Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-08
THEsUlcIDE MANIA.
Three individuals Attempt FeIO-de-se in
Twenty. four Hours.
None Of the Attempts Prove Fatal.

months ago ragged over this country and
in Europe, filling the press each day with
the accounts of the horrors of fel0-de-se.
seems at last to have reached Memphis IN
a virulent form-there having been no less
than three individual attempts made at
self-destruction during Sunday night up
to sunrise yesterday morning. Strange 10
say, though the attempts were determined
| in every instance, they failed 70 effect the
object sought, and al the wOuld-be self
mUrderers are, at writing, in a fair way
of recovery.
THE FIRST CASE
which came to u knowledge occurred
about seven o'clock Of Sunday night, the
would-be victim of self-immolation being
( a girl, whose name, at her own entreaty,
we suppress, and who some time back
was employed in a concert saloon in this
city. In the reduction of force attend
ant upon the enforcement of the law
regulating places of public amuse-
ment, she was among the NUMBER
discharged. She has not since been able
to obtain employment, and as a conse-
quence has been very much depressed IN
spirits-the mental depression being, OF
course. aggravated by the gloomy, dis
agreeable weather of the past three or
four DAYS. The feeling eliminated on
SUNDAY night in her taking about ten
grains of morphine. Luckily enough for
her as she now wants to live, a young
mar who has been in the habit OF calling
TO see her occasionally, dropped in Just
after She had taken the "dOse," and on
learning what had happened went for a
druggist who had an establishment near
by, and who promptly attended, admins
tering the usual remedies, and succeeding
in placing the patient out of danger. rms
reporter paid her a visit yesterday morn
ing, and found her awfully ''sick" and
very penitent.
THE SECOND Isl
occurred at the Franklin House, No. u
Union street next door west of the APP
PEAL B%uilding), about daylight yesterday
mOrning-the "weary-of-life" in this in
stance being a well known river man
named Buck Baily, who attempted to saw
his iugular vein in two with a dull pocket
knife belonging to a fellow bJarder.
The circumstances of the case, as
we learn them from a Mr.. Jones,
who occupied the room with MIR.
Baily, and from Mr.. Fisher, the proprie-
tor of the Franklin House, are briefly
these: Baily came to the house about
four weeks z to obtain lodgings, repre-
senting himself as the pilot OF a barge or
hatboat which had been run into and
sunk at or near Cottonwood Point, by the
steamer Div Branch, a few days pre-
YiOusly. He was allowed TO remain, and
under one promise or another has been
putting off Mr.. Fisher, who frequently
asked him for his board, until sunday
night, when he was told that it had run
up TO Sl20, and that he must settle it on
Monday yesterday. This he promised TO
do, and went to bed in his usual spirits.
His roommate, Nj. Jones, says that he
was awakened by hearing something fall
to the 1oor early Yesterday morning, and
saw Baily standing at the head of mis-
%tJones) bed, putting his pants back on the
post whence they had fallen. On being
spoken to Baily told him to go to sleep,
and returned TO his own bed. As he did
so he struck himself a blow with an open
knife on the left side of the neck. Jones
spraug out of bed, and rushed over to
him, but Baily warned him off, and said
that he intended to kill himself. Jones
then ran down to the bar for assistance,
and while he was gone Baily succeed
ed in putting the knife into his
throat, and making, as he supposed, a
fatal wound. On disarming him Mr..
Jones found that the knife used was his
own, which Baily was taking out Of his
pants pocket at the moment when he
aWOke. DR.. Lowry was Immediately
summoned and did what he could for the
wounded man, who was shortly after
ward removed to h hospital. The self
inflicted injuries, we learn, will 70 be
fatal. Baily is well known on the Mo
bile, Alabama, Tombigbee, and other
southern rivers. During the war this
reporter knew him in the torpedo service
Mobile.
THE THIRD
suicide was made some time during
morning, by a stranger in the city
from st. Louis named Tom Welch, who
overheard from the steamer Mary
Forsyth. Luckily for him, he jumped
into a yawl boat which was lying along
side, unknown to him, and escaped with
3 severe conclusion and some bruises. He
drinking az the time, and says that
be wanted to kill himself because he was
put of work, having been disappointed IN
securing it here. The police were notified
Of the case, and the intended suicide was
properly cared for by them.
ZYPHYR Worsteds reduced to the fol-
prices:
High %cOlors, 25 cents per ounce.
White and black, 20 cents per unce
L. w. JOHNSTON Il co.
SALE OF DRY GooDs.-White Linen
Huck Towels, 81 90 per dozen; Gold Med
al Bleached Muslin, 1870 per yard; good
Black silk, 81 90 per yard; u new Dress
Goods very cheap. MENKEN BROS.
LARGE TRADE sale of Dry Goods, etc,
his Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock, by
x Co. auctiOneers, corner Of
Second and Adams streets.
THERE must have been crowds of ladies
shopping on yesterday. In all direc-
were to be seen parcels labeled
A. SEESSEL SON.