David R. DICKEY, of Randolph, Tennessee, made a bet that he could eat four bottles of brandy peaches and drink all the liquor, together with two full tumblers of raw whisky. He drank the whiskey and finished all the peaches, dropping dead while holding the last peach to his mouth.
As a young man named Seth CORLEY was getting out of a buggy near Smith’s Mill, on Mill Creek, on Tuesday, the accidental falling of a pistol from his pocket caused the discharge of the weapon, the contents penetrating his heart and producing instant death. He was a young man
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
A most unfortunate affair occurrence transpired a few hundred yards above the Ferry on last Wednesday evening. An old gentleman by the name of MORGAN, a renter on the place of Wiley FORT, about three miles north of here, in company with his sons, some three or four in number, went into
Capt. Thomas R. POLK, a worthy descendent of the POLK family of Tennessee, and one of the best citizens of Moorehouse Parish, says the Monroe Telegraph, was thrown from his horse on the morning of the 25th and died in a few hours. The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.),
Title: Shooting in Grand Junction Saloon Last Sunday a most unfortunate affair transpired at Grand Junction in this county. A Mr. WOOD, who keeps a grocery and drinking saloon a the Junction became involved with a difficulty with his bar keeper and in course of the difficulty drew a pistol. WOOD‘s wife,
Died of consumption at the residence of his father on the 2nd of May 1866, John ALLEN, Jr. The deceased leaves many warm friends who revere his memory, not less for this integrity and generosity as a man that his gallantry as a solider. He was twice severely wounded, once
DIED — Ten miles west of this place, on the 1st instant, Hugh L. LEA, son of the late Pleasant LEA, aged about 27 years. His remains were interred on Friday with Masonic honors. Source: Cleveland Banner, 8 February 1872. Paper available online at the Google News Archive. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=mCmIWee0OMYC.
DIED — On the same day (the 26th ult.), one and half miles west of this place, on the farm of Mr. Jo. TUCKER, a Mrs. CALAHAN died of consumption. Source: Cleveland Banner, 1 February 1872. Paper available online at the Google News Archive. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=mCmIWee0OMYC.
DIED – Four miles west of this place, on the 26th ult, after a lingering illness of some five months, Mr. Harvey ALLISON, aged about sixty years. Source: Cleveland Banner, 1 February 1872. Paper available online at the Google News Archive. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=mCmIWee0OMYC.
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