Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-07-22

Trip OF lrelSnI anu passengers cut yes
teTday evening.
The Courier-JOITndt pays a hand
some and deserved tribute to the de-
parted Captain Robert Lodge.
Nearly all OF our contemporaries are
trying their hand at that mysterious in
scription found on q stone shaft here re-
Gently.
The weather architects gave US a mix
| ture Of weather yesterday, the windiL 6
up Of which was more agreeable than
the beginning.
Captain John COwdon, who probably
| knows more about the freaks of Big
Muddy than any man living, was in
Cairo Saturday.
The James d. Parker did not have to
go on the docks, but was repaired at
Cincinnati, and left yesterday on her
return to Memphis.
The Kitty Hegler got aground at Gin
cinnai Saturday night, caused by the
rapid decline Of the river. She was
pulled off by tug.
Pilot Wash Tenley has abandoned the
river and become a grocery merchant at
Covington, Kentucky. Send .us five
cents worth o. sOmethin' for this notice.
The AuchOr-LineIs sailing to-day are
the City OF Chester, for St. Louis, and
the Capital City, for Vickburg-both
clearing from the elevator at five o'clock
this afternoon.
We hear that large party OF ladies
and gentlemen will participate in anOtl .
er moonlight excursion as soon as the
James D. Parker aTrives-providIng she
can be chartered for the purpose.
Engineer Thomas Cook has retired
from the Parker, and takes charge of
the machinery OF the government
lighthouse steamer. The former chief
engineer OF the G. B. Church succeeds
Mr.. Cook on the Parker.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat, Of the
twentieth, says: 1.-THE condensers that
were being placed on the James Howard
were finished yesterday. and splendid
job has been done; and we hope they
will soon repay the owners for their out
lay"
A number OF citizens resolved to go
out on the bluffs last night, fight moe
quitoes, and hear the band play as tire
Illinois came into port. If somebody
would erect a mammoth mosquito bar
on the bluff be would "fggern as pub
lie benefactOr in the snnals OF the
worlds history.
The New Orleans Times, of the twen-
tieth, thus personalities a couple of
Memphis marines: Captain Mark r.
Cheek and Joe w. Spears were visible
on our streets on yesterday. They came
here in the interest Of their Memphis
and Vicksburg packet, the rafting ILL
nois. They return to Memphis this
evening by railroad"
Mr.. Nick NJ. Johnston, formerly an
agent Of the Memphis and Cincinnati
packet line, has been appointed south
eastern agent for the freight lines formed
by the Wilmington and Weldon, Will
mingtop, Columbia aud Augusta, and
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta rail-
roads, with his headquarters at Will
mington, North Carolina.
The way the loWland planters are
heaving dirt around their farms in dam
ger of overflow reminds us of how we
welded the spade when the flood Of hu-
manly from the north was about to
swallow US up. We are not entirely over
it yet. Every time loud clap Of thun-
der occurs, we look around for a spade
or something that will lift dirt.
The Cons Millar got away with fair
trip for the times yesterday evening,
one item of which was twenty thousand
feet of lumber for Cincinnati. Think Of
Memphis doing an immense lumber
business. 1t won't be three months be.
fore all thatlumber will be shipped back
to US, made up into chairs, bedsteads,
clothes-pins, gimlet-handles, and SIGH.
The boys didn't set 'em up lively to
Durff yesterday, and once or twice
during the day he had to astOnish his
palate with water. Hear how he goes
on about it: "The river water is very
muddy. Look out for sandbars and
willows growing on 'em. Whenever
you begin to spit dust it is time for you
to clean OUT before you burn your
biler or collapse flue."
A man who cheats in short measure
is measureless rogue. If in whisky,
then he is rogue in spirit. II by fslsi-
flying his accounts then ne is an unac-
cOuntable rogue. II he gives bad title
to land, then he is rogue indeed. If
he gives short measure ia wheat then he
is rogue in grain. Then Fakes, the
forger, who Matched up few "queer"
bills of lading, is bilious rogue.
The Charles Morgan will be here from
Cincinnati in time to leave for New Or
leans st Elk o'clock this morning. She
gets about two hundred tons here. En-
PEASANT, the Cincinnati Times gave the
Morgan the following deserved "send-
off" when she Left that port on her pres.
ent cruise: Captain Albert STEMS
imperial steamer, Charles Morgan, with
her champion pennant unfurled to the
breeze, ships anchor for the port of New
Orleans at five o'clock this evening. She
Is royalty equipped for the accommoda-
ton of passengers, and well appointed
In matters of detail in the storing and
transportation OF freight. Her COM
manner CaDtaiu Henry Stein ia whole
crew in himself, who, with the assist
ance Of his genial and accomplished SOD,
Henry w. Stein, the chief clerk, assure
comfort and pleasure to their travelling
guests. The Morgan will have about
twenty-five passengers. Up to noon to-
day, the following names appeared on
her register: Mrs. Albert MlchaeIs and
family, Mrs. Cordell, s. 81. Smith aud
family. Miss Smith, Mrs. NJ. Biggs, H.
s. Katzenberger and son, ]. s. Edmunds,
G. H. FarnswoTlh, w. P. Harrison, ].
Z. Parker, Will c. M'Csnd, G. A. Nash,
Thomas Seals and son, aud h. J. Hack