Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-03-02
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Lebanon, Tennessee, has a musical
club.
Columbia, Tennessee, has organized q
teachers's Institute.
Columbia, Tennessee, expects the
temperance crusade shortly.
Dennis Smith (cOlored), of Dyer coun-
| ty, was drowned recently while floating logs.
The people of Giles county are taking
much interest in the Memphis and Knoxville
railroad.
Seventy-four full-fedged doctors were
turned loose by the Medical University at
Nashville last week.
Columbia, Tennessee, wants water
works, with a reservoir ON Mount ParDaSsus
| TO cost forty thousand dollars.
Emanuel Teller stabbed and fatally
wounded Jacob Pfefer, proprietor of a saloon
In Vicksburg, a few days ago.
Judge Norris, of Jackson, Mississippi,
| received painful fall down a hotel-stalrway
few days ago, and disabled his arm.
The Georgia legislature has repealed
all acts authorizing the granting or lOaning of
the States credit 10 railroad companies.
Rev. Father Veale, formerly a Span
ish priest, in this city, has assumed charge of
the Catholic church at Jackson, Tennessee.
The Vicksburg Times wants settle
ment of the debt due Mississippi from the
New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern
railroad.
A. w. C. Redwood and w. B. Foster,
ofNCharlotte county, Virginia, have been ar
rested for the murder OF one-armed negro
nine years ago.
The Vicksburg Times complains be-
cause the legislature is passing laws TO meet
individual wants, and regards them unprof1t-
able to taxpayers.
The Senatobis (NIiss.) Signet learns
that q child was recently born on q train OF
the MiGSiSSiDOi and IaDngSSpa railroad { hill
dren are borne on trains every day.
A call is made upon G. s. Hill, OF
Maury county, to become a candidate for
election to the senatorial seat that Will be va
cant at the expiration of Senator BroWnlow's
present term of office.
Major Cook, formerly colored bag
gage-porter on the wharfboat at Vicksburg,
shot and killed negro named Andy Morris
near that city last week. The latter had
won fifty dollars from Cook.
The Jackson (Tenn.) Dispatch seeks
to create the belief that its editor is an ex-
emplar of moral rectitude, and therefore II is,
even at this late date, speaking about the i'm
mortality of Mardi Gras. Laughable.
The Vicksburg Herald hears OF "a lit
| tie funding rascality," and says that there is
| a scheme on foot to get an act passed by the
Mississippi legislature authorizing the above
city to fund its outstanding liabilities.
Eddy Jamison, of Maury county,
| Tennessee, while attempting to rescue furni-
| ture from his fathers residence, was felled by
| the walls of the burning building, and had
| his shouIder-blade and cOllar-bone broken.
The Oxford Miss Falcon says:
when Governor Humphreys left the chair
mate was made then that the taxes of that
| year, when collected, would pay the outstand-
ing claims against the State"
The Knoxville Chronicle says that
Alice Leath who was born in 1860, in Anderson
county, and now resides within eight miles of
that cIty,was weighed ths first of this month,
and turned the scales at three hundred and
one pounds. She is certainly the largest girl
in Tennessee. East Tennessee has giants in
tellectually and physically.
Says the Knoxville Chronicle: GA
man named Bradley and his second wife, Hv-
ing four or five miles from strawberry Plains,
got into fight with each other last week,
when their respective daughters took up the
quarrel, and weapons were drawn and several
shots were fired on each side, without, how
ever, any one being injured"
Bolivar (Tenn.) Bulletin, February
9th: "We notice that a. NJ. Morrison, secreta-
ry of the Memphis and Knoxville railroad, is
notifying those stockholders who are in ar
rears that they must come forward and pay
up at once, or the company viii bring suit
The secretary states in the notification that, If
prompt action be taken in this matter by
those who have not yet met all the calls, the
road will be ready for the cars from Bolivar to
Henderson Station within the next six
months.
Richmond (Va.) Enquirer, February
Zntn. NNTOVGTnOT henp6T mas pdrQOQ6u May
Edwards, who was convicted on the twenty
eighth oil August, 1873, In the police court of
Rfchn. ond of petit larceny, and sentenced to
the city jail of Richmond for twelve months.
The pardon was granted because the facts
disclose a case of technical without actual
guilt, the prisoner having merely failed to
give Information of the misdeed of another,
In which she had no participation. Pardon
recommended by the police justice who tried
this case, and others"
Lynchburg (Vs.) Republican, Febru-
airy 25th About eight O'Clock, on last
the anniversary of the birthday of General
Washington, that venerable patriarch, Mr..
residence near Barterbrook, after having
lived to the remarkable age of one hundred
years and twenty-five days. He was born in
lancaster on the thirty-first day of January,
IVA, whence he removed to this State soon
after he was married. His wife came on
horseback, whilst he walked, carrying his
trusty rifle"
Bolivar fTenn.) Bulletin, February
9th: married on the seventeenth of ,Februa-
ry, 1874, Willie Fort, of Hardeman county,
Tennessee, TO Mrs. Elizabeth w. Lybrook, of
Gravelly Springs, Lauderdale county, Ala
bama. Forty years ago, on the same home-
stead, in ColberVs reserve, Mr.. Fort was first
married. The former Mrs. Fort having died
some time since, Mr.. Fort returns now to the
place of his early love, and to the same altar
where he took his first marriage vows, and
yet astalwart old gentleman, and moves aUout
with all the spring of boy"
Nashville Tenn. Union and Anlericon,
February 9th; "Collector John K. Miller, of
the first district, reports TO supervisor Cobb
the following seizures, February 10th: In
Granger county, Of White Il Dyer, one copper
still, worm and cap, fourteen tubs, five hum
dred gallons of beer and sixty gallons of sing
lngs; ffom William Atchley, OF SEWER
county, twenty-seveE tubs, twenty-seven hum
dred gallons OF beer and mash from Brown &
Storer, same county, worms and caps, thirty
five tubs, thirty-fiYe hundred gallons OF beer
and mash, and eighteen gallons of corn whis-
r1fgff -fsa grlfL
James Carter, John Moore and Wilson & Pate
were destroyed by Collector Miller, who, how
ever, furnished no particulars in making his
report.
Atlanta (Ga.) Herald, February 9th:
pThe Charleston NeI0S and Courier records the
death, Tuesday last, of the venerable and dis
ungulshed Rev. DIR. John Bachman, in the
eighty-hfth year Of his age. DR.. Bachman
was native of New York, but settled in
Charleston In 1915, taking charge Of the Ger
man Lutheran congregation of that city. He
was distinguished alike for his ability as
theologian and preacher, and his attachments
in natural science, TO which he was much de-
voted, number of works on various branches
having appeared from his pen. He was the
Alexander Won humboldt, and of our own
illustrious Audubon" +.
Says the Richmond THhig: ssThe trial
of McCarty for the killing of Mordecai in q
duel, fought near this city few months ago,
developed the curious fact that no ofense had
been committed against the anti-dueling stat
ute OF Virginia. The statute against dueling
denounces as murder the killing in q duel
fought without the State by any resident OF
Virginia upon previous agreement made
within the same; but Is entirely silent as TO
any sucn killing within the limits OF the
commonwealth, and thus leaves the same as
an offenSe at common law. That Is 10 say. II
the duel between these gentlemen had been
fought outside OF Virginia, then the statute OF
Virginia says the Killing of either party
would be murder, but makes no provision for
| the killing If done within the State.