Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-05
GENERAL NEWS.


Captain r. w. Lightburne left for Cincn-
natl by rail yesterday.
Receipts by river yesterday, 4S bales cot
ton and 100 sacks cotton-seed.
Major John d. Adams and Captain Rees
Pritchard arrived from Little Rock by rail
yesterday.
The wind blowed 50 blarsted lard yester-
day that everybody down about the wharf
lad to odd on to their 'ats.
Signal service report: River % feet
inches-rife l inch during the "a hours end
ing at :0S pm. yesterday.
Commodore S. II. Parisot is in Louisville
to contract for a boat for the New Orleans and
bends trade, to be run by Captains McVay
and Beck.
AL Jones, the colored barber of the James
w. Gafi, is an exception to the ordinary run
of steamboat BARRIERS, and besides, allows no
one to excel him in politeness.
The Ste. Genevieve in from st. Louis yes
terday with 1909 packages of freight, re-
turned during the evening with $50 bales of
cotton for reshipment at Cairo.
Billy Byers, OF the James w. Gaf, had to
go ashore at Evansville on account OF severe
illness. Billy is too clever to be sick, and
we hope soon to hear of his eonvalescence.
A Will S. Hays fish story: 1.-TWO men
made a haul in the river with seine at
Shippingport few days ago. They picked
up the fish they pulled ashore and went on.
Another man came along few moments
afterward and picked up pocket-book con-
tanning $3.50 which the men with the seine
had pulled out of the river and didn't see"
The James w. Gsf arrived yesterday
morning with 500 tons of freight and several
passengers. She got her freight all ashore
in time to excurt the Porter Guards and
Broom Squad. 1t is hardly necessary to say
that everybody was happy on the Calf last
night. Captain Wise was there, and Billy
Collins was ubiquitous in his attentions to
the guests at "eatin' time.n The Porters and
the Brooms stripped the light" to the splen-
did music by the CATS quadrille band as
the boat danced upon the bosom oil the grand
old river, same as a butterfly wrestling with
an evening zephyr. The dawn of day was
an intrusion, but every sweet has its bitter.
Messrs. Alexander Montgomery, of Cow
ington, KY, and Thomas s. Royse, of Gin
cinnati, publish the following card in the
Gazette, of the latter city, dated May ID:
Having charge of the Robert Kelly fund,
we wish to correct through your columns an
error which we notice in the river column of
the Cincinnati Times-.Star of last evening,
that the amount collected for the Kelly fund
now exceeded $1,000, which, we are sorry TO
say, is not the case. Up to the present we
have only Sl215 As subscribed, but hope to
realize at least the $1,000, the sum originally
intended, by the last of the week, which will
be invested in the procuring of a home for
the beresved wife and little ones of the heroic
engineer, Robert Kelly, of the Inflated
steamer Golden City. Those residents of the
city, or residing at a distance DESTROYS to
contribute TO this worthy fund.- can do SO by
addressing and sending the same by mail, or
otherwise, TO the undersigned, who will ac-
knowledge receipt oil same"
The New Orleans Times, Of Wednesday,
contains this story: Captain NUM-. Wood
had Mark Twain on the William Wood
yesterday, giving him sight of our har-
Dor, and at the same time pleasant ride on
one of the finest tugs sfoat. One of the
first visits the incompatible Mark made after
his arrival here was to his ola-time friend,
Captain John A. Stevenson, OF the St. Louis
and Mississippi Valley transportation Com
pany. The meeting, it is said, was quite
affecting. A story was told yesterday by one
of Twain's acquaintance and admirers that
we do not REMEMBER reading in any of his
books Sid Marks friend: Twain,
rather Sam Clenmens, as he was then
known, was on the AlonzO Childs during the
war, and when she got to near Island 10 the
pilot, George Woods, run the boat in uncom-
fortably near where it was feared some Fed
erals were lurking. Captain DeHaven and
Mark we're on the roof together, and Captain
DeHayen asked Woods if he didn't think he
was making risky run. Woods answered
that be didn't care d-n if be vas, he was
going to run it all the same, and just as the
captain turned from him, fired a pistol by
way of joke, and yelled at the same mo-
ment. Captain DeHaven and Mark thought
they were being fired into, and in their fran
tic efforts to put one before the other as a
shield, actually tore each others coats off, T"
WEATHER AND RIVERS