Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-03-29
BUFORD'S LAST VICTIM.
Meeting of tine Bar OF Louisville, De
pIOriDE the Assassination OF Judge
EIuOtt-Brief History OF
the Slayer.

LOUISVILLE, March 2S.-The bar of Louis
vile held a meeting to-day and adopted reso-
lutions deploring the assassination of Judge
John NJ. Elliott, of the court of appeals, and
expressive of the high esteem entertained for
the deceased. Bcford waived an examina
ton to-day and was committed to answer.
BUFoRD's HISTORY.
A special correspondent of the Cincinnati
Enquirer, writing from Louisville Wednes-
day, gives the following bit of the life of
Buford:
Buford's history shows him to be a man
utterly regardless Of law, or his own life or
that Of others, when his passions are aroused.
Somewhere in the sos Buford was the hero
OF an ARRAY on the Lexington fair grounds
which had great deal of notoriety at the
time. He and gentleman named Thomas,
OF Mount Sterling, had quarreled, and meet
ing in the ir-grounds, immediately opened
FIRE on each other. Buford displayed charac-
teristic coolness and recklessness, changing
his position once while Thomas was firing, to
avoid shooting in the direction OF some Ia
dies, and at another time deliberately taking
a pin from the lapel of his coat and picking
the tube of his pistol, which had failed to 20
off He wounded Thomas, and escaped I'M
hurt himself. A gentleman of Lexington
named Ferguson was keeping Thomas sup
piled with pistols. General Abe Buford made
at him with bowie-knife and slashed at his
IQTOdG. EeEHuSOu 1uChSo HIS ncdu anu luC
knife shaved his beard, taking off a good
sized piece OF his scalp, which fell into the
possession Of Mr.. Mulligan, of Lexington,
who exhibited it for some time in his store
window as a curiosity.
ANOTHER INCIDENT
In Buford's career happened at the time
! when the three colonies were editing the
Times, IN Louisville Buford sent noted
oelle in that city bucket of sausage from
his home, near Versailles. Theodore O'Hara,
author of the BiU0Hdc Of the Dead, one of
the three colonies. made the present sub
| ject tor rldicule in his paper. As soon as the
paper reached Versailles Buford, taking a
| friend with him, got into his buggy, and by
driving rapidly and taking fresh horses from
| time to. time, arrived in Louisville early in
the night. Reaching the Calf house and
| going in, he found O'Hara at the bar taking
drink. Stepping up to him, and inqulring
as to the authorship, O'Hara acknowledged
| it, and Buford at once struck him. They
| struggled, clinched and tell, O'Hara under
meath. O'Hara drew a small pistol, and,
reaching around Buford, tried to shoot bin
but, his sense of humor prevailing over his
wrath, he got to LAUGHING so that he could
| not discharge it. Tney were separated be-
fore any damage was done beyond a good
beating for O'Hara, and Buford returned
home.
STILL ANOTHER,
attended with worse results, was his assault
| on Mr.. Ulysses Turner, of Woodford, bril-
liant young lawyer, and at one time mem
Der OF the banking firm of Saylor, Shelby &
Co., of Lexington. Buford had some bust.
| ness controversy with him, attacked him, and
beat him so brutally about the head that his
life was despaired of, his health wrecked anC
his sight permanently destroyed. Mr.. Tur.
ner died only shoIt time ago, after years o.
suffering and blindness.
BUFORD's LAST VIOLENT EXPLOIT,
before the present murder, was his defiance
of the authority of the sheriff of Henry countl
IN the earlier stages of the suit, the final de
cision in which was the cause OF the assas
slnatlon.
| ''Luck"
| Chattanooga Times 22d: "a few days ag
Lieutenant Marshall, of the United State
engineer corps, stationed here, was startin,
on his regular trip down TO Muscle shoals, t
pay off the hands engaged there in improving
I | the river. He had about ten thousand dol
lars in his possession. His original intention
was to put the money, which made too larg
a bulk to be carried in his pocket, in a sma
! baud-valise. But he, being enc of the fe'
chosen ones on whom fortune sweetly smiles
! changed his mind and sent the money by e2
press. BY some unaccountable means it mus
have been discovered that he intended to pu
large sum of money in his valse, for, a
though he had it at his side, some ingeniou
! thief succeeded in getting away with it in th
! hope of making a heavy grab. Imagine b
! disappointment on finding in it only sma
! amount of clothing, but nary dollar. w
: | congratulate Mr.. Marshall upon his unusus
/. good luck" Moral-Always send yor
money by express.
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