Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-01-31


is prevailing here. The steamers De.
Smet and Susie Silver are ice-bound
The Henry Ames passed up at one
: o'clock this evening. The City Of Au.
gusta passed down at eleven O'Clock
: this morning.
Associated Press Dispatches
NICKsBURG, January 30.-No boats
down to-day. Up: Glencoe. Weather
clear and cool; river stationary.
NASHVILLE, January S0.-The river is
! falling, with seven and a half feet on
Harpeth shoals. The weather is fair and
milder.
NEW ORLEANS, January 30.-Arrived,
Shannon, Louisville. Departed, Louis
vile, for Cincinnati, Exporter, for Ar
kansas river.
. DAYTON, OHIO, January SO.-The
thermometer was twelve degrees below
zero at six O'Clock this morning. The
weather was mOderating during the
day.
i PHILADELPHIA, January 30.-The
thermometer at various places in the
State, this morning, ranged from twen-
ty-twO TO thirty-four degrees below zero,
the coldest weather i'll thirty years.
/ CINCINNATI, January 3O.-The river
has fallen one foot eleven inches. 1t is
now eighteen feet four, and still unnav-
igable. Immense fields Of floating ice
cover nearly the whole surface of the
river.
LITTLE Rock, January 30.-Weather
still very cold. River nearly frozen
over this morning. Mercury four de-
| grees above zero, bat moderating this
/ evening. River fell five inches, and is
now three feet four inches in the chan
mel.
| EVANSVILLE, January 30.-Weather
clear and mOdeTating, with the wind
! from the southwest. Mercury ranged
/ from 81 to 32'. The ice is heavy but
thinning out. The Sam J. Hale is at
the mouth Of Green river. Nothing
doing.
PITTsBURG, January 30.-River mat
| teTs are unchanged. The rivers are both
closed above the city. The weather has
been very cold; the mercury was IIo he
low zero at nine o'clock this morning:
but it moderated during the day, and at
six o'clock the nsercury stood at 2lo
above.
SAN FRANCISCO, January 30.-Afrer
several days of a dry electrical north
wind, prevailing along the whole coast
and far into the interior, with heavy
sandstorms in the Southern counties.
the weather changed last night. The
rain fell bOuntifully, with fair pros
pect to-day of continuance.
NEW YORK, January 3O-Verv cold
weather is reported in the East this
morning, the thermometer being from
lO0 TO l3' below zero in the New England /
States. Near POughkeepsie it was So |
below zero; at BinghamptOn, 25o to 3Oo /
below; at Baltimore, s. below; at Freder- /
ieksburg, Maryland, l7o below. The
Thermometer here this morning was . |
above zero.
LOUISVILLE, January 30.-The river /
is falling, with seven feet four inches in |
the canal and five feet four inches in the 1
chute. The weather was clear and cold ]
this morning but moderated during the |
day; mercury 309 at six this evening. |
Heavy ice was running all day. All the |
boats in port have paid off their crews. |
The Board of Underwriters to-day de- |
termined TO take no more risks on car |
goes above Memphis until further no. !
tice.
CAIRO, January 30.-Arrived: Grand |
Lake No. ,, Pittsburg, two p. m. De- |
parted: Grand Lake No. 2, New Or |
leans, two p. m; II. 5. Turner, New /
Orleans. The ice is still heavy. The |
Columbus packet made no trip to-day. /
The river has fallen one foot. Weather.
clear and moderating rapidly. Last
night barge No. S5, in tow OF the Cres-
cent City, was cut down by the ice and |
sunk in the bend below the eity. The
cargo consisted of flour, grain and as
sorted merchandise.
SALTLAKE, January 3O.-Snow-drifts
on the Union Pacific railroad, during
the late snOw-storm, in some places were
siXteen feet deep. Old railroad men say
that the weather was the most terrible
ever experienced. At Granite Canyon
three section-handsw were frozen to death,
two at POoyan, and a number of others
are reported 70 have perished while
shoveling snow of the track. Great
credit is awarded the employees of the
company for breaking through the
blockade SO speedily. The passengers
suffered no hardships or Inconvenience
whatever. There is ten feet snow on a
level in the Little Cottonwood mining
district.
WASHINGTON, January 30.-For New
England, fresh southerly to westerly
winds, veering to westerly and north
westerly, somewhat high temperature
and paRly cloudy weather. For Middle
States, wind veering to fresh and brisk
westerly and nOrthwesterly and gener-
ally clear weather, except over lower
Lake region, where cloudy weather,
areas Of light snow and falling tempera-
ture are probable. For South Atlantic
States, rising temperature and cloudy
weather, with areas of light rain along
the coast. For the Gulf States, east Of
rising temperature, winds
veering to easterly and southerly, and
partly cloudy weather. For Kentucky,
Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois,
generally clear weather. For the Upper
Lake Region, rising barometer and a de-
'ided fall of temperature, fresh and brisk
northerly to westerly winds and gener-
ally clear weather.