Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-01-30

IfOUl New OTAtduSJ duu Luc DCsoAAct
from Red river. The ice is two heavy
for the boats to proceed on their way.
They will tie up here until navigation
improves. The Clarksville passed down
last night. The weather is clear and
very cold.
Associated Press Dispatches.l
HALIFAX, January ga severe gale
and snow storm, with lightning, set in
| last night and continued until to-day.
Trains east and west are blockaded.
VIcKsBURG, January 20. = Down:
Pargoud, Robert Mitchell, John Kill
gour and Edinburg. Up: Nick Long
worth, Utah, Warner and barges. The
weather is cloudy and cold.
CHICAGO, January 29.-Last night
was one of the coldest of the season.
The thermometer was twenty degrees
below zero at daylight this morning.
AT this hour-ten o'clock in the morn
ing-it is six degrees below.
| NASHVILLE, January 29.-The river
| is falling, with nine feet on Harpeth
Shoals. Wether clear aud cold. Ar
rived, John S. Bransford from the upper
Cumberland. Departed, Belle Vernon,
for Plttsburg.
FORT WAYNE, IND, January o.
| This has been by far the coolest day of
the season. The thermometer this
morning was twenty-three to thirty de-
grees below zero, according to location.
The sleighing couldn't be better.
SALT LAKE, January 29.-The Union
Pacific trains which were blockaded one
day between Green river and Bryan ar
rived here this morning. The last train
was due only two hours beyond the
storm. The latest reports say the road
is clear.
SANTA FE, New MEXICO, January
| 29.-The first snow of the season fell on
Sunday, and there is now about four
inches on the ground. The thermome-
ter was one degree below zero yesterday
morning, and this morning it is two de-
grees below.
ST. LOUIS, January 29.-The mercury
ranged from zero to ten degrees below
for the past thirty-six hours. 1t is still
very cold this morning, with indications,
however, of moderating somewhat be-
fore night. The closing of the river is
again, at this point, seriously threat
ened.
LITTLE Rock, January 29. - The
weather for the past two days has been
very cold and clear. To-day the ice
is running heavy. The river is falling
at the rate of three feet nine inches per
day, but is still two and q half above
low-water mark. The river is gorged
with ice below Lewisburg.
EVANSVILLE, January 29.-Weather
clear, and coldest of the season. Mer-
curry from three degrees below to sixteen
above zero. The river has fallen three
feet. Port list: Collier and barges az
rived from Pittsburg thissmorning. Sam
J. Hale and Tarascon gone into Green
river. Heavy floating ice suspends nav
igation.
PITTsBURG, January 29.-The river
is falling slowly. Ice is forming very
rapidly, and both rivers will probably be
closed by tomorrow. The weather was
cloudy and cold during the day. At
nine o'clock this morning the mercury
stood at eleven degrees below zero, and
at five o'clock this evening it was two
degrees above.
CAIRO, January 29.-Arrived: H. S.
Turner, from Cincinnati, seven o'clock
this evening. No departures The
Columbus packet did not make the trip
this evening, and it is doubtful about her
getting through in the morning. The
ice is quite heavy In the Ohio. The
river has fallen three inches. The
weather is clear. The mercury is ten
degrees above zero.
DUBUQUE, Iowa, January 29.-The
weather continues extremely cold. The
thermometer ranges throughout the
North tonight from twenty-six to forty
degrees below zero. All trains on the |
different railroads centering here are de-
layed. The strong winds on the prairie |
Is drifting the snow badly, increasing
the difficulties of moving trains.
MILWAUKEE, January 29. - The
weather this morning, here and in the
West, was extremely cold, and the |
thermometer here was twelve degrees |
below zero. At st. Paul the thermome- |
ter was fourteen degrees below zero; at |
Fort Garry, Brainard and other points |
west of st. Paul, about twenty-five de- |
grees below zero, and at Sparta, the |
coolest place in Wisconsin, it was forty |
degrees below zero. The weather now, |
at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, is |
mOderating all over the Northwest.
WASHINGTON, January 29. - From
Kansas, Missouri and Tennessee to the |
upper lakes and Lake Erie falling /
barometer and decided rise of the tenn
perature, with fresh to very brisk SOUTH
west tand southeasterly winds, increasing |
to possibly high winds over the upper
lake region, where cloudy weather, with |
snow, will probably prevail; for the
Gulf States, generally clear weather, ris-
ing temperature andlight to fresh winds;
for the South Atlantic States, generally
cloudy weather, with rain, are all along
the coast for the Middle States; falling
barometer, with fresh and brisk north
east and southeasterly winds; a
somew at higher temperature and
generally cloudy weather, with |
light snow over the southern portion,
probably over the lower lake region.
For New England generally, clear
weather.
CINCINNATI, January 29.-To-d -dayIhas
been pronounced the severest of the
winter. Prolonged cold reports from
Ironton, Lawrence county, Mount Holly
and New Albany, Indiana; and in
Cincinnati the mercury was three
degrees below zero at seven o'clock
this morning. Dispatches report
Alexandria 2So below, Lima 27* below,
Dayton 15e below, Pigua DO below, Troy
lS0 below, Tippecanoe 170 below, on the
hills near here 10o below. River nine
teen feet six inches. Navigation closed.
Heavy ice floating. Weather clear;
thermometer 80 below zero at seven
O'Clock this evening. A Sidney, Ohio,
Chronicle dispatch says that
at seven o'clock this morning the
thermometer stood twenty-five degrees
below zero, and that all trains are be-
hind time. A freight train ON the Bee
Line actually froze to the rails at Yer
sales, Indiana, and could not be moved
until assisted by a second engine. At
Anna, Ohio, the thermometer was
tweuty-six degrees below zero, with
eight or ten inches of snow. j
LOUISVILLE, January 29.-The river
is falling, with eight feet four inches in
the canal and six feet four inches in the !
chute. The weather is alternately clear
and cloudy. This has been the coldest
day of the season; the mercury stood
five degrees below zero at six O'Clock
this morning, nine above at noon and i
fifteen at five o'clock in the evening.
The river is full of large fields of hard I
ice and is the most dangerous we have i
had this winter. No gorges are 6
reportedbut they are expected shortly, $
unless the weather moderates. The t
Grey Eagle came in from Henderson; !
had much difficulty in getting through '
the ice; her wheels were badly broken l
no other movements. The following !