Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-07
MEMPHIS APPEAL
WEDNESDAY MORNING, July J, 1863.
SLATE NEWS.

Gov. SenUcr was IN NASHVILLE on
Monday last receiyingth congratulations
of his friends.
a son Of DIR. John L. Smith, aged
eleven wears. was drowned in the Cum
berland river last Saturday, at Dover,
Tenn.
There is an old negro woman living
in what is called Hammers Bend, near
SowelI's min. on Duck river, says the Co
Iumbia%eraid, who is n hundred and
thirteen wears old.
When Gen. Cooper took charge of
the Collectors office there were only three
disdlleries running in conformity with
the law, as they thought, which was not
the case. however. as their bonds were de-
fertive. They have since been closed.
We learn from the Dyersburg Go
-ette that on Thursday, last week, Mr.. 10
PriChard. a well to do and highly res
pectable farmer of Dyer county, dropped
dead while walking the streets of Overs
burg. Up to the instant of his death. Mr..
P. was in the enjoyment Of vigorous
health.
A very elegant organ, the fist in
sUrumeut of the kind ever made in Nash
Vile. was finished at McClure's store last
week. It is small, being nine feet high,
six wide, and two and a half deep, with
six stops. Tt was buff by :. Hahn, and
sold to the trustees Of the Zion Church,
near Columbia, in Many county, for
$50.
Mai. John D. Wilson, ~disbursing
officer of the Freedman's Bureau, 40 Co
Iumbia, was arrested at that place Satur-
day, onthe charge ofreceiving 500 bounty
money for Susan Carter with intent 10 de-
prive her of that sum and to defraud the
Government. lie gave bond for his APP
pearauce before T.. J.. Moan. United states
Commissioner.
The Nashville Banner says that
Comptroller Blackburn has gOne to New
York to ascertain whether he can borrow
money with which to cancel the July in
Jerest. From recent indications Il - be
Eeved that be can affect the loan Of sufh-
Cieut mOnev for that purpose. 1.-The does
not get il ON reasonable and ~iUstiiable
terms, however, he VIII let the matter
drop.
The Nashville Press and Times Of
Monday says: A. W. Butler, for thirty
wears Secretary of the Tennessee Marine
and Fire Insurance Company, rendered
his resignation on Saturday, which was
accepted by the Board Of Directors and a
committee appointed TO prepare a suitable
testimonial to be presented to Mr.. Butler.
Aman who has faithfully served a corpO-
rate body for thirty years is worthy Of a
life pension.
The Knoxville Wing learns from a
gentleman who has recently been in War
rem county, in Middle Tennessee. that the
qTe1t bOdy Of tie Hesr settlers, amounting
perhaps To about U hgHdTed families. are
for ScVtcT and Suffrage. This, saws the
WEt0. is as we should have expected.
How any Northern man living in Tennes-
see, can supper Stokes and oppose SEN
ter and suffrage, is a mystery TO us.
Ill Ill Il Al. 49, 80 If.TTs.
living a. a domestic IN the family OF A. L.
Green, Esq, OF Roanc county, was
drowned in "a spring near the residence of
the latter on Wednesday last. II appears
that the unfortunate woman was subject
10 epileptic fits, and whilst at the spring
was seized with q fit, and falling into the
spring was drowned before assistance
could be rendered.
The Pulaski citizen says: Besides
the death by lightning chronicled by us
last week, the daath by accidental
shooting elsewhere in this paper, we have
TWO other accidental deaths to report. A
child Of Mr.. Taylor, living in the Eleventh
District. we believe. fell from a fence the
other day and received injuries from
which IL died, and a child Of Capt. WOr-
lev. who lives on Bradshaw. was drowned
in a tub Of water. We have no particu-
lars Of the two last mentioned cases.
4ANE 1 AAt-hl Attt-tff NlN5a 1llt Ky
tent to which the farmers Of Williamson,
Maurv and Giles are investing in i'm
proved agricultural machinery is re-
marked as One of the significant signs Of
recuperati0n from the devastating ef-
fects Of the war. In Williamson. last
year, there were only four or five "sepa-
ratOrs." There are nov fifteen or twenty.
These machines cost from 500 to 500.
Reapers and mowers Of the latest pattern
FrHunF have IllHr soon sAmrinu NglaET hoF-
vest in every field of large extent"
The N%UrfreesborO Monitor of Satur-
urday says: Sheriff Webb brought to
our ONCE several immense teeth. taken
from d l2W-boue of "a skeleton found in |
Stones river, near Can't. VIM. Butler's !
place, five miles from this CITY,. Several
OF these teeth were fully three inches in 1
length-others were smaller. Nh. Webb /
informed ms that a person could mt his /
arm in the cavity OF the spinal column. |
The teeth were exhibited to several of our /
most learned physicians, but they could
give as little or n0 information as to the |
description Of the animal to which they !
belonged.
The Nashville Press and Times saws:
+" From the last report of the Tennessee
Hospital for the Insane, We learn that the
number Of farmers and housekeepers
largey predominant over all other classes
in the Asylum-the number Of farmers be-
ing a fraction over that Of housekeeper-.
The number of males IN the Asvlum is
fifty per cent. greater than that Of females. |
Between the ages Of twenty and thirty
years there is a larger proportion of per- |
sons insane thar at any other period oil
life. out Of I63 males, twenty-four lost
their reason by intemperence; Of 100 fe-
males, two we're placed in the Asylum for
the same eause.
A man named William Hatchel
who about a year ago outraged and then
murdered an idiot girl twelve years old.
for which crime be-was tried, convicted !
and sentenced to be hung, recently es-
capped from custody in company with a
coUnterfeiter. On the LIST inst, while
travelling through Lewis county. they en-
volunteered upon the road a Nh. Blackburn
and sor- III latter demanded their sur
rendeE. They refused, and attempted TO
draw their weapons. Blackburn and son
instantly raised their guns and killed both
habchel and ms confederate. similar
late was nfeted out 70 I've desperadoes
near Hickman a few days ago. named
Reeves and Stevens, who reeentlv es-
capped from Columbia Jail, the former ac-
cused Of having murdered a negro near /
C~enterville, and the latter Of passing |
counterfeit money. No particulars are |
given beyond the fact that their bodies
were found on the following morning /
with several bullet holes in each.
IA telegraph cable has been sue
eessfully laid between Peterhead. |