Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-09-13
SOUTHERN NEWS.
The Pulaski Train Wrecked - Why
Judge Heers's Assassin has not
been Arrested.
Snakes and Whisky Baxter and the
NegrO-A Boy Killed Assassination
Of DIR. Dlniel-Mysie-
riOus Murder.

| A BOY KILLED AND GIRL INJUREr.
About five O'Clock yesterday afternoon,
as little boy named Charley Williams,
/ aged nine years, and theson Of Mr.. VIII
| liam W. Williams, was playing upon j
/ pile of lumber on Sixth street, near the
/ canal, some Of the timber, becoming de-
/ tached from the pile, fell upon him,
| crushing his skull and instantly killing
| him. Assistant-C COrOner McPhail viewed
/ the body, but thought no inquest neces-
sary. A small negro girl who was
present was slightly injured by the fall
ing timber.-RicABlond Va EUenihg
I AelUs.
ASSASSINATION OF DR.. DANIEL IN
TEXAS.
FARMvILLE, Va, September 4.-Let-
! ters have been received from Paris,
Texas, giving an account of the assas-
/ sination of DR.. John S. Daniel, former
| ly of Farmville, Virginia. He was the
| son of George w. Daniel, and the near
relative of the late Judge William
/ Daniel, of LynchbuTg. il appears that
/ two men came to DR. Daniels residence,
/ in Texas, and one of them, who pre-
4 tended to have 20 grievanceag against Mr..
| Daniel, told him they had come to set
/ tie a matter of complaint made against
/ the other man. DR.. Daniel, being
| wholly unarmed and unsuspecting, see
/ ing the man raise his gun. asked for an
/ opportunity to prepare to defend him
/ self or to give satisfaction, if demanded,
on equal terms. This was refused, and
| DIR. Daniel was shot down, expiring i'm
/ mediately. The murder was commit
/ ted in the presence Of others. The COM
/ muDity is represented to be in great ex-
/ citement, though the murderer has not
| yet been arrested, and, it Is feared, has
| escaped. The deceased was a skillful
/ physician, in good practice. His
| brother, Mr.. William Daniel, is the only
surviving member Of the family, and
resides near Farmville.
SNAKE AND WHISKY.
Mr.. Saline, living a few miles above
here, was badly bitten by a huge rattle
| snake one day last week. Being at
work upon a stick Of timber, Mr. Same
reached down to turn it over, when the
snake, stretched near by, struck him on
the hand. So severe was the blow that
| the snake was raised Off the ground with
its fangs buried in the hand. The usual
remedy-whisky- soon brought
into requisitiOn. but It took q gallon and
a half to have the desired effect on the
patient. The snake had thirteen rat
tles.-Chicrt (Ark.) Times
NO SHOW FOR BAXrER-REPUBLICA
Hon. J. T. White, colored member of
the late State senate from the Helena
district, has aspirations for congressional
hOnoTs. White writes to Mr.. Monroe,
of JaeksonpOrt, telling him that he had
yielded to the entreaties of his friends
and intends making the race for con-
gress in 1874, and that he is a supporter
of Governor Baxter. The Statesman
a Republican paper, tells Mr.. White,
that all Of his kind can take back seat,
and adds: Mr.. White might lust as
well know now, as learn it a year hence,
that no Republican who supports the
executive can receive the Endorsement Of
the Republicans of this district. They
are true, aud hate perfidy, and would as
soon support one of the DEVILS archan-
gels as a man whose conscience would
allow him to acknowledge that the
course pursued by the present executive
was right and merited support. If Mr..
White desires to be in sympathy with
the Republican party, he must cut loose
from the man whose every act has tend
ed to its betrayal, else he cannot expect,
nor will he get, the support of the Re
publicans of the district" The Gazette
says that White, though a colored man,
can control ten Republican votes in that
district to the StdteSHldll's one Van
BureH (Ark.) Press.
ANOTHER MYSTERIOUS MURDER.
A man by the name Of Strickland,
who kept a woodward on the river,
above Clarendon, was most brutally
murdered last week by unknown par
ties. When the body was found the
head was nearly severed from it and the
bowels split open. 1t is not known how
long Strickland had been dead, but it is
supposed to have been several days
Passengers ON the Augusta last trip saw
a dead body in the uver, below the
woodward, where the buzzards were
eating Of it, which was supposed to be
that of Strickland. There have been
several Of these mysterious murders in
that section in the last year or so, and
we think the authorities of Monroe
county should ferret out the murderers
and hrinu than fn fugtFoa nr,.~,7ys