Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-26
TENNESSEE.

! TENNESSEE.
Hon. A. Blizzard is a candidate for
Congress in the Knoxville District.
Sally Underwood, colored, shot her
George Caldwell, on the I'D
INST, near Shieldstown.
!, The Knoxville Press and Herald
hoisted the name of General John G.
Brown for Governor, On the 23d inst.
The Democrats of the Second Dis
trict will mt It to nominate q candi-
date for Congress on the I'd OF Sep
tember.
The GreenyiIle' National Union
that John Slack will soon COM
mence the publication Of a paper in
Bristol, Tennessee, which will be call
ed the Bristol Courier.
We learn from the Holston Journal
that the new County Court Of Haw-
kins stands twenty-nine Conservatives
and Democrats to six Radicals. That
looks like a pretty good start for James
The Kingston East TSnnesseean Of
the 18th inst, says that the Wilcox
Mining Company has recently pur-
chased the property formerly owned
by the Emory Iron and Coal Mining
Company, on Emory river, seven
miles above Kingston, and T now
preparing for extensive operations.
The Jonesboro Herald and Tribune
of the 18th inst. says: "On lest Tues
day the rain poured in torrents. The
low grounds In the northwestern por-
ton of the county were perfectly
flooded. Bridges over creeks, hay
and grain stacks were washed away.
The damage to our farmers living 10
that section is very heavy"
The Knoxville Press and Herald Of
the sd inst. says: ave have mad
~vertentIy omitted to mention the tact
that General John c. Vaughan has as
sumed editorial control of the Sweet
water Enterprise. General V. is as
ready with his pen as he has shown
himself to be with his sword. We
wish him and his thriving town the
greatest possible success.
The Knoxville Press Oud Herald of
Sunday a S "The Legislative Conn
mittees appointed at the request of the
Public Guardian of the Mineral
Home railroad, adjourned yesterday,
sine die. We expect some rich devel-
opments have .been made regarding
the assets of the bogus railroad,
neither end of which has ever been
found"
The Knoxville Chronicle of the 18th
inst. says: Tuesday night the river
rose very rapidly and completely sub
merged the islands. Large quantities
of drift wood were running yester-
day, affording a supply of fuel to those
who are harry enough to brave the
terrors of the worse than raging ca
naWP to obtain it. 1t is a high tide
for this season."
The MurfreesbOro Monitor of the
10th inst. is informed'Sthat one night
week before last, q party of masked
negroes visited the negro quarters of
p. Murphy, whose plantation adjoins
that of DR.. l.. Russell, called at the
quarters of one Pearson, colored, and
asked for water. Pearson informed
them that he had no water in the
house. They then ordered him to go
bring some, and that id quick, but
as soon as he stepped out of his house
they seized him and carried him down
the Nashville and Chattanooga rail-
road a mile or more, where they came
to a halt and stated their charges and
specifications against him, which in
sum and substance were, that he had
been guilty of incest with his daugh-
ter, she having already had one child
by him and was then pregnant with
another. : He denied the charges,
when an order was given to bring the
switches, of which there We're an
abundance cut and dried for the occa-
sion, and right Justify applied, until
two OF the crowd gave out. 1t is said
that Pearson implored them to spare
him, but without avail. "Lay on,
McDuf, and DID be he who first
cries, enough was the watehword.
This man Pearson YVES n Of the
God-fOrsaken BrOWnlow's pardoned
pimps, having been sent to the peni-
tentIary from that county in 1866 for
stealing Mr.. - Kings gold watch
out of his store.
A foul and ~atrocious murder was
committed by a negro fend on Tues
day night last, about u O'clock, on
the farm of Egbert Wright, six miles
south of Columbia. Daniel Ramon.
a negro man, killed his wife and child
with an ak, striking the wife in the
back of the head with the back of the
ak and crushing her skull to pieces.
The black monster then struck his
child under the ear, breaking its NJ tex.
The negro and his family lived some
distance FROM any other house. Alter
committing the murder he went to
Mr.. Wright's and told an old negro
what he had done, and that he wss
then going to hang himself in q
thicket near by. The alarm was at
once given; and, on going in the me-
gro,s house, the bodies of his vile
and child were found dead and
weltering in their blood. But Dan
did not hang himself in the thicket,
IS he said he would do, and, up to
this time, nothing has been hearu OF
him, although both white and colored
have secured the county in search Of
him. The negro Ramon some time
since killed one of his children and
was confined In jail for the deed, but
his wife got him released by testify
ing that he was innocent. The WOO
man was in a delicate situation, be-
ing ezaciente at the time Of her muir
der. 1t is to be hoped that the viii
lain viii be caught and brought TO.
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