Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-02-20

| tierces lard, 100 pale lard, 356 sacks oats
so sacks brsn, 800 sundries.
| U p. Schenck-l09 bales hay, $50 b&l
rels potatoes, 1Ol boxe' glassware.
River Paragraphs.
There were bot few boats in port yes
terisy.
The City Of Alton (Iook out Sullivan
passed down at dark last night heavli
laden.
The Ruth, Captain Ed. Postal, got |
good trip out for White river yesterday
as she deserved.
Mound City. There's too much waite
for her kind of amusement.
The elevator and the vicinity o
Glenn's wbarfbost presented the only
scenes Of activity yesterday.
The Grand Tower toted of from the
elevator yesterday, 63l bales of cotton,
to be reshipped at Cairo for the east.
| The authorities are determined that
no more levee paving-sione shall be
swallowed I'D by the encFoaching river.
The Illinois g0asITGesd&y fully equip
| pt q foT her grad Mardi Gras excursion,
ana will bring all immense crowd Of ex-
cursionsrs.
A lew boat is to be built right away to
tske the place OF the City OF Quincy,
and in which the latter's machinery
will he placed.
The Legal Tender, Captain Nowlsud,
| for Arkausss river, was we'll fixed in
point OF freight, and did not get away
until after dark last night.
VINO knows what has become Of the
Big Foot. She passed down to the low
er river several wee ks ago, but We can't
find cut where she is running.
The City of Helena lay st the elevator
tweBty-fCur hourF, and left for below
with fine trip, some Of which being 8
good lot Of way freight taken on here.
Duff Is afraid those new hitching-
posts being put on the levee by the city
engineer wit not be strong enough.
Duff would have made good city en-
gtneer.
The James D. Psrker's excursion
rates from Paducah TO Memphis, for
MsTdi Gras purposes, are fourteen dol
lars the round trip, lnl luding meals on
bosId while in port.
Captain Stein, and bis staff Of the
Cba:le5 Morgan, immOrtslizsd them.
selves on the 4st trip of that lightning
packet to the extent that her passengers
called meeting and passed very com
plimeDtary resolutions and vote Of
thanks, etc.
Tne GdleWiId's shaft was completed
yesterday, and will soon be pat in poel-
ton in ample time to go out Tuesday
evening. Captain Stack Lee always
had 'em, and Mr.. Ed. Thomas, her chief
clerk, has made numerous friends Of
both sexes here during his short respite
from labor.
'Lish Evans, one of the Legal Ten
def's stsr-gszers, is in ecstacy at the
idea of having q brass band aboard the
boat, and will kick the stuffin' out of the
wheel the first time the band bsgins to
play. He's a light-fsntsstlc tripper, and
dances about SIS graceful as q COW. Ask
him to tell now he got along with his
" industrial /" baud,
AS far as heard from all the up-river
Mardi Gras packets will be crowded
with exCursionisls, nine tenths of which
will stop at Memphis. The Cincinnati
papers are becoming slammed at the ap.
parent depopulstiOn of thst city, and is
pIacarding every available fiat surfRce
with q reminder that Cincinnati will
attempt to celebrate Msrdi Gras. It's
no use.
saThe Legal Tender is going TO make il
l0vely-and -the.goose-hangs-high for the
Mardi Gras eXcursiOnists. Her ladies'
cabin has been refuTnished with bran
new piano, and big brass baud was
taken out this trip, so that eating and
drink .ng during the day ard music and
dancing and counting the girls will rule
the night. o, but don't this chronicler
want to go!
Among the Golden Rules passengers
are the following Miss Hattie Jones,
Miss Laura Wooden, Mrs. A'hro and
children, Miss Spence, Mrs. ]. w Vaw-
t.r, Miss Alice Hackenheim, Miss Nam
ME Greenwood, w. +. Wehrman, Alfred
Brown, Jessie Brown, Charles Brown,
E. Anderson, w. g, Garrison, L. D.
Bartlett, Jacob Meizier, Miss Alice Ho-
worth and child, Mr.. Annie Ketchum,
Miss Fannie Ketchum, E. Shinkle and
wife, Mr.. Maeke and wife, Wesley
M'Dnffey, wife and four children.
Helena World: Captain Russ PorteI's
boat for the Helena and ST. Francis
river trade, which he will build here
this summer, will be q nsat stern
wheeler, one hundred and ten feet long
by twenty-eight feet wide. Size will
have the machinery of the Red Rover.
The tug Little Hatchie came very near
sinking up the s.. Francis river yester-
day. She ran afoul of a stump, which
fortunately did not go through her bot
tom, owing to her slow movements at
the time. Captain Porter was consider
abiy scared up though"
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