Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-06-19
TENNESSEE.

"A portion of the bridge over Rich
land Creek, five and half miles from
Nashville, on the n. d y. w. Railroad,
has been burned, which prevented send
ing out train on tie 10th, as cOnten-
plated.
Abraham Murdoch has been reelected
President of the Mobile and Ohio Rail
rosd. But few changes were made in
the old Board at the recent election. In
relation to the late "strike," the Tren-
ton Gazette of the 18Th, says: at was a
high-handed game Of laWlsssness on the
part of those strikers 10 stop trains con-
veying passengers and mails, and we
hope there is some means of teaching
them that they cannot with impunity
dlscOmmCds and uDjustly tax by deten-
lion, thousands Of innocent persons on
account of their private grievances.
Theirs are like ali other debts, and their
only legal remedy Is in the courts. II
the road does not psy them promptly,
they have the uOquestiOnRble right TO
quit, but they should not compel others
10 do so who are willing to run the trains.
These mobs are becoming too bold and
defiant. We hope aud believe, boA ever,
that the trains will speedily resume their
regular trips. We understand the re-
frsctory are being paid off and dis
charged We have since understood
that the difficulty has been adjusted.
The Lebanon Register says: " We
are informed that an election is ordered
for the 18th of July, in Sumner county,
10 vote q subscription for the building of
the Lebanon and Gsllatiu Railroad, and
that it is certain to be earried.U
The Columbis Herald says: " LAST
Friday night large party in disguise
went to the residence Of one John Edgip,
who lives eight or nine miles east of Co.
lumbia, took him out into the woods and
struck him nine hundred lashes with
hickory switches. or course his punish
ment was very severe. The ostensible
reason that is supposed TO have called
forth the ire of these strange creatures is |
that Edgin some time ago whipped his |
two grown daughters and q nameless |
only limited at, is imputed to |
him. The truth OF the matter, however.
will never be fully known. It is said bv |
some that Edgin had sufficient cause for |
his daughters"
The Banner says: "Mr. Edward |
Hughes. telegraph operator at the Nash
vile and Chattanooga Depot, IL very i'll /
with dropsy of the stomach, caused, it is
aid, from excessive use of ice water. He
5 not expected to live" /
"A convict named Marry, attempted I
o escape from the penitentiary on the
5th by taking off his coat and walking
through the gate. He did not succeed.
five years of his sentence for murder in
he second degree had expired.
lanes Curtis, the notorious horse
hief, has been arrested in Middle Tenn
ssse.
Two companies OF Fenians are being
rganized at Nashville.
On Sunday last, In Robertson coun-
y, a desperate named Thomas Darruck
hot and IL is feared fatally wounded J.
:. Moss, Esq, magistrate, who had
'ound him over to the Criminal Court
n a charge preferred by negro woman.
MEALS State Gazette says "If you
viii plant a few jamestown weeds in
our tobacco fields, and well sweeten
Vlth good sugar one pint OF water and
hen put one ounce of cobalt into the
7ater, and then drop four drops of this
mixture into the bloom Of the James-
own weed. you can kill every tobacco
y on your place ere they hatch worms.