Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-13
HI JOHNSON SCANDAL.
Three Magistrates Of GreenEiIle at
Work on the Case.

II. V. Redfeld's Nashville Letter in the Gin
cinnati Commercial OF Augusta
There is more idle gossip about ones
neighbOrs in town of a thousand inhab-
itants than in q city of hundred thou
sand. 1t was a mistake, perhaps, that
johnson settled in GreenVille after he
came down from the Presidency. He
is able TO live in a larger place than q Cos
~sip-loving, tale-bearing, scandal-mon-
gering, tattle-pedling community like
Greenviue. They have to talk to keep
well up there, and, as in all small towns,
it is a matter of little concern whether
there is u foundation for the talk or
not. In a place where everybody at
tends to other peoples business more
than to his or her own it is a matter Of
difficulty for a public mana prominent
mark for ALTO keep his skirts clear Of
scandal.
1t will be remembered that when
Boutwell, entered North Carolina TO talk
about the finances an announcement
went the rounds Of the papers that An
drew Johnson would reply to him. 1t
was his intentiOnto have done 50, but he
was prevented by a fresh outbreak Of
the scandal which first got into print
two months or more ago. At that time
the particulars of the suicide Of Mrs.
Emily Harold were published. Mn.
Harold was the wife Of Postmaster
Harold, Of Greenville, was a member Of
the church in good standing, and es-
teemed as a pure, Christian lady. That
she was such, and that the connection
Of her name with scandalous stories
about Johnson broke her heart and caas-
ed her to take her own life is still the
opinion Of such a. knew her longest and
best.
The immediate cause Of her taking her
life was the receipt by her husbad Of an
anonymous letter warning him that the
relations between his wife and ex-Presi-
dent Johnson We're not what they should
be. This preyed upon the mind Of the.
woman 50 deeply as TO cause mental
alteration, and one night she putherself
beyond all earthly trouble. There the
matter ended for the time being, but her
husbandand friends have been busily en-
gagged in ferreting out the author Of the
ANONYMOUS letter. They found the sup
posed author a short time ago, and had
him arrested for libel. His preliminary
examination commenced q week ago
last Tuesday, before three magistrates at
GreenviIle. The defendants name is II.
G. Harne. The proof as TO the hands
writing of the anonymous letter was Of
circumstantial character, and based part
ly on the opinion of experts who COM
pared it with specimens of Harne'shand-
writing. But the evidence, as Is usual
before magistrates, was not kept peril
nent to the issue. A wide range was
taken, and a general investigation Of the
merits OF the a S gone into. The truth
OF charges against johnson and Mrs.
harold Were investigated, and some
wearing done of rather a plain charac-
ter, as Is reported, by two negroes and a
whiOe man Just what they swOre to
has not been made public, but Il was oil
q sufficiently atroeious charanter az 70
cause the arrest for perjury Of an three Oh
the witnesses.
The trial proper and the trial for nor
jury promise to involve many residents
of the place IN the examination. and
produce much bitterness and strife. and
send a thousand stories trayeliagl
through the land.
As a fresh complication, the parties ar
rested for perjury have sued their prose-
eutOrs for ten thousand dollars damages.
Harne has four lawyers, enough to
sadly tangie any case, and they publish
3 request that all publications Of any
matter ~prejudicial to the prosecution, or
the defendant, or any n implicated,
be suspended until the conclusion of the