Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-12

burg. Northern line boats from st
/. Louis are only signing bills Of ladei
az far north as Davenport. Las
Thursday VIII Lamothe, aged twenty
nine, died Of consumption at Alton. II,
YVES q well-kuOwn steamboat clerk will
his father on the sideWheel steame
Glasgow, but had not been on the rive
since that vessel was lost on Red river
......... Yesterday was "dark, cold anC
dreary.". .....A rise, q rise, are the criei
sent up to the skies, but vain the signs
THE City of Vicksburg was to have
left st. Louis yesterday for this point
the st. Luke having taken her trip Il
Vlcksburg. The City of Chester is be
ing painted ut st. Louis. .....T The Pauline
Carroll is one of the two remaining
steamers of the original st. Louis and
New Orleans line of passenger boats.
Captain PaTisOt, of Vicksburg, has char
tered the Bertha Drummer for the YsZOC
river trade..The John Howard il
/ being esulked at New Orleans but will
be ready to con Q out by to-morTOw......
The model barge James Mack, was &c
have been launched yesterday at Gin
cinnati. Captain George G. WOllfei oil
st. Louis, has recovered from his re-
cent severe llness......"W II. Moore,
engineer of the tWObOat John Penny,
found guilty at PittsbuTg, some months
ago, of carrying more steam than al
| lowed by law, and license revoked, has
| had his license restored" 49,. Mr.. George
| Belt, of st. Lonis, after an illness OF
forty-seven days-a period longer than
the tio0d-has again appeared upon the
st. Louis levee...... Bob Patterson, an
old aud well-knOwn steamboat mste,
who has been confined six months in
Pennsylvania with broken leg, has re-
turned to st. Louis and is ready for bu-
siness. "A st. Louis paper calls the Sc.
Luke "the great low water boat" ......
Robert Good, awell-knOWn river man,
died yesterday of congestion.
clippings.
Louisville Courier Journal: "In June,
1888, the Ohio fell as low as it is now
lower, for there was but eighteen inches
on Scufiietown bar-and never raised
again until about the tWenty-ffth Of No
Vember. 1t was long dry spell .-.......
st. Louis Republican: "FOr cur part we
would take delight in placing a veritable
Democratic rooster at the top of our
river column to sit 10 crewful mood over
our avowed independence Of party tram
mels. So, to those Of cur river friends
who look for poultry in our river news,
we must refer them to Hamiet's advice,
'git thee to q henery.i n....~Cincinnati
Enquirer: "MT. William Collins, en-
gineer of the Columbia, plying on the
Magdalena river, South America, b 8
lust arrived here for the purpose of TAX
1, e, A
ca. The Columbia was built here nearly
three years ago, and was sixty days at
sea. Mr.. Collins was on board OF her,
but says the wealth Of the United States
would not induce him 10 make the same
trip again in q three hundred and sixty
ton steamboat. The last boat built there
for South America, the COndinamseea,
was lost the second day out from New
Orleans. All boats now being built for
that stream will be sent over in sections
and put together after arrival. TIE
engines for another steamer are being
built here now and the hull in New
York, which viii be sent over that way.
Mr.. Collins is well pleased with the
country, and proposes to make it his
future home. Engineers are paid in that
country one hundred ami fifty dollars q
cal attendance free. He says il is not q
good country for other classes of steam
bCatmen, as half-breeGs are principally
employed, even the pilots" The
New Orleans Times says: "The wet-end
man of the st. Louis Globe was sick the
other day. Too much Democratic VIC
tory in the air" He ought to be placed
on the political sectional docks for re-
no ire nd al
Andy HickenloOper, in behalf of the
Cincinnati Southern railway, has been
engaged for two Gays past with the Sec
rotary of war, in Washington, examin-
ing the question of the location OF ne
proposed bridge at Cincinnati. The
bridge, as finally determined upon, viii
be located at the foot Of Horne street. 1t
will be forty-three and one-fOurth feet
above high-water mark of 1882 and one
hundred and five and three-fourths feet
above low water. The draw pier viii be
located next to the Kentucky shore, in
stead of the Ohio, rs at first proposed.
There will be one hundred and sixty
feet in the clear on each side Of
the pivot of the draw. The second span
from the Kentucky shore will be the
channel span. This will be i've hum
dred feet in the clear. Next, north Of
this, toward the Ohio shore, are two
spans of two hundred and eighty feet
each 10 the clear. The style of the
superstructure is not yet decided upon.
"A Cincinnati paper says that w. 3.
Hazlett commanded the side-wheel Yer
mont in 1913, and afterward built the
stern-wheel Aida for Wabash river
navigation, and next the side-wheel
steamers Amazon, Hannibal and IZetta,
for the Missouri river trade, and likewise
the Msjestic, which was burned in the
Mississippi near Island No S, when q
number of lives and large amount Of
government greenbacks were lost, He
afterWard built the Welcome for the Mis-
souri, river, and the Rubieon, the pioneer
steamer in the st. Louis and VicksbuTg
trade. Captain Hazlett is ffty-six years
sid, and not engaged in active BUSH
ness pursuits at present..
The Des Are (Ark.) Citizen says:
1--WE see it going the rounds of the pa
pers that White river is played out since
the building of the Iron Arountain rail-
road. That is singular. Tue water is 8
little low Just now, but boats get along
pretty well, carrying cotton to Memphis
for one dollar and a quarter, and to New
Orleans for two dollars, per bale from
Des Arc. The railroad takes most of
the cotton from Newport, we suppose,
but none from below, we hardly think.
And to particularly make up for that
many of the farmers from along the line
of the road from near Kenneth to near
Jacksonville, haul their cotton to Des
Are to sell it, where they get Memphis
prices in money. There has been a very
poor crop made this year, and there is
not much cotton TO ship, but White
river boats will carry nearly all fIom off
the banks of the river. Some played
out steamboatman most probably dis.
covered the fact to the rsilroad folks.
White river still runs, and as long as, it
runs there will be boats in the trade.