Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-03-07
pigs wagon stuff 81 bales cotton, 81 bags seed
cotton, 500 SKIS cotton seed.
Leyee Paragraphs.

pigs wagon stuff 81 bales cotton, 81 bags seed
cotton, 500 SKIS cotton seed
LeVee Paragraphs.
Business fair.
Pac ; had good trips out yesterday, notHith
standI z the business OF the weather.
Cartain WIN. 5. Jones, Of the lower river Pdris1t.
line. 4 I'm The city on visit TO relatives
Ffeights are heavier now than In damp wealth r.
The dust accumulation makes the difference.
The U. p. Schenck, Captain J. L. Carter, IS the
packet due down this mOrntng II an early hour
The Andy Baum. Captain II. j. VintOn, IS the Sat
uriaY packet Tor Cincinnati. NJ. Nj. Deem is her
receipts BY river yesterday we're q2s bales cotton
lOl bags seed-cotton, 1914 sacks cotton-seed-
The great steamer Ed Richardson. Captain John
". Cannon. Is the Saturday packet for New Orleans
and the bends.
See the advertisement columns for the Saturday
packets leaving this port. They that advertise are
Pilots ali agree that the long sternwheeI boats of
the present. day handle better than the shorter boats
ST. Francis river is represented to-day by the Mark
Twain, Captain J. D. Randall. She goes no In the
sunk lands this trip.
The City OF Helena took on 1913 bales eastern
cotton which she reships at Cairo, she passed up
the Katie Hooper Captain Ed Rowland, J. n.
Thompson, clerk. IS tho Saturday packet for all
points on Arkansas river.
Captain Pickles's new ferryboat for New Orleans
Will be launched next Saturday at Cincinnati. she
IS douole-hull boat, and having been built on
stocks, VIII make pretty launch.
Captain J. D. Heger Will be accompanied by his
wife ana daughter on the trip of the great Golden
City to New Orleans and back. We are glad to learn
that Mrs. Hegler'S health is improving.
This Josie Harry, Captain Mllt r. Harry, Will be
found in port to-day and leaves Tomorrow evening
at five o'clock for all points White river. Colonel
J. d Moore will be found in charge of her Office.
Captain Andrews takes the OSceola Belle out for
the upper bends as usual this afternoon. B. o..
Michel is IN he office, while Cyrus Fay and Al
Spesrs Will be found always at the outer end of the
Mr.. James Wilson, the popular clerk of the Cons
Mar, VIII this trip be accompanied by his accom-
TatHz FREh dan HTLW Ar has lugN
cred from .erious attack OF illness, and We are
glad TO note his recovery.
passed by the wnaTimasters tower or words to that
effect. She mad a good load, dischargng here 80
She is bound for Vicksburg.
The CoahOma. the packet that holds the red tiger
same lice, IS the Memphis and Frlars Point packet
at five O'Clock this afternoon. Captain Cooper COM
mands. with Billy SmlIhers In the office, aided by
Plat Rhodes and Frank Ellison.
Captain Adams's United states mail packet Red
Wing IS at her mOOriEgs receiving for return trip
70 VcksbuIg, leaving at the usual hour this evening.
Captain George Malone commands, with Ed Il,
Thomas In the Office, assisted by his goodloOklng
brother Jimmy, and Don Hewitt
Little Rock Gazette, Wednesday: f'The river is
getting so low that the Florence Meyer may have
is reported here that she would have about 300 bales
of cJtton from Fort smith and about 800 bales
from Dardanee, and only about three feet of water
In the channel below Dardannelle"
the Bob Mitchell was Sinking proud yesterday
as she wanted. Her agents here had accumulated
a pile OF stuff which she refused to take on and
passed on up without 1t. The boat may be happy,
but the Memphis shippers may be somewhat down
Ia the mouth We Will bet two figs that those ship
perS VIII next time pdtTOniZe the regular line.
There ts a pile of cotton down at the river which
upTver boats won't touch at the rates fixed on it. We
know or TWO steamers which have refused it. and
there Is strong probability 1t will not be carried
until the regular figures offered. That Is one of
the difficulties regular packets have TO contend with.
Piking" agents are good things when the CONNER
cal elements out of killer. but everything Is
mavIng on too smoothly. Competition is the life of
trade when it is conducted fair and honor
able basis, but cutting under living rates Is to
rebound to the discomfort of somebody. Let live
and let ve' be the motto of every one.
Two clever marines were out on d lark yesterday,
lunch route. On their way they discovered the ele-
CANT dining rooms OF the Ladies' christian aSsOcia-
ton on Main street They both went down into their
POCKETS Tor the wherewfth to partae of the elegant
fare found there, bus mary nickel' was 20 be had
They spent the balance OF the afternoon trying TO
find out If Il free lunch or not. One said il
could not be free where there much youth and
beauty among the attendants The last this chrOn-
icler heard OF them was they trying to get an
advance Of wages SO they might go in ana enjoy the
good things so temptiGgly presented. They got the
got away with them when they got chance at the
mrs. square meal of The season. One was good
IcdGtcr, and the other obeyed the of nature
when he ate everything that was set before him.
The Brownsville states, OF yesterday, adds its voice
to our Endorsement OF the action of the Legislature
in opening Hatchie river: The distance fiom Poca-
hontas TO Randolph, the mouth of Hatchie river,
lowed. As it has at last been declared naylgable
the business men from Memphis 20 the head OF
HtNBttlOl Will Naturally DC directed 10 the aQYdil
tages it offers in the way cheap freight Previous
10 the war cotton vas shipped TO Memphis on boats
carrying 800 bales at one dollar each. The Mem
PMS APPEAL IN Closing long article giving the his
toy of ante-belum navigation on this stream, says
the action OF the legislature in declaring Hatche
river open TO navigation will be heartily in
dOTsed by all the people living along lis
borders, and especially ny &emphis commercial
men, when they come 70 realize what Old business
people kne to be the fact that IL Will be one OF the
most mpOrtant feeders TO this market. There are
men in business here who have long opposed the
closing Of that stream, and who have lost no OppOI-
tunity to urge its re opening One of these is our
genial friend jerome Hill, of HILL FOntaine d Co..
who was in Nashville when the bill was before the
Legislature, and who employed all his energies and
talents in urging the adoption of the measure. A
movement prolific of good results should have
nothing in the way of its earliest cOnsummatiOn,
iDg between this port and Bolivar, bearing on her
wheelhOuse the name of the Jerome UIIk She
would be bound to win, because that gentleman's
popularity extends ali along the line of that river"