Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-08-13
st. Patrick, Commercial, MoIIie Ham,
bleton and Victor.
MIsCELLANEOrS

LUIS
The very elegant City Of Alton wi
leave for Cairo and st. Louis to-day q
five pm. Capt. Sam. MePheeters, VIII
has no superior SIS a popular officer, con
mahds and Mr.. MeCreight, his RICH
bower, is also a clever and obliging gen
tleman.
The hay now being brought to the cit,
from Arkansas is said to be that cut b,
the engine from the track of the railroaI
between the Bluff and Little Rock. Tn
present fine weather causes a very luxu
rious growth, and the crop gathered semi
weekly after the passage of the trains i
quite heavy. By an ingenious arrange
ment a rake is affixed to the rear of tn
train, and the newly cut grass is TOSSED
up into " cocks" without extra labor.
The Old Reliable" with Capt. Bill
Ashford in command, will leave to-da,
promptly at five pm, for all points OF
White river, connecting at DuvalIs Bluf
with the train for Little Rock. Capt. f
c. Morton, Charles Smithers and Mr.
Sharp are the very able corps of clerks
Travellers should never forget the Com
mercial.
The gay and swift st. Patrick came il
from Vicksburg with a good trip. To-day
she returns for Vicksburg and the bends
We learn that a large party of ladies and
gentlemen have secured staterooms fol
the roud trip, and will doubtless have /
very pleasant time. Capt. John j. Ed
son is popular, competent and will max,
the Wild Irishman have a place in thu
affections of the people, which will prov,
70 his packet a mine of wealth. DR.. CLAY
Rice is chief pursur, and is too well
known to need eulO0y.
Capt. John I. Shively is in town. He
reports crop prospects very fair in his
vicinity. FThe captain will within the mex
ten days take the SOuthernOr to Padueah,
where she will be put in repair for the
coming business season.
The MOllie HambletOR, Capt. Bowman.
leaves to-day for st. Francis river.
The Cleaner got away for the Arkansas
last evening with q fair trip.
One of the Memphis and Vieksburg
transportation company's towboats and
barges passed up on Sunday.
We learn the Capt. Jim. Lee, of the
Dan Able, leaves this evening on a short
visit to the Hot Springs. Capt. Lees
many friends viii be glad to know that
be is not in delicate health, butt merely
going TO reduce himself by clambering
Over the mountains of Arkansas to such
a condition as will enable him success
fully to fight opposition during the COM
ing season.
The news agency is again in trouble
financially. A draft drawn by a magis-
trate st Cairo or Metropolis to a a fine
assessed upon an absent partner of the
firm is the cause of the present difficulty.
OF course it would not be proper to allow
Jim. to remain much longer incarcerated,
SC the draft was promptly met.
We find in an exchange the following
description OF Massey's Vessellesking
Indicator: The continuance is a simple
one, designed to be placed in navigating
vessels, to give warning of leakage. A
float is adjusted in the bottom of the ves-
sci and communicates with a dial drum,
which is provided with q bell and indi-
Gator. As the water may rise in the YES
sci the float raises the drum with which
1t is connected, and the indicator marks
in half inches the height it may be at
tanning. At each half inch the bell Is
tapped. The contrivence seems to COM
mend itself very strongly, not only to
those who have occasion to " 20 down 70
the sea in ships" but also to navigators
of our rivers.
A Cincinnati paper relates several cases
VI A3Aho RCARChAaNC0 W nOOh-hEtpETb
and clerks in that city. Case No. 10
relates to q steamboat clerk who, in
one season, appropriated to his own use
between five and six thousand dollars Of
the earnings Of the boat. When he
found that an examination was to be
made into the accounts, he seized the
books and dashed them into a barrel half
full of New Orleans molasses. The books
were sweet, but could not be touched.
The steamer Wilson Small was run
into and sunk near Baltimore, MARYLAND.
by the steamer Mary Augusta on the
night ofthe Sth instant. Three lives were
lost. The Small was valued at twenty
five thousand dollars.
The local inspector of pilots at New
Orleans, w. G. Flanders, has appointed
two negroes assistant inspectors.
The following are the particulars of the
of Ike Blake, mate of the ]. L.
Graham, by the barkeeper Caleb Bell, of
the same boat Blake went to the bar,
and called for whisky, which the bar
refused to give to him. A diff
Guilty ensued, when Bell drew his pistol
and fired at Blake, the ball taking effect
in bis heart, killing him instantly. This
affair occurred about two miles below
Canton. Blake was buried by the officers
Of the boat st Cadiz, Kentucky. Bell
was also taken into custody at that point.
He is a young man, q resident of Clarks-
vile, Tennessee.