Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-27
SOUTHERN NEWS.
The SmithfieIJ, Ga, Murder-AH for
Five Dollars and Forty Cents
A Brutal Affair.
Horrible Outrage in MeyicO-Stabs Of
Year Ago End in Death-A
Heroic Old Woman.
From the Atlanta Herald

From the Atlanta Herald.l
DIED OF OLD WOUNDS.
| SOCIAL CIRCLE, August 18th, 1873
! There was a fracas here about q year ago
/ between two young men, schoolmates,
| by the names of John Ship and Roof
! Sawyer, which had a sad termination
to-day. In the difficulty just mentioned,
young Sawyer stabbed young Ship in
| the breast. He has never been able to
move out of the house. At times he has
been in cheerful spirits, but this morn
/ ing he got up, and after the wound was
| dressed, he. remarked that if he lived
until next Friday it would be just one
year since he was stabbed, but that he
would prefer to die if it was his Maker S
will that it should be that way. he did
not seem any worse off, but on the con-
trary, be seemed to be more cheerful
| than usual. In short time after max
ing this remark he fainted and they
/ hastened to him, but he died before they
could do anything for him. Sawyer
was arrested just after this occurrence,
but made his escape, and has not been
| heard OF since.
THE SMITHVILLE MURDER.
MACON, August 23.-The details of
| the murder at SmithvilIe make it the
most awful crime ever committed in
Georgia. When the train passed there
to-day six arrests had been made, but
the real murderer is still in doubt. 1t is
positively denied that Jasper LarramOre
was the murderer. The murder pro-
duced profound sensa ion in all that part
of the State. Never were more active
exertions made TO catch the culprit. Up
to ten o'clock tonight he had not been
found. The mother of deceased
has lost her mind. He was
buried yesterday afternoon. When
found, the body was cold, rigid and
stiff. 1t is supposed, therefore, that the
murder took place as early as eleven or
| twelve o'clock in the night. The
head was half severed from the body.
| The object Of the murder was nothing
in the world but robbery Of the store.
| There the murderer obtained five dol
| lars and forty cents, but failed to get
/ into the patent drawer, where larger
sum was. He was the son of blacksmith
| johnson, and not the son of the we'll
known hotel-keeper at Smithville.
From the Galveston Commercially
AN OLD HEROINE.
RICHMOND, August 25, 1S73.-I have
/ Just learned that three negroes tried TO
rob Mrs. Joe Kuykendall last night,
about four miles below this place. Mrs.
| X. is very old and feeble. | understand the
negroes went to the door and told Mrs.
| K.they were there to get the money that
was in the house; she refused to give it
up; the negroes then began to pelt the
house with bricks, etc., breaking the
windows out, and striking Mrs. K. on
the head and wounding her badly. Mrs.
X. fired a gun several times TO attract
the neighbOrs; the negroes then left
without getting the money. Mrs. x.
thinks she can identify one of the ne
groes-no arrests yet.
HORRIBLE OUTRAGE IN MEXICO.
Brownsville Ranchero, August 1871
A small party of immigrants passed
through this city few weeks since en-
route for ruxpan, Mexico. Ia the party
there were a number OF ladies and sew
eral girls thirteen or fourteen years of
age. They We're well fitted out with
good teams and wagons, and, in fact,
everything requisite for their perilous
Journey. 1t now becomes our painful
duty to publish whatappears to be a well
authenticated report that the party-were
set upon by band of outlaws, the men
murdered, the women treated in most
outrageous and cruel manner, and the
entire outfit appropriated by the viii
lains, a short distance beTcnd Vic
toria. 1t is weli-known
fact that Americans cannot
visit the land, of "God and Liberty,
with anything of value in their possess
sion, unless in force sufficient to over
awe the prOwling villains who live by
plunder. It makes the blood run cold
when we remember the atrocities which
are being committed almost daily
against Americans and others in this
land that claims to have arrived at the
acme of civilization. We shall follow
| this last devilish outrage upon Ameri-
cans in Mexico until the governor of the
State in which it was perpetrated adopts
Santa Annals principle-hang every
Tdnchero within twenty miles of the
spot where these Infamous crimes a.e
committed, unless they surrender the
criminals.