Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-07-20

ding" 20 the annual picnic Of the
Memphis Odd Fellows, which comes of
3. the Leath orphan asylum grounds or
Thursday, July 9th.
It was awful lonely times st the levee
yesterday. Jim DUrf was gone, and
the club did not have a quorum. A
called meeting will be held Immediate
ly on Durf7s return, and unfinished
business will be disposed ot-one-cent
ante, twenty-five cents limit; Wolf river
refreshments.
Louisville Courier Journal, Tuesday /:
Captain Al. Smith, of the BatesvilIa,
contracted with the Towards yesterday
for new upper White river packet.
| She will be a stern-wheeler of light
draught. Unlike that other stern
Wheeler who wants to be Vice. Presi-
dent, she'll run we'll"
1t is no use talking; steainboatmen
have learned to their sorrow (some OF
them twenty five thousand dollars
WORTH that cotton cannot be shipped
from here to New Orleans q. seventy
five cents per bale. This is the way they
talk now, and shippers may begin to
make up their minds to pay more this
season.
Captain Mark Cheek is superintend.
ing the finishing touches of the repairs
to the Illinois, and when she is COM
pleted she will look the latest style and
finish, just out OF the bandb,x, and
marine palace. She will take her place
next Tuesday, when the changes we
noted to take place last week, and
which didn'G take place because the IL
hnois was not ready, will certainly occur
Captain J. I. Washington requests US
to say that those who have engaged
passage of him on the Grand Republic
must be at the foot Of Monroe street at
eight o'clock this morning. II the Re-
public does not get In on time the cap
tain will provide comfortable waiting
room at No. 800 Front row. The latter,
however, will not be necessary, ss the
Grand Republic max "a schedule time at
all points.
There is talk Of daily line Of packets
between here and Vicksburg. Negotia.
tons are progressing for additional
packets to make up the line. We are
not permitted to tell any more about it,
although we, by means Of forty-horse
power cOrkscrew, extracted the whole
story from one of the parties interested.
We are glad to see our Memphis ma
rines spreading their wirg5 to take In
all that's to be made this fall.
Disastrous Overflow of Arkansas River.
We copy the following from the hide
pendent Arkansidsa, published at Oar
danelle, Yell county: 1.-THE waters of
the Arkansas were at their highest on
Friday last. 1t lacked something near
two feet of being as high as in 1865; but
from the fact that the bottoms in this
county have been cleared further back
on lower lands, the overflow had been
more destructive by very great deal.
A careful inquiry and personal observs-
ton satisfy US that not less than from
two to three hundred acres of corn and
cotton have been totally destroyed in
the Dardanelle and Gardens bottoms.
The river cut worse than was ever
known before. On some farms many
acres were cut away, causing fences to
be removed, and, in some instances,
houses had to be moved also. But few
have lost only per cent. of their whole
crop, leaving them immense crops I'M
hurt, all looking better than ever known
before. Here and there, however,
we meet up with poor fellow
who has lost his entire crop, and to
him it was his all. We learn
also that both below and above here the
destruction Is greater than with US, as
the bottoms are generally lower and
narrower than our bottoms. The losers
are not discouraged, but have gone to
work to repair the damage as far as pos
sible. Some are sowing Hungarian
grass, and others are preparing to do 50,
and there is little doubt but that they |
will yet raise q crop of hay worth more
to them than the same land would have |
brought in corn or cotton. The over |
flow took good deal of our Centennial |
enthusiasm out of our people, as the |
waters were then (on the fourth) cover
ing their I'm and cotton. It III all past |
now, and we will still make . super |
crop.u