Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-11-29

Many shots were nredl and Theo. Dayiss, fr.
and his son Larne we've instantly killed, and
Theodore Daviss, jr., was mortally wounded
and has since died. p. b. Thomson, sr., and
his two sons p. B., ir., and J. B., were slightly
. wounded. Caldwell Daviss escaped unhurt.
By MAIL.
On Monday, the seventeenth instant,
William Donnohoe, shot and killed Miss Alice
Bush, and severely wounded a Mr.. Fleming,
near Pryor's station, in Polk county, Georgia
1t was Maggie Jordan, who, though
Il brutally beaten and Ill treated by Sharkey,
standing he was condemned for murder, and
was ironed in the Tombs, New York city.
"ThomasD d. Evans, the deputy United
states marshal under Blackburn" )" says the
| Nashville Union and American, "who has
ceiyed the sentence of the court, and Is now
in the penltentiary 10 serve out five years
hard labor"
j Three strange suicides. In one, wo-
man throws herself and infant child of q
ferry-boat, and both are drowned. In another,
nurse in the Boston city hospital takes
opium. In the third, the medical student
who was called in 10 prescribe mistook the
sym ptoms for hysteria, and WAS 50 chagrlneu
at his failure 10 recognize indications OF
opium" that he went 20 the bathroom, opened
the femoral artery, and bled TO death The
nrst case comes 10 as from New YORK the
other two from Boston.
The Nashville Union and american
says Of Joseph Blackburn: ''This persopage,
| who has been found guilty of forgery by aIuTy
| of the federal court, has not yet put in an ap-
pearance, and from all accounts is not likely
| TO rush precipitatelY into the arms OF tbs
4 United States marshal, with view OF giving
himself up. From this city he proceeded to
Lebanon, on horseback, and at which place
| he hired buggy from Swindie q Neal and
started for his home IN DeKaih sounty. The
horse and buggy was returned yesterday
morning, but Joseph did not come back, and
| IL is understood that he defies arrest"
A dispatch from New Canaan, Con-
| necticut, says: "The evidence before a jury
| of inquest here to-day has developed one of
| the most atrocious and brutal murders ever
recorded, and, like the Nathan murder, com
| pletely envelOped in mystery. The victim, a
widow lady about nifty years OF age, named
Mrs. Selleek, living alone on small place, in
| a neat cottage of her own, with neighbors
| within q few rods, having but little money or
valuables, secure in the thought that no one
would disturb a poor, unofending widow.
| was brutally killed by common woodman )
! ak of her own, taken from her wood-pile, and
| used by some inhuman monster.
A girl of fourteen, daughter of John
! Nichols, of the town of Albion, has proved
| herself made of heroic stuff. Going into the
| woods a few days since, with a fve-year-old
| brother, nuttiDg, they became lost, and were
! compelled 10 remain all night without shell
| ter. To protect her little brother the noble
| girl stripped of her outer garments, and sooth
/ ing him TO quiet and sleep in her arms sat
| through the long hours while her own limbs
were freezing. When found the next fore
| noon she was unable to stand on her feet, but
the physicians hope TO be able to preserve her
| life and limbs, a hope which viii be heartily
| re-echoed wherever the story IS known.
The Nashville Banner of Wednes-
| day, tells that quite a sensation was created
/ in the markethouSe yesterday morning, from
a cOlored marketer, named John Bridge
waters, suddenly falling from his stall to the
pavement. Many, thinking he had suffered
prOstration from fit, went TO his assistance
TO find that he was already corpse About
r year ago Bridgewater fell into sort of
trance, in which he laid, scarcely giving any
sign of life, for twenty-four hours. Some of
the members of the society OF which he was
member were of the belief at first that this
was the case in the present instance, but the
physicians who attended at the inquest were
fully satisfied that he was really dead.
A telegram from Marietta, Georgia, to
the Atlanta Herald says: "a difficulty oc-
CURED here between DR.. Butts and Doc. Ma
lone, in front OF Mr.. Hammett's store. Ma
lone advanced upon Butts twice with knife,
and Butts pushed him back both times. Mr..
Moore, a friend Of DR.. Butts, who was stand
ing by. picked up 4 brickbat, threw at Ma
lone, struck him with terrible force just be-
hind the temple, and felled him to the ground.
