Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-07-13
APPEAL-- THURsDAYs july is. 1876.

tell you about the low rates, centennial
ward and otherwise.
Tire New Orleans Times says: "Ol
Tuesday, April % b, we recorded tn
marriage Of Captain w H. b finger Il
Miss Marie r Stocker, Of this city, am
now we have the sad duty to perform 0
Announcing the death of Mrs Bofiuger
which took plece st st Louis on Thurs
day, the 9Th Tof JuIy. They had beer
on their bridal tour ever since the wed
ding, and had returned to s.. Louis OF
their wsy home TO this city, when she
took sicB, and death claimed its shining
mark
The Riversides and their friends en-
joyed very pleasant moonlight excur-
sion on the river night before LAT. They
had prepared two bsrges, nicely cano-
pied with green bushes, ard, in tow of
the Carl Sc5u'z, they left the landing st
nine o'clock, running up and down the
river until daylight yesterday morning.
A fine band Of music was in attendance,
and at midnight sumptuous repaEt was
served, free Of charge, to all on board.
| The management has our thanks for
! cOurtesies extended.
The Burlington G0zdtte says: "The
| Phil Sheridan, one of the steamers Of
| lowed up the river day before yesterday
| by the Lake Superior, to be wicked up
| on the ways at LaCrosss, was built
| about fourteen years ago, and wss at
one ii ne purchs s id by William +. d.
wilson for seventy-five thousand dol
| las, to ply between Dubuque and st.
Paul. 1t was one of the fastest running
boats on the Upper Mississippi, bat
never proved much of speculation to
its owners
The new packet building to run in
connection with the Phil Al!in in the
Memphis and VicksbuFg mail line, is
rapidly approaching completion, and
will be ready to enter that trade on the
first Of September. Captain James Lee,
sr., is at Metropolis experimenting her
construction. Aside from the cid mans
presence, ALI Cutting says that he has
never before had the opportunity to
build packet according to his own no.
ton. By this we are led to believe that
this new boat will be model Of beauty
and perfection. The name the new
packet is to besr is yet secret. Who
knows but
Here is something, which we clip from
the st. Louis Republican, which may
interest the marine fraternity in the
coming Presidential election: "In an.
swer to several irquirers, we have to say
that mariners may vote for President
where they chance to be on the day Of
election. Thay are required to make
oath that they have voted nowhere else
on that day-the mariners oath. Some
old boatmen do not know whether or
not this view OF the question is right,
but they say 1t is always done, and is
sanctioned by custom. Now there is
shreWd and careful b0atmap, Captain
John N. Bofingtr, who once stopped his
boat, the old Atlantic, we believe at
Baton Rouge, and the entire crew went
ashore and voted for Taylor, Not one
parson connected with the boat ever
lived there. The same wss the case, we
rememb Der, with another b)at which
reached Memphis on the day OF the
Presidential election. The captain went
ashore with his entire crew, who voted
solid for one ticket. We relieve the
boat was owned and commanded by
Captain John w. Carroll. Perhaps the
crews OF hundred or more western and
southern boats voted at the same time
under the same circumstances, and
doubtless the privilege extendst TO all cit
liens engaged in river, canal, lake and
ocean Transportation"