Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-05-18
is DAILY APPEAL-FRIDAY, MAY 1s. 1888.

evening, three miles south of Lite Rock,
breaking his neek. One of the employees
says his home is in Memphis."
George B. Reid, of Crutchfsld, KY,
writes Chief of-Police Davis an anxious let
letter asking him to make inquiry for his
con, Hiram Goodrich, who left home yesr
ago and was last heard of with a gang OF
bridge builders on the St. Francis river in
Arkansas.
Sentence was pronounced BY Judge
Greer to-day upon Lush Brown and Elijah
Ford, the two reprobates whose case hung
the jury for two days. They threw saseballs
and brickbats into Suburban Windows, and
were sentenced to pay S. and serve ten days
each in theworkhouse.
Marshall Bell, hack driver, left his
team unattended yesterday morning while
he vent into storehouse to collect BILL
While he was away the team started eff and
smashed buggy into match timber. Bell
was let of until the matter of damages could
be adjusted with the owner of the buggy.
AT the. drill of the Mt. Moriah Com
mandery No. 10, colored Knights Templar,
held at 392 Main street last night, the first
prize was carried off by Jos. Ellis. Mitchell
Whitlow captured the second prize, and T. D.
Jackson the third. The first prize was 8
handsome gold badge presented by Lilly &
Co., of Columbus Ohio.
A peace-warrant proceeding was on trial
yesterday evening before Justice Elliott. A
colored woman named Hilda Maxwell was
put under bond TO keep the peace toward
Isaac and lola Polk by another magistrate 8
few days ago, and the Folks were in their
turn arrested on a warrant sworn out bv
Hilda Maxwell. An idiotic child was at the
bottom of all the trouble.
Some time since JEFF and Bob Smith, two
colored men, were arraigued in the Circuit
Court at Bartlett, Tenn, for poisoning an old
negro woman in the northeastern portion OF
the county. Their attorneys plead a want OF
jurisdiction and claimed the scene OF the
alleged crime to be in Upton county. The
prisoners we're accordingly taken to Coving-
ton, but the attorney-general was doubtful
| and had the line run between the two coun-
| ties of Shelby and Upton. By this mean.
the house OF the woman said TO have been
poisoned, was found 10 be about 140 yards
| from the line in this county, and the prison.
era will accordingly be brought here for trial
"A cattle-herder named Ramsey, from
the Indian Nation, was up before Justice
Coleman yesterday charged by Inspector
Lane, of the Cruelty to Animals Society, with
barbarity in the manner in which he is
branding cattle. Mr.. Lane states that Mr..
Ramsey has branded about fifty head, one OF
which was produced in court as evidence.
The animals sides had been burned with q
hot iron from the point of the shoulder
blade down on each side 10 its hips, the
Tracing OF the iron being about an inch wide,
and showing that the hair had been literally
burned off to the roots. Mr.. Ramsey is evil
| IDENTIFY innocent of any intentional cruelty,
since it is a custom in bis country with which
he has been familiar from boyhood up, and
necessary to enable owners 10 identity their
| cattle. But it is in violation Of the laws Of
Tennessee-the society urging that branding
| sufficient far all intents and purposes can be
done with less torture to the animals. Mr.
Ramsey was fined SIS and costs. He stated
| that he had about twenty. Five mead yet not
| branded, but he was admonished not to pur.
sue the torture further. Mr.. Ramsey con-
Quoted himself with the utmost decorum be.
fore the court, and submitted to the penalty
| without murmur.