Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-05-18
THE ERIE RAILROAD INVESTIGATION
The Legislative Committee CenSure
Gen. SiCkIeS' Course.
Neivy Initiation Fee of ths New York
Cotton Exchange.
Exposure OF the Vienna Comm sSiOn
Frauds,
Charges of Bribery Fully Sustained.
HON e NE VS..
Stirring News from Arkansas.

NASHVILLE, May 17.-Euchre won the
first race: time, $40. Quartermaster won
the second; time, 1:479, las, 18Th, Isl.
LITTLE Rock, May Traditional del
coates are reported from Alabama, Geor-
Cia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina
and South Carolina.
The Theological Seminary of Virginia is
reported in flourishing condition.
NEW York, May 1.-THE Legislative
Committee, in their report upon Erie af-
fairs. condemn as improper the eXpendi-
ture of money in the recent transfer of the
management and its reimbursement from
the treasury of the company. They say
this was done largely in the interest of for
eIgn stockholders and for their benefit, and
the part taken in that operation by Gen.
SickIes is denounced in strong terms as fol-
lows:
The spectacle of a United States Minis
ter to Foreign Court, leaving his duties
there and lending himself to the execution
of a scheme of this kind is not calculated
to heighten our respect for or inspire con-
fidence in the integrity of the public SER
vice.
1t is reported on the street that the Mo-
bile correspondent of New York firm,
drawing bills on London has failed in con-
sequence of over advances on cotton. 1t
is said the New York house will lose
fifty thousand pounds sterling by this
failure.
Specie shipments to-day, 81, 900, 200.
AHcavy Initiation Fee.
The Cotton Exchange to-day adopted an
amendment to the bylaws, making eligi-
BILE for membership representatives of
members as attorneys actually such, from
May 18th until June 30th, and raising the
initiation fee on and after January 1st 1874,
from So, 500 to $1,000.
Daley won the championship cue. Time
five hours on an average; Daley 269 LILO.
Dion 229 Ito. The score at the conclusion
on the fifty-fifth innings, 1,340 to 1,461, i'm
favor of Dion, when Daley huddled the
balls and won.
Dispatches from Little Rock, Arkansas,
state that Governor Baxter remains in the
Capitol night and day, with force of men
on duty fully armed, to protect him against
a threatened raid of friends of Lieutenant
Governor Smith, to GUST Baxter and place
Smith in the Gubernatorial chair
LEXINGTON, May 1.-THE spring meet
ing closed to-day. Florence won first race
time, 1:47. Eliza Thomas won the
second-time, lao and 1:4S4. McGrath's
louisa Ann won the third-time, $751;
MEMPHIS, May 17.-Col. r. A. Pinson,
prominent merchant, and formerly Pres
ident of the Chamber of Commerce, and
Confederate Brigadier General of cavalry,
is dead.
ATLANTA, GA, May 1.-THE Atlantic
Coast Line extends the courtesy of free
passage to the authorized delegates to The
Governors Convention, between Augusta
and Baltimore, via Wilmington, Weldon
and the Bay Line, going or returning.
JEFFERSON City, Mo-, May 1.-THE
funds in the State Treasury are exhausted
BALTIMORE, May 1.-THE General AS
sembly received DIR. Baird, the representa-
tive from the Cumberland Presbyterian
church in good standing. DIR. Baird said
would be but one Presbyterian Church.
DR.. Baird rendered committee to heal
the differences. The Committee suggest
ed by DIR. Baird was appointed by the
Conference.