Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-12-24

house. The father demonstrated, when
the son turned upon mis- parent and cut
his throat from ear to ear. Mr.. Burnside
died almost instantly. The young man,
we learn, was under the influence of
liquor when he committed the horrible
deed. Alter the murder, the unnatural
son went home, and meeting his mother,
announced his horrid crime by telling her
he had killed the old foOll' At latest
accounts he had not been arrested. We
also learn that about a week previous to
this, a man whose name we could not
learn, killed his halt-brother, near the
same place. He is also yet at large.
The new depot is progressing as rapidly
as the weather will permit, and will add
greatly to the beauty of the city. We
have not heard as to how soon the passen-
/ ger shed VIII be Ommence d......... We are
sorry to announce that the new bridge
over the Bogue which was nearing COM
pletiOn was washed away by 3 heavy rise
in that stream on Tuesday night last.
This is truly a misfortune, aud one that
will seriously damage trade
The United States District Attorney
for Arkansas has informed the Commits
siOner of Internal Revenue that there are
three tobacco manufacturing companies
in the Indian Territory that are turning
out manufactured tobacco in immense
quantities, without paying the first cent
revenue tax, and says the products of
these factories are supplying the South
west. Steps viii at once be- taken to en-
force the revenue laws in this section of
the country.
The following is female friendship il
Illustrated: al heard itr' "Who told
you2" "Her friend.'( you don't
sayr' "'Tis dreadfuIi' Yes, awfulI'
- Don't tell it. pravl" Good graciOustf
"Who'd think it?'' We'll, well, weur'
"Dear metz 1--WE had MY suspicionsp'
"And I, too. you see!' Lord help us!''
Poor creaturer' $50 artfuli" so
q" Between you and IT, I'm gOingr'
D 10 stay, lover Il can't!" "Tm for
lorn!" F" Farewell. dearl' "Good-by,
sweet" Pm glad she's gone!"
BY special order IS9, current series,
from the War Department, a commission
of three officers of the army is appointed
and ordered to assemble at Nashville,
Tenn, on Wednesday, the 18th inst, for
the purpose of a careful hearing of com
plants of claimants fort Government bOun-
ty, made against officers or agents of this
Bureau, or other persons concerned in the
payment of bounties Of cOlOred soldiers,
sailors or marines. They viii sit at Nash
vile and Columbia, Tenn; Huntsville,
Ala. or at any other points in the State
OF Tennessee or Alabama where they shall
deem il necessary for a full and careful
AAhE1A4EHteAAAAs A+EN J. ian q 4GffoAb
and recommendations to the Commission
err of Pensions, TO enable him to correct
any abuses that may be found to exist,
and to do justice to all parties concerned.
The "ring game is being Just now
very successfully played by sharpers
around town. A case in point viii illus
trate how it is done. Day before yester-
day a seedy, s~habby-genteel looking indi-
vidual walked into Ned Adams barber
ahnn on Main Gfraaf halprr TTnfoo nn1
informing Ned that he was in great need,
produced what appeared TO be a very
heavy plain gold ring, and offered to pawn
or sell it for four dollars. Tt was his we'd
ding ring, no said, and nothing under
heaven cOuid persuade him to part with
it, except to obtain money to feed his
starving children. Ned didn't want the
ring, bat yielding to the urgent solicita-
tions of the ''poOr fellow gave him g 90
for it. The man took the money, thanked
Ned, and vamosed. Anxious TO see what
sort of a bargain he had made, Ned carried
the ring to a ReighbOring jeweler and
asked its value. "FOur bits q dOgeu,"
was the reply, "'iphotesaia, and ten cents
apiece retail. You want to buy a lOt?n
Ned didn't invest any further. We hear
of several other parties who were similar
ly sold-perhaps by the same man.
We learn from the Hickman Courier
that a man by the name of Hesket was
beaten to death by Joseph elmer and his
son Thomas. on Saturday evening last,
about ten miles southwest of Troy, Obion
county, Tennessee, The circumstances,
as we learn them, are about these: Dur
ing the day of Saturday, elmer, mis- son
Thomas, two men by the name of Fox and
Hesket, on one side, and . man by the
name of Moss, his two SONS and a step
son on the other, had a difficulty in Troy.
They separated for home without doing
each other any harm. HesSet and elmer
rode together to Tom Climer's house,
when a dispute arOse-sOmething about a
child. elmer seized a chair and struck
Hesket on the back of the head, knocking
him down and fracturing his skull. At
this moment Tom elmer came in, and
seizing q chair. he also struck Hesket a
blow on the forehead, breaking his skull.
Hesket fingered until the next day fol-
lowing, when lie died. Both the CGmers
have fled the country.
The St. Louis Journal Of Commerce,
in speaking of the Memphis and Iron
Mountain Railroad, SAYS: ave trust
that st. Louis merchants viii now not
only come forward and literally support
the line, but that they viii, without de-
lay, aid Mr.. Allen-by subscribing to the
stock of the road-in pushing forward the
Memphis branch from Merely. Merely
is a small teWn on the Iron Mountain
road, l62 miles from here, and distant
from Memphis 40. The first proposition
Mr.. Allen makes is to push he track
from Merely TO New Madrid, a distance
of thirty-three miles. This would save
sixty~five miles of bad river navigation,
as Belmont is s~iXty-dve miles by river
above New Madrid, though but thirty
three on an airline. The Superintend-
ent Of the road assures us that the amount
of freight charged from here to New Ma
drid would not be more tnan that charged
to Belmont, therefore the saving to steam
ers would be very great, as the rate
through would be the same. Here is a
consideration which We commend to the
attention of all our steambOatmen. Let
us suppose the road was completed now
Is it not ~presumable that a 'high-water'
rate could be maintained throughout the
winterP Neither should the enterprise of
pushing the road straight on from New
Madrid to Memphis be DELAYED. The
road grade viii act as a levee to reclaim
oyer one million acres of land-the rich
est cotton and corn land in the country.
All the products of this land would natu-
rally flow toward this city.