The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-04-08
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The steamer Lizzie Lea struck a snag
near Butler Landing on the 9th, and sunk.
She is a total loss. The second engineer was
drowned. No other lives lost.
Robert McKenna, of Memphis, has
been sentenced to tho penitentiary for five
years for marrying his foImer wife's grand
daughter, in violation of tho state law
Col. ID. A. Butterfeld, in a personal
difficulty with one OF his employees was struck
on the head with a stick and killed at Hot
Springs Ark, Saturday night.
A Jury, the majority of which were
colored, have given verdict of 5000 against
New Orleans confectioner who refused to
serve a colored woman with cakes and soda
water.
In q quarrel between two men in Ma
con county, Kentucky, n fow days since, Sam
Hahn cut Merritt Lepier with knife, and
Lepier took mp spade and split IIahn's head
open, killing him instantly.
At New Orleans, in the civil rights
case against Robbins clerk Of the steamboat
Seminole, for refusing cabin passage to Louis
Cheralier and wife, the United States COM
missioner sent Robbins before the circuit
court, under one hundred dollar bond.
Judge Waite, of the ninth judicial
circuit Of West Virginia, has granted an in
junction staying the removal Of the capital to
Wheeling. Thecapital will remain at Charles
ton until the courts have an opportunity to
pass upon tho validity of the act OF removal
II. II. Tuckins, postmaster at Mason's
Depot, on tho Memphis and Louisville rail-
road, has been sentenced to one years i'm
prsonment in the penitentiary for ombezzle-
ment. NJ. II. Koch, letter carrier, of Memphis,
has been found guilty Of embezzling money
from letters, and judgment suspended.
On Thursday night Louis A. Middle
ton, editor of tho West Point, Miss. Times was
shot and killed by D, i. Love, editor of the
West Point Citizen, for an offensive article
published by Middleton. Love demanded a re-
traction, which being refused, drew pistol
and shot Middleton four times, and then made
his escape.
If sold all in lump, the stock of
cotton now held in this city would bring So
100000. The cotton already sold here since
tho season opened has brought an aggregate
of 523, ,000, 900, nearly all Of which has long
ago been "sorter loose" among our rural
ghbors.-Nemphis AUdlaHc'e
A dispatch from Richmond, Va, says
officers of the United States secret service
made raid into tho counties OF Scott, Wise,
Russell, Buchanan, Smythe, and Montgomery,
and arrested nine manufacturers of counter
felt money. A large amount Of counterfeit
coin, bills, dies, plates, ETC., was captured,
The leader of the gang, Joe Mullins, made a
desperate resistance, attempting to shoot his
captors. The prisoners were brought to Abb
ingdon, and committed to Jail.
A telegram from Key West announces
that the yellow fever had greatly increased
within a few days that all naval vessels were
quarantined, and that soldiers garrisoning the
forts would leave Immediately for colder quar-
ters; that the epidemic was spreading, and
that deaths were occurring in Key West. In
Pensacola, Mobile, New Orleans and Galveston
to be on the lookout for yellow jack, and
promptly to report its appearance.
Matt Morris, alias Pittsburg Matt,
the last OF the quartette engaged in the ex-
press robbery the frat OF February, have ar
rived at Memphis and are now in Jail. As the
four men have already been indicted, they
will have speedy trial, and it is generally
believed that Morris and Johnson will pay the
penalty OF their crime upon the scaffold.
Johnson, who was at first bold and defiant,
has completely broken down since learning
that his ofTense is punishable with death, and
shrieks and yells like mailman.
Gen. Augur's attention having been
attracted to the associated press kilograms,
giving reports Of Mexican raids into Texas,
and being still in command Of that territory,
telegraphed the commandant at Fort Brun,
Brownsville, as to the truth of tho reports,
and received the following reply: There are
many reports of raids on the ranches in the
vicinity of Corpus Christi and threatened
attack upon that place. Some ranches doubt
less have been robbed and burned, aud some
| people have been killed and some taken pris-
oners The prisoners are reported to have
escaped. These marauders have been driven
from the vicinity OF Corpus Christi by the
citizens in pursuit have cent all my mounted
force to intercept the robbers, and Gen. Hatch
has sent troops for the same purpose. Many
depredstions have been committed along the
river above this point OF late, and several
persons have been killed. l believe these
robbers arc Moxicans, and that most OF them
are from the other side Of the river There
are probably several parties out for stealing
cattle and robbing ranches. No reliable in
formation as to numbers. IL. POTTER,
Col. oath Infantry, Commanding.