Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-06-28
CORINTH.
A smash-uP AmOBg the EthiOpiaus-
The Southern Express Company
After the Thieves.
A Railroad ImbrOEIiO-A New Scheme
How the Kace is Changed and the
People fn their Habits.


/ From a Special Correspondent
CoRINTH, Miss, June 26.-Captai
Tom Young, who figures largely an
reverently in that unique volume emit
/ tied the " Old Folks Of Memphis" b
our antique friend, James ID. Davis,
now "mine host of the Scruggs hOus
at Corinth. Captain Toms beard
very long, and OF luxuriant growth, an
white as that of Moses in Child's bool
pictures. He went to Memphis abou
| fifty years ago, and used to shoot SOUR
rels in lofty oaks that grew upon the sit
of the Peabody. He proposes to max
an arrangement, if possible, with Msjo
Ross, and have the Old Folks associa
ton OF Memphis, with their wives an,
children and grand children, spend
day with him, and here celebrate tn
annual reunion of the patriarchs o
Memphis. Ask Colonel. Mclean, X. ]
B. L. Winn, w. r. Waldran, and the
like, what they think about it, TIL,
first dance of this next cOnvocs tiOn 0
the patreS e0RscTipti should be begun by
Colonel Mclean and Mrs. Tom Young
A LIVELY PLACE.
They are about to send to the peni
tentiary a well-known negro, long en-
ployed by the Adams express company
at this place. He began TO pilfer pack.
ages not long ago; of course, was caught
and, having robbed the express com.
pany, has committed an objectionable
crime. Another negro received the
stolen goods, and be, too, may be found
guilty as an accessory, after the fact
Corinth was much excited over the pre-
liminary trial Of these eolored patriots
this morning.
A RAILROAD BURSTED.
For some years plan has been con-
sidered by Memphis people owning prop
erty in this vicinity, by which narrow
gauge road may be built from Corinth,
twenty miles, to the Tennessee river.
1t seems that the scheme has been aban-
doned and it is now proposed to build a
narrow-gauge road from COrinth to Sa-
vannsh, and then cross the Tennessee
on the bridge to be built by Neely's and
Sykes's Memphis, Bolivar and Knox
vile road. The Mobile and Ohio road
will furnish the light narow-gauge
iron if the people will grade
and crOsstie the line. Organizations
to accomplish this result arc already
made, but since they may encounter OPP
position from the Memphis "ring,"
which would build the shortest possible
line to the Tennessee. nothing has been
publicly said about the matter. Tnis
plan of the Corinthians obviates the ne
cessity of bridging the Tennessee, saves
vast deal of money, adds nothing TO
the cost of getting 10 st. Louis, and
gives perfect access TO Nashville and
Knoxville over Neely and Sykes's road.
The legislatures of Tennessee and Mis-
sissippi will gladly make all need
ful concessions. If this road
be built at once, and the
two cotton-mills go into operation,
Corinth will boast of twenty thousand
people in five years. Cotton enough to
make eight thousand bales will be taken
directly from the fields and converted,
unpaeked and unginned. into cloth and
yarns, at this place. Such, at least, are
the ends contemplated by the two cot
tOn-mill companies now organized here.
PROGRESS.
1t Is proper to say that q German
gentleman of Corinth Is erecting a block
OF buildings very near the railroad sta
ton and Young's hotel, as costly as the
Clay building on Main street in Mem
phis. They've quit marbles, and push
pin, and knucks, and lOafing about the
railroad station, and Corinth grows
apace. X.Y.z.