Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-11-05

current SOuiheFn News
Up to November Ist Van Buren,, Ark,
shipped 1000 bales of cotton.
Many immigrants are passing into Ar
kansas and through it westward.
.s.-Iohn Huff. a well borer, stabbed John
I've, merchant OF Sesrcy, Ark, 10 death,
last week.
Knoxville is heartily ashamed of the dis
creditsble notoriety its Esmissness in punish
ing the crime of murder has gained for it.
Seversl parties have been fined 800 and
costs in Little Rock for cutting timber from
government land. Expensive 6rewood, that.
At Gainesville, Ark, on Thursday, some
safe-blowers entered the store of Mr.. J. Z.
Snodgrass, and robbed the till and safe of
$l20.
The Woman's Christian Association of
Knoxville has opened school for poor
children who are unable 10 attend public
school.
The Chattanooga Democrat says there is a
man in that town who wears his trousers so
tight that they look IS il they were laid on
with paint-brush.
Charles Highland, an engineer at Rock
wood, near Chattanooga, left his wife on
Monday and eloped with a married woman
who had two children.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, the sue
ccssful noyel-writer, formerly resided at
Knoxville; ou Tuesday her play OF Esme-
rdidd was performed there 10 a well-flled
and enthusiastic house.
A gentleman registered himself at the
Stanton House, Chattanooga, on Monday, as
VIM. Runyap, of New Orleans. In the
morning he was found dead. He had shot
himself through the skull.
At Knoxville, on Thursday night, a pale
band of light, something like but less bright
than the comets tail, was seen in the north.
west, in the milky way. The southwark end
was pointed, the northern fsn-sbaped and
forked.
The following mysterious paragraph APP
pears in the Gainesville (Ark.) Press: Last
Saturday a preacher came to town and
CREASED himself pretty we'll from the shout
ders down. For further particulars apply TO
the Rev. J. T. 1.
The Forrest City Times gives as reason
for obi citing to the publication of the APP
person murder trial that "to publish such
things is a very decided argument against
immigration" Then what is doing such
things if mentioning their being done is a
crime?
At Florence, Ais, on Tuesday, H. McIn-
tyre entered a store and asked the clerk to
let him see his account. 1t was shown him,
when he began to tear 1t from the book.
Simpson, the clerk, lnterfered, when Mcln-
tyre cut him with knife. Simpson then
drew his knife, stabbed and killed his as
sailant.
At Knoxville, on Monday, at negro ball,
one of the dancers broke the skull of another
with a brick The man died, when the Jurors
at the inquest returned verdict fastening
the crime on james Hodge. Hodge was
brought there from Bristol, when be proved
that he was not at the place where the MUIR
derwas committed, and he was discharged.
On Thursday night Mr.. o. Fitzpatrick's
ginhouse and thirty bales of cotton, in the
northern part OF the county from Forrest
City, Ark, was burned; on Wednesday night
o. E. Dorriss's gin in the same county and
fifteen bales of cotton; the same night
Hughes's store, eight miles from Forrest City,
was burned, together with $1,000 worth of
goods.
Last week, twenty miles from Careyville,
Tenn, d. A. Hickey and Faols Smith quar-
relied. They were standing near the edge of
a bridge. Smith threw a Ratchet and
Hickey drew a pistol but was prevented
from firing it. The men clinched and fell
down seventeen feet below the bridge.
Hickey was underneath and Smith took his
pistol from him and ebot him 80 that he
died. Smith left on the train.