Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-05-18

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on Tuesday.
The City Of Augusta goes to White
river on Tuesday.
The Bismarck, Captain Spane, departs
at one o'clock this afternoon for New
| Orleans.
The City Of Helena, for Vicksburg,
will leave here tomorrow evening.
| The James ID. Parker will leave here
on Tuesday for Cincinnati.
The beautiful Anchor line packet,
| Emma G.. Elliott, is announced to leave
for Memphis, Cairo and st. Louis at
noon to-day, with Captain r. K. Riley
| in command. She has superior accom-
modations and the best OF officers. T.
Whitledge is clerk.
The elegant steamer, Charles BOdmann,
will be here TO leave at nine o'clock to-
morrow morning for Cairo, Louisville
and Cincinnati. She is an elegant boat
and has superior accommodations.
News Drift.
The Nashville Union and american
| speaks encouragingly of the success Of
/ the new insurance firm, styled Dashiel
d Egan, and tells its readers something
almost as startling as was the news of
| the MOdOcs' outbreak, it being no more
or less than another pending negotiation
/ for a fractional. purchase of the rip-roar-
! ing Ella Hughes. Here is what it says:
! HIn addition to the transaction of the
| LaWrence's outdoor business, Lord
/ PalmeTston was Yesterday occupied in
NEGOTIATING with President Stone for the
purchase of a fractional interest in the
/ Ella Hughes. The trade was aboutcon-
summated, price agreed upon, and terms
OF payment fixed, when Captain jack
I btrgtaT ny, tho franGaatfOp hu in form iner
MILFORD that it was not lawful, and posi-
lively forbidden for British subject to
own any interest in an Ameri-
can bottom. We take this occasion to
suggest to MILFORD the necessity of his
becoming HGttErdtizedn The result of
the two Cincinnati packet lines work.
ing together was fOrcibly shown by the
trip the Arlington took out last night.
She had more cotton and got better
rates on it than has any of the boats of
either line for some weeks past. Her
lowest rate was sixty-five cents for COM
pressed cotton, that she would have
taken a few days ago at fifty cents, and
on her cotton for intermediate points
she got one dollar per bale; heretofore
it has been carried at seyenty-five cents
per bale. We are glad to know that
both Of the lines have profted by the
advice of the The second
and last of the horrid old water
boxes that for years have been located
on the Madison street bluff, was torn
down last evening, having only
the 'stiltsN or framework upon which
it stood. When the entire "eontrap-
tiOn,n stables, en9ine-hOuse, ETC., have
been removed the river men will Pc
titiOn the legislature to make a state
holiday of each anniversary of the day
on which the demolition of the "eye-
sore" was Ompleted......Captain Reese
PritchaTd's steamer, Anna mot Reese
himself), had new nose put on her yes
4 terday, and was detained an hour or so
for the job to be completed. The sum-
mer travel to the north began last
night The Arlington took some fifteen
or twenty cOoler-clime seekers from this
city The Charles Bodemann is due
up tomorrow morning en- route to
the Ohio river ...... In a brief
review of the career of the City of Alton
as given by the Vicksburg Herald, we
find the following mention of one of her
former commanders, who just now hap
pens to be located here. After telling
the length, breadth and thickness of the
Alton, the Herald refers to her speed as
follows: While running in the Mem
phis trade, and commanded by Captain
Flem. Calvert. she made the famous run
from Memphis to Cairo in seventeen
hours and thirty minutes, which was
unprecedented, and which has. only
been beaten since by the Robert e. Lee,
the latter reducing the figures to sixteen
hours and thiTty-seven minutes. About
two years ago the packet company sold
the Alton to berpresent owners, Captain
E. A. Sheble and others, and it is asserted
that these parties never made a losing
trip with ....Zachariah Phillips, an
old steambOatman, well known on the
Mississippi, died at his residence in St.
Louis night before last.A dispatch
/. from Quincy says the Friendship, sunk
at Hannibal q week ago, will be raised
Immediately. dispatch from St.
Louis states that David Barican, rOust-
about, and Ed. Slowan, second baker on
the st. Joseph, quarreled on that boat
night before last, above Cairo. During
the rumpus SlOwan grabbed a huge
knife and plunged it twice into Barcian's s
side. SlOwan was placed under guard,
and on arrival at st. Louis was given
over to the police. Bareian was taken
to the city hospital, where he died..
While at Vicksburg Captain Bob Riley,
of the Elliott, had made and presented
to the ladies conducting charitable fair
. there a cake that measured three feet
three inches high and one foot and q
half at the base. 1t was made by John
Morris, the famous caterer of the Ell
lott The congressional convention
didn't help st. Louis a particle, except
perhaps to advance the price of the grape
and corn crop. The Times of Friday
says: "There is a decided stagnation in
shipments for all trades. One boat a
week is all that can be loaded for Red
river, and three steamers a week will
accommodate all there is offering for
New Orleans. The Anchor line, how
ever, are doing a fair business to both
Memphis and Vicksburg." ....... Billy
Thomas, formerly second clerk of the
Maude, was to have left st. Louis last
night to rejoin his boat here. Hiram
Hill, the subterranean diver, has con-
tracted with D. S. BarmOur, of Jefferson
vile, for Wrecking-5Oat of the follow
ing dimensions: Length, 100 feet;
breadth of beam, "A feet; and 80 feet
hold in the clear, with three kelsons.
, This boat is designed for q crane and
wrecking-bOat, to be used at Louisville,
and all other places when necessary
On her next trip up the r. E. Lee will
make fast business trip.-....The Robin
expected to leave last night for Louis
! vile. Memphis and Paducah.
railroad has a thousand tons of railroad
iron at New Orleans that is to come
hele.... Nearly two thousand persons
were on board the Great Republic when
she took the congressional tea party out
for an airing from st. Louis on Thurs
day, and from the report made of the af-
fair, we should judge that Messrs. Thor
Wegan and Young spread themselves
i. hugely. BannOck City was sold
: yesterday by the United States marshal
at New Orleans. 1t ismore than prob
able that several old tubs yclept Ozark,
Little F'leta and New Iberia, will
!, be offered for sale at New Orleans short
ly. They recently constituted the Louisi-
ana navy, but Kellogg has no use for
, them; nevertheless he loans them to
. his friends in Arkansas. Our dispatches
from Little Rock indicate that they
might be used to some advantage there
soon. The MinneOla, on her last down
; trip, ran from Cincinnati to Cairo in
forty-seven and a half hours. She'sEa
rattler..T The Shamrock, laid up at
Cairo, is for sale or charter.
John Spane's Bismarck will be
) down to-day. 1.-The Lady Lee ran
from Shreveport to st. Louis in six days
and sixteen hours. Beat that, some
body. The st. Louis Globe spills its
thanks out TO Captain Shields, of the
Lady Lee, for what it calls a splendid
. singing bird. In Texas, however, they
: call the same kind of biped a horned
frog. The Globe says: cit is from Tex
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