Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-07-17

! For CINCINNATI-The MinneOla,
Captain Skunk, at five pm.
For ST. LOUIs.-The Grand Tower,
Captain Lennox, at five pm.
For VICKsBURG-The st. Genevieve,
! Captain Nickers, al i've pm.
For NAPOLEON-The A. ]. White,
| Captain Malone, at five pm
Levee Reflections.
You bet, she was hot yesterday. All
| the Thermometers chilled over"
Captain Milt Harry is having the
| Ruth repaired and dOcked at New Or
leans. She will arrive here next week
| and take her place in the White river
trade.
About dark, yesterday evening, at
Little Rock, a man fell dead on the
wharf from excessive heat, Little Rock
thermometers having climbed up to 103
in the shade.
The st. Louis Times historian quotes
our effusion chrOniciing the fly-hme
amusements OF the rOus;abOut and the
mackerel, and then calls Us a "pOet."
That's worse than Wet.ender,n and an
apology is in order.
The danger Of 8 serious overflow seems
to have passed away, as our dispatches
already indicate q considerable check in
| the rise at the important points, and a
decline set in at all others. Let US hope
! that such is the fact
It is rumOred that Captain Stack Lee
will give 3 grand blowout when he
brings the Q1ickstep out for her first
| trip in her new trade. The chivalrous
buffer CHATS us) and the bellies of the
valley will be there.
Captain o. P. Shinkle and others st
LOT huYil
wheeler for the Cincinnati and New Or
! leans trade. The dimensions OF the new
craft will be: Length, two hundred and
fifty feet; beam, thirty. eight feet, AMI
six feet hold.
The Belle OF Texas will take the place
OF the Quickstep in the White river
trade until Captain Harry gets his Ruth
in proper trim for the big business await
ing him the coming season. Captains
Darragh and Postal will go out with the
Belle of Texas, with Billy Butler in the
office.
The city authorities had better watch
Durff; he's got his eye on those rocks
which are about TO be carried away by
the enCrOsChments Of the river on the
levee. He found it out by looking
around the past two or three days after
that stone shaft with the mysterious
inscription on it.
The Rosa Miller, Captain WOodburn's
Arkansas river summer season packet,
left Pittsburg yesterday, en- route to
Memphis, and will Immediately take
the place Of the Belle Of Texas, and viii
battle with the bars in Arkansas river
until a sutficiency Of water will justify
the running of larger packet.
The Phil Allin walked off with
splendid trip of freight and passengers
yesterday afternoon. Captain Stack Lee
has become one Of the most popular
commanders running into this port, and
when he gets hold OF the big-beIl cord OF
the Quickstep, there will be but one step
between that and the admiralty Of the
American navy.
Everybody had thermOmetrical idea
of his own here yesterday. Although
the weather observer gives only SO as
the maximum marked during the day,
there are people who will contend that
ITO was reached. We felt hot enough
without any reference to thermometers;
in fact, we did not wish to witness the
fearful straining they were subjected to.
The Qgickstep, Captain Ed Postal in
command, came in yesterday morning
from White river with good trip Of
freight and people. She was turned over
yesterday to her new owners. Captain
Stack Lee will have her reprinted and
put in complete running order prepare
tory to placing her in the Frisrs Point
trade, TO run in connection with the
famous steamer Phil Allir.
The Illinois went out yesterday even
ing with fine passenger TIP, and Joe
Speers and Owen JemIsOn we're as hap
by as king-bees. They know how, and
will exert ali their talents to make trip
on the Illinois enjoyable, and now that
they have the addition Of the brass and
string band to her comforts, the Illinois
will rapidly become among the most
comfortable packets on the river.
Whoop 'enl up lively.
We learned late last night that Cap
tain Mark Cheek and Joe Speers, of the
Illinois, 90 to New Orleans by rail to-
day. We did not ask what for, and our
informant did not think proper to in.
form Us, unasked. Also, that Captain
Malone went out IN command OF the IL
linois, with Charley Smithers in the Of
fee. Also, that Captain Green will take
the Cheek out in place of the, White to
Napoleon and return this trip.
The new tOwb0at building at Pitts
burg, for the Grand Lake coal company,
will be the most powerful on the western
waters. She will have Hsrtsupee's CON-
pound engines, small cylinder, niu5
inches in diameter, and large cylinder,
fOrty-three inches in diameter, nine feet |
stroke. Her shaft will be Rectangular,
fifteen inches in diameter, working a
thirty-fOot bucket, steel boilers, six in
number, forty inches in diameter, TWEEN |
ty-eight feet long.
1t was common talk in marine circles |
yesterday, said to be based upon reliable |
Information received by Frank Smith, |
that Captain Frank Hicks's big Mary |
Belle would be launched at Metropolis |
at ten o'clock this morning, which de- |
serves special notice from the fact that |
she is to be the monster fresh-Water /
craft Of the age, and every movement by !
her or her owners should be accurately |
noted. We hope the placing Of the le- |
viathan in the water will be effected |
without accident or hindrance.
1Ths White came in yesterday morning /
from the lower coast with q coed tip, as /
usual. She discharged her cargo and |
went TO the bank to be repaiuTed and |
overhsuled for the fall season. The |
George w. Cheek, which has been rem |
Ovated and put in complete running GT-
der and reprinted in handsome style, |
leaves this evening for Napoleon ana |
he bends in place of the White. She |
ness. Captain Lee Cunmins, who is one |
OF the most popular clerks in the lower
trade, has charge Of the office.
Evening Ledger, yesterday: "The
APPEALS aquatic reporter was certainly |
sunstruck yesterday, or he either suf- |
fered from au overdose of Seymour |
Briggs's fire-water, as he says in his |
issue this morning that the engines OF |
the Mary Belle will be thirty four feet |
in diameter. Brooks has got things |
mixed. He can't stand the weather, |
because the wind don't blow" Well, |
didn't we say she was the biggest thing |
on record? What's the use of growing |
about few feet in thing Of such stu |
pendOus magnitude as the Mary Belle is |
going TO be? We won't fall an inch.
Captain Tom feathers, of the Natchez |
prints a card in the New Orleans BllIe- |
tin on the subject Of the Vicksburg and |
New Orleans N sil contract, which winds |
up thus pOintedly: 81 am willing and |
anxious to Obiige the people, and am |
prepared and have the capacity to &C. |
com mOdate them; but positively de- |