Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-09-01
ESTABLISH ED IsAO.

last week, on the charge of having par
tcipated In vsrisus thefls recently.
ONeill confessed being the principal
psrpstrAtoT OF the robbelies.
Nashville American: Authority has
been received ty Lis .enAnt L. A. Ken.
DALI recruiting officer in this city, to
enlist men Tor the levy Of S500 cavalry
recently authorized by congress for the
Indian war now in progress.
Humbol Journal: Mr.. W. II. Rob-
erts sold eight acres of land, near Hum
boldt, this wee for four thousand dol.
lars, 10 Mrs. Garrett. This shows that
there is still life smong Us and that we
are lot dead as some would believe.
Columbia Journal: There is q curios-
ity at Henry Holman's, in town. A cat
gave birth 10 four kittens, all joined to-
gather like Sismese twins. OBe died and
wss separated fsom the others by the
mother. Three are still living and doing
well.
Nashville Banner oath: William Can,
residing on Lewis street, in Slade Town,
was sunstrUck yesterday, from sthe ef-
fects Of which he is dersnged. His
physician states that bis condition is
only temporary, and that 1t will rot
prove fatal.
Nashville Banner: Only ten persons
died within the corporate limits Of this
city, this week Three were adults. and
seven minors; five were white and five
colored; six males and four females. This
figure shows a decrease Of eleven as
compared with the corresponding week
last year.
A numbr OF citizens Of New Pfovi-
denee, Montgomery county contemplate
chartering the Steamboat Alexander
Kendall, OF this city, Il convey them to
Dover on the twenty-seDlnd of Ssptem-
Der, al which time the two colOred mur-
derers OF Wiley M'Clish will explate
their crime upon the scstfold.
Columbia Journal: We are informed
that arrangements have been made, and
that they will commence laying the iron
on the Dock River Valley Darrow.gange
railroad at an eaIly day. The whole line
will be completed and ready for trains TO
pass over, TO Lswisburg, and on as far
as Petersburg, by the frat of November.
A sad accident occurred Thursday
evening, the twenty fourth instant, at
Armstrong; mills, five miles below
Rogerville. A son OF Wesley Lawson,
the miller, about fifteen or sixteen years
of age, was caught by his clothing be.
tween the cog. wheels, andaso torn and
crushed thai he died before medical aid
could be procured.
Jonesbor0 Herald and Tribune: From
the present prospects there will bs.s
larger amount of fine stock ct cur next
fair than was ever before exh bited in
the county. There are more than forty
Touring mills 10 the county. Each one
OF these mills should contest for the pre-
MUM offered at the coming fair for the
best sack Of f9ur.
Oh attanoogs Tmes: Mr.. John A. Lee
brought to this office, Tuesday morn.
ing, a limb broken from one Of his trees,
on his lot in South Chattanooga, con-
tanning one hundred and thirty one well
developed. pears. The limb was some.
thing less than six feet long, and all it's
hard wood ives grown last year. Who
says fruit will not grow in this county?
Yazoo Herald: The worms are plsy-
ing sad havoc with the cotton on the
Andrews place, five miles rom here, on
the river, as one may infer from the
statement that they have destroyed
about forty acres of cotton on that plan
tstion, and their cry, like that Of Oliver
Twist, is for "more." They ere raidiDg
on the Willis place, mile from town,
but as yet they have not damaged
things very seriously.
Greenville IntelligeDcer: The drouth
continues here In East Tennessee. There
hss been no rain, in mauy localities, for
weeks. The corn crop throughout some
portions OF Hawkins cCuoty has suffered
from the drouth the Last three wseks.
The tobacco crop Of Sullivan county is
very promising at this time, and the
quantity that is DOW being raised is
don0Ie that Of any previous year.
Nashville Banner: The differences
existing tetween the Columbia Herald
and Mail aud the Columbia Journal, al
ready referred to In the Banner, have,
we are glad to say, been amieably and
honorsbly adjusted. The affair had
reached the point where challenge had
been written, and was on the point of
being delivered It is great deal bet
ter that the affair has turned cut as it
has.
Greenville New Era: A few days ago,
near the grocery Of Mr.. Harper, in this
place, Bart Baxter cut Sam Baxter in
| the lower pfri OF his bowels, commenc-
ing on the left side and cutting across
and ranging downward some six inches
| which some of his bowels protruded.
| They are brothers and sons of the widow
Lefty Baxter. They were under the ins
huence of liquor.
Chattanooga Times: A few days ago
| six or eight negroes took out smother
| negro nesr the Cincinnati and Southern
railroad bridge Just above this city and
gave him 3 severe beating. He was
charged with stealing. Not white
man was conaected with the affrsy,
! Cannot Mr.. Morton get sCms capital out
OF this matter TO aid him in waving his
"blocdy shirtS" II these men had been
white, what an eXcsilsat topic for
radical papers to dwell upon, to show the
rebellious spirit Of the times in this part
Of the pOliti al vineyard.
Ripley News, Aueult 2Sd: Yesterday
evening Mr.. Sidney Oldham, living
about three miles from Ripley, was
fatally wounded by negro man named
John Jones, who was in his employ.
From what we can learn the facts are
these: Mr.. Oldham ordered the negro
TO do some work, and he refused to per-
form il, yhereupon Mr.. Oldham struck
him, which so incsnsed the negro that
he picked up billet Of wood and struck
Mr. Oldham on the head, and felled him
to tho earth. Mr.. Oldham died from the
effects of the WOUND he received at the
hands of the negro desperadO. A few
months ago q negro Murdered a young
man named Ferguson, in the came
neighbornoOd where Mr.. Oldham lived.
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HORATIO SEYMOUR.