Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-28

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nudged him under the elbow to "buy a
toy,n the latter gentleman donning
! female rig s1just for fun, you know
John Harbin was well disguised
as the ftFat Contributor, and leetured on
"Iniun Meaii' to delighted audience Of
forty or fifty in secluded corner OF the
building. Steve Wilkins Thought he
would represent Guther's awakening
of Spring" but it was so cold he had TO
borrow a couple Of blankets from an
/ epizootic mule, and even then, couldn't
! get the little angels near him. George
Cheek backed out (at eleven p.m.) with
fair trip Of coal oil, as he represented
"COal on Johnny" " but took with him a
fearful odor Of Steinkuhps benzine-
some say twas mixed. Major Adams
as Ingomar, looked fine, but instead of
''Parthenia' had Lady Gay Spanker ON
his arm the most of the evening. Clar-
enee Han "piayedn the gay Lathario to
perfection, but was actually captivated
by Tom Kernan's Desdemona, q Ia
Afriqste, and waltzed the entire evening
with the damsel. Jim Sayres done
the Yankee tin-peddler" up brown, but
unfortunately left his wooden nutmegs
at home aud had to retire early. Billy
Bingham had " Greeley on the brain,
but forgot to tell what he knew about
farming. Jim Salisbury did his pref
test as the " Irish joker" to win the
affection Of a brilliant little bar maid,
but when pouring sweet words of love
into her left eRr she brought a
back kick, clipping Jim's right heel and
sent him to grass, in the meantime
dropping q mask that exposed the light
mOustache and chin whisker of Captain
Dugan Irwin of the wreeker Eckert.
Our eonfrere of the Register (Dormer)
represented a " clipper" but was only
known by the huge pair of shears he
wields 80 skillfnlly, and our friend of
the Avalanche WAS fixed up" as a
highlander, ready, perhaps, TO throw that
jig on a capstan. As for ourself We
wasn't thar.
The City of Quincy has two hundred
tons oil-cake and two hundred bales of
cotton ready for her here to take south.
The Henry Ames gets here three hum
dred tons Oil-cake and four hundred
bales of cotton for the south, if she has
room for it.
Rates TO New Orleans on oil-cake have
advanced to four dollars and fifty cents
per ton, and on uncompressed cotton to
one dollar and fifty cents per bale.
Captain Noel, now commander Of the
John B. Maude, was, some years ago,
the Chief of Police Of this city. How
have the mighty fallen!
The big elevator is crowded with meat
and horse-feed.
White river is now ten inches lower
than it was at any time last season. So
says a dispatch from JaeksOnpOrt to
Captain Milt Harry.
| The Parker took from here on Tues
day night fourteen hundred and four
bales of cotton for the Ohio river.
Nearly all of the arriving local packets
/ yesterday brought drOves of steers to
supply the great demand for the trans
] fer Of freights.
| The damaged cotton recovered from
the wreck of the st. Marys-One hun
dred bales-wss sold at auction last
evening by Captain Irwin Dugan, of the
/ Eckert, at prices ranging from fifty-six
to fifty-eight dollars per bale. 1t will
be shipped to Cincinnati on the r. c.
| Gray.
The Tdlewild will be here to leave on
Friday evening foI the Ohio.
| Captain W. B. Miller's sfavorite steamer,
| MinneOla, will leave here at five o'clock
tomorrow evening for Cairo, Louisville
and Cincinnati.
The Raven came down last night with
two barges of salt, having sunk one of
/ her barges at Island Thirty. She re-
covered a portion of the cargo, however.
| The John B. Maude was visited by
at least two hundred people yesterday
morning before she left here.
Captain John Cannon thinks the
Katie will be ready for business in ten
/ days or two weeks.
On Monday last the Mary Miller,
while ascending the Ohio, struck an OBJ
| structiOn near Union Town and took
/ considerable water. Twenty tons of
scrap iron were thrown overheard and
| some other freight damaged. The Eckert
was telegraphed for to go to her assist
ance, but could not leave the ST. Marys.
The Exporter finds the way to the Ar
| kansas a hard road, etc. She only got
as far as Horsetail and there stuck for
week; in fact, she is not clear yet.
The old hull of the Enterprise has
! been sold for seven thousand dollars.
Among the passengers south from
/ this city on the John B. Maude yester-
day was Mr.. Smeltzer, city editor of the
AU0t0nche. He goes to the gulf coast
to recuperate his health.
The Maude got a three-hundred-dOllar
passenger list by laying over here few
| hours.
The Nile has been sold for thirteen
thousand dollars. She don't run in the
Arkansas trade hereafter.