Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-06-06
Bigh-Handed Movements OF Deputy
United States Marshal Richards
His Efforts for Row
Fruitless.
Attempt to Intimidate Woman BraVely
Defended-The Circuit Judge
and Attorney Properly
COmplimented.


ment in this respect is true. His deputy
was in the Office, and made the delivery
of books, papers, ETC., to Driver. Mr.
Best came up to this town on Sunday
and among his first acts after reaching
here was to indite the following
RESIGNATION
to Governor Baxter, delivering it TO Mr.
Driver, the present incumbent, to for
ward:
/ OsCEoLA, ARK, June ., 1873.
To his Excellency, Elisha Baxter, Governor Of
the state Of Arkansas:
For reasons satisfactory to myself, and
believed to be for the best interests of all
parties concerned, allow me to tender to
| your excelleney my resignation of my
commission of the Office of sheriff of the
county of Mississippi, and State of Ar
kansas, which was issued me by your
predecessor, Hon. o. A. Hadley, COVER
nor, etc., and pray your excellency to
accept my said resignation. / am, sir,
! your Obedient servant. H. F. BEST.
WHAT POTENT REASONS
" satisfactory to himself, and believed to
! be for the best interests of all the parties
concerned" " can have induced Best to
have taken this step, / leave to wiser
heads than mine, and to those more
skilled in "ways that are dark and
tricks that are vain " to discover. l am
certain, however, that l speak the sem
timents of every good and true man in
| Mississippi county when / say that,
whether they were " satisfactory to
Best or not, they are eminently so to
a" rs, the people," and as one of the
/" parties concerned f" we are also certain
that the resignation is to the very best
interests OF the citizens and taxpayers
of Mississippi county. Saying this, we
wave Mr.. Best
FOND ADIEU,
hoping soon to do the same for Mr..
Harden, the contestant for the office OF
clerk, against James B. Best, the duly
elected clerk, an old citizen and guam
dam newspaper man. With the resig-
nation of this individual (Harden),
which understand from the very best
authority is also prepared and ready to
be forwarded to the governor, MiSsis-
| sippi county will be once more free from
the yoke of the carpetbagger and scala
wag, and the reign of radical and negro
terrorism, inaugurated anew in 1872, by
| Fitzpatrick, under orders from Hadley,
Mcclure & Co., Of Little Rock, comes to
an end, We hope forever. That their
blood has not "Washed out their foul
footsteps pollution" is matter of won
der to all who have seen with how high
hand they have lorded it over US, and
is strong proof Of the long-suffering
and law-abiding qualities of our people.
THE LATEST ATTEMPT
at those high old Radical tactics of
might versus right, was tried in this viii
lage on last Sunday evening, and
alike the diving dolphin's tinted throes,
The hues that tinge the falling rose,
And a the colOrs Eve beslows,"
the effort was the most brilliant-faiIure
yet made; but for sublime impudence
equals any of its predecessors. The
hero of the fdor pas was
ONE JOE RICHARDS,
an ex-deputy United States marshal,
who came up here after the ''raid" last
fall to make arrests, and who, with his
hackers, tran" the election here in No
vember. This Richards, on arriving in
town on Sunday, went over to the
boarding-house of Mrs. Fletcher, where
Hon. J. w. Fox, the newly-appointed
judge of this circuit (who was to hold
court here on the next day, was stop
ping, and in an interview with the
Judge, showed so much insolence and
intolerance that the latter informed him
that he, Judge Fox, proposed to hold
this term of the circuit court, and to
manage things to suit-nOt Mr.. Rich
ards, but himself; and furthermore, that
be intended to recognize as
sheriff the man whom he
found in the Office de fGctO, as such,
provided he bore the commission of the
governor of the State. This plain de-
termination on the part Of the judge TO
do what he conceived right, irrespective
OF partisan views, or the plans laid down
for him, so enraged Richards that he
actually had the audscity to
THREATEN THE JUDGE,
asserting that if Driver, or any other
than Best were recognized, or, in fact,
If Fox did not conform 10 his views and
suffer him to run the court, he would
bring down on OsceOla force of militia
sufficient to make him to do so. This
threat was met with the scOrn and con-
tempt that it deserved by Judge Fox,
and Richards, finding himself foiled in
his attempts to bluff, retired in good or
der to organize what proved to be still
more ignominious failure and dinglorious
defeat.
AN ATTACK ON A LONE WOMAN.
Drumming up a few of his negro asso-
ciates, he made his way to the Ross
house, where Mrs. J. B. Hart 1.-THE wife
Of Captain Hart, formerly United States
revenue officer here) resided, and de-
manded from her a case of arms belong
ing to the State, and left in Captain
oh lo-t 20 Il h.
Mrs. Hart, who has indeed big heart
of her own, refused point blank to de-
liver up the muskets, some twenty
three in number, and Richards fell back
on his threatening tactics again. The
lady, however, was firm, and assured
him that if he attempted to take the
muskets from her by force she would
call on the men of Osceola to protect
her and them. Sheriff Dixon mean
while was.notiifeSo this
FLANK MOVEMENT,
and came up in Richards rear in such
"form and forcen that that hero imme-
diately wilted and iDeontinently va
mOOsed. Later in the evening, learning
that if he remained in town until the
next morning he was likely 70 see the
inside OF Osceola jail, when the Belle
Memphis came along the valiant youth
took passage on her for more congenial
atmosphere. And this ended the last
attempt on the liberties of our people. \
Let US hope it will never be repeated.
CIRCUIT COURT.
By an act of the last legislature, the
counties of st. Francis, Poinsett, Cross,
Crittenden and Mississippi, were erected
into a circuit, and Hon. John w.
Fox was appointed judge of the same by
Governor Baxter, Captain II. M. Nc.
Weigh receiving his appointment as dis
trict attorney at the same time. These
appointments, as you are well aware,
have met with the warmest support and
Endorsement by the people OF the whole
circuit, especially in those parts thereof
where court has been held, Viz, Poin-
sett, Cross and st. Francis, and thus far
in Mississippi, and we may add that the
judge and attorney need only make
their appearance in the other parts of
the circuit to insure the same encomia.
IN ST. FRANCIS COUNTY,
for the hrst time in many years, there
has been a general shaking-up Of evil
dOers. Three convictions were secured,
after infinite trouble, by the district=at-
toTney, and the parties were promptly
sentenced TO the penitentiary by the
presiding judge, much to the surprise
and CONSERVATION OF. the laW-breakipg
portion of the community / have
stretched my letter much beyond INV
original intsntians, and as the email
waits" / close abruptly, deferring further
information until another day.
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