Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-30
bacon, IS bales hay. 400 bdls ties, 1543 sacks
corn, 1910 pkgs sundries.
Levee Parasrapha.


Levee Farasraphs.
Business quiet.
Who wants to buy secondhand piece of
smoked glassY
Oh, let's 90 to ST. Louis-two beers for
nickel! Cline two beerSl
The Maumelle IS the Arkansas river packet
at five o'clock this afternoon.
The Mark rwaia skips out at the usual
hour this evening, carrying the mails.
The New Orleans yellow fever panic was
forgotten yesterday during the eclipse OF The
sun
Billy Pendleton, one of the pilots Of the
ia mes w. Gatf, tonnd nine feet lit Fl m Point
ye terday.
The City of Vicksburg Is the short range
Archor Liner for Vlcksburg at ten o'cIoak
this evening.
The Commonwealth discharged lot Of
freight at the wharf as she passed up for st.
Louis Sunday.
The John B. Maude added fifteen thousand
feet of walnut lumber as she passed up for
st. Louis Sunday.
The John A. Scudder passed down for New
Orleans Sunday with good trip, adding
lot of freight here.
Everybody gazed at the eclipse yesterday.
through smoked glass, and all were delighted
| with the performance.
The Colorado discharged three thousand
pa ;kages here and added few packages as
/ sh- passed down Sunday.
/ The Illinois came in from NIcksburg yester
day morning, and went to bank for repairs.
The A. J. White takes her place, leaving for
| VIcksburg Wednesday evening.
| The Belle Memphis arrived from NIcksburg
at dark yesterday evening and lays over here
| till five clock this afternoon, when she pro-
ceeds on her voyage to st. Louis. Captain
Yore commands. with o. Hewitt clerk.
We wasted all our eloquence yesterday try
ing to explain why the shadows cast by the
IL, I
no use; we were never born Tor In evangelist,
and our arguments were wasted sweetness.
The darkness which set in about half-past
four clock, during the partial eclipse Of the
sun, attracted the attention Of the marines,
| and those who had forgotten that such Il
thing would occur began to feel little I'M
elsy about their moral stomachs.
The James w. Calf will be found IN port
| this morning receiving for her return trip up
| the Ohio, leaving at five o'clock this after
| noon. She continues to afford those cheaper
| than-ever" rates to all points east. Call on
Captain r. w. Lightburne at his new quar-
tiers on Monroe street.
The James w. Gait arrived about ten
! o'clock last night, waking the echoes with
| that little gun O. her'n. She had four iun-
dred tons of freight, and registered fifty eight
| cabin and fourteen deck passengers on the
| down trip. She returns to the Ohio at the
| usu al hour this evening.
Little Rock Gazette, Sunday: Local In
| spectors J. A. Gronauer and James Ralston
are on visit to our city for the purpose of
| inspecting the new ferryboat Oasis, just
| finished here for Captain Joseph Evins, of
| Dardanelle, Arkansas. Mr.. Ralston will re.
turn to Memphis this evening" "
| There was an immense crowd gathered on
| the bluff yesterday afternoon looking at the
John Porter, the best advertised boat on the
river, not excepting the J. B. NJ. kehlor-and
she got it all for nothing. st. Louis packets
are lucky in that respect. Send us out new
one; we want to write her up for you.
The Port Eads passed up Sunday. She
was the towboat which passed Helena at two
| o'clock Saturday afternoon, which some one
telegraphed Health Officer Erskine, of this
city, had her name covered up, and was sup
| posed to be the John Porter. The officers of
| the Eads deny that her name was hidden, and
it is not clear why such report was made
The officers of the John Porter say that the
men who died aboard OF that boat were
stricken down from getting overheated and
drinking too much ice-water, and deny that
any one has had yellow-fever on that craft
The crew were all we'll wilen she passed, ex-
| ceptlng one man, who was rnly complaining
a little from the extreme heat. She was fur
nlsheG with an abundance of ice and other
| supplies here, and passed on up the river last
night.
Well, the agony is over. The John Porter
passed up yesterday evening without landing
She wanted supplies, and was waited on by a
harbor tug, under the supervision of Health
Officer Erskile, who, together with a file of
sanitary policemen, met her below President s
island, and came up to port on board of her.
DIR. Erskipe states that there were twenty
six men aboard, all well except one person,
and he was not confined to ha bed So we
are glad to state that 81. prospects of catching
yellow-feyer frorn the John Porter have passed,
and We are waiting for the next sensation for
our morbid appetites to feed on.