Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-10-30

leaves at the usual hour this evening for
the lower bends, including Belena, Del.
| Is, Friar's Point, Old Town, Australia,
/ Laconia, Carson's, Concordia, Grsdy's,
Mouth Of White river, and all plania-
ton landings, carrying the United
/ States mail
Leyee Paragraphs.
Dan Sullivan goes out as clerk on the
! City CT Augusta.
The John A. Scudder passes down
Sunday for New Orleans.
The John B. Maude is the next regu-
lar packet for New Orleans.
The Quickstep had l02 bales cotton, 20
bags Sc q LECTION and 1859 sacks cotton
seed.
The Dawn, Captain TTuslow, left Gin.
cinnsti for New Orleans, Thursday
evening.
The Minneola leaves Cincinnati for
Memphis to-day, Captain Skunk in
command.
The City of Helena had not arrived
up TO dark last evening. She Is en- route
to Vicks6urg,
The strong winds from the south, yes.
terdsy, held the shipping well up to the
hitctiug posts.
The A. !. White, from Napoleon, had
$50 bales cotton, 20 bags seduction and
1915 sacks cottOn-seed.
The local packets brought in yester-
day 1892 bales cotton, So bags seed cot
ton and 1891 sacks cOtton-seed.
The Kate Kinney struck snag re-
Gently at DEVILS Island, above cairo,
which necessitated her return 10 st.
Louis fer repairs.
The Phil Alliu, from Frisrs Point,
had $40 bales cotton and 1913 sacks cot
tou.seed. She departed last evening for
Frisrs Point with good trip.
TIE john a. Scudder il Advertised to
leave this port Sunday morning at ten
o'clock for New Orleans. See her ad-
vertisemeDt in the proper column.
The George w. Cheek, from Helena,
had l25 baIeJ cotton, 10 bags seed-cOts
ton, 1904 sacks cottOn-seed, II packages
sundries, and leftf0 Helena with y lair
trip.
The Oseeola came in from st. Francis
river with y bales cotton, 100 sacks cot
ton-seed, re hipped at Helena 81 bales
cotton and 695 sacks cotton seed for New
Orleans,
The City of Augusta, from White
river, came in yesterday with 1853 bales
cotton, 800 sacks cOttOn-seed, Us dry
hides, and reshipped l31 bales cotton st
the mouth of White river.
We refer our readers to the card in our
locsl. columns clipped from the Des Arc
Citizen in reference to the Milt Harry
White river mail line. 1t is a deserved
compliment to worthy gentlemen.
The James D. Parker, a Memphis
favorite, is doing heavy business in the
Cincinnati and Evansville trade. That's
- CHI vryill
to her first love, the Memphis and Gin
cinnati trade.
A heavy storm of wind, rain, thunder
and lightning set in about ten o'clock
last night, and the way old sign-toards,
windoW-shutters and everything of q
loose persuasion were slammed and
battered around was a terror to the
timid buffer. The storm lasted about
an hour, during which rain fell in tor
rents.
Windy Jim, of the Ledger, has become
so wealthy since he discontinued visits
to Felix's that he hardly recognizes old
acquaintances. They say, however, that
current expenses are not so great by one
hundred and fifty per cent. since Jim
swOre of. Wholesalers are grumbling,
however. Jim, that game played out
long ago.
A New Albany dispatch says that
compromise has been effected between
the Louisville and Henderson, and Gin
cinnati and Memphis packet cOmps-
MES. The Fawn abandons the trade the
present trip at Louisville, and with
draws from the Cincinnati trade. The
Shinkle will be withdrawn from the
Louisville trade.
We met 8 property owner Of Cairo,
yesterday, who informed US that the
rapid caving of the banks now going Cd
back of that seaport, is of such serious
nature that if something is not done,
and that soon, to check it, he would not
give five cents an acre for all the land
embraced within its corporation. These
are not his words, but language to that
effect.
Hear what the Des Arc Citizen has to
say about one of the Milt Harry mail
line packets, which we indorse in letter
and spirit: "T'he st. Francis Belle,
Milt Harry on the roof, passed up
Thursday, and will be down this morn
ing. She is a trim craft, with clever
set Of officers, and we hope she will
make money! The st. Francis Belle
goes out this evening for all points on
White river.
J66mS " oulJNanj OF the NlCKSDufg
Herald, got off the following elcquence
at our expense Thursday moTning:
"James O'Durf, of the Memphis Ledger,
has got religious, and Brooks, of the
Memphis APPEAL, has joined the tenn
perance society. Now, if Track, of the
avalanche, could be induced to turn from
the error of his ways, what felicltous
state of affairs might exist among the
river ripplers of the Bluff C ty."
Cincinnati Enquirer, 2Sth: 1.-THE
tow-bOat John F. bravo struck q snag
in Sandy Shadows, just below Catletts.
burg, Monday night, on her way up
with a tow Of empty barges for Pitts
burg, and sunk in twelve feet of water.
She careened to the larboard, with the
water about on the larbosrd boiIer-deck
guard, and the siarbOard entirely out Of
water. Her bottom was pretty badly
torn up, and, as she is an old beat, she
will probably be a total loss. She is
owned by Captain Thomas Chester q
Son, OF M'Keesport, Pennsylvania.
Captain Chester was her commander
and one OF the pilots, and his son the
other pilot. She was towing for Brown,