Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-22
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'Below high water mark Of 1874.
LOCAL OBSERVATIONS YESTERDAY.
Time. Bar. rher Wind. FAIL Esip Weather.
s E$ e. z 81; ~ ~ s:::
Maximum thermometer. 81 deg.
Minimum thermometer. 80 deg.
| W. Nd. AELROf. Sgt. Sig. Ser. U. 8. A.
BY TELEGRAPH.
NASHVILLE, June 2l.-River falling, with
% inches on the shoals
CINCINNATI, June 81 - Noon.-Weather
cooler and cloudy; heavy rain last night.
River falling.
PORT EADs, June 21.-No arrivals Sailed:
Steamship AlRiers. New York; schooner
VIM. L.. Burroughs, Cork.
New ORLEANS. June 21-Weather cloudy
and warm, with light rain shower this even
ing. Arrived: Charles Morgan, Cincinnati.
No departures.
PITrsBURa, June 21-Noon.-Rlver feet
inches, and falling. Weather cloudy and
warm .Night-River 5 feet inches and
falling. Weather cloudy and showery.
VICKsBURe, June 81. - Weather clear,
with heavy rain last night Thermometer 80
deg. River stationary. Down: Belle Of
Shreveport, ! am. Up: Illinois, noon; Gold
Dust, pm.
EVANSVILLE, June 21.-River rising, with
16 4-10 feet by the gauge. Weather clear
and cool. Thermometer "a to rs deg. Up:
Andy Baum, am; Sam Roberts and tow,
noon; Thomas Sherlock, noon; James D.
Parker, 6 pm.
CAIRO, June 81 = Noon Weather fair
and cool. .Night-River 81 feet inches,
and falling. Weather clear. Thermometer
rs deg. Arrived: John B. Maude, st. Louis,
z pm. Departed: James Howard, New Or
leans, pm.
Movements at the Levee.
ARRIVALS.
Cherokee, Pittsburg; City of Helena, st.
Louis; Coahoma, Friars Point: Katie Hooper.
Arkansas river; Golden Rule, New Orleans.
DEPARTURES.
City of Helena, Vicksburg; Coahoma, FRI
ars Point; Grand Tower, St. Louis; Cons
Millar, Cincinnati; Golden Rule, Cincinnati.
Cherokee, Katie Hooper.
BOATS DUE.
D0,0n-James Howard.
UD-Mark Twain, A. j. White.
BOATS LEAVING THIS DAY.
ARKANSAS CITY-A. J. White, N. s. Green,
master, five pm.
ARKANSAS RIvER-Hatte Rowland, Jas.
Reest, master, five pm.
NEW ORLEANs-James Howard, James
O'Neal, master, five pm.
ST.. FRANCIS RIvER-Mark Twain, J. D.
Randall, master, five pm.
CINCINNATI-Cherokee - Wolf, mas
ter, five pm.
RFCETPTS
Katie Hooper-107 bales cotton, Is brls oil,
lot sundries.
Cherokee-2OO bxs glass and glassware,
30, 900 bdls cotton-ties.
Coahoma-33 bales cotton, 1874 SKIS cotton
seed, As pkgs sundries.
City of Helena-1530 brls -four and meal,
1867 SKIS corn, 103 csks meat, Is ties lard, "
bis hay, 500 rls bagging, 500 pkgs sundries,
3 hogs, "a nd sheep, 5 nd cattle.
LeVee Paragraphs.
There was a little stir about the levee yes
terday.
Local packets left with pretty fair trips,
both freight and passengers.
The Mark Twain, which leaves for St.
francis river this evening, will 60 to Mari
anna this trip.
The Anchor Liners Grand Tower, for st.
Louis, and City of Helena, for Vicksburg,
both passed yesterday on time.
- The Cons Millar left for Cincinnati with
306 bales cotton, $50 sacks oil-meal, lot of
oil, % cabin passengers, and good crowd on
deck.
PIttsburg telegram, 10Th: 1.-The hull of
Captain Milt Harry's new boat arrived to-
day. Captain Harry and his father are both
here"
The Cherokee, from Pittsburg, arrived yes
terday morning with big cargo, consisting
of SO, 900 bundles of iron cotton-ties, and 200
boxes of glass and glassware. She will dis
charge the entire load here, and return to
Pittsburg at five o'clock this evening.
st. Louis Times, Thursday: ''There will be
lively competition on the lower Mississippi
next season, and among other questions to
be solved Is whether exclusive freight boats Or
| fine passenger pack ets. with ample freight
| capacity, are to carry the day. Give US the
| fine boats every time. 1t is best to always
encourage the beautiful, and we do. whether
| a steamboat or a woman" Second the mo-
| ton.
ST. Louis Globe Democrat Thursday: Gar
rangements were completed yesterday to
lenRtben Captain Norwegian s new boat the
G P. Chouteau, seventyfive feet, which,
when completed, will make the boat three
hundred and twenty-eight feet long from tip
to tip. The cabin is to be extended, and the
state-rooms will all be nine feet square.
| When this addition is made the Chouteau
will be the largest cotton carrier on the river.
| Captain Norwegian is a clever gentleman,
and deserves to succeed in any enterprise that
he may undertake"
st. Louis Republican, Thursday: "From
| January /, 1873, we have had the most re-
markable stages of river of which we have
any record. 1t has risen thirteen times; at
no time has it been less than eight feet six
inches by the gauge above low-water mark,
| which was the stage January 14th. The
highest mark 1t has reached on the gauge was
| on the night of June 18th, when it stood at
twenty-five and eight tenths feet 1t is now
| falling at the rate of nine inches in twenty
| four hours, and we predict continued de-
cline to about seven or eight feet in the chan
| nell"
New Orleans Picayune, Tuesday: "The
passage IN the house, by vote of one hun
nays, of the bill for the relief of Captain
| Eads, after its passage In the senate by a
vote of ffty-fve yeas to two nays, will be
| very welcome news to all the millions of the
west who are interested in having a deep
channel to the sea. This bill, when signed
by the President, will render Immediately
available for prosecuting the work at the jet
ties large and sufficient sum OF money. As
| an early result there may be expected a per-
manent twenty-four feet channel of sufficient
| width. In thus for short time anticipating
| payment provided for In the original con-
tract, congress has acted for the public good.
Even while the inhabitants of louisiana,
Mississippi and Arkansas profoundly regret
that congress has failed to do justice to them
by providing for the repair and maintenance
| OF levees on the banks OF the great national
thoroughfare of commerce, they will all be
grat6ed by the aid extended to the jetty en-
| terprlse.
Evansville Courier: "The Calf was a regu-
lar floating menaQerie, having, among other
things, beautiful fawn, lovely little thing,
and as tame as dog; a lively bear cub, and
| Lat tVlf not