Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-08-05

ola; Illinois, Vicksburg; Shannon, GIN
cinnad.
DEPARTED.
/ Qlickstep, Friars Point; Shannon,
New Orleans.
IN PORT.
City Of Chester, Osceols, Frank For
rest, Vint Shinkle, Illinois.
BOATS LEAVING TO-DAY.
ST LoUIs.-The City of Chester, Cap
tain I=igler, al five pm.
For VICKsBURG.- The City Of Hele-
ns, Captain M'Kee, at five pm.
Lcyse Paragraphs.
Eighty-foUT IN the cool made 1t pleas
/ ant enough here yesterday.
The ShssuOn passed down yesterday
with a fine load on Tor New Orleans.
Some OF the boys got awful tired as
/ sistinE Joe Flynn in arranging his de-
pRrtmeut Of The Quiokstep yesterday.
Owen Jeuison, we are glad TO note, is
/ rapidly c0uvRlesCinZ, and will soon be
able to get away with his usual amount
/ OF COmmisssries.
The Globe. Democrat reporter indOrses
! the plan urged by "VaTney," the AP-
! PEAL correspondent, to prevent the in
/ urdatiou OF the Mississippi.
/ The Cincinnati Enquirer says the H.
| 5 Turner did not get Off the docks time
/ enough to leave for Memphis yesterday,
/ but does not state when she will leave,
/ The Herald says that the funeral OF
| Hardy Hendren, which took place in
| -Nicksburg last Sunday, was the largest
| ever witnessed in that city. Hendren
was clerk Of the B. II. Hurt,
The Illinois arrived last night, and
. ll-Tr1 n
sweet strains, TO the dedication OF
large Gseemh Isge on the bluffs. She is
reCliViug for her return Friday.
l. used 30 be an awful walk from Main
street 10 the river. II is not so far now;
aud We fear the river will be much
nearer before the city authorities make q
move toward preventing the csving OF
the ieVee.
Several coal tows arrived yesterday,
among them the John A. Woods, with
twenty-eight bsrges, and the Coal City,
with eighteen harges. The Blue Lodge,
with q big tow, was expected during the
night
The Vint Shinkle got down from Gin
ciunati yesterday, having GA good load
for this port she will leave on her re-
turn 70 Cincinnati tomorrow evening.
She IS a good boat, in charge of clever
and experienced characterization,
master, and Mr.. M'IntyTe, chief clerk.
The Ledger man thinks the overflow
will be aveTted by the process Of evapo-
ration, which he asserts is going on at
the rate of two or three inches day.
Somebody's been stuffing that man, and
he is getting rid Of the joke at the eX-
Pense OF the public. Keep quiet, jim
my, about the overflow.
The Anchor Line has this day to it.
self, Sc 10 boats are advertised 10 leave
except the City Cf Chester, for st. Louis,
aud The City Of Helena, for VieksbuTg.
It makes no difference, however,
whether there are none or 8 thousand |
boats Ie2vingpOTt on the same day, the |
AnchOT-Line rates are uniformly the |
same under eli circumstances.
Captain S5sc6 Lee was not singing
"l'A not build nests in The air."
when he caused those two immense
crows tests TO be placed on the CHM |
ney5 Of the QTckstep. Somebody sug-
gested that Julius Scale wanted those |
nests in which to 10y his own eggs, SO |
that he car supply his tables with fresh |
eggs the round trip. Don't believe il; |
it's too cot up there for 'em
Harry B&tem&n, who Was yesterday |
promoted to the first-clerkship of the |
QuickStep, was formerly bIll-cierk Of |
the Phil .Al;iD, where he has made hosts |
OF flieuGs. and in his rev position will |
add bright laureis 10 his fame and est8O- !
irons Of the Memphis and FFiars Point |
packet line. Go ahead on both wheels, |
Harry; we will hold your specs.
The Quicks'ep dropped down TO her |
place yesterday evening and took on |
her first cargo for the bends below here. |
Her pretty appearance excited the ad- |
miratiOn Of immense crowds Of visitors |
attracted hitheT by the announcement |
in the APPEAL river column that she !
would make her debut in the Friars |
Point trade yesterday. Her officers are |
Captain Stack Lee, master; Harry Bate
man, chief clerk; Captain John Edison, |
mate; II w. NandeventeT, first, and |
E. w. Goodwin, second engineers; Bird
Parrish and Henry Wilbur, pilots; and
Julius Scales, steward.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat save:
"Mr. Sd Outlaw, 6 well-known and |
popular clerk in the southern trade, has
been appointed chief clerk OF the John |
+ Maude. He arrived yesterday from
Memphis (hjs hOme) and was warmly |
greeted on 'change by many old friends. |
The John 3 MSUde is now ready for
business, and with az fine q steamer, |
differed by Captain Judd West, Sec
Onded by MfessTs. Outlaw and Swivel, if |
the peOpis o. the south do not patTOnize |
them they should be reconstructed and |
made TO stand higher in society by hav-
ing a rope around their necks, and that |
over q limb.u We like the Maude and |
her officers, but don't ike the idea OF |
being rOped into patConizing her if we
should happen not to want 20.
mark Twsia's Theory.
To show how unreli BILE are the con-
illusions Of the scientists who go down |
into the bowels Of the earth to learn its |
history, and Who reason from what we
know TO what has been and will be.
Somebody argues in this way: One
hundred ana sIXty-seven years ago the
Mississippi between Cairo and New Or
leans was 1915 miles long. In 1872 it
"Cut OFF, snd WAS only 1850 miles long
between the cities named. About sew
entelu years ago American bend Was
cut off, snd the river measured only 1910
miles. Since then it has lost sixty-seyen
miles, and therefore at present the dis
lance Is only 973 miles. Now" says
this sarcastic Somebody, "if l wanted
10 be one Of those pOnderOus scientific
people, and 'let on to prove what had
occurred in the remote past by what had
occurred in 6 given time in the recent
past, OF what will occur in the far future
by what has occurred in late years, what
az opportunity is herew "Please OBJ
serve" he continues, and then reasons
thus: In one hundred sEd seventy-six
years thelower Mississippi has shortened
itself two hundred ana fOrty-twO miles.
This is yearly shortening OF the river
over a mile and third. Therefore, any
q IL
risn period just 3 million years ago next
November, the lover Mississippi was
l, 300 GOO miles long and stuck out over
the Gulf Cf Mexico Ike q fishiug-rCd.
Therefore, by the same token, aBy per-
son nav see that 142 Veara from now |