Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-29

| more piethorlc purse. For several weeks
| past, however, money has beeu unavailing
to provide fine beef in this market, from the
| simple reason that 1t does not exist here"
The case of w. H. RAIDER for the killing OF
dug" Thomas, of Bristol, which was tried
at Jonesbore before the Hon. n. Hacker,
terminated by the jury bringing in verdict
at 10 o'clock Saturday night, sentencing
RAIDER to ten years in the penitentiary.
James Cannon, Chattanooga negro, who
was working at Dayton, was shot by the rifle
of stupidity careless huntsman who was
aiming at birds; the bullet entered the pelvis
and came out near the knee. The man b ad
the grace to show him every possible atten-
ton.
The Hon. John D. Defrees, who recently
resigned the position OF public printer, al
Washington, on account of his age and fail
ing health, is a native of White county, hav-
ing been born near the Factory, one mile ard
half from Sparta, in 1910. he is a brother
OF Mrs. Coins, widow of Colonel s. III. Colms,
deceased, a most excellent lady, and a resi-
dent of Sparta.
Tiptonville Star. "Quite an excitement
was created last Sunday night over a sup
posed FIRE up the river a short distance.
Monday morning the people were all agog
over the supposed burning of some neigh
boris house; some quitting work to ascer-
OF an electric light at a boat landing .-.....-.
Mr.. Thomas Glover's house was burned
down and very little of the furniture was
saved. He had no help but his wife and
children"
Knoxville Chronicle: "Hugh Gideon, a
white man employed at the quarries of the
Franklin Marble Company, was struck in
the eye by chip of stone struck off by his
pickaxe. His left eye was put out.
The Coal Creek golfers get only two and a
half cents, instead of the former three cents a
bushel, for getting out coal. 80. John Lloyd
got tight, fired two shots at a gentleman in
the street, missed, and ran off. Sober he was
clever and Industrious; whisky has got him
into difficulty and disgrace, but nobody
| takes the warming"
GAINESVILLE Chronicle: "a smallpox case
| was found on Front street-a negro. The
| house was quarantined. The people state
| that in the night some unknown people en-
| tered and ordered the man and his negro
nurse away. The house was found in the
morning to be burned up. Nobody would
| rent place for the man, and he had to be
| hidden away, nobody knows where, and a
| man with a shotgun set to guard him from
violence. 4 was sick, and We visited me- was
said by the Master. How do the GAINESVILLE
folks stand such visitations~
Knoxville Chronicle: 'sThe Mechanics Ma
tional Bank was regularly organized in
Knoxville on Tuesday, with paid up capt.
| tai of 100000. Andrew Shields, a
| youth eff eighteen, of Emmett's Cove, SEWER
| county, last week took his gun from the
| rack, asking his little brother to 90 with him
| to the barn, where he loaded il afresh. He sat
| the breech on the ground, and standing erect
| placed the muzzle to his breast, placed his
toe upon the hammer, pulled it back and
slipped it of, thus causing the gun to be
IT II a.. L
breast, supposed TO have entered the heart.
He fell TO the ground, said, Il reckon l am
| gone this time and died almost instantly.
Cause unknown"
Pulaski Democrat: "The body of little
Louisa Perry was found in a we'll at Oswego
City Saturday afternoon. The coroner's jury
censured the practice of leaving wells nnprc-
| tected by curbs acob X. Shipherd, the
notorious intriguer in the Peru business, was
born in central New York, and is now about
forty five years Of age. When young man
his father was pastor OF the First Congrega-
| tional church of Pulaski, and he is still well
remembered by scores OF people in this viii
lage and vicinity. While living here he had
a Sunday-school class in bis charge for a
time, and his pupils recall the recital Of
many a passage OF scripture under his tutor
ship. Pulaski is organizing a brass
band of eighteen performers and has con-
tributed S120 toward starting them -. An
Indian skeleton was exhumed in Baldwins-
vile, last week, two and half feet below the
surface"
Chattanooga Times: Homegrown straw
berries are now sold in the market at twenty
five cents per quart. There are now but
five or six county schools in session in this
county, and they will close by the middle Of
May. Our most successful fishermen are
among the clergy. A broom drill would
draw here. Most of the gambling places
are closed. -. Dave Cooke, colored, was
murdered in cold blood on Saturday by Ed
Childress, white man, at Whiteside Station,
on the Nashville railroad, a few miles below
this city. Cooke was conversing with some
friends, Childress went few feet behind him
and without word took deliberate aim and
shot him. The murderer was drunk, and
is a desperate character. -. Friday night
during the thunderstorm a large oak tree on
Mr.. John Edmonson's place, about two miles
north of the city, was struck by lightning,
and a SOW and seven shoats, which were seek
ing shelter under it, were instantly killed.
80. On Saturday COW belonging to Mrs.
SIatey was struck dead by lightning on
Academy Hill. No marks were visible on
the animal after DEATH"
At Huntington there was great excite
ment on Saturday night. Mr.. w. r. Griz
Yards little boy and girl were lost in the i'm
mense bottom where runs Beaver creek, full
of logs and deep holes. At o'clock over
100 men and boys, with lanterns, were on the
search; some peering among the thickets,
others dragging the creeks and others seeking
for the little footsteps they called loudly
the names of the missing darlings Suddenly
there was heard, away up the creek, a wild
shout OF Joy, which was echoed and re-echoed
far up and down the bottom, then another
shout, then a gun was fired, and then came
the glad shouts of "They are louudl they are
foundp Then the hundred and more lant-
ems were seen moving toward Mr.. Grizzard's
residence, where the lost children were soon
brought in, amid the shouts and cheers of the
men and the tears and cries of welcome from
their overjoyed mother and many lady
friends of the family. The little things had
stolen away TO fish and got lost; at dark they
crawled into hollow log, where they were
found. They we're lying side by side.