Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-07-29

OF wheat underwent no change yester-
day. Nearly all received was in dam
aged condition. Provisions were fair
ard groceries were active. Hides and
leather were steady and potatoes were
dull.
Knoxville Chronicle, twenty-seventh:
A note from jacksonville, dated yesteT-
dav morning, informs US that the county
isiI at that place was broken open on
Sunday night, and that Young Rogers,
Henry CrOwden and Jack Hunt, the
wife murderer, made their escape. No
particulars are given.
Nashville Banner, twenty-sixth: For
two hours yesterday shock after shock
ot wheat was seen floating down the
Cumberland. 1t was supposed that
come creek had overlooked some dis
lance above Nashville. Whole crops
had suddenly been swept away from
some hardy tiller Of the soil and forever
lost.
Gainesville letter to the Hsrtsyille
Sentinel: The report is now current in
this county that a few days since
peddler by the name OF Joel Foster was
murdered ard robbed OF six hundred and
fifty dollars and stock Of jewelry near
Chestnut Mound, Our excellent sheriff,
Asa johnson, and 8 posse Of the citizens
are in pursuit.
Nashville Union and American: DIR.
T. q. Cracking, OF this city, removed an
ounce hall from the chest of MI. Robert
son, from Lee county, Mississippi, which
he mad carried since the war, and which
had became so painful IS to become in
tolerable. The ball had passed through
the shoulder-blade and right lung, frac-
turing a r.b in front, bUtbeiDg spent, re-
manned within the chest.
Knoxville Chronicle, twenty-seventh:
Emma Nance, a somewhat notorious
woman, VINO, as well as Der mother,
was serving out term in the work
house for keeping q bawdy house, sud-
denly died Sabbath night, RumOFs
were afloat yesterday that she had died
from cholera, but we are informed by
Sheriff Swan that there is no foundation
for the report, as DIR. Alexander pro-
nounced 1t heart disease.
Nashville Union and American:
There are three counties in the state
that have never had superintendent OF
public instruction, namely, Scott in
East Tennessee, Clay in Middle Ten
nessee, and Henderson in West Tennes-
see. The state superintendent OF public
instruction has been in correspondence
with their officers on the subject, sug-
Costing nldnddnluS proceedings against
the justices to compel them to elect su.
perintendents.
The Nashville Union and American
saws of st. Louis detective who was
recently in this city as well as in that
town: From inquiries yesterday we are
satisfied that the story in the st, Louis
papers, inspired by Detective Tracey, is
a tissue of gross misrepresentation, con-
cocted for the purpose Of getting him.
self loudly advertised. The Nashville
authorities stand clear in their office,
and there is no ground for a breach be-
tween the police departments OF the
two cities, but, on the contrary, album
dant reason for holding Tracey in con-
tempt.
The Hamilton county grand jury con-
cluded its recent report as follows:
ave are informed by Judge A. q. Puck
EFT, that while it is evident to every one
that considerable sums of money have
been collected by justices of the peace of
the county, in cases tried under the
small Otfense act no such moneys
have been paid over as the law directs,
to the proper State and county officers,
and in no instance have the justices
made reports of the fires collected by
them, while the law requires this to be
done, and further requiring the reports
to be a matter Of record.
"G. L. SAWYERS, Foreman"