Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-05-16

| tbs n from brOHl allAe ~ NEW Dclb,lL
Dyer county. The shares Of stock have
been placed at S25 each, and active men
along the line have taken the matter
/ promptly in hand. The meeting then
| adjourned 10 meet again 1T Brownsville,
! The second Thursday in June, when they
| win 90 into permanent organic alton Of
| the Company, and put tbs first eleven
! miles Of the road under contract. The
work goes bravery on"
BROWNSVILLE, Tenn, May IA, 1869.
h. Clay King, Esq:
Dear Sir: We have been usiDg for
soms time your new Digest Of the Dscis-
ions OF the Supreme Court Of Tennessee.
Il gives us pleasure to testify 10 the ex-
celiencs Of the work. The classification
Of subjects is natural and appropriate,
the expression Of the rulings in the eeses
is correct, the cross references are ample
aud convenient, and indeed the qualities
generally Of the work are such as are
requisite to q useful Digest.
With great cheerfulness we commend
it to the profession OF Tennessee.
With great respect,
GEO. ANDREWS.
HENRY g. SMITH,
j. ". SH"ACEELFURD.
Judges oft e Suprems Curt,
The work can be bad Of Cleaves,
Smithwick & Hatcher, 2S3 Main street,
Memphis, Tenn, st $50 per set. Sent by
EXPRESS G. o. ID. to any point desired. /
Col. Cockre!l of the Peabody Hotel,
when the Convention was first deter
mined on, offered the Committee on En-
tertainment to entertain, free of cost, all
editors 1UhO WeTe delegates. We see the
country press, generally have taken this
offer, which is an extremely liberal one
as IL stands, to mean that be will furnish
gratis food and rooms to every newspa-
per man who takes it into his head to
come to the Convention, which would be
asking A little too much eve from q mil.
HOadire, which Col. Coekrell don't
claim to be. We hope the press gener-
aliy, who have published Col. COckrell's
offsr ia the sense we spoke OF, will make
the proper correction. AS il is, We look
for sbout twenty regularly accredited ed
itoTial delegates. the entertaining OF
whom will be $50 per diem, which is
enough for any one nan to bear. II
every merchant who has the same
means will give Rs literally as Col.
COckrell, the fund would soon be more
than enough for the purposes OF the Con
vention.
The Helena, Ark, Clarion of
lie III kifGo lAO Al
regard to the murder for which
one Lee was arrested in this city
by Detective Ireland, as reported in the
APPEAL several days ago: "Bast Sat
urday morning George Raleigh wss miss
ing from his trading boat lying opposite
Phillips'Bsyou, on the st. Francis river.
As there was no one living on the boat
with him TO give shy Information OF his
absence, suspicion was entertained tn at
be was murdered for the purpose Of being
robbed. Soon the better citiZsns OF the
n~sighbOrhOOd assembled and began the
search for his remains, which were short
~ drawn from the water, with his head
badly broken. A lawful inquest wss
held, after which he was buried. Search
was then instituted for the murderer.
On the Brown place, in enc OF the cabins,
OF the articles known to be the pro-
perry OF the deceased were found. Oae
Sam Haekley, believed by the jury TO be
one of the murderers, and Jesse Smith,
aceomplice, were, on Monday morn
ing, lodged ia jail. Smith Lee, believed
to be the principal actor, went to Mem
phis on the steamer st. Francis A tele-
gram was promptly dispatched by Esq
Chamberlain to the Chief Of Police IN
He was OOn caught, and the
telegram answered. Our Sheriff went
in person for him, and he WAS delivered
to the Bayou authorities GA Thursday for
commitment to jsil.n
The West Tennessee Wing, Of yes
terday, ssys: B. f. Linton, indicted, in
conjunction with Others, in Henderson
couniv. for the murder Of two persons
belonging to the Fsderal army, on the
g. of MAY, 1883, was, on change Of venue
70 this county, tried and acquitted during |
the present week. It appears that sew
ersl persons sll, ed TO the Confederacy, II
not soldiers, went to the house of one
Matthew's, in Henderson county, |
after miinisht OF the Sd OF May, 1855,
there arrested Mitchell and g mar
Crook who hSd, With Mitchell, !
been passing through the e0chty with 8
Beatty, u. 3. A., ~ostensibiy con-
scripting for the Federal army, but IN
reality on q stealing expedition
"a was afterwards shown.
The parties eaTried away have
never since be ss5Nsliye, But the re-
of two persons, however, highly
iecomposed, were found some months
two or three miles from the
house, which seemed to have been par
inferred. Mrs. Mitchell testified
IS + the identity Of the clothing found
on che OF the bodies ss that OF her ms
band, aud also that the clothing on the
body was that Of Crooks. The
wife, daughter and mother OF Mitchell
were the principal witnesses for the
MRS Mitchell swors positively as
to the presence Of Linton with the party
who arrested and carried Of ner husbsndi
but the dsfense introduced proof salts
to the jary which went to show
that Mrs. Mitchell, on being Questioned
q day or tive after the occurrence, stated
that Linton was not present. This proof
was made by en- ung~uestionsble and re-
liable person. The Jury gave q patient
hearing throughout. Receiving the
charge OF his Honor, Judge Bond, the
Jury, after q short retirement, returned a
Of % not guilty" Hervey Brown,
b. OF this city, sad Willis Jones, 4 q,
Lexington, Gefs the counsel for Inc
defense Judge I. G. Mlss and Attorney
n. naraI Tailou for tha State