Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-09-11
STATE NEWs

The MurfreesbOrO Monitor says there
are upwards of four hundred white stu
dents attending the different schools in
that town. The same paper says: The
Sumner county fair will open at Gala
tin on the sd, and will last six days.
The last day will be devoted to tOurna-
ment, where knights will appear IN
nTHloF and contend for the honor OF
crowning queen Of love and beauty"
Where will the dT7lOr come from? The
tower Of London, or is it to be manufsc-
tured for the occason? Dressing in ar
NOR TO tilt at rings will be 3 revival, in
| 1867, of the celebrated knights Of La
Mancha, multiplied, and no doubt the
1r1aOr will be as incOngruOuS in appear
apce as was that of the worthy Don.
Some radical Of that vicinity petit
| tions Brownlow to suppress NedVS State
Gazette, and also to send q company OF
state guards to DyersbuTg, wherest the
| editor wakes wroth, and brands the au-
| thor of the petition "as one Of the most
| Infamous liars out Of the lake Of burning
| brinstone"-or words to that effect, as
| saw the lawyers when not exact.
The UniOn and Dispatch Of the Sth
| instant reports the arrival ~ Nashville
of the first ba,e Of new cotton from
] Georgia, and says it is a very fine sample
and weighs 654 pounds.
| The Lebanon Register Of the 9TH
/ inst. says there are Interesting and i'm
| pressive meetings N progress at Union
camp ground, Barton's Greek church and
at Rice's chapel, in Wilson county.
! There have been several conversions and
additions to the church.
! -In Dickson county Mr.. Lawrence,
| q returned Confederate soldier, formerly
! IN Gen. Rains 18th Tennessee regiment,
! was shot one evening last week, by q
I white employee on his farm, named Hull,
! under the following circumstances They
had been working together all day and
returned TO the house lateiu the evening,
and while walkisg through the yard
about dusk, Hull drew a pistol and shot
| Lawrence, the ball entering the back,
| below the shoulder blade, and ranging
/ through to the breast. No one saw the
! shooting except a little girl, who was
| standing in the yard. There had been no
| difficulty or unpleasant feelings between
| the parties, and no cause can be assigned
I for this atrocious outrage. Hull fled and
has not yet been captured. Lawrence
was not dead at the last account, but is
! in a very critical condition.
| The American Union gives the fol-
| lowing as the new money order offices
inst opened in this state: Athens, Me-
MINI county: Bristol, Sullivan county ;
ClarksvilIe, Montgomery county; Cleve-
land, Bradley county; Columbia, Maury
! county: Franklin, Williamson county ;
| Gallatin, Sumner county; Greenville,
| Greene county; Lebanon, Wilson county;
Murfreesboro, Rutherford county; Pu-
Iaski, Giles county; Sbelbyville, Bedford
/ county. In addition to the above are
those at Nashville, Memphis, Knoxville
and Chattanooga.
| THE Nashville Gazette Of the 7th inst
gives an account Of another Of those
1anneless horrors, so ofrequent in the south
since radical misrule commenced, which
recently occurred in Monroe county, and
il absolutely sickening in its atr0ciOu:
details. The victim was little girl only
nine years old, and the ravisher negro
of twenty, who used knife to accom-
niisb his hellish intent. The little sgf
ferer cannot recover. and the negro wa
captured and narrowly escaped lynching
nv the infuriated neighbors of the little
oirIJs parents, who are highly reputed IN
that portion OF East Tennessee.