Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-10-08
TENNESSEE NEWS.
Latest Crop and other Items
from all Parts of the State.

Wood is selling in Chattanooga atS3
per cord. I -
We learn that about fifty capisses
are 10 be issued for nen who have viola
ted the Ku-Klux law.-J0Res6Oro Flag,
October 2. s..s a.. a..sl s1 alIE.
"A portion Of the 29th Regulars passed
down the road yesterday, on their way
TO Middle Tennessee. These are some of
the troops sent in compliance with the
request Of the Tennessee Legislsture.-
RneEsiIIe Press and Herald, October 3,
The weather having been bright for
the past week, the cotton prospect Is
some better. Farmers are busily en-
gagged in picking, ard hope to gather a
TOlerabIe crop though not half that ex-
peeted.-C CoUingtOH Record, October 2.
"A gentleman from RheR county re-
ports that q great deal of corn has been
damaged by the high water, and esti-
mates the loss in that county alone at
twenty five thousand bushels. This loss,
with the damage inflicted py the wet
weather and frost, will cut the corn crops
this season FAR shsrt Of last Clsdtt0Roo-
ga Republican, October g.
Reports are whispering about of psT-
ties in East Tennessee hitherto regarded
as men OF prObity and integrity, beiCg
largely engaged in "shsving counterfeit
money" We hope and trust there Is no
truth in them, sad only allude to the
subject because In these demorsliIed
times We hardly know what to believe.
Athens Posi-, October ,,
The case Of a. 3. Harrison against
the COMMITTEES who authorized the de-
structiou of his whisky during the war,
was tried and ably argued before the
court this week, and the verdict rendered
in favor OF the defendants. This case
was an important one, involving about
500, 600. Mr.. 81. will take an appeal
CarkSUille Chronicle, October 2.
The Nashville Banner OF Tues Jay
ssys During the Session Of the Louis
vile Conference last Saturday, Mr.. a.
81. RedfOrd, the agent Of the Publishing
House Ia this city, addressed the confer
ence st some length IN behalf Of the in-
terests committed to his care. He is very
hopeful for the future of the Publishing
House. He thinks the debt incurred in
past years can be paid in the next two
years, and will be paid, by the cordial
cooperation of preachers and people. If
they will patr0uizs its AdUocaie and
Sunday School Visitor, and buy the
books that are in its storerOOm and yet
to be published by it, success is certain.
Rev. Dr.. ]. B. McFeTTin made a few re-
marks cOmmendatory OF the agents
skillful management Of the affairs Of the
Publishing House.
"A short time ago party Of disguised
men visited the house of an old negro
by the name Of Jerry Atkins, who lives
10 the eastern portion Of the county, and
grossly maltTested him and family.
They claimed to be Ku-KIux, but for sil
their attempts at coneealment, Jerry
says he knew them TO be some OF his
Radical neighbors. In this way Orlgi-
mates half, If not greater proportion, of
those outrsges out OF which the loil"
press and "loil slang wangeTs manu-
fscture their political thunder, aud get
material to mislesd Northern public
opinion as to the true law-breskers at
the South, We hope Jerry will lodge
complaint before the proper tribunal,
and give the law which the Legislature
passed few weeks ago, for the persecu
tiOn Of another class, an opportunity TO
take its course against the present Of
fenders.-PGris A'teLfgencer, October 2d.
The Nashville Union and American
Of Tuesday says On Sunday morning
last, between the Hardin pike and Buens
Vista road, s white boy named James
SaTdin was shot by Houston, aliss Henry
Bell, a negro, under the following cir
eumstances; The negro was there Ia
com pany with another mans wife, and
suppOsiDg 1t to be the husband OF the
woman, fired upon him. The whole af-
fsir is decidedly mixed up" it being
stated that the negro is Sardin's mothers
brothes-in-lsw by s marriage that lately
occurred between white and black.
Upon hearing of the death, the Coroner
summoned jury and repaired to the
place, where sn inquest was held, and
upon hearing Of all the evidence In the
case, s verdiot was returned that Sardin
came to his death from the effects Of
gunshot wound fired from the hands OF
said Houston or Henry Bell, and it WAS
an upjustifiable act on his part. The ne
gro was thereupOn placed under arrest,
and taken before Justice Cassety, and
committed to Jail to await trial to-day at
2 O'Clock. - /