Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-02-05
TENNESSEE.
The Bell County Project Again-Meet-
Jug OF Citizens at Grand Junction.
Fearful HOmieide-Hutilated and Killed
An Important Decision.


EDITORS APPEAL-At a called meet
ing Of the citizens of Grand Junction,
held at the Stonewall House, on the first
instant, DR.. r. w. Pegram was called
TO the chair, and Mr.. Mcmahon request
ed to act as Secretary. The object of the
meeting was then explained TO be the
resuscitation of the Bell county project.
DIR. Prewitt, Rev. D. G.. Wells and
George A. Woodson, Esquire, were each
called on, and each spoke with entire
confidence of the ultimate success Of the
enterprise. The county had been fully
and fairly established, after one of the
fairest elections ever held in the State
Of Tennessee. Subsequently a county
site had also been selected by a vote of
the people; and one Of the most shame
f1I 0utrages had been inflicted upon the
rights of the Ieople of Bell county
known in the annals of wrong.
Redress must come sooner or later.
On motion DR.. Prewitt was requested
TO report our full determination to fight
again the battle of oppression and
wrong, and to appeal to every friend of
the county, as originally established, to
20 to work, and work earnestly, for
redress Of our wrongs. Right and JUS
sense Of our Lawmakers must be APP
pealed 70, and not in vain. We spent
several hundred dollars in having the
county surveyed and mapped of-none
Of this expense n0w. The same lines,
with a few slight corrections, embody
more than the constitutional amount OF
territory. Fellow-citizens of Bell coun-
ty, we hear from the.east and the west
that you are, and have been, expecting
Us TO move in this matter. Ourfriends at
PocahOntas are moving in good earnest,
and intend to hayea new county wheth-
er We re-establish Bell county OF not.
We say, let US have Bell again; no more
convenient county can be established
in the State. She viii be the pride and
boast Of her people, and her people will
not be eclipsed IN intelligence and worth
by any in the State. NH P.
FEARFUL HOMICIDE.
From the Nashville Union and Americana
Last Monday, at a distillery eight
miles from Lynehburg, Moore county,
Wiley Speck, who is said to have been
a desperate character, engaged in q dis
pute with a number Of persons and
threatened to shoot. John Jean threw
open his vest and b2ntered Speck to try
his weapon on his breast. Hardly had
he uttered the words when Speck fired
lis revolver, the bullet piercing the
heart Of Jean, who bounded forward and
reeling fell to the ground, where he died
in a few minutes. Speck now COM
meneed a careless Gre upon the crowd,
several Of whom were touched in the
clothing by the bullets. After emptyine
all Of his loads Speck fled, but was
caught by the enraged crowd and taken
for trial before magistrate.
NIANGLED AND KILLED.
From the Nashville Banner.i
August Sudekum, foreman Of the car.
peDter shops at the Decatur depot, was
run over and almost instantly killed
near the Decatur switch, just after five
O'Clock Yesterday afternoon, while pro
ceeding homeward from his days labor
At the time OF the accident he wa!
standing on the curve on the Nashville
and Decatur road, watching a mai
train, going southwark on the Nashville
and Chattanooga road, The switch en-
gine, with three cars on the Nashvill'
and Decatur road, was, in the mean
time, backing slowly up toward th'
switch and making very little noise
Before SudekUm WIS aware of il, he wa
knocked down by the foremost Of th'
three cars and run over, having his leg
cut of, oDe near the knee and the 9th
or near the thigh, and instantly killed
He was about fifty years Of age, and ha'
been in the employment Of the Nashville
aud Decatur road for twenty years. HI
was a worthy, industrious citizen, anC
well esteemed by all who knew him
He leaves a family.
Az IMPORTANT DECISION.
From the Nashville BannerJ
The many friends Of cur esteemed fel
low-citizen, jesse Thomas, will lear
with pleasure that the Supreme Court o
the United States, affirming the judg
ment Of the Circuit Court of the UniteI
States for the Middle District of Tennes
see, have Just held that he was not liza
ble. as Surveyor of Customs for the por
Of Nashyille aud depository Of publil
moneys, for such moneys seized, Will
in his hands, by the Confederate author
tiles. 1t was well known in this com
muhity that Mr.. Thomas had done al
in his power TO faithfully perform
his trust, and all viii agree tina
the judgment of the Suprem
Court, whatever may be its accurac,
in point of tGW, has certainly me
The equity Of the case. The opinion o
the court was delivered by Mr.. Justic
Bradley, and, as our legal friends tell us
is very learned and conclusive. The de
cisiOn viii be of general interest TO tn
legal fraternity, because it wholly over
turns the positive dictd of Judges in tn
various cases from the United States Us
Prescott, Howard, 57s to the late case
reported in IL Wall, 10 the effect tina
nothing could excuse an cffice
for a failure to comply with th
condition OF his official bond. il