Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-03-07

45I taIes cotton, 792 sacks cotton-seed,
10 head cattle, horse, mules, Is pigs
suudries.
Cons Millar-200 tons miscellaneous.
Phil Allin-125 bales cotton, bags
seed-cOtton, 55I sacks cotton-seed, 25
pkgs sundries.
IlIinois-l58 bales c)tton, S. sacks cot
ton-seed, % pigs sundIiss.
A. J. White-3l9 hsl IS cotton, 10 bags
seed cotton, SIG ,ks cotton-seed, 10 pkgs
| sundries.
G.. w. Cheak-54 bales cotton, So bags
seed-cottor, 1877 SKIS cotton. seed, 10 pkgs
sundTies.
Charles Morgau-135 bbIs molasses, IS
boxes tin-plats, 5 bales cotton, % SKIS
hulled seed.
Osceola Belle-115 bales cotton, 81
bags sesd-3ottor, pigs sundries.
Leyee Paragraphs.
Genuine March weather.
Business very light at the levee.
The Asblsrd l. reported aground in
Arkans 8 river.
Che Cons Millar will get coed load
of cotton for Cincinnati.
Katie Putnam, the fAvorite of the
Memphis marines, is At the Theater this
week,
Ssnd-bars and Iack-hs APPS are the at
traction Ito stsr-gaz5rs) in Arkansas
river sgain.
Nike Curfman has invented a ma
chine for clesGing out boilers while the
boat is under way.
A large numb sr of tie river men at
tended the funeral Of the late James
Hale yesterday afternoon.
The local packets are about sll on time
again, and will probably keep up o
schedules until the hundred years is out.
ATne Thomas Sherlock, which carried
splendid load into New Oilesns last
Friday, leaves that port on her return to
Cincinnati this evening.
The A J. White had 8 little set. to
with snag on her last trip up, resulting
in slight ripsin her s;arboard forward
guard. Nothing serious.
There was good shO wing Of tonnsge
at the levee yesterday, but the heavy
rain toward the shank of the evening
considerably retarded movements of
fraights.
Coroner Spelmsn held an inquest over
the remains OF q fi0ater found half
buried In the sand near Fort Pickering
yesterday morning. Particulars in our
local columns.
Ine Charles Morgan added eighty
eight bales Of cotton mere Sunday morn
ing, refusing to take about two hundred
bales more offered her. She had other
wise a good trip.
the Gu9t WE intolerable on the levee
yesterday, until the rain set in in the
afternoon, after which the average ma
rine could stare the weather in the face
without blinking.
General M'D9nald, one Of the victims
Of the 81. Louis whisky ring, wss &
seamht at passenger runner before t.
war. In 1867 he commanded the NJ. z
Mepham, fine boat, that ran betWle,
Nashville and st. Louis.
Business with the packets is getting
along swimmirgly, and each weeks
transactions are but a reproduction of its
predecessor. The result with the news
hunters is tia: IT'S su awful days work
to find enough to talk about.
Cincinnati Times: ga once prominent
Cumberland river steamboat captain is
now an inmate Of q Kentucky lunatic
asylum. His wife, an elegantly accom-
plished lady, will soon make her debut
as an actress on the Stage at st. Louis.
A New Orleans dispatch Of Sunday
says: ''The three-mested schooner Mat
tie w. Atwood, with cargo of twenty
two hundred and fifty bales of cotton,
and drawing thiTte IN and one-half feet,
was put to sea to-day through the jetties
at South Pags. This is the first mer-
chant vessel that haI pe Jsed through
the jetty channel. When the jetJy
works were commenced there was but
about eight fl t Of water ia the South
PAS, where, Colonel Andrews states,
there isjnow fOHrte IN feet"
1.,I a..
cOmmOdious Memphis and Vicksburg
packet, viii be found at her mOorings
this morning receiving for all way
landings, ana through to New Orleans
and up the YazCo aud T9llahaCchie riv-
els. She makes close connections for
New Orleans with the palatiaI R. E
Lee; also with tI.e ParisOt line for YazoO
and Tallahstchie rivers. CAPTAIN Marx
Cheek is her master, and Joe Speers,
Charley Smithers and Al. Aydlett, in
the Office, and that's all necessary to be
said to assure the patrons of the Cheek
line of security and punciuaIity.
The Evening Ledger Of yesterday an
nOunces the death OF Mr.. James Hall,
brother of Clarence Hall, which took
plsce on board the steamer Ella, while
lying st Mariana, Arkansas. Deceased
was we'll and favorGbly known in river
circles, with which he had been con-
nected for more thsn twenty years.
He was man Of strict integrity, char
liable, social and generous, and was be-
loved by all who knew him. During
the war he served as passenger agent fer
the New Orleans and other packets at
st. Louis, Cairo, Memphis and Vieks-
burg. After the war he filed the posi-
ton Of clerk on several different steam
ers and for the pact ten years has follow
ed the river in various capacities
with honor to himself and profit to his
employers. He left hare on Wednesday
last, feeling little unweIl; on Thurs
day he was taken seriously i'll and died
on Saturday, Tne friends who attended
him in his LIST moments give US the
consoling assurance that he retained
full Consciousness to the final hour and
died happily. His sudden death has
csst gloom over the hearts of his many
friends. TIE bostI in port displayed
their colors at half-mest in respect to
the dead. The funeral took place yes.
terday afternoon at the Fist Presbyte-
Ran church, whence the remains were
conveyed to Elmwood cemetery for in