Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-20
RIVER NEWS.


BELLE MEMPHIs---.-...St. Louis, 5 pm.
ST. FRANCIs~-..-.St. Francis river, 5 pm.
Dies ARC-~...-~.......W White river, 3 pm.
ARRIVALS.
Steamer Belle Memphis, St. Louis.
+" Julia, st. Louis.
Rubicon, Vieksburg.
Mississippi, New Orleans.
Leonidas, New Orleans.
DEPARTURES.
Steamer Mississippi, st. Louis.
RubicOn, st. Louis.
" Leonidas, Pittsburg.
G.. W. Cheek, Friar's Point.
t. H. Allen, Arkansas river.
Julia, Vicksburg.
IN PORT.
Belle Memphis, Des Arc, st. Francis.
RIVERS WEATHER AVID BUSINESS.
LOUISVILLE, July 19.-River falling,
with 6 feet 5 inches in the canal.
ST. LOUIS, July l9.-River rising again.
MEMPHIS GAS Works, July 10.
River fell 8 inches in past24 hours. Be
low high water mark of 1867, 9 feet ?
inches. CHAS. GOODWIN.
The decline is now rapid at this point.
Our dispatches give the latest from above.
The Arkansas and White are falling. \
rise is coming from the Missouri and one
from the upper Mississippi, which will
check the decline at st. Louis. but will
not affect it here. Weather wet. Bush
ness moderately active,
MISCELLANEOUS,
Three young negro maeSerels murdered
a grown negro man on the leYee yester-
day. See local columns.
The Des Arc, Capt. Elliott, leaves to-
day for White river.
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Ninson & DOnahue, is now running the
spiritual department Of the Thomas II.
Allen.
The splendid steamer Belle Memphis,
Capt. John Crane, leaves to-day for Cairo
and st. Louis. She is the gayest packet
in the line. and connects with the trains
North and East. Billy Blenker is chief
clerk.
The new ST. Francis, elegant as a city
belle, Will back out to-day for all points
on St. Francis river. She is Il beauty.
Tom Bowman is master and Messrs.
Paine and Clark are clerks.
The Belle Lee, Capt. John Smoker, Will
be in port to-day, and leaves at ) pm. for
Vicksburg and New Orleans. She is one
of the finest steamers on the river.
Adolph Martin is chief clerk.
All. GrissOm, of the Rubicon, will qGit
the boat at St. Louis this trip, and goes to
Saratoga, Newport and other watering
places. to spend a few weeks. He viii
come back TO US in the fall gay. festive
and popular as yer
The river at st. Louis is Il feet below
high gater mark of 1874.
Billy Dill has Q splendid new mail wa
gon, and old Cream looks as proud as q
Jigadier Brindle with a new uniform on.
The Legal Tender was towed up to the
foot of Jefferson, and willhave alterations
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a general Oyerhauling.
Jimmy Thompson has taken charge Ql
the Thos. II. Aliens office. jim Rowland,
her former clerk, is unwell.
The Mississippi passed up with an eS-
cellent trip.
The Allen broke 4 cam rod last evening
and did not get away until late in the
night.
we learn that Capt. John d. Adams Of
the Memphis and Arkansas, and Mem
phis and White River Packet Lines, has
leased the Memphis and Little Rock Rail
road from Devall's Bluff to Little Rock
for the term of five years.
During the recent freshet in Connects
cut, a W waterbury editor telegraphed an
other at the scene Of action, "Send me
full particulars Of the food" The an
swer came, you win find them IN Gen
esis."
The storm Of Friday did immense dam
age all over the country. Houses and
other property were destroyed from Iowa
to the Atlantic coast.
J. f. Miller, in the employ of the White
Collar Packet company, at Dubuque, was
drowned from the wharfbOat there Fri
day.
Sherley, voolfolk & Co., having sold
their Evansville and Henderson packets
to an incorporated company, the Louis
vile, Evansville and Henderson Mail
Line" in which they are large stOckhOld-
ers, the stamps required or the bill ofsale
cost oyer SUf
The Cincinnati CoWmerciot says; The
work on Capt. Tom feathers new boet,
at the yard Of the Marine Railways and
Dry DOcR Company, is progressing. Her
deck fTame has been erected, and she Is
planked up above her knuekles. Ham
bleton's bOat-yard seems to be ahead
of the others this spring. The work
men are busily engaged on the three re-
cent contracts of Capt. John ID. Adams,
for the Memphis and Arkansas River
Packet Company. One of these packets
will be a side-Wheeler, and the balance
stern-wheelers. The side-wheel packet
will be 200 feet long, "a feet beam, and 3
feet hold. Of the stern-wheelers, their
dimensions will be as follows: One 156
feet long, 81 feet beam, and AZ feet hold (;
the other $50 feet long, 81 feet beam, and
3 teet hold. The keels of two are laid, the
frame of one raised, while that of the
other is being got ont. and the same
draughted, The smallest OF these stern
wheelers viii be provided With the ma
chinery of the LEM LeOti-the other two
with machinery of DumOnt's manufao-
ture. The cylinders in the side-wheel
packet are to be IS inches in diameter,
with seven feet stroke. The stern-wheelers
will be provided with IL inch cylinders,
with four feet stroke. At Litherbury's
yard, every thing seems quiet.
The Nicksburg Times says of a well
known river clerk: We regret 10 learn
that the health of Mr.. Billy Jones is so
much impaired as to necessitate a tempo
rary withdrawal from steamb0ating.N
The Denver AelES says: The great
rain storms East seem to have reached
the Rocky Mountains every time this
year. The telegraph tells US of floods in
the Middle and Western States, and al
most simultaneously with the news they
are upon rs here"
The Fort Smith Heraldo Of the 10th saws:
"The river, during its last bender, has
been as high as at any time since 1888 and
1884, and within two or three feet of as
high as at that time. 1t has done much
damage below, on the low lands"
The New Orleans Times of SUNDAY
says: There was another large ship
ment of salt yesterday for western pack
ers. The steamer Commonwealth took
2273 sacks and the Moliie Able 1000, all of
which was shipped from the warehouses
BfessrS. Jackson & Manson. There are
vet to 90 westward, from the same firm.
5000 sacks, which viii no doubt be
quite acceptable, and freely used in the
next fan and winter months. The steamer
Mollie Able had on board, besides the
salt, 40 tons of railroad iron and $50 tons
Of miscellaneous freight, and sixty cabin
passengers"
The overflow in the lower Arkanass
worse than we anticipated. The Lit
tie Rock Gazette says: 1.-THE overflow
commenced at Red Fork, where Samples
plantation and the one adjoining were /
partially inundated. The Jim Smith
place was all under. Lower Branch place
about 100 acres destroyed. Martin and
place nearly all under. Flovd
all ~under-crop totally DESTROYED. |
.iOOdlOe place nearly all under. Mitchell
place part under; Judge Fetch
one-third destroyed. Anthony RO-
lies place totally destroyed. Reeves place 1
partly under. Between this CITY and
Pine Bluff several farms were partially 4
It is estimated that about 5000 /
lcres of cotton haze been DESTROYED be-
ween here and the mouth of the river.
AbOYe here a few farms we're partially
inder, but the damage inflicted is not Sc
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