Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-04-09
TENNESSEE ITEMS.

Hon: James D. Porter is the Troy
StgHdpS fsvorite for governor.
Colonel Colyar's convention of John
son men viii meet in. Nashville on the
first OF May.
Hon. A. J. Rawkine,, of Huntinpdon.
has declined TO be a candidate for sena-
tOrial honors.
Hon. William A.. QuarIes, of Mont
gomery, will pro Oably represent that
county IN the General assembly next
year.
During the list few days a number of
carloads OF tie East Tennessee marble
have passed through Chattanooga on the
the way IJr Cincinnati and Chicago
The h knoxville Press and Herald states
that Efforts are being made bv the nu-
meToU.s friends of General Joseph A.
Mab' y TO induce that gentleman to be-
come candidate for State senator.n
T'FO destructive fires occurred at
She AbyvilIe Sunday morning. bv which
the residence of Mr.. H. NJ. Trollipper
W as con9Umed at half-past two O'Clock
a the morning, and at eleven o'clock
The splendid brick residence of Captain
r. G. Couch was reduced to ashes. Both
accidental.
The white citizens of Madison county
are not much in the marrying humor, as
the Jackson Herald states that not
single marrisge-license had been issued
10 white couple in that county since
The twenty-siXth Of March land only two
colored couples had been united during
the same time.
After weeks and months of horrible
suffering, Mrs. Witherspoon, the lady
so Terribly burned on the Mississippi
central railroad on the sixth of January
last, died IN Jackson on Tuesday. Both
OF her legs were burned to the bone. and
IN her lingering death she suffered be-
yond the powers Of language to describe.
Her remains were carried TO Gibson
county for burial.
On Wednesday, the twentv-fifth
uitimO, Eliza, thirteen-year-oldd daugh-
ter OF widow Majors, who resides about
Two miles and half from Oak Hill,
committed suicide by taking strychnine.
She and her brother were in the field at
work, when some misunderstanding
arose between them, whereupon she
threatened to kill herself, and immedi-
ately proceeded to the house, and taking
down a small paper Of stTychnine which
had oeen purchased for the purpose of
poisoning rats, took small dose of it,
nom the effects of which she died in
about two hours. She stated before she
died that it was not her intention to kill
herself, but she only wanted to scare her
brother.
Saturday afternoon a negro about
sixty years of sge became engaged in an
alteration with the wife of Bowen
Saunders, who lives about six miles from
Nashville, on the Murfreesboro pike.
The disturbance was caused by Hall, the
negro, having molested the children of
Mrs. Saunders, and after some words
Hall told Mrs. Saunders to shut her
mouth, adding that he intended to shoot
her husband that night. This was about
three O'Clock in the afternoon, and after
dark Mr. Saunders was fired upon by
Hall, and seriously wounde1 in the right
side, as he was at work in his stable.
Saunders Immediately ran to his house,
seized a loaded shotgun, and, returning,
met Hail and shot him dead. The cor
oner's jury returned a verdict to the
effect that Saunders killed Eall in self
defense. The former is badly wounded,
but WITH careful nursing he may recover. !