Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-03-04

swept away. We understand that the
bridges on the levee have been washed
off by the food"
The Lynchburg Ne1OS, speaking of
the i" immigration bill" refers to the
fact that, most of the men who have
left Virginia, are undoubtedly men in
the flower and glory of early manhood,
and remarks that Virginia might say
with truth, of them, "these are my
Jewels" and yet, of these she has been
despoiled, leaving her poor indeed.
The Western Independent, of Fort
Smith, Arkansas, says: "Mr. Henry
Reutzel, of this place, returned on We'd
nesday last from a trip to WaldrOn,
Scott county. He informs us that there
is great excitement there in regard to
the discovery of lead and silver ore in
that county. The lead is said to be very
rich, and the silver ore also. These re-
ports say it is abundant"
J. +. Ofult, of Cane Creek, Tennes-
see, says the Knoxville Press and Her.
aid of the twenty-eightiI, who has the
contract for building the five miles of the
Cincinnati Southern railroad, immedi-
ately above ChitwOod's, has commenced
the erection of his camp, and will i'm
mediately enter upon the wOlk. He
expects to employ about one hundred
and fifty hands, and will obtain most of
his needed supplies from that city.
The Fort Smith Independent speaks
as follows of Colonel Wyatt G. Thomas,
a native Virginian, who resided many
years in Arkansas, and was to the time
of his death editor of the Pine Bluff
Press: 'fDuring the war he distinguished
himself in many battles. He was high
ly esteemed by all who knew him-a
man of talents as lawyer, and an edi-
tor. His death at this time will be Sc
riously felt by the good people of the
State"
Under the head of "An Old Friend"
is the following article in the Fort
Smith Western Independent: 1--WE are
pleased to receive the Memphis APPEAL,
and again to place it on our exchange
list. 1t is valuable paper, ably edited,
and always pursues the same old beaten
track. We have known it ever since
the days of Van Pelt, the once able
Democratic editor, who long since has
gone home-so has McClanahan, Dill
and Mcmahon.
The Brownsville (Tenn.) States,
whose editor never Jokes, concludes
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is evidently in the dark about the Bart
lett convention; that the Chattanooga
Times may well have its doubts about
The affair, and that old political roosters
like Etheridge, Topp and Kellar are
never going to roost quietly on the DEM
Ocratic pole. No matter how much
they may consent to scratch together for
the Shelby county worm.
From the Fort Smith Independent we
learn that on Thursday evening of the
fifteenth four men rode up to the house
of John Glass Tsu-wah-ah-nos-kee, who
lives about nine miles from there, and
called to him, and as he stepped out of
the door, shot him down, and struck
him over the head with the butts of
their guns until dead, and then rode off
About year ago Glass killed another
Cherokee by the name of Silk. 1t is
supposed it was the relatives of Silk who
killed Glass.
A serious shooting affray occurred at
s. house of ill-fame in Pamela, one mile
west of Batesville, Mississippi, about
one O'Clock Sunday morning, in which
Jake Carter, formerly of Lebanon, Ten
nessee, but recently resident of Bates
vile, was shot and fatally wounded.
Officers Maxwell and Simpson at
tempted to arrest Carter and his brother
Saturday evening, but were persuaded
to desist, and compelled to beat hasty
retreat, urged on by couple of threaten
ing reyolvers in the hands of the infu-
rated brothers. Returning to Bates
vile, they summoned posse, when
they msde the second attempt, and sue
(eeded in arresting the elder brother, but
Of ;e.fa l,o
younger, who, while attempting to
shoot one of the posse, was fired upon
by one NJ. b. D. Briggs, the shot taking
effect in the back of the Uranium. He
was brought to the Fletcher house, in
this place, where he lay in an uncon-
scious state, Notwithstanding he received
every attention and the services of a
most skillful physician, DR.. s. P. Les
ter, and expired at five o'clock Sunday
morning. Carter was young man of,
perhaps, eighteen years of age.
A Nashville exchange has the follow
ing in regard to lawsuit pending in
the circuit court there: at appears that
Mr.. J. w. Manner is the owner Of a
house and lot in the city, which he
rented out for the year 1852, and that
about the fall of 1861, or first of the year
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factory at Sparta, and removed there
with his family, and continued to carry
on business there till July, 1868, when
he removed his machinery, ETC., to
Georgia, and established a factory there,
and continued to carry on business there
till the latter part of the year 1865, when
ne returned to Nashville with his
family. 1t appeared further that the
house and lot in question were seized,
or claimed to have been seized, by Mr..
Davis, acting under the authority of
Governor Johnson, then military gov
tarnor of Tennessee, SIS abandoned"
property, and that he rented the
house to Funston & Sayers, who claim
10 have paid him the rents for 1868 and
1864, and after that time they claim to
have paid the rents to an agent of the
areedmen's bureau. The plaintiff, Ma
nier, sued Funston & Sayers to recover
for the rents of the house for the years
1S6S-4-5, and they plead payment to
these authorities, and the main question
in the case was, were the payments good
and valid, and such as would be good
defense against suit of the owner Of the
property for the collection of the rents
covering the same period.