Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-29
GENERAL NEWS.
Business moderate.
The weather continues moist.

DuSlDtSs LuOuCIoiC. -
The weather continues moist.
No cotton came in by river yesterday.
The Marlin Speed had a very fair trip out
for Arkansas river.
The w. p. Halliday had a good trip when
she passed down early yesterday morning.
On and after Monday, January 30th, the
steamer John Overton will leave Memphis
for Marion at Z am. and 2 pm.
The John B. Maude arrived yesterday
from ST. Louis on schedule time, with 1880
packages, and returned in the evening light.
The Ste. Genevieve arrived from St. Louis
early Yesterday morning with 5053 packages
of freight, and returned in the evening with
a light trip of upper way freight.
The City OF Providence passed south yes
terday noon, after adding here a lot of
freight brought by the Ste. Genevieve for re-
shipment, and - tons OF way freight for the
bends below.
A dispatch from Steubenviile. Ohio, yes
terday says that the steamer Katie Stock
dale became u~nmansgeable and went through
the wing of the span of the Beaver bridge,
tearing of her p~ilothouse and smoke-stacks.
Three deck-hands jumped overheard and
were drowned.
The Vint Shinkle got away on time Tor
Cincinnati with all the freight she wanted,
1 consisting prlnclpdllY Oh ZlOU SKIS meal, oOf
bales cotton, 100 tons iron, 60 head cattle, 800
brls oil, 100 bdls batting, los skis bones, %
bdls rags, % brls turnips, Is brls and 4 hhds
strap iron. She had also 80 cabin passengers.
AT a meeting of the Young Mems Benevo-
lent Association, held in New Orleans re-
Gently, a deserved compliment was paid a
most worthy gentleman and a model marine
editor. The outgoing president OF the or
ganization was Mr.. John w. Bryant, of the
r. $780, la-1D.1o olra- nrtahae
and two silver goblets were presented to him,
and he responded 10 the compliment paid
him in appropriate terms. John, We con-
gratulate you.
Wheeling Inteli9eacer: The officers of
the c. w. Bachelor claim that the quaran-
tine is hurting them, and gave as an instance
a case that happened Friday. They we're at
the Pittsburg wharf loading for this port
when a drayman came down with some rag
bundles and other contraband articles, which
the steamer refused to take. The drayman
drove off, but soon after returned and showed
by his receipt book that the Pennsylvania
Company had taken the goods. The dray-
man called the officers of the steamer fools,
and they were inclined to think that they
were."
The State OF West Virginia is moving in a
direction that, sooner or later, all Western
| States will have to follow, and finally the
national government. A bill is now before
the legislature OF the State mentioned pro-
bibiting persons from dumping into the rum
ming streams within its jurisdiction coal,
slack, cinders, sawdust, acids and other
deleterious matter calculated to obstruct or
| contaminate the waters. An amendment was
proposed combining the operation of the law
to streams not navigable, but the day may
not be far distant when all streams will have
to be included.
Mr.. james Round, superintendent OF the
gas works, who, perhaps, knows more about
the operations of the river "since the year
one," than any man living, in a note to the
APPEAL, states that at 4 O'Clock yesterday
evening the river was one inch above the
high water of 1867. The APPEAL regards
Mr.. Rounds statements as reliable, but calls
attention to the difference Of IL inches be-
tween his observation and that issued from
the signal service Office at the same time yes
terday. As was remarked on a previous &C.
casion, something should be lone to har-
monte these diff renees..
The City of Providence, Csptain George
Lenox, which has been setting some difficult
pegs for other steamers to run to, has made
new departure this trip, by beating railway
mail time from St Louis TO Memphis just
eleven hours. The evidence OF it Is before
the writer of this paragraph, and incontro-
vertibie-being a o OF the ST. Louis Re
publican Of Friday morning, placed on the
ssriver desk" OF the APPEAL at 5 O'Clock Sat
HEdsy : mpraing-elez~n hours before the
same date was received by mail. This I'M
precedented event suggests the propriety of
tzkiug the mail contract away from the rail-
Nsy monopoly and giving it aiftoold George
Lenox and the City of Providence, and se-
cure IFS reliable delivery, and put a stop to
the interminable grumbling about delayed
trains and mails behind time. The Provi-
dence came from Cairo to Memphis in .
fraction less than fifteen hours, and attended
to all way business.
Cincinnati 7TBes-SGa: In looking over
some old papers and pictures left by the late
Colonel George c. Wolff in Jenkins q
Sass's steamboat gallery yesterday, Captain
Sass came across a Autograph OF the steamer
Tecumseh. This boat was a New Orleans
and Louisville packet, built at Wix's yard,
Cincinnati, in February. 1926. She was q
sidewheel steamer, and was finished and
launched with steam up and engine in work
ing order. She was A feet long on deck, q
feet beam, 9 feet hold, and carried 242 tons;
her floor timbers were 6 by s inches, set 6
inches apart, every fourth timber being
double. The frame forward was solid; plank
on bottom & inches thick; her bottom had Is
inches dead rise; transon, stern and wiz
dows. The ladies' cabin was in the run and
the g~entlemen's cabin was IN the lower or
main deck. She had 6 boilers Is feet long,
30 inches in diameter, with 2 return