Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-12-27

| Union Clty (maglstFateb, haYlng ms Of
| ice next door TO saloon, was request
ed to watch the door while the propri.
etor was absent few minutes. A man
living in the vicinity by the name OF
Head came in and got drink, and told
Morton that another man would come in
presently and buy gallon, and pay also
for his drink. Morton Insisted that he
should pay for his liquor then. Head
became angry and drew a knife with
which he stabbed Morton in the breast
inflicting a mortal wound. Head, in
default of five thousand dollars bond,
was sent to jail.
Captain Fry's Letter 10 President Grant
Just before his execution Captain Fry
wrote the following letter to President
Grant:
U. Grant, President of the United states OF
| America:
Mr.. PREsIDENT-My resignation as
lieutenant Of the United States navy,
dated January twenty-sixth, 1851, was
| accepted by the war department,
but no application for the pay due
me has ever been replied to. Un-
able to find employment in my
| native land, was forced to accept the
! first office, and what leads to my death.
The money due me, / am inclined to
believe, will be paid to my family when
it is known that am dead. Will you see
to it? l ask it of you as a brother Off
Ger. II the questions of the war had
| been left to the old officers of the army
and navy there would have been no
war. Cherish both arms of the service,
for they are most free from the taint
that corrupts the land. My field of use
fulness to the country has been abridged
by prescription. The carpetbag policy
is ruinOus to the land. Let Louisiana
govern herself. Her prosperity is that
of the whole country. 1t is treason to
do otherwise. Respectfully,
JOSEPH FRY,
Confederate States Navy.
P. S.-The Spanish officers are very
kind to me, but the United States are
weak when vessel can be captured on
the high seas, with perfectly regular
papers, and her captain, crew and pas
sengers shot without appeal to the pro-
lection of the United States. J.F.
A Fatal Family Quarrel.
From the Independent Miss South.l
A tragic affair occurred at Byhalia, in
this county, early last Friday morning.
The parties were p. w. Ramsay, J. w.
Spears and J. w. Watson; Spears being
the cousin and Watson the brother of
Ramsay's wife. Between Ramsay and
his wife's family there had been some
disagreement, and when the three per-
sons above named met on the fatal
morning, angry words and blow passed
between Ramsay and Spears; then Ram
say shot Spears through the head, kill
ing him instantly, and whilst in the very
act was himself shot and killed by Wat
son. AS the affair will undergo judicial
investigation, we will go no further into
particulars. We have here another sad
striking illustration of the evils resulting
from the carrying of concealed weapons.
The Murdered Movers,
From the Little Rock (Ark.) Gazette.l
Mr.. VIM. J. Byles, father of Mrs.
Richardson, and Mr.. J. J. Richardson,
brother of George Richardson, the vic.
Tins of the Rock creek tragedy, arrived
in this city Monday night, from their
home on Douglass prairie, in Gasconade
county, Missouri. They reside about
forty miles from Cola. They left home
on Saturday morning. Mr.. Byles tells
US that his daughter and Mr.. Richard
son were married about four years ago;
that the child was their second, the first
having died. The name of the muir
dered man was George Madison Rich
ardsOn; he was born on the twenty
seventh of February, 1S43. The lady's
name was Lille Ann, and she was
born on the tenth of May, 1850. The
baby was named Laura Ellen,
and it would have been two years
old on the third of February next. The
murdered family left Missouri about the
fifth of November. The father of MIR.
g. NJ. Richardson received letter fIOm
him, written on ths nineteenth of No.
vember. This was the last intelligence
of him until news was received of the
murder. Mr.. Byles thinks that Mr..
Richardson had about one hundred and
forty dollars in money when he left. He
was going to some point in western Tex
as. Mr.. Byles and Mr.. Richardson both
recognized the wagon, team, dog, cloth
ing, ETC., of the family. Last evening
the bodies were taken up, and both
brother and father recognized their kins-
| folks in the murdered movers. Itwas
| an affecting scene-the father bending
over his murdered daughter, her child
and husband, aud the brother standing
by, peering at the ifeless remains of his
brother, sister and niece. Thus every
link in the chain of circumstances
which first pointed to Cass Medlock as
the perpetrator of the deed, has been
| furnished.
The Condition of Affairs in Alabama
From the Washington letter of the Baltimore
Americana
| Advices received here from Alabama
represent that this year has been one oi
unprecedented calamity and disaster.
The failure of the cotton crop has been
intensified by the monetary crash, and
the farmers, being unable to subsist the
/ negroes or to borrow money, as former
Ily, are under an absolute necessity OF
curtailing their scale of operations, and
the negroes are forced to seek food and
shelter in Mississippi. Dallas, Perry,
Hale and MarengO will lose one-third Ol
their negro laborers this fall and winter,
and 1t is thought that at least fifteen
thousand negroes will leave the State,
and that many farmers will be without
hands next year. This exodus of the
laboring population has unsettled and
deranged everything, and land can
hardly be sold or rented for fair price
| in the black lands. Mules and horses
will be in little or no demand in Ala
banla this winter or next spring. In
| deed, the agricultural change so long
and earnestly wished for by many is
about to be realized-the surrendering
Of cotton as the prime crop. Land-own.
ers must now abandon cotton and de-
vote themselves to small grains and
stock; small farms will be the rule, and
white labor must take the place of that
heretofore employed in the cOtton-fields
A Fatal shot.
| From the Knoxville Chronicle.l
Yesterday about twelve o'clock, just
as the freight train arrived at Midway
station, sixty-five miles from this city
on the East Tennessee, Virginia anG
| Georgia railroad, a sad accident occur
red at q house near the station, by which
a young man, eighteen years of age
named Alex. Brown, lost his life almos
instantaneously. He had taken dowI
an old rifle, and having no idea of its be
ing loaded, placed his foot on the ham
4 mer, while he attempted to blow in it t
ascertain whether it was clear in tn,
tube, as Is often done. The gun, howev
en-, was loaded, and his foot slipping OF
!, the hammer, the load was discharged II
his mouth, the ball passing into hi
} head, causing almost instant death
The conductor giving US the informa
E ton says II was horrible TO behold tn