Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-07-23
bare Of oil. taken from GIenn,s wharf.

barres Of oil, taken from Glenn's wharf
boat.
The City Of Chester, from st. Louis,
arrived yesterday with q good trip OF
grain and produce. The Capitol City
also from st. Louis, passed on to Vicks-
burg.
Captain Milt Harry, with the Ruth,
his new purchase for the White river
trade, is looked for at the levee this
evening, to take on a.load for his depart
ure tomorrow evening.
Large quantities of drif. appeared on
the bosom Of Big Muddy yesterday, to
the delight Of the dusky drift-wood
grsbbers who lined the shore from the
Navy yard to Fort Pickering.
Captain Ad. Storm, superintendent Of
the Anchor line elevator here, was in
st. Louis Wednesday. He will get a
correct pedigree of those Canadian NAL
tese kits from Captain Drown, who i'm
ported them.
Billy Willis, the petite bill clerk Of the
Allin, has got another conundrum--
original, Of course-ard offers reward
for the proper answer. He wants to
know why al oyster is like cotton
bale?
A letter from Billy Brown, clerk Of
the burned John Kyle, received at Cairo,
dated Wheeling, July 18th, says: II
am improving slowly. Both hands are
badly drawn, one eye clear gone, and it
will take several months to fully restore
my health"
The Phil Allin arrived during last
night, and is filling up for her departure
to FIiars Point and the bends this even
ing. Captain Stack Les on the roof,
and Jimmy Thompson and Billy Willis
in charge Of the Office affairs.
Captain James Rces, jr., left New Or
leans Wednesday evening on the Robert
Mitchell, en- route for his home at Pitts
burg. He has spent the past three
body OF his wife, lost when the last
steamboat conf1sgration occurred.
We did not have time to wait on the
bluff night before last to hear the band
play when the Illinois sailed into port,
but we learn that many of our citizens
awaited themselves of the opportunity to
hear some good music. We will be
there this evening when che departs.
The Illinois is in port receiving for
her departure to Vicksburg this evening.
We hear that Captain Mark Cheek and
Joe Speers, the master and clerk of the
Illinois, were in the city yesterday, Just
returned from New Orleans, where they
were attending to business connected
with the Memphis and Vicksburg line.
We have again to return thanks to
the officers and band of the steamer Hi
nois for serenade late last night, Just
as we were closing this column. This
band Is certainly the best colOred musi-
cal organization we ever heard. Mat
Reynolds, the head porter, is the leader,
and deserves much credit for the eff
cheney of the band, composed of eight of
his subordinate pOrters and cabin boys.
1t was rumOred On the streets yester-
day that private telegram had been re-
ceived in this city from st. Louis
to the effect that a two-inch rain
had fallen in that locality, but
the weather observer notes the rain
fall at thirteen-hundredths,a and fair at
six o'clock. AtLouisville, however, the
rainfall yesterday was one inch and
twenty-nine hundredths, the heavy rain
only noticed atthat locality on the Ohio.
A sharp shower also passed over Cincin-
natl, with light showers at Pittsburg and
Cairo.
Our previous calculations as to the
probability of overflow have been based
upon the impression that the present
unreasonable wet spell could not con-
tinue much longer, but it seems to be
afflicted with the gift Of continuance,
and we are now of opinion that if it
don't stop raining soon, somebody's 60
ing to get hurt. At present there is
manifest steady slackening in the rise
of streams at all points, but the contin-
uous storms all along the Ohio and at
the headwaters of the Missouri, Tennes-
see and Cumberland Will, in all probs-
bility, give another impetus to the al
ready swollen streams. The wise farmer
will make all preparation possible neces-
sary to protect his fields from the en-
crOGcbments of higher water.