The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-02-14
HOLLY SPRINGS LETTER.
ACASE OF CONSIDERABLE LOCAL
CELEBRITY.
Logan Walker a Candidate for Rail.
road COmmissiOner-PersOnal
and General NOteg.

Holly SPRINGS, MISS, February 49,
Camilla Urso, supported by q fine
company, will appear at the Opera
House Monday night, the 18th instant
1t is only now and then at long inter
walls that our people have an oppoItu.
nifty to enjoy such rare treat al
home, and, rs this is a music loving
community, We presume the house
will be filed to its utmost capacity to
hear Nine. Urso, the world-TenoWned
female violinist.
The Holly Springs Reporter changed
hands yesterday. Capt. John Calhoon,
who has 80 long and ably conducted
it, sold the office, the building it occu-
pied and everything pertaining thereto
to Mr. John Mickle. We wish the paper
under it's new management much sue
cess, and may prosperity attend Capt.
Calhoon in his future business trans
actions.
We understand that our townsmsn,
Logan Walker, will be one OF the can
didates before the Legislature for Rail-
road Commissioner in this State. Mr..
Walker is competent, energetic, wide
awake business man, and we presume
few men outside Of railroad circles ia
better posted on railroad matters than
he. He is thoroughly convenant with
their system Of through tariff and To-
cal discrimination, special rates and
drawbacks. He is eminently a practical
man, with fine judgment and clear
head, and will do justice both to the
railroads and to the people. We hope
he will be appointed.
Judge Featherston has returned
from Pontotoc, where he has been
holding count.
Alter Sunday the trains on the Hi
nois Central railroad will go up at
o'clock am, instead of s o'clock, as
heretofore, and the evening train will
pass down at 6 10.
Mrs. James T. FAINT, Miss Helen
FAINT, Mrs. Sailor. Mrs. Brown, John
f. Anderson and j. p. NoiAeet, went
TO Memphis to hear the celebrated
evangelists, Moody and Saukey.
Mrs. j. II. Watson has returned af-
ter an absence of several weeks in
Memphis.
Miss Minnie Stith is visiting friends
in Michigan City.
Miss Mollie Phillips of jacksonville
is visiting relatives in Memphis.
Master Dudley Featherston OF the
University is at home for few daya.
Mr.. Egbert y ones returned from a
several weeks trip to Florida.
Me- Moeop and M;aS Erl1a bo,a haov,
visiting Okolons.'
MessTs. Frank Crump and Peter
Anderson of Memphis spent last Sur
day in our little city.
Frank Fennell and Bernard Brown
went to Yazoo this week.
3. III. Williamson, Clerk of the
House, paid flying visit here last
week.
Our thanks are due Senator. Kemp
for fficial reports of the Agricultural
and Mechanical College, the Deaf and
Dumb Asylum, and other public
documents.
Ed Smith, formerly OF this place,
now OF Arkansas, spent several days
this week among his old friends here
Ben Baer, after spending a few
weeks with his relatives in Holly
Springs, returned this week 10 Min
neapolis.
ii. @. Robinson, private secretary of
Senator Walthal', is in town on brief
visit.
]. II. Watson spent several DAYS in
Jackson this week.
Last Sunday afternoon two negro
boys, Will Knight and Charlie Epps,
broke into Mr.. Henderson's grocery
store, and having ( 5sessed themselves
Of whatever they could conveniently
carry, together with about So in cash,
we're trying to escape when they were
spprehended. AS Charley was small
darby he was released, but Knight has
an apartment in the jail, to await the
next term Of the Circuit Court.
Miss Kemp has been seriously i'll.
We are glad to hear that she is COMA
lescing.
G. A. Palm CT Tennessee was in
town this week.
Martin Rosenbaum Of Cincinnati
was here few days since.
A number Of Shsrkey county land
owners have pettioned the Governor
to withhold his signature to the act
repeating the wire-fence law in that
county.
A Young Lafayette county rustic
drove cow into Oxford the other day
aud exchanged her for his marriage
license.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hawkins OF
Winona recently celebrated their gold
en- wedding.
Our popular Circuit Clerk, G. G.
Myers, grand warden Of the Grand
ComRandery OF knights Templar, ia
attending the meeting of that body al
Jackson, Miss.
Misses Daisy Lucas, Fannie Biacken
and Mary Nunnelly attended ball al
Grenada this week.
Mrs. DIR. 7. J. Malone departed this
life on Tuesday last, at her home in
this city. Mrs. Malone has been {
resident OF Holly Springs since it!
early settlement, and, though she
never had any children, both she ant
her husband were fond of young PEG
pie and as long as her delicate health
! NOulu p6iIllN blClA hOuSC WN9 bsAO AOh
devious for all the bright young spirits
in town who seemed to carry sun
shine into the sick room,
A case Of considerable loca, celebrity
in which all the parties involved were
Marshall county people, has recently
been decided by our Supreme Cour
at Jackson. We refer to the case o
Belle T. McWilliams (nee Means ct al
We. ]. P. Noineet and others. II wa
a suit on the guardians bond of W
A. Roberts, former guardian of Mrs
McWilliams and her two sisters, anC
involved altogether $4,000 or $40 600
The defendants, who were sureties oil
a second boad given by said guardian
denied that they were liable for an.
default Of said guardian, and denie,
the validity of the bond. The Chan
Gerry Court of this county, Judge FL
presiding, held that the bond wa
valid, but that these sureties wer
not liable for the guardians default
The Supreme Court has just reverse,
Ala, 1as4ar rorf of the daoisiOn an