Blount County TN Archives News.....Miscellaneous Articles June 13, 1856
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THE EAST TENNESSEEAN June 13, 1856
June 13, 1856



Murder---A friend writing to us from Rockbridge, Ozark County (Missouri),

under the date of April 13, 1856, gives the following particulars of the

murder of a man named John W. Shorb, on the 10th. The deceased lived 3 miles

west of Rockbridge, with his daughters, having lost his wife some 18 months

ago. He came to this state from Tennessee, some 8 years ago: The deceased was

in his field plowing some three hundred yards from his house and had stopped

his nag and stepped to the fence for some purpose, either to get a drink or

had been called there by the man who shot him. About the time he got to the

top of the fence he was shot, we suppose with a shot-gun. We found the

wadding. There were 7 or 8 shot and slugs that struck him from his knees to

his hat-band. After he fell from the top of the fence he was shot in the back

with 14 shot or balls, and the gun was so close to his person that he was

powder burned. His daughters say three guns fired--one fired and in a little

time thereafter two nearly together. The person that shot him the first time

was in 20 or 30 yards of him. Who the murderer was we know not. Shorb was

about 47 years of age, and a large robust man, and has left 2 daughters to

mourn the loss of a murdered father. He was a member of the Methodist

Protestant Church. He has two sons somewhere. Our brethren of the press are

requested to give the above an insertion, so that Shorb’s sons may learn the

situation their sisters are in, and assist them. Springfield Mirror.



To Be Hung---M.M. Chury and Moses Gossett were sentenced, during the Appeal

Court in Columbia, to be hung on Friday, 11th July. Their crime is negro

stealing. It becomes our painful duty to announce the death of James M. Peak,

of Madison County, Miss. He was killed by a negro belonging to Maj. William

Maney in whose employ Mr. Peak, was acting in the capacity of an overseer. The

fact of his death was communicated the same evening to Mr. James Dejarhett of

this vicinity by telegraph, and since then, other communications have been

received by his relatives in this county, but none of them, as we learn, state

the particulars, except that a negro killed him with a club. Mr. Peak was a

native of Rutherford County (TN), and he leaves an aged mother and many

relatives here to lament his untimely end. He also leaves a wife and several

small children to mourn their irrepairable loss. He was one greatly beloved by

those who knew him, and was remarkable for the affection he manifested towards

his family and relations generally. He was a worthy member of the Masonic

fraternity, and in his death the order has lost a good member. May his

bereaved family and friends look to Him who is a present help in need, in this

their deep affliction. Murfreesboro Telegraph.



We clip the following from the Nashville Gazette: Death of Capt. James Walker.

The telegraph brings us the painful intelligence of the death of this gallant

young man, brother of Gen. William Walker, and son of James Walker, Esq., of

this city. Not two months ago, when the prospects of the Republican Party in

Nicaragua were darkest, and when certain defeat and overthrow seemed to await,

Gen. Walker and his noble army, he whose death we now record, accompanied by

five other gallant spirits, left Nashville to join the army in Nicaragua. Soon

after their arrival, Mr. Walker was promoted to the lieutenancy, and

subsequently to a captaincy. Possessing qualities, both of head and heart,

which eminently fitted him for command, his friends were warranted in hoping

for him a brilliant military career. Had his life been spared, he would

doubtless have been of essential service in the great struggle for Republican

liberty in Nicaragua. But an All-wise Providence, has decreed otherwise, and

he for whom we had predicted a brilliant and glorious career, has passed from

the walks of men, and his remains now repose in a distant land.



Tragical Affray---A tragical affair occurred upon the R.L. Cobb, at the island

shute, while on her late trip up. The circumstances as we gathered them during

the trial are as follows: A man by the name of Bryson Harper, and a lad named

William Minnis, had quarreled. The man, it seems from the evidence, was of an

overbearing, bullying disposition, and had threatened the boy with violence.

Some words were passed at the time of the last difficulty, when Harper rushed

upon the lad with a hatchet in one hand, and struck him with the other. Minnis

had a twine knife in his hand at the time, and after Harper hit him, the

former struck a random blow, cutting the latter in the thigh, and severing a

main artery, from the effects of which, he died in a very short time. The lad

was secured, and upon the arrival of the boat here, he was placed in the hands

of officer John A. Petty. An examination of the affair was had shortly after

before Justices Robertson and Rives, and the boy discharged on the ground that

the crime was a justifiable homicide. Nashville Patriot.



Another Case of Poisoning in Scott County---We learn from our Junior now in

Scott, that another case of wholesale poisoning occurred in that county a few

days ago. It was at a log-rolling at the residence of Mr. Peter Morell.

Twenty-one were poisoned, and several are seriously ill; but hopes are

entertained of their recovery. It was supposed by some that the poisoning

occurred from eating chicken cooked in a copper vessel; but Dis. Herren and

Dulaney say that it was occasioned by arsenic. No one, so far as we have

learned, has as yet been suspected. Abingdon, Virginia.



Interesting Relic---The Tera Haute, Indiana, Journal states that quite an

“interesting relic” was discovered recently by a Mr. William King, Sullivan

County. It is a sword, with a lengthy silver chain attached to it, and a

quantity of silver on the belt: and was found sticking in the ground near what

is called Wagner’s Defeat Branch. Here a guard with several wagon loads of

provisions destined for Fort Harrison in 1812, was surprised, and the men all

killed but one Black. This sword is supposed to have been the property of the

officer in command, whose name is Fairbanks.





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