Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-01-10
TELEGRAMS.

Grant Wltn0reW BaruS nOmlnatlOn
yesterday.
Henry Ward Beecher favors compul-
sorry education.
The Illinois Legislature completed
its organization yesterday.
The Woodruff and Colonel Blood are
again in jail-mOre obscene publications
through the mails.
Old man McConnohey was found dead
in his house, at Salem, Ohio, yesterday.
He was assassinated.
Warmoth yesterday, by his attorney,
presented to the court of impeachment
his exceptions to the proceedings.
A telegram from Albany, New York,
says that Judge Prindle was acquitted
by vote of seventeen against seven.
William II. Leudder was elected Pres
ident, and S. NJ. Edgell, Viee-President
of the st. Louis Exchange Wednesday.
An engineer, named Roberts, was
killed near Paterson, New Jersey, night
before last by the collision of two freight
trains.
Dion beat DAILY = fifteen hundred
against eleven hundred and forty-seven
lin the great billiard match in New
York yesterday.
McNutt's lumber mill and the adj
joining premises in Boston were burned
yesterday-loss aggregated twenty-three
thousand dollars.
A bill was before the Senate yester-
day to charter the European and Ameri-
can Emigration Company, with capi-
tai of one million dollars.
A resolution in the Florida Legislature
declaring that Gilbertwas elected United
States Senator by bribery and corruption
failed by vote of 26 to %.
A Subcommittee of Ways and
Means has been appointed, consisting
of Mr.. Dawes, Mr.. Roberts, of New
York, and Mr.. Kerr, to report upon the
matter of changing the tariff.
Governor Woodson, of Missouri, was
inaugurated at Jefferson City on We'd
nesday. During the reading of his mes
sage before the Missouri Legislature
thirteen guns were fired in commence
ration of the eighth of January
In the General Assembly of Ohio yes
terday the vote cast in October for Sec
retary of State was canvassed and found
to be as follows: A. T. WikOff, (Repub-
lican) 265. .925; Aquilla Wiley, Demo
craft 25,7t6; Schumacher, (Prchibition)
2035.
Governor Woodson's (of Missouri) in
augural address opened by saying that
in Novemberlast the people of Missouri,
for the first time during the last decade,
elected without let or hindrance the
men of their choice, as officers of the
! Government.
Governor Woodson, of Missouri, re-
commends the placing of the State
| Prison, Insane Asylum, all benevolent
institutions, and county prisons through
out the State in charge of a Board OF
Managers, appointed by the Legislature,
who shall be accountable to the State
for their proper government and con-
duct.
The inaugural message of the Govern
or of Missouri appeal in strong terms to
the Assembly to sink the partisan in
the patriot, and legisIate only for the
common good, in support of which he
pledges himself that while he is Gov
ernor the interests, the honor, and the
prosperity of the State of Missouri shall
alone control his official acts.
At New Haven yesterday at the first
annual meeting of stockholders of the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad Company, since the consolida-
ton of these two lines, one Of the stock
holders charged that something like
half a million of the funds of the board
were unaceounted for. His resolution
for inquiry, however, failed to pass.
The Indiana Legislature, in regular
biannual session, convened at ten o'clock
yesterday morning. The house organ
lied by the election of Hon. w. X. Ed
wards, of Vigo, Speaker, and Hon. Cy-
rus T. Nixon, of Floyd county, principal
Clerk. The Senate not having a quo
rum, the President after calling the roll,
adjourned until two o'clock in the even
ing.
Governor Woodson's inaugural mes
sage TO the Missouri Legislature closes
as follows: 1.-THE eyes of the nation are
upon us; all power in Missouri, in every
department Of the government, is in the
hands Of the Democratic party. Such
is the case in few other States in the
American Union. Our political enemies,
at home and abroad, will scrutinize all
our acts and take advantage of every
error we may commit. We can perpet-
uate our power only in one way, and
that is by doing right, and showing by
our works that we, as a party, have
been in earnest in all our pledges of
economy and reform. Let us calmly
pursue the line of policy have indicat-
ed, and never be driven from it by the
menaces ofour enemies, the pursuasion
Of friends, or the seductive Influences of
individual ambition. and you may rest
assured that heaven will bless and the
people approve our course