Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-28
SUPERINTENDENT Gas work
BY TELEGRAPH.

inch In the past twenty-four hours
now with 5 feet l inch in the canal
and 3 feet l inch in the chute over tbs
falls. Weather cool, and has been rain.
ing since Ii o'clock last night. Down.
Alice Dean, Cincinnati. The Norman has
not yet been released. She probably will
be tomorrow.
CAIRO, May H.-Weather cool and
cloudy. The river has fallen 8 inches il
the past t~wenty-fOur hours. Up: j. +,
Eckert, Marble City, Commercial, AID
CLANCY Belle, Imperial and Rover. DOVE
Nick Longworth and City of Alton.
NASHVILLE. May 27.-River again de-
elining slowly, with 8 feet 3 inches on the
shoals. Weather 700 and cloudy.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The towboat Dick Fulton passed down
yesterday.
II was rumored yesterday that the tow
boat Sam Brown, bound down, struck a
snag near Randolph, on Thursday night,
and two of her barges were said to be in
q sinking condition
Capt. I. G. Yanhook, of the Carrie v.
Koontz, is in our city. His boat lies high
and dry at Island 50, and is some $50 feet
from deep water. He is here trying to
make some arrangement with QUIZ dock
men to go down and launch her, but with
out success. 1t is probable that he will
employ q sufficient force to dig her out.
Capt. Vanhook has energy and pluck, and
that be will have her a1oat soO there
can be no doubt.
The u. s. mail packet r. P. Walt.
Captain VIM. Ashford, will get away at
her regular hour this evening for all
points on White river to Jacksonport.
She connects with the Railroad for Little
Rock and with the Fairy Queen for PO-
cahontas and all landings on Black river.
Messrs. Butler and Waddel are her sec
retaries.
The beautiful and magnificent Grand
Tower will be in port this morning, and
will, we suppose, again be the center of
attraction. She goes out at 5 pm. for
Cairo and st. Louis, and connects with the
trains both North and East. Captain
Lennox, her popular master, is on the
roof, and Tom White is in the office.
Samuel Caldwell, n of the Oldest river
editors OF Pittsburg, died in that city ON
the 23d.
The Ida, some time ago sunk in Lake
Chicot, has been raised, and is nov plying
on that handsome sheet Of water.
The Bismarck passed down last even
ing. She had a big trip.
There is about 1000 bales Of cotton lying
on u landing awaiting shipment to New
Orleans.
The Belle Lee passed up last night for
st. Louis. She laid at Hopefield all day,
discharging railroad iron, and right here
the wan OF labor is seriously felt. The
iron is what river men call short from
and to load it at New Orleans cost Sc per
bar. To discharge it here, cost Zoe per
bar. The freight up was 81 90 per ton, on
cargo of 500 tons. Time lost, three days.
Expenses, $500 per day. Loading and un-
loading iron, $500. John SuLiyan's ledger
will show that there is-no money in
railroad iron.
The Magenta is coming from New Or
leans with another cargo OF iron for the
Memphis and Little Rock Railroad,
The Geo. W. Cheek, Captain Cheek, will
get away to-day as usual for Helena,
Friar's Point and all way landings. She
is a gay and prompt packet. Barney Ba-
rinds and Charley Jackson are her clerks.
The Legal Tender gets away on Tuesday
for White river.
The Great Republic, Captain VIM. Dom
aldson, leaves to-day for Vieksburg and
New Orleans, She is one of the finest
passenger packets ahOat. Captain Atkin-
is her chief clerk.
The sternwheel steamer John Bullock
was taken to b hOleyard at a late hour
on Thursday evening and tied to a stump,
She ran in the Chancery Court trade, but
will never again turn a wheel in these
Inc CINCINNATI Gazette Jays: "On o
day, while workmen were excavating on
the Cincinnati shore, to find a foundation
for the second shore pier of the Cincinnati
and Newport bridge, they came to the
hull of a steamboat. This was twenty
feet below the surface of the ground. In
quiry suggested that the hull, which was
well preserved and had large timbers,
was that of the Moselle, which, according
to 'Lloyd's Steamboat Directory and Dis
asters on the Western Waters published
1856, exploded her four boilers April
IS, 1888, killing nearly $50 of the 800 pas
aboard. The humber OF killed is
taken from the work of Judge Hall, pub
lished in lS4S, and entitled The West-Its
and Navigation We do not
that the hull is that of the MoselIe
all. The probability is that the hull Of
the worn out Lawrence, built at Cincin-
natl and laanon9d February IL, 1924, and
on the bank by the receding water in
The SUMMED of 1922, after five years faith
ful service, is the hull found On Monday.
In 1923, what is now the foot of Butler
and Ludlow streets was a boat-yard, and
then there has been as much as 25
Or 80 feet of filling in done. IL is known
also that the hull of the Lawrence was
with dirt in this way"