Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-02
GENERAL NEWS.

Receipts by river yesterday, 81 bales cot
| ton and 777l sacks seed.
The Springer on her return trip made the
run from Louisville to Evansville in twelve
hours.
The John A. Scudder passed down for New
Orleans early yesterday morning with good
load on.
The Lady Lee passed down yesterday
morning, route from st. Louis to Ouachita
river with special cargo.
The Mike Davis, with a barge to help carry
out her immense trip of freight, went out for
St. Francis river yesterday evening.
The Hard Cash cleared for White river
yesterday evening, with a good trip of
freight and fair list of passengers.
Captain Henry Marineaux is now in CON-
mand of the steamer Kate Dickson, running
in the Vicksburg and bends trade.
Captain Stack Lee, owing to illness, will
lay off this tip of the James Lee, Captain
Lloyd Whilow going out in command last
, night.
Superintendent Round, OF the gasworks,
| reported yesterday evening that the water
had fallen an inch since the evening before
The .. P. schenck, about a week out from
New Orleans, passed up for Cincinnati before
day yesterday morning. She was we'll filed
with freight.
ready got away for Madison yesterday even
ing, and the Hooper may be looked for this
morning from Madison.
The Andy Baum got in from Cincinnati at
dusk last night with 800 tons of freight and
a good showing of passengers. She will be-
gin receiving to-day for her return trip.
Signal Service report: River, IS feet l
inch-rise 2 inches during the "a hours end
ing 0S pm. yesterday. This report brings
the tide within inches of the high water Of
1867.
The James D. Parker left for Cincinnati yes
terday evening with 500 bales cotton, 500 sacks
oil meal, 20 tons old railway iron, 442 bar
rels oil, big lot sundries and good trip of
passengers.
The Charles P. Chouteau arrived from
New Orleans early yesterday morning with a
Dig TRIP of cotton, cotton-seed, cotton-seed
oil, sugar, molasses, etc. She returned last
night with good start in freight.
Telegraphic advices from Vicksburg Sat-
urday report that a break occurred In tie
levee at Delta, Louisiana, that morning Just
| above the government light at that place.
The break is about one hundred yards wide,
the water passing rapidly through aud food
ing the country in the vicinity.
The james Lee postponed her departure
till II o'clock last night in order to take the
party 10 11Sien1 aIter Inc PERFORM
ance. The Helenaites will ever hold the cap
tain of the Lee in grateful remembrance for
affording them an opportunity OF witnessing
| this frst-class theatrical attraction.
A white man named Jacob McEwen and a
| negro were out in a canoe on the back-water,
just below Belmont, on Wednesday, and, in
an unguarded moment they lost their bal
auoe, turned the canoe over, and the white
man was drowned. The negro saved himself
oil 70 tha,
help came to him.
One thousand dollars worth of mules be-
| longing to Mr.. Frank Crossno, Mississippi
county, Missouri, farmer, died from the
effects of being driven through cold back
water day or two ago. They were on a
ridge surrounded by water, and Mr.. Crcssno
drove them through the water to his stables
with the result as stated.
Cairo Bulletin, Saturday: "The steamer
| John B. Maude attempted to cross over the
made lanl on the Mississippi side of Cairo
yesterday morning into the channel, but when
she reached point about opposite the
slaughterhouse she ran aground right in a
corn-feld, All the power OF her mighty
engines was not equal to the task OF pulling
her off again, and the Port Fad went to her
assistance and drew her off,"
A Steubenville dispatch to the Cincinnati
| Gozette gives the following particulars of the
accident TO the Katie Siockdale, of which the
mere announcement was received through
the Associated Press dispatches: "On Friday
/ evening the Katie Stockdale while about to
run the bridge at Beaver, log caught in her
| wheel, and becoming unmanageable she
/ passed under the bridge, sweeping off her
| pilothouse and smoke stacks She landed at
| Van Point for repairs. Last night at o'clock
on her way down, she landed at this point
1t was amusing to see her pilot standing up
| by his wheel without the sign of pilothouse
| around him."
Chattanooga Times Tuesday: "The effect
| of the cloud bursts in central East Tennes-
see, mention of which was made in Sundays
| Times, and the unusually heavy rains in the
upper localities was felt in the Tennessee,
and it rose very rapidly Saturday night,
Sunday and yesterday, the total rise at ~
pm. yesterday in the twenty-four hours pre-
vious being eight and one-half feet, it regis
teriDg AT that hour twenty-nine and one-third
feet. The river rose more slowly after that
hour, and the charm an OF the food signals
committee thinks II viii come TO a stand be-
fore morning. The prediction is based on
kilograms received from above, which state
that the river is falling at nearly all points,
ard at pm. was on a stand at lockwood.
There has been snow throughout East Ten
nessee, but no danger is apprehended from
I iis."
Cincinnati Gazette, Monday: There is
now at the public landing in this city a
steamboat of large size, built for the purpose
of developing a new enterprise, which, If
successful, will add to the long list of Ameri.
can exportable produce. The boat is sup
piled with machinery for the purpose of
grinding and COMPRISING tanbsrk. She will
be run up the Tennessee river, where bark Is
obtainable. There the bark will be taken on
board, ground, compressed and packed in
kegs or half barrels, and in that shape
shipped to Europe. Bark is now brought TO
market in bulk and handled at great expense,