Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-07
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while coming into port night before last, but
after backing down stream some distance,
found and recovered the missing tim ber...--...-
Owing TO the formation of a sandbar on the
Kentucky shore opposite Cairo the Miss s.
slppi Central railroad cannot transfer passen-
ger and freight coaches. There Is blockade
at the above-mentiOned terminus, and several
Memphis merchants are disappointed because
their goods have not arrived on tiIne....---.The
Willie j. is a strange kind of craft. She has
fatboat foundation, painted red, and cabin
like one railroad caboOSe placed on another.
Her pilothouse is ornameDted with pinion.
less Juvenile Gabriel without a trumpet II IS
maGe out of plaster Of Paris. To some people,
ford of elder blossoms and camp-meeungs, IL
looks like the child that wants 10 be an angel
and on jackstaf dwell. She is, moreover, a
double-sternwheel. The Billy Jay is destined
for the White river trade, and Will doubtless
prove q profitable steamer 10 her owners.
-. Hon. jefferson Davis was pas
Oulg TO New Orleans, last Tuesday
New Orleans is doing big cotton business,
the receipts since the hrst of September being
one hundred and ffty-one thousand and
eighty-slX bales, against one hundred and
twenty-five thousand eight hundred and two
last year-an increase OF tWenty-elght thou
sand two hundred and eighty-four bales. The
exports comprise seventy-fOur hundred and
thiTty-five bales, embracing forty seven hun
six hundred and seventy-three to New York
..... he New Orleans Bulletin OF the fourth
says: ''The r. +. Lee arrived early yesterday
morning with forty-hve hundred and four
teen bales of cotton and twenty-five hundred
aud ninety-two sacks cotton-seed, and left on
return trip with splendid freight and large
number OF passengers "A lew days ago
railroad agent was touring a green (srrival
up the levee for the purpose TO ship him on
the 'best, safest and quickest" rall-line east.
AS he passed by a cotton pile over which the
John B. Maude's second caiigrapher presided,
the scribe said: "Hallo8, Jim Coach, how is
your faro-bank-are you busted? heard you
launched two newcomers IN last night" o.
course the agent was not interested in any
bank, except the river bank, but the stranger
did not know this, and failing to see the joke,
beg ged to be excused from accompanying the
railroad Individual. he John Il Maudes
yawl is named the Mabel Maude- The wharf
hundred dollars were collected from
steamboats, at this port last month.
The city council passed resolution
10 set aside and appropriate the
provement of the wharf. Why don't the men
do something to repair the wharf? What has
been done with the wharfage collected in the |
past two years? 1t has been paid into the city |
treasury, but should be devoted to the pur-
poses prescribed by law..........The Frank For |
rest came IN two hundred yards ahead of the |
Cheek yesterday morning .........A river man |
yesterday said that the Illinois could only be /
passed by the Robert E. Lee, Katie, and |
NsJchez. He believes the Illinois can beat |
q Belle Lee How is that ?........ H Z lena IS |
greatly delighted with her New Orleans pack |
ct, the kinnie. Should she permit the steam 1
er TO lose money, her officers would doubtless
think the above city should deserve to lose |
the three last letters Of her name......A rousta
bout and culin ry guardian of the Maude had |
a fight yesterday morning, just before that |
like a sternwheef Loaf? Because he receives |
a padding behind. So says a submarine
Captain Mill Harry's Ella had a
race with the Mary lloyd, between Helsna
say they waltzed away from the Mary with
the grace of a swan and the ease of a race