Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-08-03

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W MELRoY. Sig. serg't. U. S. A.
| BY TELEGRAPH
| NASHVILLE, August 2.-Rivef rising; 36 inches
1 on the shoals
VICKSBURG, August 2.-RainIng. Thermometer
| 8S deg River fallen inches
weatbeS eesT anu AGg2ss reef ee
inches and falling. Weather fair and warm.
CINCINNATI, August 2.-RLver feet 3 inches
and rislog. Weather clear and warm Arrived: j..
D. Parker Memphis Nlght-River rising.
Weather clear and warm.
CAIRO. August 2.-Arrived: Golden Rule, Cincin-
natl, al River Is feet 3 inches and rising
Heavy rain. 4 pm. clear Maximum thermome-
ter 81 deg. Much cooler. Mercury so deg.
EVANSVILLE, August 2-weather clear this
morning and tonight; cloudy in the afternoon, with
light rain and violent wind from all points Mercu
~, rs to 81 deg. River feet inches and station
Movements at the Levee.
ARRIVALS.
Golden Crown New Orleans; Coahoma FrIar's
Point Katie Hooper. Arkansas river: Grand Tower,
Vicksburg; City of Helena, st. Louis.
DEPARTURES.
natl; COahoma, FrIar's Point; City of Helena,
VickSburg.
IMPORT
Katie Hooper, Marlin Speed.
BOATS DUE.
IlDrCn-Golden Rule Centennial
Up-Ruth, A. J. White.
BOATS LEAVING THIS DAY.
NEW ORLEANS Centennial, Thos. L. Davidson,
master. five p m.
WHITE RIvER-Ruth. W. C. Harry, master five
pm.
ARKANSAS RIvER-Marlin Speed Eugene B. Smith,
master, five pm.
ST. FRANCIS RIyER-Mark Twain, j. u. Randall,
master, five pm.
ARKANSAS CITY-A. j. White, N. S. Green, master
flve pm
RECEIPTS.
Coahoma-31 bales cotton, % sacks cotton-seed,
lot SundTies.
Katie Hooper-25 bales cotton, 10 sack cotton, lot
Sundrles.
City Of Helena -1542 barrels flour and meal, 5O4
pkgs lard 155 barrels whisky 706 sacks corn, oats
and bran, S44 pkgS sundrles.
LeVee Paragraphs.
Business moderate.
The Centennial, Captain Davidson, is advertised
to pass down for New Orleans at five o'clock this
evening,
:. The Mark Twain, Captain Maumus, goes out for
St Francis river at the usual hour this evening.
Byrd Banning is her clerk
The A. ]. W lite sails for Arkansas river usual
this evening, Captain Nat Green In command with
John Gwathmey chief in the office.
Those who have seen Captain Milt Harry's new
boat now building at Plttsburg say she is stun
She will be finished by the first of September
The CITY OF Helena, from t Louis discharged d
bend freight, and passed down about dark last
night
noon. Captain W. c. Harry commands, with Ed
Crowell chief of the business department, assisted
The new Marlin Speed Captain Ed Rowland
leaves on her first voyage up Arkansas river at five
O'Clock this evening Jimmy Thompson and Billy
Nuckles are her clerks.
One of our National friends won SO many hats on
the election of his ticket that he has employed this
chronIcler to help wear them out. It's an Ill wind,
you know. that blows nobody good.
The Golden Rule which has been tumbling about
the rocks and reefs in the Jhio river, arrived at
Cairo yesterday, and may be looked for here this
Work on the Hard Cash is progressing rapidly.
The painters have made her look as white as snow,
while her heightened chimneys now In place add
ter the trade the first Wednesday in September.
lowing about coal shipments. 'The coal Shipments
on the present Use, including to-day's arefOr Gin
cinnatl, ,936, 900 bushels; for Louisville, lO42,
900 bushels; for Wheeling. $3.50, 900 bushels"
Every corner yesterday was occupied with mutual
with each other In the back ways. Their expressions
Of sympathy were mingled with curses on the disOr
that there's no hell.
The board of health passed series of resolutions
yesterday, imposing fine of fifty dollars against the
owner of any kif tug, ferry boat. other water
craft, for permitting any passenger, baggage or
river In their crafts from the Arkansas shore. This
was done in &C Jordan with rumor that steamer
passing up last night landed a number of passen-
gers on the Arkansas shore, who were afterward
brought over by the transfer boat
The Vint Shirikle left for the Ohio river on time
yesterday, with $50 bales cotton, bales rags 495
bundles cotton-ties large lot Of scrap-iron, way
freight ann sundries, 30 cabin passengers and 20
d.cSeTs. The followlng are among her cabin pas
sengers: Thomas J. hurdle. MIR. Guthrie. Adolph
ell Mr. craig, Albert Clark, J. H. Harrington, j.
Baumer, F. Koslr, j Walker, Mr.. Waterman,
VIM. Thomas and wife, w. R. Cross, lady aud SER
want, Mr. Owens ana children Mrs. Barber, Mrs.
Cook and children. C. NJ. Gallor and son, Mrs Tay-
Tor and children Mrs. Yaeger M F. Ball and fam
lily. Miss Cline, Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. M'Gayitt, Mrs.
Wood.
The Marlin Speed, the new Arkansas river packet
which named after the little of Colonel
Bob Speed, the river coal king of this city,
visited by numbers of people yesterday and the
unanimous sentiment expressed that she is
most elegantly adapted to the wants of the planters
aud shippers up that stream. She is in every partc
comfortable. and r.
tainly prove profitable investment for her owners.
Her dimensions are: Length. 100 feet; width of
beam, "a feet depth of hold, feet; cylinders, y
inches diameter with feet stroke, driving wheel
Is feet In diameter with 18 feet length OF buckets
She has two boilers 20 feet long, 40 inches In diam
eter with five tiues each. She has all the modern
Improvements In steam stsge-hOisting apparatus
and eapstan machinery. She draws l inches for
ward, and 13 inches aft and brought about ! 90
tons out Of the Ohio on II inches OF water. she
has elegant ladies' and gentiemens cabins, with 1S
staterooms, nicely furnished She has cotton ca
pacity for 400 bales, and ample freight room.