Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-07-11
SOUTHERN NEWS.

w. J. JamiSon has severed his connec
ton with the ArkGnSGOO Traveller.
James Hirsam blew his brains GU
with a pistol at Lawrence, Texas, las
week.
The Crawford county, Arkansas
wheat crop averages fifteen bushels 0
wheat per acre.
J. w. Montgomery, of LIano county
Texas, was shot and killed recently by
one OF his cattle hands.
J. H. Henderson was knocked dead
by man named M'KeDzie, at Mexis
Texas, last week.
Last week Mosss Green, of Upsor
county, Georgia, shot and killed another
negro named Tom White.
One night last week J. ShOemaksr
living near Dallas, Texas, was assassi,
mated by unknown parties.
Jessey B!agg, who murdered J. n
Ford, near Calbert Station, in the In.
dian Territory, has been captured.
Mr.. C. F. Mswbey, one of the proprie.
tors Of the Florida Union, died sudden
ly at his home in Jacksonville last week
A few days ago a man slapped Mrs.
Benjamin Crawford, Of Pendleton,
South C.rolina, and was killed by heI
husband.
J. w. Brown assaulted and tried TO
assassinate John A. Thomas, a well
known architect, on the streets of Dallas,
one day last week.
The house of correction al Fitchburg,
Nj s5achusetts, was destroyed by fire
Sunday. Loss fifty thousand dollars.
The tannery of Lane, Pierce & Co.
near O5wego, New York, burned yes
terday. Loss, one hundred thousand
dollars.
Henry Tsckett, waiter at the San
Jacinto hotel, shot and killed John
Leonard, the cook, at that establish
msnt last Saturday.
Mr.. Charles McAllister, of Grshsm's
Cross Reads, South Carolina, a soldier
OF the wsr Of 1872, and, we believe, the
last in Williamsburg died last week sud.
denly. He was in his eighty.sixtb
year.
w. l.. Williams, formerly of Law
renee county, Arkansas, moved to Rip
ley county, Missouri, where he managed
10 make himself obnoxious by insulting
ladies, and some unknown person assss.
sinated his by shooting him in the
woods.
The Van Buren, lark } Argus OF the
sixth says: "The ~. Louis convention
has chosen TO take party view OF the
situation, and we heartily acguieece in
their decision. The south must now
carry ont the Oft-repeated pledge to sup
port the nominee"
Two horse-thieves, names unknown,
were shot in Woodruff county, Arkan.
sas, two weeks agO-One being killed
outright and the other MORALLY wound.
ed. A citizen named Marsh, to whom
the men had hired, was also slightly
wounded by mistake.
Charleston NeWs: The news of the
massacre of General Custer and his COM
mand by the Indians created much ex-
element in the city yesterday after
noon, snd If the government should call
for volunteers, Charleston would furnish
at least one thousand trained veterans
to 90 to the plains within a fortnight 1t
was rumorsd that the Fifth artillery,
stationed at the citadel, had been Or
dered to be ready for the march, but up
to late hour last hight no orders OF the
kind had been issued, although the
troops, both officers and men, were
anxious to take their departure for the
west. The general opinion seems to be
that the government must now take &C.
tive measures to exterminate the red
skins, and the opinion is freely ex-
pressed that the first step in this diIec-
ton must be the abolition Of the Indian
bureau,