Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-06-07

healthy discipline of the nature of tina
charged against McCune and ConneLl
might be employed in the case of a pro
fessional thief, as Kendall has beer
proved to be, without detriment to the
safety of the lives and liberties of the
American people.
Some time since a couple OF Germans
went into business not a thousand miles
from the corner of Main and - streets
The terms of the partnership, among
other things, provided that the two should
take turns, "week about" to manage
the cash" About three weeks ago, one
of them says to his partner, soon after the
house had been opened for the day
bin ropped last nightr der tiefdake ninety
tollars from out de box in mine house!''
The other replied, slowly" Ninety toll
lars! Dat is bad" The victim of the rob-
berry, at the end of the week, turned over
the books, ETC., to his partner, with the
- ninety tOllars" duly charged up to
"proft and loss" Tuesday was a week
ago, the then " business manager" says,
in the morning, to his partner" Mine
house vas ropped last night. Hose ninety
two dollars from de drawer in mine
house." The partner who had been
robbed first said, with as much delibera-
ton as characterised the other" Ninety
two dollars; dat is worse!" On Friday
last the one. who had lost the money first
said to the other" Kif me a toller and
dat makes us efen?" The dollar was paid
over
AS q servant was cleaning the heavy
pier glass over the bar in Mr.. Harry
Weatherbee'ssa saloon day before yesterday,
he noticed that the half-inch MANILA rope
which held it up had been cut almost in
two, and was reduced to a single strand,
not larger or much stronger than hempen
irvine, which snapped as soon as he placed
his hands on the mirror. Had il not been
that the latter was pretty well balanced,
and the servant a strong man, it would
have come down with a crash that would
have demolished things generally. Luck
lily Mr.. Weatherbee was at hand, and a
piece of copper wire was quickly twisted
and substituted for the rope, which was
taken out and subjected to a close eXami-
nation, which revealed the remarkable
fact that it had been gnawed in two by
moths. This caused Mr.. Weatherbee to
examine the cordage and ropes sustaining
the balance of the mirrors and
pictures in his establishment, aud
scrutiny was repaid by finding that
every "cord and ~tassel" and piece of
MANILA was more or less gnawed-some
Ofthem almost entirely intwO. The falling
of a valuable picture some days ago, and
which at the time was regarded as a very
remarkable and mysterious affair, is thus
explained. The discovery thus so timely
made by Mr.. Weatherbee will serve as a
reminder to our friends who have valua-
BILE pictures or glasses hung by cords or
ropes. All such should be rigidly exam
ined, and if the sign of the moth is found,
4 wire or cords and tassels saturated with
c~amphorated alcohol should be substitu-
ted in their place.
We clip the following from the Co
lumbia Herald of Saturday: Some time
z a young man about eighteen years old,
named Gambell. came from West Tennes-
see, and stopped with Jube Joyce, his
uncle, who has a mill on Duck river, Mar
shall county, near Chapel Hill. \ man
named Bill Smith a pal and chum of
Hickman and other mean Radicals, a man
utterly lOathed and feared by the people
of his neighbOrhood. also lived in the W.
cinity of Joyce's Mill. a report was cur
rent through the country that Gambell
had been driven away from West Tennes
see for being a Ku-KluX, and this fur
nished Smith a capital preteXt for a quar-
rel. We learn upon the very best author
ity that Smith, without any provication,
threatened to kill young Gambel on first
sight. Last Friday morning while Gam
bell was up stairs in the mill, his uncle
came and told him that Smith was down
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Gambell hesitGted not a moment, but
went Immediately down stairs, where he
found Smith looking into a hopper. Gam
bell drew his pistol, fired and missed.
Finding his antagonist between himself
and the door, Smith ran around the back
part of the mill n tried to hide himself
behind the hopper. Gambell fired again,
the ball cutting the jugular vein. Smith
quit lodging and jumped out of the win
dow into the mill pond. He made@re-
mendous fuss in the water, but when he
taken out he was dead. No sorrow
is felt by the neighbors at the death of
He was a terror to many, having
killed several men in his. day, in cold
blood and without provocation. At the
time of his death a young man of the
neighborhood, Bill James, was hid out in
the woods, afraid to come home because
Smith had threatened to kill him. When
he heard of Smiths death, he came home.