Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-08-24
STATE ITEMS.

The Union and Dispatch Of the Odd
supplies the following tragic accident:
/ On Saturday last Mrs. Sabra Lawrence,
residing near Mount Pleasant, visited a
neighbor. She was driven in 3 buggy ~
a negro boy, and on coming 20 q gate the
boy got out TO open it, she driving
I through. In doing so, the horse became
frightened and ran away, ~OyertuFning
the vehicle, and so seriously inJuring
/ Mrs. Lawrence that she died about an
/ hour a~fterward. Mrs. L. was a most
estimsble lady, and WAS greatly
esteemed by the community in which
she lived
who was killed while g%allantly leading
his brigade at Seven Pines, is spending q
few DAYS with the family ofthe Rev. DR..
Blake, in Nashville.
The Union and Dispatch under
stands that Col. E. W. Cole intends ap-
plving to the Judge OF the circuit court
FOR a writ Of mdnddDlUs, to compel
President Burns to give up the Nash
vile and Chattanooga railroad to the
! directory, Of which Col. Cole Is pFest-
dent. On this application the whole
merits OF the case will be rested.
"A correspondent in the Knoxville
Free Press says there is a Miss Sailie
Brinleeth. residing on the Knoxville
and Clinton road, three miles from the
latter Mace. who Is one hundred 4
ten wears old, and yet walks briskly and
retains all her faculties perfectly.
The Nashville Banner is rejoicing
at the prospect Of seeing the Black
Crook in that city, and the editor
frankly delivers himself thus We are
glad OF it. We ike the ballet. We Ike
short dresses and pretty feet and ankles,
and don't care who knows it. We are
tired Of the ever virtuous Lazy u
LIONS We consider the Stranger q
misersbIe old cheat And then follows
some sensible remarks about such per-
sons As pretend to see harm in such ex-
bibitious Of graceful action 4 fine
forms.
The Banner Of the 22d mentions s
most brutal murder at SaundeFsvIile,
on the night of the goth inst, when two
negroes named Nelson Franklin and
Friday Oldiu, we're shot by two white
men At the cabin Of the former, without
any p~rovOcatiOn whatever. Franklin
wss killed. but OIdin escaped after he
was shot in the groin with s. rifle ball,
/ and succeeded in reaching Nashville BY
the train Of the 2lst, where he now lies IN
q critical condition. Both the
colored men bear excellent char
acters in Nashville, where they
resided before moving to SaundeTsvlle.
Nashville is infested with rogues and
burglars whose nightly ~depredations are
becoming both numerous and alarming.
The same paper learns that Gen. lines,
the able and efficient superintendent OF
/ the Nashville and Chattanooga railroad,
has resigned the position which be has
held for the last two years
-BrownlOw is trying to buy s heuse
at Nashville, and intends moving has
family to the state capital
The Gazette Of the 22d says: One
Of the heaviest rains we have seen for
many a day, fell in these parts yesterday
! evening. 1t was accompanied by q hard
/ gale, and for a while many of he bust
ness men on the square had TO close
I doors to prevent being flooded out"
The Knoxville Wbig-very question
! able authority, we admit-says 4 dis
honest printer has at last been found, in
the person OF Mr.. Q. 7. WadGill, lately
EMPLOYED in the Free Press Office, who
absconded Monday night, forgetting TO
I nav sundry bills he owed about town.
The same paper learns that a huge rattle
snake, measuring eight feet in leRgth
and ten inches in circumference, was
killed neal Athens a few days ago.
Mr.. Wattep berger, of Washington
county, was killed and horribly m2ngled
on the 10th instant, by the falling Of a
/ tree, which was blown down upon him
and his horse while fox hunting near the
Lutheran church, on Big Limestone
creek. The horse wa also ~dreadfuuy
crushed.