In Memphis, on the 7th, while workmen were employed moving rubbish from a lot on Jefferson street, between Third and Fourth, a negro found a box containing $27,000 in gold. It is supposed to have belonged to an old gentleman who owned the premises where it was found, and who
A Watchman Thrown into the River and Drowned – The Murderer Apprehended and Committed An angry dispute occurred at the landing about one o’clock, yesterday afternoon, between Timothy MAHONEY, a watchman, and George WALLACE, a deck-hand on the packet Gleaner, which was attended with a very shocking and tragic denouement.
The new crop is being rapidly gathered, and wagons are continually arriving in town with the great staple. The weather continues to be all that could be desired by the planter. The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 20 Oct. 1866, Page 3. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of
Not that the cholera has almost disappeared from Memphis, and as strangers need fear no danger in going there to transact business, we take the occasion to call the attention of the public to the superior accommodations to be had at the Worsham House, and assure all concerned that if
We are happy to inform our readers that Memphis is now almost free of Cholera. But few cases have occurred there within the past week and strangers need have no fears of visiting the city. The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 13 Oct. 1866, Page 2. Chronicling America: Historic
Captain Lorenzo GREENLAW, the gentleman who recently fought a duel with Henderson TAYLOR, attempted to take his own life in Memphis on the 6th. He laid down upon a bed, in his own room, placed a pistol near his heart and fired; the ball that was to find a lodgment
On the 6th a little girl, aged three years, daughter of Mr. T. KEOGH, while attempting to cross Front street, Memphis, was run over by a passing hack and received injuries which caused her death in a few moments. It is not known who the careless driver is, but efforts
On last Tuesday there were sixty-two deaths in Memphis from cholera. We are credibly informed that the disease is on the decrease now, and, it is thought, should the good weather which Memphians are now enjoying hold on for a few days longer, that the disease will almost if not
In the city of Memphis on Wednesday the 26th day of September 1866 at 112 Jefferson St, after a short and agonizing illness of cholera, William H. LANCASTER, aged twenty-four years and thirteen days. The deceased was a native of Franklin county, Alabama. He was a member of the Baptist
There was a considerable decrease in the number of white persons who had died from cholera during the twenty-four hours previous to five o’clock last evening, as reported at the office of the sanitary police. Only two fatal cases of white persons were reported, and fourteen colored. Five white persons,
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