Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-08-14
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The City OF Alton is the regular st.
Louis packet, leaving tomorrow even
ing. Capt. Thompson is master.
Tue gay U. 5. mail packet RubieOn,
Capt VIM. Blake, with All Grissnm al
the desk, passes down too day st pm.
for Vicksbnrg and the bends. She is one
of the handsOmest boats on the river,
and her officers are trumps, even though
they don't live ia Memphis. She makes
all way landings.
The Julia, Capt. Lockhsrt, will pass
up to-day at noon for Cairo and st.
Louis.
The q. s mail packet Liberty, Capt.
Rice, will be IN port to-day and leaves for
White river tomorrow at the usual
hour, making al way connections.
TIE Minneols, Capt. Walker, will back
out at pm. this day for Cairo, Louis
vile and Cincinnati. She viii go through
on schedule time.
The NJ Burns will prove q total loss.
The Thompson Dean is at Cairo.
An earthquake alarmed the citizens of
Cairo on Tuesday night last-at least 50
says the Democrat. Might It not be the
explosion of that steamer loaded with
COnlD1eTce$
Radical Iowa loves the darkey. Two
of her citizens threw a negro overheard
from q wharf boat at Dubuque recently.
The man and brother was drowned.
Ii is stated that Mrs. Blossom, whose
death by drowning we noticed day or
two ago, was blown overheard at the
same place on the Missouri river where
her husband died some months ago on
his way TO the mountains.
Loading in turn is q great thing
evidently for boat owners, but it is death
to crews. Two weeks af1at and two
months ashore.
Capt. John Cannon, it is said, has
purchased q hull, upon which will be
placed the machinery Of the Grey
Eagle.
a man named John Hunter, twenty
ons or tgenty-tWo years Of age, has just
been convicted of murder at st. Louis.
He is a river man and claims to live in
this city.
Com. Ed. Montgomery il in town.
We were pleased to meet Capt. Jas. T.
Bourne, at his place of business, yester-
day, The veteran steamboat agent has
been i'll for some weeks, and his absence
from the pGUe is probably as noticeable
as would be that of the river at our feet.
We welcome him with real pleasure.
The new K0uns Red river packet, Era
No, 8, in course of construction at Mad
isop, Ind, viii be ready for business
about the 22d inst. Vance & Armstrong,
builders of the Era, are also building
two other steamers.
The old and unfinished Confederate
ram, Texas, captured at Richmond, is
now employed bringing ice from the
Ksnnebec river to Boston.
Capt. Phillips, late of the Louisiana is
running wharfboat at Cairo.
The Wild Wagner has laid up at New
Orleans.
The snagbost Petrolia, has succeeded
in moving the log at Hurricane, which
has go long been q trouble and terror to
steamhoatmen.
Capt. VIM. B. Dodsou, of the snagboat
j. j. Albert, died on bis boat at Cairo on
Tuesday evening.
The steamer Tennessee struck snag
near Grand Chain on Tuesday and re-
turned to Cairo. She was on her way to
ST. Louis st the time Of the accident,
and had to throw overheard I5U0 barrels
cement to keep from sinking
Mr.. James T. MoCord has received the
apDointment Of Boiler Inspector at ST.
Louis, II, place OF Mr.. Morgan, whose
suicide we noticed few days ago. he
filied the position many years ago.