Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-16
Levee Paragraphs

Business dull.
A big rise is reported in the upper Arkan.
| sas river.
The Katie Hooper departed for Arkansas
| river on time.
The Andy Baum is the Tuesday packet fol
| the Ohio river.
Come on, let's all go out on the bluffs to
see the Cannon come down.
The New Mary Houston will pass down al
an early hour this morning for New Orleans.
The Anchor Line packet Colorado, Captain
Sam NJ 'Pheeters, passes down this morning
at ten o'clock for Vicksturg.
The West Wind, Captain j. q. Andrews,
is the Monday evening packet for the upper
coast. b. 0. Michel is her clerk.
The A. c. Donnally is due up to-day en-
route to Cincinnati, Captain II. V. Hart in
command. Ed Donnally is her clerk.
The Mark Twain departed last evening for
st. Francis river, and leaves again Tuesday
evening. going through to Wittsburg.
The John A. Scudder passed down last
night from st. Louis for New Orleans with a
big trip. She added here 230 tons freight.
The Belle Memphis, Captain Jas. A. Yore,
is the Anchor-Line packet leaving Monday
evening for st. Louis. O. Hewitt is her
clerk.
The John B. Maude is the Anchor Line
packet this evening at five o'clock for St.
Louis, Captain w. A. Blake and VIM. Gobel
In the office.
The Coahoma sails for the lower bends
Monday evening, taking in all the way points
between here and Friars Point. The folks
in the bends know the Coahoma by the color
of her SMOKE as far as they can see her.
Captain Milt Harry telegraphs us from
Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania, that his new
White river packet Josie Harry, was success
fully launched at that place yesterday. Cap
tain Milt says she is the ''boss" boat, and
will be completed by the twentieth of Au-
gust.
The many friends of Joe Flynn, the man
ance" than any other man o the third ward
will have the opportunity to shake his big,
honest hand as the John w. Cannon passes
down this evening. Joe is head barkeeper on
the Cannon, you know.
The lower river packet, John W. Cannon,
about the beauty and stupendousness of which
the upper river papers have been talking the
past several months, will pass down at late
hour this evening, and, of course, will be Wis
tied by all the steamboat architecture con-
nOisseurs. Having never seen the boat, nor
a picture of her, neither have we heard any
body talk about her that ever saw her, we
are not prepared to ventilate our eloquent
descriptive abilities as to her greatness, there
fore we will content ourselves by repeating
what our friends say of her. She was built
at Louisville, and the Louisville Commercial,
in the following terse but comprehensive lam
guage: ''She was launched ON the twenty
third of January, 1873, in the presence of
about twenty thousand people. She is 1852
feet in length over all, 43 feet beam, and 90
feet hold. Her cabin consists of thirty eight
large and well-ventilated state-rooms, and
two bridal chambers, that are supplied with
cottage bedsteads, spring mattresses,
bureau, washstand, aud wardrobe.
The saloon cabin is very high,
well-proportioned, and handsomely orna-
mented with scroll-work. The texas is large,
having accommodations almost equal to an
ordinary river steamer. There are fourteen
capacious state-rooms besides two bridal
chambers for colored passengers. The for
ward portion of the texas is occupied ex-
clusively by the officers. The captain s
room is about fourteen by eighteen feet, is in
front, and Immediately following are four
teen neat and cosy rooms for the officers
The Cannon was built at the cost of about
one hundred and thirty five thousand dollars
for the New Orleans and Bayou Sara trade,
and is differed as follows: Will L. Cannon,
captain; John F. Mossop and John F. Will
bank, clerks; w. ]. Perkins and J. Holmes,
engineers