The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-04-17

killed by a man named Wright in a
quarrel regarding The purchase of
cotton. The homicide escaped TO
Texas. Nor We're means of education
neglected, and the teschers were per-
sons who stood high in their Dr6 cs-
sions. They included Messrs. II. Bach us
Roundy and Rapkin, a Mrs. Jordan,
from Virginia, and Mrs. Prescott, now,
think, of McI phis, and not I'M
known TO literary anne.
So much for Iames. During the
quarter OF a cent y in which Pamela
fiourished there ere many startling
incidents. Men wed high and their
passions were cas- y aroused. In 1870
a tailor named ! ager killed Ledbet-
ter, who then edited the Lynr.
WHISKY was fruitfultause of trouble
in those days. A man named Wood
ruff, who kept saloon, the only one
in the town and for which he paid
$1,000 license, was killed by a Mr..
Templeton. (ln those halcyon days
no one was hanged for murier.) A
still more celebrated case was that of
Nellands, who deliberately shot Price,
who was a gro,ery-keeper. The VIC
tim was a Fresmason, and the order
made so strong an effort TO secure the
conviction and punishment OF the
murderer that his defense cost him
$4,000. He was killed about a year
afterward by a Mr.. Dyson, who was a
famous fire-eatG and desperate OF
those days, and who was ultimately
slain by his own son-in-law.
1t is pleasant TO turn from these
sanguinary incidents to the lighter
ones of Panolian list ry. The Chick
asaw Indians who abounded in the
vicinity were fine race of people and
were held in high esteem by
the whites. Their danes and
festivals were we'll attended by
the planters and merchants who
brought the "fire water" which enliv-
ened the proceedings, while the young
squaws served "TOmfulla," a kind Of
hominy sweetened with ''Happy
champool." The Chickasaw nomen-
clature abounds day in such words
as Pamela, mean ng cotton. Yocony
patorpha (dividhg line), one of the
tributaries of IT, Tallahatchie and
Tillatoba, a chic name, Senatobia,
Matubby, Toba 1lbby's ferry, etc.
Dances were FIR luently given by the
young men and tie girls were so fond
Of attending ths when their strict
parents locked up the young ladies'
shoes, they were rot unwilling to 90
in their stocsirgee
During the pre- alence OF the high
license law the price cf drinks adj.
vanced from cents to 25 cents. Cot
ton was worth y cents pound, and
one of the pioneer guzzlers was in the
habit of say, as he swallowed his
drink, "Here goe, two pounds of cot
ton" Two whisky cronies named
Upton and Websier, generally came
to town once week on pleasure bent,
and, after drinking until they
were both intoxicated, would con.
clude the evenings entertainment
with fight. On one occasion Upton
arrived in town, and before he had
time to take sir gle drink found his
opponent engaged in fight with a
stranger. Dismcunting from his
horse, he turned in and whipped the
latter, remarking II can't allow any
one to whip Webster but myself
Upton married a half-breed Chicka.
saw, and when his son grew up he
was accustomed 10 introducing him as
"My son, sir, but g0mes of poor stock
on the mothers SIDE"
In high license tines the bar-keep
ers on the steamboats, did a thriving
business with cheap drinks The ar,
rival of a boat was the signal for q
jollification, and all the male popu.
lation would turn out "to inspect the
bill of lading."
From 1910 to 1857 the town was al
its best. The Indian gradually disap
peared and the planters grew richer
and their plantations larger until the
building OF the NJ ssissippi and Ten
nessee railroad. Then there
came a change over the for
tunes of Pamela. When it was
found that the road would not 90 tC
Pamela, the latter determined to go 10
the road, and thusit gradually did, max
ing Batesville the objective point. II
was not, however, until the seconC
year of the war that the town actually
ceased to be a town. Gen, Hatch a
the head of party of Fede al cavalry
raided the town, fired the court
house and jail, and also burned {
number of mills, stores and residences
1t was the last blow. Those BRAY,
boys of the Pamela indicators wht
returned from Appomattox, founC
only the ghost of town. To-day tn,
negro drives the pillow over the sites o
squares and streets, and only tn,
court house, battered and weather
stained, and the Jail, show where one
stood Pamela. SIC transit gloria muadi
lie,