Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-06

healthy this summer. An APPEAL reporter
asked a well-informed physician what he
thought about it. He replied that he did
not think Memphis would be unhealthy.
There would be some cases OF malaria below
on the river, but he thought Memphis would
be untouched by malaria.
Might before last Austin Williams, col
ored, was arrested and placed in the station
house for abuse of family. Being presented
in the Police Court he was discharged.
There was, however, bill of costs before
Esquire Quigley, which Constable j. J..
Murphy had to collect. The negro asked the
officer TO accompany him to borrow the
money. When they were on Court street,
near Fourth, the negro turned around, hit
Murphy with brick aud ran away. The
constable considerably injured by the
attack.
Henry Edmundson, colored, is dare
devil thief. He went into room No. 10 back
OF Chief Davis's Office, and broke into the
trunk of man named Farmer, getting $40.
A servant girl approaching he got under the
bed and was discovered. 81 thought you was
Mollie, and would brighten you" was his
explanation. 1t didn't wash, however.
When he left it was discovered that the
money was gone. Captain O'Haver and
Officer Jackson arrested him, but he denied
all knowledge of the affair. He goes under
the name of sold Sharp"
Mr.. S. II. Gregg, the freight conductor
on train No. 6, met with fatal accident yes
terday while attempting TO get from a coal
fat TO box-car, nesr Grand Junction. He
fell between the cars and both of his legs
were cut sheer off. The poor fellow was
taken to Grand Junction, where medical at
tention was given him. He lived till IL
o'clock in intense agony, and then died. He
is an old employe of the road and was pop
n. al. l. L.
Gle of friends. Mr.. Geegg was about thirty
years old and leaves wife and two children,
who are in the city. He was member oil
the Knights of Honor. His remains will be
brought here for interment.
Mr. L. McDayitt writes us that the
woman who, in Louisville, poisoned Mr..
Slusser's four-year- boy chad not adopted
the child, nor was she related to the former
Mrs. Slusser, but an acquaintance with whom
Mr.. Slusser boarded his son at Louisville,
KY, while under medical treatment, he being
an afflicted child. His other son ia at school
in another part of the city, from whom Mr..
Slusser received two dispatches yesterday.
What could have prompted this miserable
woman to commit the act is unaccountable,
without she is deranged at the thought of
losing the liberal board which Mr.. Susser
was paying her. Mr.. Slusser left last night
for Louisville in much distress, for he was
devoted to his poor afflicted little boy"
Mr.. E. McDavitt complains of the
statements made in the Ledger and APPEAL
concerning the poisoning of Mr.. j. V. Slus-
ser's child in Louisville. The mistake of
the APPEAL was a mere slip. The writer by
leaving out three or four words created
wrong impression. 1t was his intention to
have stated that the child had been poisoned
by the lady who had it in charge. great
many people are in the habit of flying off
the handle about a matter which, by volun-
teering the truth, they could have made I'M
Improbable. The city editor OF the Ledger
was denied certain information that should
have been given him. To obviate the posi-
bic repetition of the mistake in the morning
papers the parties interested might have
shown little more activity, and thus have
saved themselves from the mental pangs of
conceiving a card.