Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-07-27

here.
The Ruth is receiving for her depart
ure for White river, next Saturday.
Among her items already aboard for
White river are near five hundred sacks
Of Liverpool salt, shipped at New Or
learns.
The repairs to the Quickstep and A.
J. White are progressing rapidly. As
soon as the former passes from under the
bands of the repairers, she will take the
place of the Phil Allin, which will I'M
dergO similar repairs.
A youthful member of the marine fra
ternity, whose earthly hope has entered
into matrimonial alliances with some
other fellow, finds some consolation in
the following cOuplet:
'Tissweet to wait, but oh how bitter,
To wait for girl, and then not git her.
A meeting of steambOatmeH will be
held in Cincinnati in q few days to con-
slider the right OF cities and individuals
to charge wharfage. Let us hold one,
too, and let there be meetings held ali
along the line OF the Mississippi and its
tributaries, and see if we cannot throttle
the wharfage fiend. What say you, fell
low mariners?
We have been visited with q little
more weather than is put down in the
almanac for this latitude for this season
of the year, and the supposition is that
the next four weeks will De notable for a
corresponding lack of weather. The
weather architects, it seems, when they
get their hand in st manufacturing any
particular quality OF weather, never
care when they stop.
The arrangements for the excursion
and hop on tie James d. Parker tn lrs-
day night have been perfected, and the
character OF the gentleman of the COM
mittee of arrangem is a guarantee
that it will be one Of the most enjoyable
affairs of the season. Being strictly Sc
lect, 10 one will be admitted on the boat
except those having tickets OfinvitRtiOn.
y disUasch to one of the Cincinnati
papers Saturday chronicles the following
accidents to cOal-tOws en- route to Pitts
burg: "The only accidents reported thus
fat were as follows: n. J, Bigley, J. o.
Stone and James Gilmore. Each lost q
barge at the trap; the 1. n. Phillips one
at Whites, Maggie Smith one at Gla:s-
house, and the Baltic had one swamped
by the swells Of passing steamer at
Manchester"
Here's what the Cairo Bulletin, OF
Saturday, has to say about Captain
Hicks's mammoth steamer, building at
Metropolis: Captain ALT Cutting, Of
Metropolis, was in the city yesterday,
and says the heavy drift is bOthering
him at his work on the Mary Bell. He
cannot get the two boats dashed together
steady enough to enable him to trans.
pose the cabin. He has plenty Of time,
however, and can wait until the drift
passes out. He says that when the boat
WAS launched she was christened Mary
Bell in honor CT the wife of Captain
Jessie K. Bell, and the name is q fix
ture"
The Ruth arrived about five o'clock
yesterday evening, and was visited by
q large number of our citizens, who are
q unit in the opinion that Captain Har-
ny has struck his bonanza in the par-
chase of the Ruth for the White river
trade. She will lay here until Saturday,
during which time her repairs, which
were not completed before she left New
Orleans, will be finished up, when she
will sail at her regular hour and Oh her
regular day, beginning the fall season.
Captain Harry's friends all along White
river will congratulate him on his sue
cess in procuring boat so eminently
suited to their wants.
Some of the new mail-line contractors
may be interested in the following tel
egrsm received from W. sAipgton Sun
day night: "The pcstOfiice department
has sent to the department of justice the
names of thirty-nine mail contractors
to be prosecuted for failing to perform
service after their bids were accepted.
They will be sued for the difference be-
tween their bids and the amount paid
by the government after reletting them,
which on the thirty-nine routes for one
year amount to four hundred and sew
enteen thousand and eighty-seven d.
lars. The department will also briGg
civil suit against the contractors for
damages sustained by the government
in providing temporary service after
their failure to fulfill the contracts. The
routes were subsequently let for four
years, and should the government re-
cover the above amount suits will be
to cover the losses for the
three years.
clippings.
st. Louis Globe Democrat, oath:
morris Herman, the gentlemanly and
popular steward of the Cheek line Mem
phis and Vicksburg packets, arrived
on visit to his family. Nor
ris is one OF the greatest faYOrities on
southern steamers, and well deserves |
his popularity"
Cincinnati Times, 81 h: "Captain Bob |
Wise's superb steamer, James u. Parker, |
is off for Memphis this evening, at five |
o'clock, and with a splendid start from |
here. She will get all she wants below |
to fill out with. The Parker will take |
out picnic party, from Memphis, this |
trip. 1t argues well for Captain Wise |
and clerk Lutte Kelso's popularity in |
Memphis, to have the Parker chosen for |
pleasure purposes in preference to the |
home boats of that city"
Dyersburg Gazette, oath: 1.-THE FOTked |
DEBRIS boOming-nearlyO cut Of its banks. |
Messrs. Brown, Bush IL Co., owners OF !
the steam saw and grist-mill on the |
South Fork, near Dyersburg, are on the
lookout for suitable steamer to ply be-
tween their mill and the cities on the
river. the steamer Aft, |
Stevens left Dyersburg for st. Louis, last /
Thursday, under command Of Captain |
e. J. Berry. She had on board one hum
fred AMI eighty thousand feet Of lumber
and two thousand bushels of wheat.
The steamers SAM Vail and Eureka
tC make regular trips from our
town TO Hsle's Point. Messrs. Fay &
Hunter, proprietors of the steam saw
mill on the Obion river, intend soon to
build steamboat for the accOmmOda-
ton of their lumber business"
EPITAPH OF AN ENGINEER
Here lies in a horizontal position
The remains of
George Washington Brown,
Steam Engineer,
Whose abilities and skill were an honor
To the C aft.
His fire was even; water-line at the middle /
cock; steani-just right.
Every action was marked by the pres sure |
gauge, and limited by the safety-vaIve,
And 50 accurately was the machinery Tegu- |
lated by the governor, :
He never met with an accident,
Until, most mysteriOusly-'tWas an unlucky |
day
Boiler, engine and building, with mOrtals ten !
All went up
Higher than a kite
ROOr BroWn1 with nine Others, departed this |
life, by steam,
Aged III, Cincinnati, Ohio, April II, ISL.
At the inquest
The coroner held deceased "a blameleSs man."
He was always true;
Twas the iron that was false:
PrOVideutial-so il was TO be,