Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-10-27

OF destruction was carried on with no
slack hand, and the people will ever
bear in mind the terrible Sunday of
1873. Mr.. DePriest is well known in
this and adjoining counties, and is a
man whose statements have been sub
stantiated by prominent citizens OF
| Shannon, and we thus make known the
greatest hail storm in this decade.
STATE NEWS.
Union depot, at Chattanooga, has been
the scene from time to time of num-
Der of robberies and ''confidenceD tricks,
practiced by nice, friendly, aecommO-
dating young men upon unwary per.
sons. A day or two ago, a man by the
name of George Winstead, on his way
to his home in Ohio, was made a victim
at the instance of one Henderson, CT al.
by consummate scheme, which, for
diabolical cunning, could hardly be sur
passed. He managed without a jar
or jostle to put two circular pieces
of brass into the hands OF WinsteSd and
| to get forty dollars of legal tender in re-
rurn. 1t is a matter of pleasure, howev-
| er, to state that, by good management,
! Winstead was soon put in possession Of
his currency again, and the said Hen
derson held to answer at the bar of JUS
| tice in the sum of five thousand dollars,
after spending a night in the tenements
of evil-dOers.
The ClarksviIle Tobacco Leaf of the
| twenty-secOnd says: IA notorious
character, named John McNabb,
! Monday evening inflicted a mortal
wound upon his nephew, Ed.
| McNabb, by stabbing him in
the side with a butcher-knife. John,
we understand, was in q drunken spree,
and had raised a row with his brother,
as has been his custom to do, and when
his son interfered to save his father from
the murderous assault, John turned upon
him, plunging the knife into the boys
side, infiicting a deadly wound. Last
week he assaulted a negro and came
near killing him, and now he has muir
dered his nephew. McNabb was arrest
ed and lodged in Jail Monday morning."
The Knoxville Press and Herald of
the tWenty-secOnd instant, says: "One
of the oldest residents of lower East
Tennessee has passed away from the
scenes of life. Squire George d. Foster
the old man OF the mountain died
in Chattanooga on Sunday night last,
aged seventy-eight years. Mr.. Foster
emigrated to Chattanooga in early life
from Virginia, and for many years re-
sided on Lookout mountain. He was
member of the legislature from Hamil-
ton county for one term"
The Fayetteville Express has the fol-
lowing legal note: Circuit court meets
the first Monday in next month, and
indications point to a busy term. One
hundred and three cases stand on the
State docket, two of which are for mur-
der. The civil and equity dOekets con-
tain one hundred and twenty-nine cases,
some of which involve some nice ques-
tions of law"
The Clarksville Tobacco Leaf of the
twenty-second states that w. A Free
man, near Oakwood, under bond for his
appearance before the criminal court
last week, charged with larceny, failed
to appear. His attorney moved the re-
lease Of his bondsmen, on the ground
that the bailee was forcibly retained.
Motion was refused.
The Murfreesboro Monitor learns that
at least eighty students have left Ruther-
ford county and gone elsewhere to at
tend colleges and seminaries this fall.
These students will spend at least three
hundred dollars each in the course of
ten months, making total of twenty
four thousand dollars cash which has
left that county.
A volume of Tennyson's poems, blue
and gold binding, has been offered as a
special premium for the prettiest young
lady on the grounds, at the Strawberry
Plains fair, in East Tennessee. Also
volume of Sir Walter Scott's poems,
blue and gold, for the most graceful and
modest young lady present.
This item, commendatory of the
ladies of Lincoln county, has its origin
in the Fayetteville Express: ''They
have two great objects in view, which
are to adjust their bustles perfectly
straight in this world, and to be angels
in the next"
The Murfreesboro Monitor says: "Mrs.
Polly Webb, living several miles south
of town, has an old mare whose carniv-
erous prOpensities are wonderful. She
readily gObbles up all the chickens,
ducks, bacon, ETC., that comes within
her reach"
Captain w. P. Tolley, late editor of
the Lincoln County NetCS, was struck on
the head with an ak and very danger
ously wounded yesterday morning, near
Mulberry, by negro man with whom
he had an alteration.
The Fayetteville Observer of the
twenty-third says: "The residence of
Mr.. Burt Leatherwood, on Cold Water,
we are sorry to say, was totally des-
trOyed with all its contents, last Friday
night by accidental fire.
The real property in Rutherford eOun-
ty assessed under the present tax law,
exceeds that of last year by S95O, 1854,
and the personal property by SSOl ,O47.
There has been an increase of 19l white
and 319 black polls.
The Chattanooga Commercial thinks
it has reasons sufficient to remove all
doubt that the route for the Cincinnati
Southern road has been definitely 10
Gated; but where is not yet known.
A few days ago the Fayetteville Er-
press saw four large ax-helves, recently
made by Mr.. Samuel Jones, of
Lincoln, who has been long in the land,
and will soon have lived his tive-score
years.
Owing to the prOtracted drought this
fall, all the water-mills in Rutherford
county have suspended operation, and
farmers are frequently compelled to
send a great distance 70 get grain
ground.
Chattanooga, it seems, has appropriat-
ed one hundred dollars out Of the hospital
fund Of that city, to pay the expenses of
q delegate to the American ..health assO-
citation, which meets in New York.
The Fayetteville Express of the |
twenty-third says: "The brick work on
the new courthouse was completed last |
week. At its conclusion the bell in the
yard was sOlemnly tolled.
During the recent Methodist confer
ence, Rev. L. J. Duncan, on behalf of
the preachers Of Clarksyille district, /
presented Rev. A. Mizell a handsome |
gold-headed cane.
Somebody has been engaged in the
business of poisoning CANNES shout the |
town of Pulaski. The CEi=en observes
their woefuI antics, aRd cOmpassionates
them.
Rev. J. w. WRith, of Lincoln county,
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