Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-08
THE NEWS.

There was 8 heavy fall OF snow yester-
day in New York.
The Fenisn, Meehan, who was shot last
week in New York by DR.. Keenan,, is fast
recovering from his injuries.
Col. Robert NJ. Brown, Of Marshall
county. viii start a new paper at Water
Valley. Miss, on the 18th OF March. It
Is 10 De entitled the Southern Journal.
About ten o'clock Thursday night, Mr..
John A. Holston, a brakeman on the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
railroad, was run over by a car. at Chatta-
nooga, and instantly killed.
The Southern planters are competing in
a lively manner for farm hands in Chi
eago. The daily papers Of that city are
fuIl of applications, and among others we
notice those for thousands TO 90 TO Mis-
sissippi.
Mr.. A. II. Stephens continues to i'm
prove in health, and to be in most excel
lent spirits. The second volume Of his
great work, a Constitutional View Of
the War between the States, - is in press,
and VIII soon be given to the public.
\ difficulty occurredin McMinn county,
Tenn, last week, between two men named
respectively Dickey and Cook, which re-
suited in the death Of the latter. The
killing is said to have been iustifable.
Dickey was bound over to appear at court
il The sum Of $1,000.
We regret TO learn, says the Jonesboro
FTog, thar about a fortnight ago, Capt.
Daniel d. hardwood, residing on Nola-
chucky river, in this county, whilst assist
ing in running a saw mill, had one of his
legs caught by the wheels of the mill
whilst in motion, and badly fractured
above the ankle.
The California Republican gives the de-
tails OF the killing Of aman named Gage
Al Stockton on Wednesday last. Gage
eloped with a Mr.. Harper's wife and five
children from Martinez and went to house
keeping in Stockton. Harper followed
the guilty pair to Stockton and bowed
Cages brains out.
The Globe distillery in Knoxville,
Tenn, was closed the other day by order
Of Supervisor Emory. It is understood
the closing Of the distillery arose u Of
a misunderstanding Of certain treasury
regulations which every revenue officer
interprets IN a different way, and that
business viii be speedily resumed by the
distlilery.
SAYS the New York Herald of ReveIs:
d" His transportation from the cotton fields
Of the South, ere yet the twsng Of tho
hi 80 eor-..l- 90 sbo elIla ora Tho
rattle Of the bones had ceased 70 reverbe-
rate in the startled air, to a seat in the
Senate Of the United States, is a political
and social change unparalleled in the his
tory OF nations"
A few nights since. a Shellmound
Tenn fisherman named Williams, who
had stolen a great many hogs, was taken
into a piece Of woods by a band Of IN
known men and whipped numerically,
after which he was put into q fishing boat
and sent adrin on the Tennessee river.
When last seen he was thirty miles from
S-hellmound, continuing his lonely voyage
down the river.
The GAINESVILLE Chronicle Of Saturday
says: Last Tuesday a negro woman
named Fanny McFadden, was killed bv
the falling Of one Of the walls Of Brock
man q Porter's old warehouse near the
wharf. She had stopped to speak to one
ofthe workmen who was engaged in tear
ing it down, and Unexpectedly the wall
gave way, falling on and killing her
almost instantly.
We learn from the Jonesboro Flag, that
o. Monday night last, the barn Of Mr.. J
:. Beard, residing some four miles north
east Of Jones5orO, on Boone's creek. WAS
set Ere 10 in our places, which consumed
IL in a few minutes with all its contents
including over forty head of sheep, eight
head Of hogs, and other live stock, besides
a large quantity Of grain, ~Provender, ma
chinery and farming utensils.
The number OF vessels belonging to or
bound to or from ports in the United
States reported totally lost or missing
during the past month is 81, Of which Il
were wrecked, 5 burnt, 3 abandoned, 4
sunk by collision, 3 foundered, and 2 are
missing. They are classed as follows: 5
steamers, 2 ships, 9 banks, 2 briggs and IA
sehooners. and their total estimated value.
exclusive Of eargoes, is S75S,O0O.
Some further facts have transpired rela-
tive to John George Harding, the English
man who committed suicide in a disre-
putable house on Twenty-seventh street,
New York, on Thursday night. He was
a man OF some literary character, and
author of a translation Of Dante, copies of
which were found in his room. lie left
England and anne to this country in con-
seoueneo Of domestic difficulties, and
souandered all his money in gambling.
and miserable, he ended all
with poison.
The certificate of the Pittsburg, Canton
and Chicago railroad, with n million
dollars capital stock, has been fled at
Ohio. The eastern terminus
Of the road Is to be the town Of Smiths
in Columbiana county. Ohio, and
The western terminus at New London,
ssunty. The road is to pass