Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-09-25
River S~Oundings.

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William Rogers, United States Supervising
Inspector for the New Orleans district, is en-
route TO Pittsburg.
\ party Of captains, pilots and engineers
have chartered the Nigo, at Evansville, for a
! fishing excursion.
The Champion No has gone TO Rising sun
for the iron recently sunk in the Wild Cats
barge, which she takes to Cincinnati.
/ Len DOdSOn, OF the SnagbOat Alert, was in
Cincinnati Friday, purchasing a battery to be
used il removing the wreck OF the Black
Hawk.
Legal proceedings have been instituted in
the Cincinnati courts against the r. W.. Skill
niger for refusing to pay wharfage.
The Captain OF the propeller Rover was fined
| three hundred dollars at Mobile last Friday for
falling to renew the boats license in proper
time.
The new boat building for Captain ]. y.
Williamson, at Harmon, Ohio, is TO ply be-
tween GalliPOliS and Marietta, and is one
hundred and seventy-nve feet long, thlrty-ive
feet beam, with four feet depth of hold, and
viii be launched on the first OF October. The
cylinder viii be sixteen inches in diameter,
with six feet stroke, and three forty-inch
riveted.
The delegates tc the Cleveland Convention
from Cincinnati left on Monday. They were
provided with passes over the Dayton Short
Lin and Delaware Cutoff railroads by GEN
The R.P.W Walt was HbeIled and bonded at
Helena sometime since FOR a suit OF ten thou
sand dollars damages, brought by q eolored
man named Carter, who got in arrow with the
deck crew and was severely bruised, and was
pct OF at Helena for medical treatment. n
court last Tuesday allowed him one hundred
The CAIRO and Paduceh packet has com
pleted her repairs and resumed her trade,
John 1. Gates, ESQ, has taken. charge of the
office of the Glencoe. aE ID.
New Orleans suffers from an ice and water
famine.
Black river, Missouri, is so low that the
steamer Bluff City has had to lie up.
The Cherokee is tied up at Pecan Point,
Red river with q broke shaft.
The Evansville Journal says: "The Bette
Gilbert, with apparatus for commencing the
improvement of the Wabash river, arrived
here at four O'Clock last evening. We fear
she win have a hard time in getting into the
Wabash river, unless she digs her Teay."
Gunsouts is commander Of the Emile La
Barge.
TRe Katie has changed her day Of depar-
tGre. She viii leave New Orleans every We'd
nesday for Grand Gulf. Captain Cannon COM
mands.
TO accommodate Hancock, Marion and
Lawrence counties, Mississippi and Washing
ton parish, Louisiana, the steamboat Crescent
City will make regular trips To all points on
Alexander Stewart. formerly clerk OF the
Turner, is in declining health.
The shannon has had to abandon her trip to
New Orleans, and has laid up. Her barge at
last accounts was still hard aground on Hen
The bridge across the Missouri river at Boon
vile has commenced. The Fannie Barker ar
rived there Tuesday with the Bridge COmpa- !
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the Missouri.
The ferryboat Denver and transfer Elkhorn
eollided at st. Joseph Wednesday, injuring
the guards and breaking the railing of the
latter.
Captain Eugene Smith is now in command
of the Little Rock, and L. H Conrad is in the
Captain Isaac Reynolds was married last
week in Dayton, Kentucky, to a Miss Lizzie
Black.
The new boat building for Captain j.. n.
Williamson at Herman, Ohio, will De launched
October 1st. james Bees, Of Pittsburg, is build
ing her machinery.
The Shamrock has been chartered by
Noyes,s circus, and has gone to Wheeling to
At Huntington, Ohio, the dredge-boat Ter
ror, during the last month, has made several
four hundred feet long and several feet
deep. making an excellent deep bed OF water
at the coal incline above that place. Rock
viii be removed from the channel and q good
low-water lsnding made, and then at the
Pole bar dredge channel and throw up
wing DAMS.
TheSt. Mary's Is being used as a hotel at Gin
cinnau during the Exposition.
NJ. Ackley, one OF the owners Of the Airing
ton, and son Of WV. Ackley, the w~ell-knOWn
steamboat builder, was married at Pittsburg,
Thursday morning, to Miss Helen A. Oglesby.
The Camden ARKANSAS JourRGtsaysthe river
is lower at that point than was ever known
before
The Mississippi bridge at Dubuque. Iowa.
slightly damaged by fire on Saturday
last.
The Cincinnati Times says that the new Pat.
Rogers will be aunched-a about next Saturday.
II is calculated that when fully completed she
viii only draw t~wenty-fOuF fnehe For a
boat Of her size, model and build, this VIII be