Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-27
LETTER FROM LAKE COUNTY.
Sad Ending to a Barbeces--A Jolly Hunting
Party---RoblnsOa erusoe p~IsceHrses.
TIPToNvLLE, LAKE COUNTY, TRIM, /
August q. 1870. I

TIPToNvILLE, LAKE COUNTY, TENN.,
August q, 1870.
Editors AppeaE-As you 50 promptly
published my last communication, and
Intimated that you would be pleased to
hear from me again, / have been induced
to send you a few items, believing that
they may be of interest to some Of your
readers.
On the Goth of July last, a grand barbe-
cue came of at Riley's Landing, in what
is known as the "Oregon District" of this
county. At about 2 o'clock, during din
ner, when fun and merriment was at its
hight, and pleasure WAS beaming from
every eye, a sad accident happened which
Immediately cast a gloom over the whole
throng. A young man, named Keaton,
who was very imprudently armed with a
pistol, carelessly toysd with it while at
the dinner table, shooting a ball into the
leg of a young man named Paynter, who
was eating side by side with him. The
unfortunate victim was Immediately car
ried to a cool and shady place, and waited
on by DR.. j. T.. Swsyne, who happened to
be on the grounds. The wound was
probed and the ball found. The wounded
man was taken to his home with all the
care and attention possible; the weather
being veryshot, great caution was neces-
sary. He WAS attended at his home by
DIR. King. For a couple of weeks BIZ
seemed TO be gradually getting better,
but about that time erysipelas in the
wounded limb commenced. He daily
grew worse until 2 O'Clock Sunday morn
ing, l4th inst, when he bresthed his last.
The lamented and universally respected
young man was named VIM. II. Paynter,
aged twenty-four, II leaves a young
wife and two small children. His
wife is a daughter of John w.
Davis, an old and respected citi-
zen Of this town. His father, with
whom he lived, is named Henry II. PayIl-
ter, a farmer, about two miles east of this
town, and universally esteemed. On the
same Sunday afternoon a large number of
friends and acquaintance escorted the
body to its last resting place, at 1.-THE
Hall" four miles above this place.
A few days ago a party of our crack
shootlsts made an excursion into the thick
and almost impenetrable woods on and
surrounding the farm of our genial and
jovial young farmer, Tim. G. Moreing,
better known as "Kitt M~oreing." The
weather was propitious, the shooting inn
plements and ammunition was abundant,
n with "horses neighing and hounds
baying they gayly SET forth" The party
consisted of Robert Lewis, Charles Lewis,
Emmet Lewis, Wyatt Moreing, jr., W. A.
Adams, Curry Gray, "Kitt MoreIng," and,
though last not least, Billie King. Said
WOOus anu ldTM are SlLudL6u ABOUT three
miles south of ~TiptonviIle, and peculiarly
adapted for such sport, and in three short
hounds had done their duty, the
bullet had done its work, and "their game
was bagged." Shortly after penetrating
the Businesses they deployed their forces
and each man, took his stand. The
hounds, "eager for the fray" but know
ing their business, stood still and silent
as a milestone. The horses, with ears
forward ant nOstrils distended,
seemed to snuff the battle from afar,"
and the stalwsrt huntsmen knowing that
every one would do his duty, "let slip the
dogs of war" A peculiar sound from the
hounds, well known to every sportsman,
o o convinced all that it was time for
business, each one secretly hoping that he
would be first TO draw blood; :" OF course, |
were disappointed, the eagle eye of
Kilt MOreing espied the foe, a flash was
seen, a report was heard and a bullet found
its way to the heart of a beautiful fwan
deer, weighing nearly fifty pounds. In
less than an hour a report from the same
rifle, and directed by the same unsrriug
eye, ~ploughed its way through the heart
Of another of the same. Billie King, al
most at the same moment, scattered his
5Uekshot, and the only dispute now is,
'wno killed the second deer" The Jolly
sportsmen returned home in triumph.
ROBINSON CRUSOE.