Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-13
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Superintendent Gas Works.


Superintendent Gas Works.
BY TELEGRAPH.
CAIRO, July I2.-Up: Edinburg, New
Orleans to Cincinnati, 8 Am. Hercules,
New Orleans to Louisville, 10 am; Ru-
bIcon, Vieksburg to st. Louis, II Am.
Down: Belle ST. Louis, st. Louis to Mem
phis, 4 pm; Mohawk, Cairo TO New Or
leans, S pm. River rose 2 inches. Rain
last night. Weather cloudy. Mercury
S2o.
PIrTsBURG, July I2.-Tbe Monongahela
is falling, with 8 feet 7 inches in the chan
mel. Weather showery. Thermometer
81.
ST. LOUIS, July I2.-Arrived: Pauline
Carroll, from New Orleans. Departed:
Marble City, for Vicksburg. River fall
ing. Weather clear and warm.
CINCINNATI, July l2.-River II feet and
falling. W 7ather cloudy and showery.
Thermomet. $50 at noon.
ISCELLANEoUs.
For the first time since the war a day
has arrived with no boa advertised "a
leave in any direction. 1t is a remark
able and not a pleasing incident to record,
and shows that the river business is not
active as it should be, even at this dull
season. To be sure we have n or two
small local packets going out, but they
think it economy not to let il be known
W bAO BuDlACy dnu bncI ndN0 a IAEAA W
their opinion.
Captain Frank Hicks has concluded not
to go to Bolivar county at present.
The Pat Cleburne is safe belOw the falls
at Louisville, and will be here on Friday
or Saturday next.
The Marble City will pass down for
Vicksburg tomorrow. She is the regular
United States mail packet.
The Belle st. Louis, Captain Zeigler,
llRvnG fn-FanrrOry fnr Cairn and Ii Tanuia
All the cotton has been carried out
from Upper Red river, and that stream is
low.
A Mr.. VIM. Leak was drowned in the
Mississippi, five miles below Memphis, on
Saturday last. He WAS on his way TO
Whites woodward with a barrel of flour,
when his skif upset. His only known
White, who lives at No. 1925 North Sew
enteenth street, st. Louis, and a half
brother named Harrison Head at Whites
woodward. Leak wa farming at Whites.
By order of the stockholders, the
steamers G. B. Church and NJ. J. Wicks
are offered for sale.
The Sam Hale is the next Cincinnati
packet. She leaves on Saturday next.
The City of Chester, the third boat built
by James, Howard & Co. this season for
the st. Louis and Memphis Packet Com
pany, will be launched at their ship-yard
at Jefferson, to-day.
Trinity river, Texas, is again n~ayigable.
There is plenty of water.
Barney Hughes, in his RoillOdy Record,
gives the following lucid reasons why the
was beaten in her late race: "The
cylinders of the Lee having twelve inches
more stroke than the mud drum of the
Nstchez, gives her more power in the
dunnage, but If the Natchez had her
wheels set down thirteen inches below
the gsngway of b stesm-chest the jib-
of revolution would have been in
On the beam, and the
would have been that the henooop would
have taken the chute and given more
power to the larboard side of the fore
The COUrEeT-JoHrnGI says: The City of
Vieksburg, the second boat built here
this season for the st. Louis and Mem
phis Packet Company, is about COM
Captain Keiser, superintendent
the company, informed us yesterday
that he expected TO leave with this boat
for st. Louis next Wednesday. Every
one who has seen this boat pronounees
her a much prettier and finer boa than
her predecessor, the Grand Tower"
b st. Louis Democrat says: "The
Southern Transit Company is the name
by which the last steamboat enterprise
has been incorporated under the old Con-
OF the State of Illinois. The cor
p~oratOrs are the Messrs. Pegram, Robbins
and their associates, who are having built
On the Ohio b steamer Clara Balm, for
The st. Louis and New Orleans trade. The
stock of the company is set down
At $500, 900, divided into shares of 500
each. B. r. Pegrsm is President; George
Pegram, Vice President; and John Jones,
Secretary"