Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-11

PIG SKIS corn, 443 pkgs furniture, BOP brl
-four, 235 brls meal, 800 brls cement, SOP pkg
nails. q hhds bacon, 35 bxs bacon, 200 empt.
barrels, 70 bxs soap, III pkgs sundries.
Levee Paragraph.
Business moderate.
The Belle Memphis departed last evening
on time for St. Louis.
Captain J. D. Randall, of the steamel
Mark Twain, left last night by rail for GIN
cinnat.
The Colorado departed on time Sunday
evening for St Louis, with 1876 bales cotton
| and 120 barrels potatoes
The John b. Maude departed on time Sun
day, for Vicksburg. She added 20 tons OF
freight at the elevator for points below here
The Hard Cash will ARRIVE out of White
river to-day, and returns at the usual hour
tomorrow evening, with Captain Ed Postal
| command.
On the last trip up of the West Wind a
| deck passenger named M. Maroney, who was
goiug up to Pecan Point to work on plan
tation, fell overheard at the head of Island
| 40, and was drowned.
lie Hattie Rowland arrived from Arkansas
| river yesterday with fair trip of frei ght and
passengers. She returns at the usual hour
| this evening, Captain Rpes in command and
| Alex M 'Connell in the Office.
We have received cotton bloom from the
| plantation of Mr.. S. A. Thompson, near
Easton IS Landing. The note accompanying
| it is dated June 9Th; therefore the bloom
ranks among the first of the season.
The City of Vicksburg arrived last evening
from Vicksburg with a fair trip. She lays
here until this evening at FIVE o'clock and de-
parts for st: Louis, Captain R. X. Riley in
command, Chris Sharpe in the office.
Mr.. Jonn Edwards, well-known steam
boat mate, died at Cincinnati on Friday, after
lingering illness. He was mate of the
Thompson Dean, with Captain w. B. Miller,
and enjoyed the confidence of all who knew
him.
The Mark Twain has entered upon a new
schedule, making two trips a week up st.
Francis river, going through to Wlttsburg on
Tuesdays and to Mariana on Saturdays.
She begins the new deal this afternoon at five
o'clock
The new steamer John W. Cannon, said
to be the finest packet ever built, Is due
down tomorrow, and will perhaps lay here
long enough Tor the admirers of high-toned
steamboat architecture to behold her ma
jestic proportions
The Golden Rule passes down for New Or
leans at nine o'clock this morning. She is
a splendidly appointed passenger packet, and
her officers, Captain o. P. Shinkle and Clerk
w. r. Shaw, make everybody comfortable.
Captain Washington, at the Lee wharfboat,
is her agent.
The little son, aged two years, of Pilot
JOhn Porter, OF tne HarQ CaSn, QleQ sunday
morning at the residence IN South Mem
phis.' The funeral has been appointed to
take place this afternoon. This will be sad
news for the father on the arrival of the Hard
Cash in port to-day.
Miss Hattie Rowland, daughter of the pop
ular Arkansas river captain, and in honor of
whom the steamer Hattie Rowland was
named gave reception on that packet last
evening, which was attended by a very large
number of the pretty little lady's friends.
OF course music and dancing ruled the hour.
The Coahoma went out for Friars Point
literally jammed with passengers from the
deck to the pilothouse. She had also splen-
did trip of freight. Everybody was happy.
The Coahoma's popularity Is not to be won
dered at. Her officers are clever gentlemen,
the boat is bran new and splendidly equipped
in every particular.
The James D. Parker arrived yesterday
afternoon out of the Ohio with about three
hundred tons of freight, ffty-three cabin
passengers and thlrty-four deckers. She re-
turns again this evening, her advertisement
elsewhere contains the attractive announce
ment that she carries passengers for all points
east cheaper than ever. Read the advertise
ment, and then consult Captain Dick Light
burne, her agent. Captain Charley Russell
is in command, with the popular G. Wash
Thompson In the office.