We learn from parties who arrived in port yesterday on the Pat Cleburne that a small scrimmage took place on the R.P. Walt shortly after leaving this place on her last trip out. Harris CARTER, second steward on the Walt, was stabbed with an ice-pick by Alonzo GILBERT, a white
Also, on the same day, at 12 o’clock m., within one mile of Dr. BROWN’s, at the residence of the bride’s father, Rufus WYNNE, Esq., by Rev. Mr. COWAN, Mr. James STEELE Jr. and Miss Lizzie WYNNE. Source: Memphis Daily Appeal, January 1, 1872 Editorial Note: This notice was published
On Monday, January 1st, 1872, at 11 o’clock a.m., at her father’s, Dr. BROWN of Big Creek, by Rev. Jno. WATSON, Mr. Samuel REMBERT Jr. and Miss Nannie BROWN. Source: Memphis Daily Appeal, January 1, 1872
Covington Record, May the 28: A fire broke out about one o’clock yesterday morning on the east side of the square. It was a terrible conflagration. Nothing but the fact of being there but little wind and the building being wet from the rain of the preceding evening saved the
There are now confined in the Memphis jail 107 prisoners. Of these, three colored women – Lizzie LYONS, Mrs. WOOLDRIDGE and Charlotte NORMAN – are charged with murder. There are six white men charged with murder, and ten negroes – four of whom are under sentence of death. Source: Jackson
Ranaway from my place on Cow Island, on the 18th inst., my negro man, named SEWALL; he is about 30 years old – 5 feet 4 or 5 inches high; has a deep scar on one of his cheeks; very defective teeth; lowering look, and is a dark copper color.
Ranaway from the subscriber on the 15th of July last, two Negro boys, Richard and Sam. Richard is of dark, copper color, about thirty-five years of age, has a scar between the shoulders, caused by a rising, and another below the knee. One knee is affected by rheumatism, rendering him
Runaway, about the 10th or the 12th of September, a Negro woman named Amanda. She is black and pitted with the small pox in the face. She is 5ft 2 inches high, heavy set, aged 17 years. She was lurking about Memphis when hear of last. I will pay the
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