Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-04

oollar the oIner DAY, and his frlenCs nave
been passing him around ever since.
Twenty-seven thousand dollars have been
subscribed by the citizens of Waco to bring
the Texas narrow-gauge railroad to that
city.
The grand jury of Bastrop county reports
the county clerk and two justices of the
peace incompetent on account OF intemper-
ance.
The colored Baptists of Mexia recently
baptised seventeen converts In tank near
that town, one of them a Pedo- baptist
preacher ninety years old.
The farmers in all portions of the State
have had splendid weather during the past
two weeks for securing their wheat crop, and
while the yield Is not more than half to two
third crop, the quality was never better.
Dallas is becoming alarmed at the way the
new railroads are fanking her on the north,
south and east, and if she expects to remain
the metropolssof north Texas, she must not
depend entirely upon being a railroad cross
ing.
The Rio Grande is navigable for Eve hum
bred miles to CamarSo, the Trinity two hun
dred and fifty, the Neches and Angelina two
hundred each, the Sabine two hundred, and
the Brazos one hundred miles. The Colora-
do isn't open.
The wheat birds are almost as destructive
bugs to the crop in the northern States, or
the squirrel in California. The wheat birds
may be driven away by burning sulphur on
the windward side of the field.
The gang of stage-robbers who have re-
Gently been operating in the vicinity of Fort
Worth, have all been captured or killed.
Billy Ward, alias West, the last of the gang,
was followed to Colorado by United States
Marshal Farmer, and killed near Leadville.
John Lanham, the murderer of Georgia
Drake, the variety actress, at San Antonio,
last fall, was last week convicted of murder
in the frat degree. This makes the eighth
conviction of murder in the first degree at
San Antonio, and all the criminals are now in
Jail awaiting execution or decision of their
appeals to the appellate court.
On the twenty second of May, while Mrs.
|, Lyles, of Denton, was in her room arranging
her toilet, little deaf-and-dumb girl, about
ten years of age, entered the room and
picked up revolver which was lying on the
dressing table, and, while playing with it, 1t
was discharged, the ball entering Mrs.
Lyless back about three inches t. the lett OF
the spinal column, ranging inward and up
ward, striking one of the short ribs.
Weatherford Exponent: 'Tom Brady,
charged with assault to rape, and who was
thought TO be almost fatally stabbed by his
intended victim, made his escape last Sun
day evening while his guard, Bob Wsathered,
was taking supper at the Bank restaurant.
j. w. Sharp, manager OF the restaurant,
was subsequently arrested by Marshal M
Fall and placed under bond to answer to the
charge Of being an accessory to Brady's es-
| cape.
A correspondent of the San Saba Neies
says: "CroLs in Llapo county are dong well,
except in the southeastern portion, where the
hail injured the cora very seriously. One
| man In that section had Eve calves killed In
| his pen by hail stones, some of the hail, he
says, were az large as a mans fist. Another
man, who was so unfortunate as to be caught
| out in the storm, had his horse knocked down
| twice, while he was obliged to take off the
saddle and cover his own head with it uutil
he could get TO a tree"
Marshall was the scene OF another shooting
affray on last Monday, in which three per
| sons were wounded, and ode, the assallant
probably fatally. Billy Wilkson, a peace
| able young man, was to marry widow lady
of Marshall, by the name of Allen. Hel
brother, named Angel, met Wilson at the
| door with a shotgun, when he went to claim
| his bride, and fired at him, the ball entering
his wrist. Wilson then drew his pistol and
shot Angel three times, once IN the head and
| twice IN the abdomen. Angels wounds are
| thought to be fatal. During the melee q
young brother of Angel was accidentally shot
by Wilson, though not dangerously.
A special to the Waco Telephone from
Turner,ville, Coryell county, May 9th, says
''Last night, on Coryell creek, six or seven
miles from this place, another of those blood
| curdlng tragedies, for which this county has
become noted, occurred. William Smith and
son, the latter twelve years OF age, went out
to stake their horses, and were fired upon by
a mob. Smith was shot through the aldo
men, and is not expected to live. The boy is
| shot through the body, point not ascertained,
but his wound is supposed to be mortal. No
one Is suspected, as Smith did not know that
he had an enemy. VIII Satan never be
| chalned?"
A Waco man has invented an apparatus by
which it is said families may make their own
ice very easily and at very small coat. The
apparatus is a vessel the same as an ordinary
water-cooler. Within it is another vessel,
and the space between the two is filed with
freezing mixture, composed in part of chic
ride of potassium, sulphate of ammonia and
sulphate of magnesia. The temperature of
this mixture Is from twenty to twenty-five de-
grees Fahrenheit, or from ten to twelve de-
grees below the freezing point. 1t quickly
reduces the water in the inner vessel to icy
GOODNESS, and, the apparatus being SO con-
structed as to exclude the air, this tempera-
ture is maintained indefinitely. Ice-water is
drawn at will through a faucet, the same as
trsm an ordinary cooler.