator and feed store, together
with several thousand bushels of grain
total loss about fifty-three hundred dol
lars, with an insurance on the building
OF three thousand dollars in the North |
American Insurance company. The fire
is supposed to be the work OF an incen-
diary.
ALEXANDRIA, VA, March 2l.-A !
portion Of the building of the Orange |
railroad shops was burned last night. |
Loss twenty thousand dollars
NEW YORK, March 2l.-At about |
thirty minutes past twelve O'clock to-
day q fire broke out in the ferry-house |
Of the Erie railway, at the foot of |
Paronia avenue, In Jersey City. A |
strong gale was blowing from the west, |
and all efforts to check the flames |
proved unavailiDg, and the trips of the
terry boats were abandoned. A large /
wooden passenger depot In the rear of
the ferry-hOuse took fire almost stimuli /
taneously and was destroyed. Several /
trains were hastily removed unlnjuTed. |
The new freight depot recently erected |
was almost consumed with q large |
amount Of cotton, as was the old freight |
depot heavily stored with freight. -Tay-
I0r's saloon was partially destroyed.
The fire il supposed to have originated |
from locomotive sparkle. all the vessels
IN the vicinity were removed out of the
reach of danger. The fire was got
under control about half-past two. The
depot for westward-bound freight was
saved, and all the books and papers of
the company. The freight burned con-
Sisted of about one thousand bales Of
cotton, TWO hundred hogsheads of to-
bacco, and some oil-eake, The loss by
fire Is estimated not to exceed half q
million dollars, Including the follow
ing; New freight depot, $20,000;i
cotton, $l0O, 900; old freight depot $f5,-
000; tobacco apa other freight, $1,000;
passenger depot, Si5, ,00Q; ferry building,
S12, 600; ferry bridge, $1,000; Tsylors
saloon, $1,000, with the exception Of the
lattes, which was covered. The amount
of insurance is pnsscertained No In
terruptiOn to trafic By tbs ETIe Tailread. '