Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-07-18

! had been working in that neighborhood.
| and had been paid some fifteen dollars
the evening before the murder. He got
drunk in company with boon COM
| panion, and was advancing on Wood
son with snife when he received the
fatal wound.
Covington Record: We are informed
by gentleman interested in sheep Gull
tuTe that, after having lost number of
t1ue sheep by dogs, he began setting traps
Tor them, and had actually caught six
teen strange dogs on his place.
A policeman named N. c. Perkins
was shot and killed at jackson last
week by Nimrod Wilson, eolored. The
officer was deliberately shot while coz
Quoting two negro women, whom be
had arrested, to the stationhouse. The
murderer was ares ed.
Jackson Wing and Tribune: Rats are
said by cur country friends to be UNUSUAL
ly numerous this season, and to be very
destructive to grain and young chickens.
A gentleman informs us that'On Sunday
night last rodent crswled under hen
on his premises and killed eight of her
brood of ten.
The Kingston Tennesseen mentions
Diamonds Landing, on Emory river,
on the SIKH instant. The body shows
evidence and marks OF foul play, and
the suppOsition is that he had been
murdered somewhere in the neighbour
hood and thrown into the river.
Jonesb0ro Herald aud Tribune: Wash
iDgtoh county will be able to furnish
more good flour this year than aDy other
county III East Tennessee. We have
more than forty good Touring mills in
the county, anu our fsrmsrs have been
blest with an excellent crop of wheat,
which has been put in the barns in good
order.
The State superintendent report
shows that county supervision for the
scholastic year 1S74-75 cost the sum of
Sl3,684 ga. The average paid each coun-
tY superintendent amounts to Sl47 IA.
Some men are greatly troubled about
this enormous expense. 1t is not the
expense that troubles them, they are op-
posed to free schools.
COvington Record: We are informed
by Mr.. Stephenson, who witnessed the
occurrence, that barrel Of whisky be-
longing to Mr.. Billings in district No.
), exploded and took fire, and, but for
the presence Of several persons, would
have consumed the adjoining premises.
This should be 3 warning to every body
TO touch light this hot weather.
GalIatiu Examiner: In the cemetery
at Gallatin stands the first monument |
erected in Tennessee in memory of sold
iers who lost their lives in Mexico, 1t
was erected in l84S, with imposing GER
emOnies, and an address was delivered
on the occasion by the editor Of this pa
per. An immense crowd was in attend
Rnce, probably the largest that evsr as.
sembled in the county upon any Occa-
zion.
Last week s la Gregory, a colored |
girl, living in Blount- county, being |
missing from home, her father was in |
quiriDg for her at Mr.. Houston's, when |
Mrs. Houston informed him that she |
had noticed some buZzards in the edge |
Of the woods. the father went to the |
place and found his daughter dead, her |
eyes picked out by the buzzards, and the |
body otherwise torn and in state OF |
rapid decomposition.
Ripley News: A few days since our
vigilant, energetic and efficient deputy |
sheriff, w. H. Wardlaw, received infor- |
mstion that Johs Tull, the man who |
murdered Strand Starnes, near Gimp |
vile, about three years ago, and fled |
from justice, had returned home on a |
visit to his family. So, about two O'Clock |
last Tuesday morning, he summoned a
posse Of men and proceeded in very
cautious manner to the home of TuIl, !
and placing strong guard around the |
house demanded of Toll to come out and |
surrender, which he Immediately !
obeyed. Tull was placed in jail Tuesday
morning, there to await his trial at the
Cext regular term Of the circuit court.
Chattanooga Commercial: 1t is
questionable whether auy OF the ex-
COniederates heTeEbOuts are aware that |
the COnfederacy ever coined any specie, |
but such seems to be the fact. Mr.. |
James Pierson yesterday exhibited to US |
q small coin, OF good silver, which bears |
unmistakabie evidence OF having been |
minted by the Ccnfederacy. The coin |
is nine-siXteenthsO Of an inch in diameter, !
and apparently about three cents in |
value by weight. On the face appears
the Nstars and bars" with staff, cord |
and tRssels; above this the legend, in q |
semi.circle, IA United South" and the |
date 1851 underneath. On the diverse |
is q cotton plant in bloom, surrounded
by circle Of fourteen stars-one each for |
the States that did czde, and three for |
those that were expected to, bus didn't. |
The little piece is indifferently exc
cuted, badly worn, and as it mas hole |
bored in the rim, seems to have been |
worn sc a trinket.
Chattanooga Commercial, fifteenth:
The following special reached US yester- |
day: "The United States circuit court at |
Mobile has made an order to sell the |
Alabama and Chattanooga railroad on |
October fourth next" We hope that |
Colonel John c. Stanton will be able by
that date 10 organize company to puT-
chase this road. He knows every inch
of it, understands its capacity, aud can
furnish a management which will de- !
veiOpe paying business AID operate it |
for the improvement Of the country
through which it pc s;es,