Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-07-13
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

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The city council holds its regular
weekly meeting tomorrow afternoon.
There was q refreshing rain yester.
day afternoon, accomp 2nied with wind
and terrific lightning.
Peter Trscy's second and final
Monmouth Cave excursion party will
leave here next Tuesday.
Justice Caldwell, of Bartlett, yester-
day exhibited at the cotton exchange q
limb bearing tifty-seven apples.
We acknowledge an invitation to
an inaugural ball at GraysOn Springs,
Kentucky, the evening of the sixteenth
! instant.
-Mansford, at the corner Of Second
and Monroe streets, has received and
offers for sale SheTmdn'S Memoirs. Now
Is the time to purchase.
Sunday night Mrs. Pete Mentges
fell from the secoDd-stoTy window of her
residence on Poplar street, near the mar
kethouse, iracturing her skull quite
badly.
John s. Toof, secretary of the cotton
exchange, yesterday received from @.
| w. Persons agent at Forrest City, Ar
| kansas, one stalk bearing in q cluster
eight large tomatoes.
Tennessee Grove No. /, U. A. D.,
elected last night the following officers
! for the ensuing six months: J. Beehler,
! n. A. 4; II. Caro-, V. A J. w. Buttiug-
hRus, secretary; H. Blumenthal, treas
urer; T. Holz, 1. G.
Yesterday afternoon the body of an
| unknown white man was found in the
| river at the island above the city. An
/ inquest was held on the body by JUS
tice Of the peace, but it was not identi-
fed. The drowned person was evident
ly about twenty years Of age.
The little fOur-year-old child of
! Charles Kunboltz, who filed a petition
in the second claDcery court for divorce
from his wife, Sabina Kunholtz. was
yesterday placed in the hands of Jailer
Jackson for sate-keepIng, until the court
decides which Of the parents shall have
its future care.
-Deputy-CoroneT Spelman yesterday
morning held an inquest on the body of
Celia Freeman, alias Annie Mason, col
ored, who resided near the corner of
DeSOtO and GayOsO streets. The YER
dict was that death resulted from NOR
phine, administered by her own hand.
She suicided because Of disappointment
In love.
"A couple Of well known coIored
hackmen expect to have a priZe-ripg
fight at the Fair grounds to. morIoW, and
in anticipation Of the great interest al
ready aroused among their colOred
friends, are anxious to charter train to
convey the visitors to and from the scene
of combat. One Of the aggrieved parties
has been using buZzsrd oil for a week,
and expects to gather big crop Of wool.
On Sunday William Mitchell, col
ored, shot and killed q negro named
Burnside, on the Randolph road, five
miles from this city. Monday, July 5th,
the two negroes had difficulty, and
Burnside threatened to kill Mitchell.
They met Sunday last, when Mitchell
drew pistol with which he shot Burn
side dead. He then came to this city
and delivered himself into the hands OF
the police.
james Peck, negro who last April
was convicted Of larceny and sentenced
to ten years imprisonment by the GRIM
inal court OF this city, was arrested yes
terdsy by the police and will be sent to
Nashville. He says that he escaped and
reached this city day before the return
Of the sheriff, who was probably detained
by the comptroller ON other official
business, and he had no desire nor time
to wait for his company.
The next session of Stewards col
legiate institute, No. ITO Alabama street,
which has been in successful operation |
since the autumn of 1859, commences
September /, 1875, and terminates June |
80, 1876. This institution stands deserv- |
eddy nigh, and as it offers such excellent |
educational advantages TO young men,
especially those who wish to prepare for |
college, il is destined to enjoy still greater |
prosperity and patronage.
The new building for the cotton ex- |
change and chamber of commerce is ap- |
preaching completion. An offer has |
been made the Western Union teIe- |
graph company to occupy the rear part |
Of the ground floor as business office, |
and the upper rooms for general pur-
poses. Superintendent Baker has te!e.
graphed to the executive officer of the
company, and definite answer will
soon be made to the cotton exchange
and chamber Of commerce.
Recorder Winters yesterday dis
posed Of the following cases: John
Geig, misdeInesnOr, fine S.; Mollie
Berry, misdemeanor, SO; F. Boollen,
drunk, S.; E. l.. Patton, drunk, SIS; w.
J. DriscOll, gaming, s.; E. r. Weber,
drunk, So; w. II. Erwin, assault, $40;
James Pick, escaped convict, turned
over to sheriff; Perry Marsh, carrying
deadly weapons, fine $50 and bail $4,000;
Mat Outlaw, drunk and disorderly, $40;
John Dunn, vagrancy, bail $500.
Governor Porter, who is said to be
in Paris, where he will remain until to-
morrow, will not, doubtless, fill the va
cancy occasioned by the resignation OF
Judge Walker, of the second cbancery
court, before returning to Nashville. II.
Clay King and F. d. Stockton, ESQ,
aspire to the appointment. A petition,
asking the appointment of Colonel
M Kissick, was forwarded to Nashville,
but we understand the memorial was
made without the consent of this gentle
man, who does not seek the Office.
Several days sgo the APPEAL pub
lished the fact that 8 woman named
Mrs. Morgan, Of DeSOto county, Missis-
sippi, cut the throat of the man John
Bellamy) in whose house she was liv-
ing as cook. After drawing the razor
across Bellamy's throat, she seized her
half naked child and fled into the
woods. Last Friday Mrs.
Morgan was arrested and arraigned be-
fore Justice Farmer on the charge CT at
tempting to Kill the said Morgan, who
is well known blacksmith. Accord
ing to the story, as related by Bellamy
and published in the APPEAL, the wO-
man assaulted him while he was asleep,
the pain caused by the keen blade
him. Upon the trial Bethany,
we hear, stated that Mrs. Morgan had
not only attempted to sssassinste him
in the manner above related, but upon
two different occasions had given him
poison. He could assign no reason for
this, as he had never qusrreled with her.
Mrs. Morgan being allowed to testify,
stated thst she had not attempted to |
poison Bellamy, but the night in ques-
ton he csme into her room ard tried 10 |
outrage her. She made a determined |
and selling hold of a razor,
turned upon her assailant and cut him
across the throat and also in the hand.
Being alarmed by the unexpected event,
and q stranger in the country, her first
mpElse was to seize her little child and |
cave the country Immediately. With
Ter haIf.clsd child she fled into the
woods, but being lost she was arrested
Iext day. Thus she tells her story,
which the magistrate, it seems, accred-
ted, and thereupon discharged her {
rom custody, as no testimony to SUBJ