Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-23
MEMPHIS TENN. MONDAY, DECEMBER %. 1879.

leans, taking the freight of the MOliie
Moore when she gets below Point
Pleasant.
It cost the Lawrence fully fifty dollars
more to discharge her cargo here than
it would had the levee at the foot of
Union street been in a respectable con-
ditiOn.
1t was with the greatest difficulty that
laborers could be obtained Saturday to
load or discharge boats, and now that
the holidays are near at hand there will
be considerable difficulty in that way
for two weeks.
The Barge Line from st. Louis have
advanced their New Orleans rates to
one dollar and twenty cents a barrel for
flour, one dollar and eighty for pork,
and sixty cents per hundred for pound
freight
The Mary Mcdonald has laid up at
Grand Tower, and her crew gone home
by rail. The story recently told about a
man being robbed and thrown over
board by the deck crew of that boat
turns out to be a base fabrication. The
man has since turned up at his home,
and reported there that his wife had
been robbed and murdered. The Offic-
ers of the boat do not think the man had
as much money as he reported, as he
tried to get passage on the boat free, and
during the trip both parties were drunk
all the way The man seemed as if he
wanted to shift the woman, and would
have got off a couple of landings below,
but he was afraid the woman would see
him leaving the boat.
The trouble between the Mate of the
Mayfiower and the rOuster he shot grew
out of barrel of whisky which the lat
ter was charged with having tapped.
The condition of the wounded man is
not as bad as was supposed. He viii
doubtless recover.
A few nights since the bank eaved in
on the Indiana, at fuckers, near Island
Ninety-three, knocking overheard some
cattle and cotton, and tearing away
seventy-five feet of her guard.
The Celeste lightened the Continental
over Point Pleasant.
A patent sewing-machine was on ex-
hibition on board the Lawrence last
night, that might, if it were large
enough, sew up some of the holes in the
hulls Of boats lying in the river above
and below here.
The steamers Ora and B. H. Hart
passed down on Friday night.
While the water is 50 low the Govern
ment should employ some of its snag-
boats and channel-cleaners to either
blow up, break up, or in some way de-
strOy, the wrecks of two or three boats
above here, and half a dozen or more
below, that are laying in the river and a
constant terror TO pilots. If the snag-
boats cannot do it, the wTecker Eckert
should be secured. She can clear the
river in a month, and Captain Dugan
would, no doubt, take a contract to do it
in given time.
A telegram from Vicksburg states that
the YazOO, on Friday, was rising fast.
The American Bridge Company has
commenced work on the bridge over the
Arkansas at Little Rock. They have
moved some flats lately built there into
position, and the work Of laying the
foundation for the piers is to be imme-
diately commenced.
The enterprising local of the Little
Rock Gazette says: '"There is some dis
agreement between the Senate and
House of Representatives in regard to
an amendment of the bridge charter of
the Citizens Bridge Company, for the
construction of a bridge across the river
at this point Senators Rice, Clayton
and Edmunds have been appointed a
Committee of Conference on the part of
the Senate.
A Vicksburg exchange has it that the
VIM. J. Lewis was detained there patch
ing a buTut-out boiler.
The Anchor Line is repairing all its
steamers and getting them ready for the
busy season, which Is anticipated upon
the resumption Of navigation.