Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-07-25
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There is e be- grand Odd Fellows
celebration at Melton, Rutherford
county, next Friday. -
Pre- corn is reported to be seriously
damaged in the southern portion Of
| Rutherford county by being blown
doWnlIThe recent rain was very
mach needed &Bdps a generaLthing,
the present prospects are very hattef-
ing for a large yield otcom and cotton.
duA negro who escaped from Jail at
ShelbyviIle on Wednesday night was
reeaptured near Normanda Thursday
morning. AS his captors were bring
ing him back to put HIM in jaillhel
attempted to run, when one of them
Shot at him, the shot taking enect in
the hesd, Wounding him severely but
not fatally. IN an
The Shelbyville Commercial says:
"Mr. John T, Stephens has Just
bought of Mr.. Corbal, of Kentucky,
four cows and two calves. Ohepf the
COWS II Very pretty, and cost only
$1,000, but that was high compared
with Others foflthe remaining three
only cost SpE50. If We don't raise
fine cattlel In Bedford county it GER
taiuly will not be on aecountef paying
too ittIe.p lns .uUoseiE ,y51s0l 10
The LebanonHF q Press says: 'aFhe
live and enterprising President OF the
Wilson County Agricultural andlMe-
chanical Society has Gust returned
from an extended visit t00the stock
and cattle regions of Kentucky. He
purchased some fine mules and a
magnificent pointer dog for himself, a
lot of fine sheep for the Messrs, Mil
lers, and the fuest LOT of cattle that
we nave seen lately for Mr.. W. a.
Doak4dof this county. This is a
Observation-Disclosures that the spirit OF
Improvement of stock IS alive among
our farmers.9A Is II 90 90
A party Of eleven young gentle
men, named Wash Gordon, Charley
Gordon, Willie ]. and Hammond
Webster, George p. Webster, IT.,
Hugh p. Akin, Charley o. Nicholson,
Aleck Titcomt, W. B. Ramon, IT.,
and Walter Akin, of Maury, and
Johnnie Park off, Williamson, re-
Gently went to Summer Town, Law
renee county, ASfar as heard from
they have killed q deer every day.
Not one OF this party eyerQtOOk a
drink Of whisky Or a chew of tobacco
In all their lives. This speaks well
for the young men OF Maury county.
Major Walter Mcfarland, Uaited
States Engineer, has beenassignedto
duty as Superintendent OF the Im-i
provement of the Tennessee River,
with headquarters atHRntsvilLe. He
Is now in chattanooga, fitting out a
surveying party of twenty men for
the survey of the canal route around
Muscle Shoals, from Browns Ferry to
Florence. In addition to the work
upon the Tennessee river, the party is
charged with the duty Of surveying
q canal connecting the Tennessee at
Guntersville with the COosa, near
Gsdsden, for which Congress appro-
priRted3 sixteen thousand dollars at
last session.. Tennessee owns ffty-
eight teamers,p with I3,670i tonnage.
Total tOnuageIiH the Western waters,
S92, sos. Irui -4E DISC cong or 9oSv
Trenton has a haunted house, guard
ed bya ghost in regular white, who
makes it exceedingly uncomfortable
regular and transient dodgers. An
ineredulOUs gentleman recently at
tempted to pass a night in the haunted
and received a midnight call
the shadowy proprietor, who
the fire Ola navy revolver
without hinching, and, advancing on
the intruder, proceeded to put a head
on him. This incident, voached for
the local pspery establishes an inn
nhw4nnE foot in oh 5knlA rwry. g. nNhnr4.hrN
the thinneSt of thin air, SO far as bull
lets are concerned, these refugees from
the other side=ef5erdan have sub
stantial lunches Of 1ves, capable Of
backing an earthly eye, and drawing
from the materialnOse.
The Cleveland Banner of July Goth
"Mr. Henry Hays,i in the Thir-
Civil DistrietOf this county,,
Wss found dead in the vicinity of his
residence Friday morning last. He
had LETT home on the previous even
for the purpose of getting his shoes
nended, taking his gun and dog with
Not returning on that evening,
search was instituted next morning,
md the dog, which had returned
during the night, carried the
'earchiGg party to his dead master, G
Who had been shot so centrally in the /
that his lips were not cut. 1t :
s thought by his neighbOrs that he I
lad killed himself accidentally" 9
The Athens Post OF July 10Th seys:
on last Friday night, in Ten Mile =,
near the line of Meigs and \
Alien Detheridge was shot q
nd mOrtally wounded by Hezekiah 3
sckson. The circumstance, as they q
each us, are these; Jackson was q
with abusing neighboring n
and a warrant had been issued "
n his arrest, The officer, regarding e
as a desperate character, sum Il
lo1ed Detheffdge to assist in exc
1ting the warrant. On approaching
he house where Jackson was, he at !
to escape. He Wss armed
18th a gun, loaded with buekshot,
nd IS Detheridge intercepted and s
as about to close IN with him, hef,
lrned and shot him down. Dether- ,
lge. did next evening. Jackson fed,
nd is still at large. Ten Mile Valley "
fOdge, of which the unfortunate man al
as q worthy member, offers a reward
{ four hundred dollars for the appre- Z
ensieR of the murderer and his de- v
very at the Kingston Jail 80 s.s Sc
The Covington (Fipton county,
saws. .2t6Ji .i.l1EsJ Z3.l5t wEE F
From the examination of the books
the County Clerks Office, we find q
lat Dur county is gradually increas- pI
g In wealth and prosperity. The a
x aggregate on taxable property for ~
ie year 1871 amounts to S., 325,484, an
tcess Ove the year 1853 of q, 800, 766,
Id over the year of 1869, 1894, 592; and b
yer the year Of 1870, 1881, AL. The =,
1unty Court, at IFS July term, as-9
ssed a tax Of thirty cents on the one h
Ipdred dollars, which will realize a ID
X of 1886 20, but allowing for I'M
Iistments and releases, the NJ
unity win do well to get out OF that :
actual money between seven and -
9ht thousand dollars. M Number Of q
hita and doloFed polls, 2299; tax, one
Illar, which goesIto the common u
boOl fund number ofdogs assessed,
4; tax, two dollars, which also HOesf "
the school fund. About one-haM OIL
at poll tax will be collected. and
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