Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-20
sippi steamboat that was spagged. A local
poet described it thus:
She hove an sot, and sot an hove,
An high her rudder flung;
An every time she hove an sot
MIlsser leak she snrtInp -,

| hove
An high her rudder flung;
| An every time she hove an sot
Wlsser leak she sprung"
Inc st. Louis Republican, of Tuesday say
| edItJrlally: The new order Of boats and
| barges which Mr.. Chouteau PROPOSES to build
OF iron will he so far secure against all ordi-
naly dangers OF navigation that it is believed
| the transportation companies will be able to
assume the insurance risk just as the rail-
| roads do now. 1t this proves to be the case
there will be a saving Of three-quarters of a
| cent per bushel OF grain In that one item
| alone, and as Mr.. Cnouteau's careful esti-
mates indicate that grain can be probably
| carried in his iron barges at three and halt
| cents per bushel from st. Louis to New Or
| leans, it will be possible to carry grain al
least two and a quarter cents per bushel
cheaper than the lowest rate at which it has
ever been carried SO far.
The following items of interest are from
the Little Rock Gazette, of Tuesday: Cap
| tain Harvey Lewis, of the fast little packet
Aunt Sally, informs US to-day that he con-
templates making a trip from Little Rock to
Arkansas City, Kansas. This point is on the
upper Arkansas river, some FIVE hundred
miles above Little Rock, and some two hun
dred and eighty miles by water above Fort
Smith, and three or four miles north of the
line dividing the Indian Nation from the
State of Kansas. We are credibly informed
that good trade can be built up between
Arkansas City, Kansas, and VanyBuren, Ar
kansas, by carrying wheat, corn, potatoes,
hides, pelts, etc, down TO Van Buren,, Ar
kansas, and taking a return trip from
there up to Arkansas City, Kansas,
OF lumber, salt and heavy grocer
lasses, etc. The Aunt Sally will be
the pioneer boat in this attempt at
new trade, and we hope the owners may be
successful beyond their anticpations. Cap
tain Nose M'Kee, pilot of the steamer Rose
City. reports the river rising rapidly at Fort
Smith on Saturday last, and predicts that we
are going to have the water high enough to
do considerable damage to the plantations
below. We hope Captain M'Kee may be in
error this time, but we think his opinion in
regard to the stage of water likely to be re-
corded as good as that of any one of our old
experienced Arkansas river boatmen. An
overflow at this time will not be pleasant to
the planters on the river below, between this
and the mouth of the river"
Excerpts from will =. Hayes-s E.iver
Column.
Louisville Courfer-JournaI, tuesday,
We have big bouquet ready to throw to
the girl who graduates in a calico dress this
morning at Macauley's.
Captain Wash Gray of the bully Fred Will
son, was IN town yesterday. He looked as
natural as a billy goat chewing horse collar
ard as lively and fresh as a Posey county girl
at picnic.
The man who asked US if we belonged to
the ''skule bored" was buried yesterday.
"Self- defense" was our plea, and the judge
said sit was a clear case" and we are free
to kill the next man that asks US the same
question.
"Moike, ye can bet livery clint ye have on
NJ earthly" ''Och! to the divil wud Near
thy!" Faith, we see, if woman can out
room man, 1t sthands to ralson that the
mares the besht horse of the two. I'll bet
me tin dollars on Tim Brick, anyhow-will
ye have yer ticker, PatP" and the two en-
tered a shooter-shop in the ladies' cabin of
corner grocery.
There is milk wagon, drawn by an old
plug, in the East End. The fellow who en-
gineers it and dishes out the fluid generally
wakes up everybody for two squares around,
between four and five o'clock every morning,
yelling, go up, {, GhaTIeyr' Lock .e9ud!"
a leedle!' "V-a-yr' "HeIl, volts der mad
der!" Coon up, you ole FOOL and the old
provender consumer backs, comes ahead,
rounds to, and lands in, head on, long enough
for the driver to get cussed by every sinner
in the neighborhood. Ought to swap that
horse off for Texas bull.
Sim Meddis, the auctioneer, hoistod the
red flag, attracted large crowd and was
selling house and lot down town Saturday,
when small boy rushed home and yelled:
Mother, shut the doors and windows and
lay low, for the 'Cammunicans' are goin' to
raise hell In this town. They We h listed red
flag down here, an there's teller up on the
fence a maxim speech to the mob right
now" Sim sold the property, he hauled
in the red flag and ''the mob" dispersed.
The mother Of that boy wore out the sole of
a brand-new slipper tanning the street dust
out of the hull of his breeches for Soaring
her So"
Tom Patterson, the pilot, made US the pres
ent of a parrot. He kept mum" for twelve
days. We talked, and hired lot of small
boys to talk In order to coax him to talk. All
he would do was to grunt like q hog, and
wink his left eye. We began to think ne
was deaf and dumb one, when he opened
our eyes yesterday by speaking to young
lady IN terms more expressive than elegant.
She approached him and said, "P0lly, speak
to me-" Polly said, "Oh, hell what headl"
and she flInted then and there. She came to
in time to hear Polly say, "Shoot the hat!
Shoot the hatp' We've locked the 'beast"
up in the cellar, for fear he insults somebody
and we get into trouble about it. Tom learned
him all he knows. He's no fool.
COMMENCEMENT.
Mother, take my sheepskin"-hide it;
am done with every book,
Fit me now tor something useful,
Teach me how to sew and cook.
For my educatiOn's ''whitewashed,"
And my object now in life
Is to learn how to live happy
And to be some good man s wife,
GRADUATED.
Father, have graduated:
Now Pm readyi What's the use
OF your making me 6tacESlllithY
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