Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-01-25
NEWS BY MAIL.

Horace Greeley declines the position
OF chairman Of the Radical party Ia
New York.
THE supreme court in session al
Nashville, viii determine at once the
cOnstitutionality Of the merchants tax
Law.
There vii be three days Of chicken
dispute in Selma, beginning February
OH; one hundred dollars per fight,
and one thousand on the odd fight.
A dispatch Of the 18th inst. from
Eufaula, Alabama, 10 the Macon Tel
egraph, reports the destruction by
fire on that day, Of J.. W. YOung'se X-
tensiVe foundry and machine works in
Eufauls, involving a loss Of $4,000,
and no insurance.
DR.. Mary Walker says she would
Ike, above all other things, TO expert
ence the emotions of a man for an
hour or two. She desires to know
just how they think and feel, TO the
end that she may be the better pre-
pared to fight them.
Judge Dox has presented a petition
from the citizens Of North Alabama to
congress, asking an appropriation Of
money to be expended in the erection
Of public buildings in Huntsville for
the use Of the United States court and
Federal offices located there.
A lady correspondent, in e letter,
relative to woman suffrage, takes this
delicate view Of one branch of the
subject: MANY women who would
gladly help this movement are bound
closely by constant recurring cases
from any public part II fitted for it."
The supply Of India-rubber is said
to be ineXhsustible. Each tree can be
tapped Tor twenty successive years,
and yields Or an average three table
spOOnfuB q day; forty-three thousand
OF these trees have been counted on a
tract Of land thirty miles long and
eight wide.
The following item from the Wash
ingtOn Republican Of the 10Th instant
is decidedly hshy: "The President,
cabinet, yesterday, were the recipients
each Of q half dozen tat shsd, received
here by Mr.. Charles g. Godfrey from
DR.. Walsh, In charge Of the Marine
hospital, Savannah.
The Gadsden Times Is authenticity
informed that a band Of United States
soldiers Is stationed at Lebanon, il
DeKalb county, and are engaged In
making arrests Of the most prominent
citizens Of the county, and threaten
ing similar performances throughout
the State. The Times SAYS il has
heard no reason for this extraordinary
proceeding.
The Birmingham (Alabama) Sun
dominates Colonel Mckee for the
ONCE Of congressman at large under
the new appOrtiOnnent bill. Colonel
Mckee is, says the Montgomery (Al-
abaUs) Advertiser and Mail in heart
ana thought a southern man, a Jour
nalist Of decided ability and long ser
vice, and if sent to congress would
represent the State with zeal and eff
cheney.
The Oktibbeha .lMississiOpD Nec
Era Of Saturday, says: "The Wake
Forest (Baptist) church near White
field, was burned on last Monday
morning about ~sunrise-the work OF
some black incendisry II reports be
true. A large Sunday school library,
the books Of the free school, and a
very large fine bible presented the
church by J. o. Henry, were all de-
strOyed."
It IS reported that a few days since
James Boswell, Of Alexandria, Viz.
ginia, a convict hired to work on the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, had
his eyes blown out, and two other
convicts killed by an explosion on the
road while they were at work. BOs-
well Wss sent from Alexandria for
throwing q brick at a negro child,
while drunk, and killing her.
In Columbus, Georgia, on the 18th,
the receipts Of cotton were 239 bales
against ~ for the corresponding day
last year. The shipments were 1876
bales. The total receipts to date are
81, 072 bales against Sc, 1913 to the cor
responding date last year, showing a
decrease ia favor Of the present sea-
son OF 24,Z76 bales-equivalent TO A
per cent. OF the total receipts to date
Of the season Of 1870 and 1871.
A very sad affair occurred in Green
vile, Pitt county, South Carolina, last
Tuesday, resulting in the death Of g
Mr.. REite1ard, welkknOwn mechanic
of that place, and a most estimable
and popular gentleman. The Raleigh
CarOlinian says: "Mr. Pritchard and
a younger brother attacked MI. Rob
ert Green, a highly respectable gentle
man Of th8t place, for an alleged in
suit to the wife OF Nh. Pritchard, an
insult, we learn, that was not 50 in-
tended. The Pritchards used sticks
and pistols on Mr.. Greene, who, acting
in self defense fred upon both, killing
the elder and married brother and Sc
riOusly W%ounding the other. Mr..
Greene was not hurt In the ARRAY.
The affair Is deeply regretted in Green
vile. where all the parties are we'll
known and universally popular"
The Albany Journal makes the fol-
lowing explanation Of the Mccarthy
Thompson murder ~telegraphed on
Monday: This Mrs. Mccarthy is the
sfiemsle physician" Of this city, known
as Mrs. BuTleigh, some of whose pro-
fessiOnai work has given her eOnsid-
cradle nOtOriety within q few months
mast. It seems that she travels about
under different names - generally
s Bur eiqh,D but sometimes "Sey-
mour," aud, as in Utica, MCCARTHY
The police Of Utica have telegraphed
fCr nGF EtucfhA bue nave AO
other particulars Of the shooting than
L given below. It seems that there
was q cause for the quarrel with the
man Thompson, whom Mrs. Burleigh
attempted to kill. Some three years
400 he enticed heT intoa stateToom on
me of our steamboats,. The result,
ne claimed, was a daughter, now liv-
nc. and she began to black-msn
Among other valuables
ne obtained from him was the house
he recently occupied in Howard
street. Having then refused to con-
tinue his b~enefactiOns, she informed
bis family Of what had TRANSFERRED.
Upon this Thompson foreelOsed the
mortgage on the Howard street house
md q last Monday the woman be-
houseiess. She at on pro-
to Utica and this murder Is the
result. The man she intended to kill
VIII probably live. An innocent man
vas killed.