Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-08

nes-general is worth some five thousand dol
| lars per annum, or more, while the offices OF
| clerks of the county and criminal courts are
worth ten thousand or more per annum. In
| the different wards different sets of tickets
! Tor delegates are in circulation in favor OF
| this or that candidate. BY tonight the dele
! gates elect will be the most popular, sought
| after and courted men IN the city, from a
| candidate s standpoint.
Upton County Record, 7th: ga shoot
| ing occurred on the premises of Mr.. James
Barrett, on Sunday evening last, IN which
| Henry Johnson, colored, lost his life. john
son and young Weaver bad some difficulty
| short time since; on Sunday evening they met
and Johnson threatened to whip Mr.. Weaver.
! Words passed between the parties and they
| separated, Johnson going to a house and
arming himself Mr. WeaFer repaired to the
totse OF his father. Soon after, Johnson APP
peared In front of the house and fred at Mr..
Weaver, who was sitting on the porch with
| his father family. The shot missed its in
! tended victim. The father, seeing the family
| assaulted, seized gun and shot the assallant,
| infiicting a mortal wound, from which John
son died on Monday. Mr.. Weaver gave him.
| self up to the authorities and r7a3 tried on
"Wednesday before committing court. We
have not heard the result of the trial, but can
safely predict, from the facts as related to US,
that he was acquitted"
Thursday the case of James Netherland,
| indicted for robbing the United States mails
at Grand Junction, was tried in the United
States court, Judge Trigg occupying the
bench. Late in the afternoon the jury re-
turned a. verdict of guilty, and the prisoner
was allowed to remain out until next morn
ing on the bonds OF one thousand dollars then
Existing. When court met yesterday morning,
and the defendant was called, he failed to APP
pear. Thereupon deputy marshal was sent in
search of Netherland, who, it was soon ascer-
tanned, had He'd the cityj in order to avoid
the Judgment of the court. Marshal Will
hanson at once put his deputies in general
search for Netherland, but at this writing the
fugitive has not been apprehended, nor is it
known whittier he has gone Netherland was
local mail agent at Grand Junction, where he
has lived seven years, and leaves a wife and
several children. 1t is said that there are
eleven indictments against him, each charg-
ing robbery of the mail; the total money sto-
len amounting to one hundred and twenty
FIVE dollars. The indictment on which he
was convicted charges him with taking TWEEN
ty five dollars from the mail. In view of the
flight OF Netherland, forfeiture In the sum
of one thousand dollars was taken aginst the
sureties on two bonds. The sureties are D.
G.. Wells and N. A. Bryant, of Grand juno
ton.
AT Millersburg, Ohio, recently, case of
no little Importance to church people was de-
clded. The dispatch says: line case. or the
Evangelical Lutheran church rs. the German
Reformed Zion church was closed Wednesday
in our district court, the evidence and argu-
ment having taken up two days. The deci-
sion was rendered last night by Judge John
Adams of Mount Vernon, in which the court
says that the two congregations having built
the church jointly and worshiped in it for
many years, not as a single congregation, but
separate and distinct bodies, and the fact
being established that when a portion of the
Evangelical Lutheran church left and went
off by themselves another portion remained
as before, this fact of the portion leaving did
not destroy their right to demand the parti-
ton of the use of the church as prayed for
by them, and being restored to their former
rights as they stood before the adoption of
the new constitution by the defendants in the
case in which they assume to control the
church entirely. or nearly so; to the exclusion
of plaintiffs; plaintiffs would, therefore, be
entitled to the Partition of the use of the
church, and a mandate would go back to the
common pleas court, ordering it to carry out
the decree of this court. The case Is the first
one Of the kind ever tried in the county, and
the statute under which the proceedings were
commenced is not known, even to many law
yers, to exist. The case will probably go to
the supreme court.