Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-07-11

Tuesday packet, A. J. White, Captain
, George Malone in command, leaves a
, five o'clock this evening sharp To-
Vieksburg and all way landings.
It's all right now; the planters below
here may dig away their levees-Jin
Durff ssys there VIII be no overflow
Now, mind you, if you get caught with
your bars down, don't charge 1t to the
APPEAL.
The New Orleans Times says that
Cay Raes w. Dugsn has been elect
ed president OF the bOatmen's Tilden
and Hendricks club of st. Louis. "Any-
thing 10 beat Wheeler" is the cry of the
marine fraternity.
| g. Henry Fink, liquor dealer, and
Fred Leib, provision dealer, both Of
Louisville, were purchasers Of the Mary
Houston, sold at public cutlery in that
| city Friday. They gave seventy-eight
hundred dollars for her.
The new Arkansas river packet, Gov
ernoE Garland, will arrive tomorrow,
and leave on Saturday for Arkansas
river. A full description Of her will be
found elsewhere in this column. Cap
| tain Ed. Rowland will be in command,
1.-The Cons Millar, Captain Sterling
| M'Iutyre in command, is the regular
Cincinnati packet leaving this evening.
| Through tickets to the Centennial at re-
duced rates can be had on board. Cap
! tain James Wilson controls the affairs of
| the office.
The neavy rains of day before yester-
day has been general through this Sec
ton Of country, and is just what the
| planters <needed at the present time.
| Heavy drift was passing here all day
yesterday, and we are to have few feet
! more of water.
Old Pluv. dealt kindly with us Sun.
| day, by devoting the entire afternoon to
| refreshing and invigor8ting shower,
| moistening the parched earth and tenn
| peTipg the atmosphere to most COM
Portable condition. We owe him one for
the glorious aIlanighps sleep Sunday
| night.
Captain o. Il. Joplin, favorite Of the
| upper COSTS and commander OF the
Osceola Belle, took bis departure yester-
| day for the scenes OF his childhood at
Rock Springs, Virginia. He will be &b-
| sent four or five weeka, and will take in
| the Centennial and other refreshments
| before his return.
| The John A. Scudder, which has been
in hocklety at New Orleans, on account
q
| leased Friday evening, her commander,
| Captain Garter, having given bonds in
| Il irty Thousand dollars. She left New
Orleans Immediately for st. Louis, and
will arrive here this evening.
The Charles Morgan passed up on
time Sunday morning, with the largest
| passenger trip she has ever taken up the
| river. When she arrived here she had
one hundred and for y seven passengers,
| twenty-si6 Of whom were Children.
| Every one Of her stateroOms, with the
exception Of three, were occupied by
ladies. She added about fifteen passer-
gers here.
He writes his soul beyond the pale o.
eternal salvation as follows: 'Ii l were
a cassowary on the sands OF TimbuctoO,
I'd eat a missionary, skin, bone and
hymn-book, too.n But he goes on to
say: "I'd like to be commodore, cap
tain or clerk; anything would suit roe
where Pm not expected to work" The
! cry Of oman overbOardw hushed his
dulcet notes.
That's nice little story Durf put up
on the Ledger readers yesterday after
noon about Captain O K. JopIin's go
iuT away to recuperate his "OverwOlked
body" We happen to know that mes
after other fish. He says truly, how
ever, that JOP's friends will miss him,
but the rejoicing at his return, and ali
the other circumstances connected there
with, will make amends for his brief ab.
sence. Fellow. marines, give the hand
some young marine hearty welcome,
and charge to our account.
The CHARLES Morgan, which passed
this port Sunday morning, refused
hEr fri ~
gers, but those who wanted to go up the
river had read the Sunday mornings
APPEAL, which told them what clever
people were in charge of the Morgan,
and being determined to go up on the
Morgan Rather, would not be refused,
and went anyhow. Captain Stein told
them he could not accommodate them
with beds, but, il they were determined
to go with him, he would do the best he
could for them.
Here is something about our old
favOrite, the Idlewild, and her clever
putser, Ed. Thomas, clipped from the
Cairo Bulletin, Of Friday: "GovernOr
Tilden and Governor Hayes. alias Ed.
| Thomas, of the Idlewild, and Matt Will
liams, OF the Jim. Fisk, done the city
| together yesterday, and paid their re-
spects to the Bulletin. Ed. Thomas was
here making arrangements for q grand
moonlight excursion, to take place on
the famous Idlewild from this city toCJ-
lumbus, Kentucky, Saturday night. He
invited the Silver COrnet band-the
best band in Southern Ilinois-to &C.
company the party, and the members Of
! that windy organization accepted with
! a bland smile and low bow. A glorious
good time is looked for by the pleasure
lovers of this burg
Cincinnati came mighty near being
| "blowedn all to pieces last Friday. The
| Commercial gives some hints Of the
river disturbances: "The gals Of Friday
night did not extend beyond Cincinnati.
All the arriving packets came in safe
| and sound. The Ashland is at the foot
of Ludlow street, where she will be fully
repaired forthwith. 1t will cost about
two thousand dollars to make the re-
| quired repairs. The Exchange and
Granite State will carry out her freight
contracts above here. The feet of steam
ers blown from their moorings are all
back to the bank where they were laid
up. Fortu ately, the Champion No. Z
had up steam, and caught and safely
landed the Sherlock and LoDgworth hull
| before they driited down against the
piers of the Newport bridge.