Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-23
BOATS LEAVING THIS DAY.

BOATS LEAVING THIS DAY.
CINcINNATI-Cons Millar, VIM. Tichenor,
master, FIVE pm.
ARKANSAS RIvER-Maumelle, Thos OAR
ragh, master, five pm.
ST.. FRANCIS RIvER-Mark Twain, J. d.
Randall, master, five pm.
VIcKsBURG-Belle Memphis, James A.
Yore, master, ten m.
VICKsBURG-I Illinois, J. J. Darragh, mas
ter, five pm.
ST. LoUIs-City of Vicksburg, Robert X.
Riley, master, five pm.
RECEIPTS.
City of Alton-l37 brls -four.
Colorldo-6 bales cotton, Is pkgs sundries
Maumelle-38 bales cotton, 10 pigs sun
drles.
West Wind-5 head cattle, %, coo shingles,
lot sundries.
Coahoma-5 bales cotton, IA brls onions,
IS pkgs sundries.
Illinois-l2 bales cotton, 1874 sacks cotton
seed, 80 pkgs sundnes.
Belle of Shreveport-250 sacks salt, 100
bales gunny sacks, lot sundries.
John B. Maude-945 brls fouc and meal,
$50 sacks corn aud oats, 1893 rolls bagging,
% brls whisky. 8 casks meat, l bale cotton,
30l pkgs sundries.
Cons Millar-1452 rolls bagging, so bbls
whisky, % bbls flour, SO bbls meal, as bbls
glassw ire, 10 hhds bacon, 246 kegs nails, $50
kegs shoes, 377 sacks corn 800 sacks bran,
l35 sacks oats, 80 tubs butter, 50 boxes soap.
10 bxs bacon, Is bxs cheese, 30 oxs starch, i20
bxs candles, 40 bxs writing fluid, 158 bxs glass
ware, "a bxs bottles, e8 bxs horse nails. II bxs
sad-irons, so pkgs furniture, "a stoves, 81
pieces hollow ware, b trunks mdse, So sheets
iron, horses, 400 pkgs sundries, 8 coops
chickens.
Levee Paragraphs.
Business moderate
Weather delightfully."- salubrious.
That wedding, we learn, is off for the pres
ent.
The John Gilmore and barges passed up
for st. Louis Sunday morning.
The Mark Twain, Captain Randall, is this
evening s st. Francis river packet. Banning
is clerk.
Inc John B. Maude discharged 1921 pack
ages and added ten tons as she passed down
Sunday.
The City of Alton got lot of freight at
the Lee wharfboat as she passed down for
New Orleans Sunday.
The Colorado passed up for st. Louis Sun
day evening, discharging small lot here
and adding a small lot of fruit.
The Maumelle sails for Arkansas river at
the usual hour this evening, Thomas Darragh
in command, Charley Mussulman, clerk.
Who wants ii bar on the river that can be
got for very small Investment? That one
OppO5lCG luis Guy Is showing up III BTdHu
proportions.
The temperance picnic, for the benefit of
Leath orphan asylum, which comes off
Thursday, will be one of the pleasurabe
events of the season.
Captain Postal's upper White river packet
| Trader lies on the bar in front of the city.
| She will be thoroughly overhauled as soon as
the water falls sufficiently.
The Belle Memphis is the ten o'clock An
| chor-liper for Vicksburg to-day. Captain
James A. Yore commands, with 0. Hewitt
and Harvey Crane IN the Office.
The Illinois sails for Vicksburg at the
| usual hour this evening John DarraGh com
mands, with A. L, Cummins in the Office, as
sisted by Marlin Jones and Will Darragh.
The AnchOr-liner City of Vicksburg sails
! for Vicksburg at FIVE o'clock this evening.
Captain Robert K Riley commands, with
Chris Sharpe and Charley Quesnel In the
| office.
Captain J. G. Andrews, we are glad to be
! able to state, was sufficiently recovered from
his recent attack of sunstroke to resume his
| place on the roof of his popular packet, the
West Wind, yesterday.
| The Cons Millar arrived yesterday with
| four hundred tons of freight and talr trip
Of passengers. She returns to Cincinnati
| this evening, doing all the bends and giving
! special ''lower-than- through rates to
all points east. Captain Tichnor, as clever a
man as can be found In the river service, is
in command, with the always popular Will
son in the Office. A journey up the Ohio on
| the Millar will always be remembered by the
! traveller who loves high living and comforta-
| bic accommodations.
A large number of Captain Dick Light
burns friends gathered at his new place yes
terday afternoon to help him open his beauti
full and commodious business apartments at
No. z Monroe street Captain Dick, OF
| course, distinguished himself as mine host,
| and everybody present was loud in praise of
his new and tastefully arranged office. Cap
tain Lightburn is now superintendent Of the
| Ohio river packet company, embracing FIVE
| first class packets, and one other building.
| He is also superintendent of the Citizens
| Memphis and Vicksburg packet line, embrac-
| ing three packets; and of the Memphis and
/ White river packet company, embracing two
packets already in service and one building.
| We could not say more of his popularity as
| steamboat agent. His Office is elegantly fur
nished, the floor being carpeted, and every
| thing is in the most systematic order, one Of
the best evidences of rigid observance of
| strict business rules in all bis transactions.