Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-07-10

New wheat, says the Monitor, is SELL
ing at AlurfreesbOrO at 81 and 81 25 per
bushei. The same paper is responsible for
the following MIR. Sam. Graham showed
TO US, on Wednesday, a chicken which
was hatched on his place, having four
perfectly formed legs 1t is apparently
in healthy state, and follows its mother
with the rest Of the brood.
The Daily AnlericdR Union an
nOunces the arrival of ex-Gov. w. l..
Sharkey and wife at the Lookout Noun
tain house TO spend the summer.
The Union and Dispatch Of the 9Th
says A report reached the city yester-
day that Pud Diggs, the noted guerrilla,
who shot Deputy 5herifIrwiD, Of Henry
county, broke jail at Paris a few days
since, killed Sheriff Porter, and made
good his escape. The same paper says
OF the Ashland city murdereTs: The pre-
liminary examination of Martin and
Harris, the murderer5 of young Brink
ley, was 10 have taken place yesterday.
VIM. G.. Brien, counsel for the prosecu-
ton, and +. AID r. Cary, attorneys for
the prisoners, left here yesterday morn
ing to be present at the examination.
"A party of Pennsylvania capitalists
have recently invested largely ia real
estate at Smeedsville, on the Nashville
and Northwestern railroad, and extensive
iron manufactures are in prospect.
Hon. John Woodward is 10 run as
a conservative candidate from Robertson
county, and it is believed he will be re-
turned to the legislature by very large
majority, if there is a semblance OF fair
play at the polls
An election Of officere of the Nash
vile and Northwestern railroad will be
held on the 22d instant. On the 14th Of
August officers Of the Nashville and
Chattanooga railroad viii be elected
The Knoxville Daily Free Press says
On Wednesday morning the westward
bound mail train on the East Tennessee
and Virginia railroad met with an acci-
dent in the cut about a quarter Of mile
east of Limestone depot. The mail and
baggage coaches were completely upset
and badly broken, the running gear man.
gled to pieces. The engine and hind
most coach were not injured. Strange
to say, none of the passengers or en-
plOyees were seriously hurt. The editor
Of the AIorristOwn Gazette says: at
was our fortune to be in the hindmOst
car where we were not even severely
jOlted. As we approached the door and
glanced at the wreck, we thought, for a
moment, that none had escaped alive,
but pale faces Kept issuing from the
ruins till all came out. If the cOIOrsd
faces were not pale, they were CHASTITY"
AT Rutledge, in East Tennessee, the
radicals hung President Johnson in effigy
on the 4th inst.
The Fayette Falcon states that Lieu
tenant 5. w. Groesbeck, of the staff Of
General Carlin, Bureau Commissioner
for this state, addressed the cOlOred people
at Somerville, on Friday of last week.
The Fi5IcOn says "He advised them to
be industrious, honest and respectful.
Told them what is very true, that the
men Of the South, their former masters,
were their only true friends that they
had been told the men Of the north were
their best friends, but that he was himself
Il northern man, born and raised in the
north, and that he knew such was not
the case. He informed them that the
talk about Confscating the lands of
southern men, and dividing them up ami
giving homes TO the negroes, was all nom
sense, and had played out and that the
way for them to get homes was to work
industriOusly; instead of lying in bed
until breakfast time, 10 get up early and
lay hold of the plOw handle and when by
their industry and labor they had ac-
quireG the means 20 dc so, to 20 and buy
them a home, as all of Us had been COM
peiled to dO.n