He was carried to the courthouse, and his
wound was dressed by Drs. Celton and Ten
nett. He rose once in the courthouse and
swore he would kill Butts. He then tainted
and fell back, and never spoke intel1gibly
again. He died Sunday morning. Moore is
in jail, and Will be tried to-day before Justice
Knight"
The Knoxville Chronicle speaks thus
OF the anticipated war with the Spanish
public: While We still hope an honorable,
peaceful settlement of our troubles with
Spain probable, ii is gratifying TO know that
so large a portion of our fellow citizens who
fought in the Confederate army stand ready
10 tender their services TO President Grant If
necessary, TO defend the honor aud protect
the rights Of American citizens Not only in
Knoxville, but throughout East Tennessee,
gentlemen prominent in the late unpleasant
side by side with the boys who wore the blue.
One redeeming feature OF such war, If II
must come, would be that it would DO more
than anything else could, to reunite our peO-
pie in cordial, fraternal bonds"
We learn that Rev. I. B. Lyman,
DID ssistant-bisho op-elect of North Carolina,
will be cOnsecrated at Raleigh on December
llth, proximo. The venerable bishop of the
diocese of Maryland will be the consecrator;
Bishop Lay, of EaSton, will preach the ser
mon; Bishop Atkinson and Bishop Stevens, of
Pennsylvania, will serve as preSenters. The
bishops of Louisiana, Alabama and South
Carolina, viii be present and take part in the
impressive services. We understand, also,
that Bishop Green, of Mississippi, and Bishop
Beckwith, of Georgia, are to be invited to as
sist in the conservation. The imposing char
acter OF the services, and the presence of so
many of the high dignitaries of the Episcopal
church, cannot fail to be matters OF much in
terest to the members of that communion
throughout the country.
The Jackson Wing and Tribune says
MI. MARK haynes, OF MCNalry II Is
said, was engaged TO be married to the young
lady, Miss Matte Richardson, and was about
TO "go back" upon his plighted word and
honor, and had so notified his fair affianced.
When she received intelligence of his con-
templated apostacy, she grew so Indignant
that she rode over to Haynes's residence in a
buggy, in company with young brother, and
calling Haynes toward her, she drew forth
pistol from under her shawl and shot him.
Miss Richardson and her brother were both
arrested after the shooting and had q prelimi-
nary trial before James Houston, ESQ, who
bound them both over to the next term OF the
circuit court Of McNairy county. The bond
of Miss Richardson was fixed at one thousand
dollars, and was promptly given. Haynes
was wounded in the right lung, and his con-
dition, at last accounts, was extremely crit,
cal. He is a newcomer to this section, and
halls from Georgia.
The Vanceburg Re7ltltckidn says: "On
last Friday. about three o'clock, q fearful ac-
cident occurred on the railroad leading from
GoOdhues stone-Quarry, on Town Branch, il
this county, to the top Of the hill near Fair
view. From the quarry to the hill the grade
is very heavy, and tie locomotive cannot
the road. On the day above referred to, the
locomotive had taken a load of stone to the
top of the hill, and, after unloading, had de-
scended the grade about fifty yards, when
that portion OF the machinery by which the
steam is let on and shut OF became affected.
and refused to act. and the engineer could not
control or check the increasing progress of
the locomotive, and the wnole train went
bounding down the grade with increasing We
loclty, lOr Ine distance OF nearly nalI q mile,
where there was short curve in the road, at
which place the locomotive jumped the track
and exploded, making "a complete wreck OF
the entire train. One man was killed"
Stokes and Walworth are in the peni-
tentiary hospital, at Sing Sing. On his arrival
at the prism, Stokes complained of a severe
attack OF asthma. After a careful examina-
ton, by the prison physician, he was admitted
to the hospital. In order TO more fully satisfy
the officers of the prison as to the health of
Stokes, DIR. James r, Wood, of New York,
Stokes's physician, was sent to consult with
DR.. Pryne, and make a critical examination,
certifying to his sickness. Walworth has
become melancholy in the extreme since the
novelty OF prison life has passed, and he has
settled down to the monot0ny of tramping
from the meSs-roOm to the workshop, ana
from thence TO his gloomy cell He appears
TO have realized the stern reality of prison dis
cipline, but is very quiet, and submits prompt
ly 10 the rules OF the prison He never speaks
unkindly OF any one, and answers all ques-
tiOns in gentle tone of voice; but, when lett
to himself, appears overwhelmed with sOr-
row and remOTse. He has lost all his fresh
ness Of countenance, and seems 10 be break
ing down rapidly in health.
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