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

Affairs continue dull in this line.
The maekerels have quit stealing; the
roughs are pretty much all in jail or
dead money is SO scarce that, with
whisky at fifteen cents q drink, few can
afford to get tight; the darkies have got
ten scared off from the j. P. COurts-and
the millennium is fast approaching.
John Swabeck was yesterday ar
rested for peddling without license.
There were only three arrests made
in forty-eight hours up to eight O'Clock
last evening, at Causey street station.
-Anna Small, one of the parties in the
above rencontre, after settling up with
Squire Black, swOre out a warrant
against another female, for stealing a
ring of hers. The case will be disposed
Of to-day.
Henry Croll yesterday went on
board the steamer Marble City, paid his
passage, and sent his baggage ebosrd.
., e beat not being ready to leave, Mr..
II came ashore, took a drink too
OIoll ~ arrested and locked Up, and
ulauy, '" the city without him-leav-
! 'ne D SSt io -, 'Seless, moneyless aud q
ln e.,i hia nesssga Qcket 10 his pocket.
A hard case. ,.,,
VIM. Diggs for stealing wo'u' "as hneo
two dollars and costs by 'Squil> W Sl.on'
Annie Small and Emeiine S"ith,
two scrumptious African beauties, g9t
tangled In each others wool, nigat or
two ago, and everlsstingly made the
fur fy, The result was that both OF them
were up before Squire Black, charged
with breaking the peace Of the State OF
Tennessee, and mutually charging each
other with assault and battery. Some
tall swearing was done by both sides,
and the Squire, like the fox in the story
of the monkey and the oyster, got the
good OF it all. He fined the bellicose
maidens two dollars each and costs.
An outrageous affair, If the story was
detailed to Us truly, was perpetrRted on
Union street on Wednesday night, hS
two negroes named John and Geo
Floyd. About nine O'Clock, as No
women, one of whom was white, named
respectively Mary Williamson and
Fannie Chester, we're going home from
a davis work, with some washing, they
were hailed by two men whom they
then did not know, and who ordered
them to stop. They become frightened
and quickened their pace, when one of
the parties who hailed them fred pis-
tol at them, and they halted. On coming
nearer they discovered their pursuers to
he two drunken negroes, who without
anv pro vocation again fired on them
the bullet fam one Of the weapons pass
ing between the left arm and the body OF
Mary Williamson, barely grazing her,
but doing 30 further harm than frighten-
Ing her. On the app zach Of parties at
trsoted by the shots the Williams fed, but
not before they had been recognised as
the two brothers, john and G Jorge Floyd,
Yesterday morning Squire N'Talton is
sued warrant for their arrest, ans they
were found and brought before him, but
not being ready, the examination of the
case was postponed until Monday at 10
o'clock, and the accused held to bail in
the sum OF $1,000. The above are the
facts as we learned them from Squire
Walton's Constable who made the ar
rest. John Floyd has been for severa1
months porter in the drug store of
Messrs. Mansfield & Higbee, where we
were told that he is very quiet negro