Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-12-06
NEWS.

Weather unsettled.
Business fair yesterday.
Mr.. Fred Morley is steward on the John
A. Scudder.
The Will S. Hays will be lighted up by
nearly 100 incandescents.
Signal Service report: River z feet 5
inches-rise l inch yesterday.
The Arkansas City added Is ions of way
freight and passed south yesterday morning.
The John A. Scudder passed down for
New cleans with 100 tons, after adding 80
tons here.
Receipts by river yesterday, 900 bales of
cotton, 10 bags OF seed cotton and 5019 sacks |
of eotton-seed. |
The r. z. Springer lost As hours on the
Tiptonville reefs. The H. A. Tyler spent 10
hours working her out of the last difficulty.
Capt. Boyd Cough, father of Pilot Isaac
Cough, is dangerously ill at his home, in
Newport, Ky. He is seventy-six years OF
age and an old-time boatman.
The City of Vicksburg took on 1900 bales |
OF cotton, 52 head oil horses and mules and
a large lot of levee-contractors' plumber, and
sailed for st. Louis yesterday evening.
Hays thinks that his namesake will create
a sensation as she comes down the Ohio.
Every arrangement has been made 10 give
her a grand reception upon her arrival at
Louisville.
The Annie P. Silver, over FIVE and a half
days out from New Orleans, arrived yester-
day morning, discharged a good lot of Mem
phls freight, and passed on up for ST. Louis
with 800 tors.
Evansville Courier: "Capt. A. J. Branch
informs us that the Sam Roberts and barges
will arrive from st. Louis this morning, and
load back for New Orleans from here. He
has part OF her load already engaged"
Assistant City Engineer Murray has his
eye on those holes in the wharf, and will at
an early day proceed against them with a
view 10 repairing-a move that should have
been made ayear ago. But better late than
never.
The r. r. Springer arrived from the Ohio
yesterday with 1900 tons for New Orleans.
after discharging here 400 packages and IS
head of horses and mules. She added 8
bales of cotton, and left for New Orleans
before dark.
The Katie Hooper, from Arkansas river:
John S. Bransford, from White river, and
Rene Macready, from st. Francis river, all
arrived Yesterday with fine trips. Each one
returned TO her respective destination last
night with good showings of freight.
Cincinnati Gazette: "There are several
produce boats lying at Antiquity, waiting
for wafer to 60 south. Peter Bentz has one,
Hiram Rood one, Capt. William Roberts one,
and A.. J. Fletcher & Parr a model barge. S.
d. Pickens has one at Racine and Philip Ell
liott one at Graham Station"
The new and magnificent steamer Will S.
Hays, built by Capt. James Rees, jr., of Pitts
burg, and commanded by Capt. w. C.
Tichenor, is now ready to leave that city on
the first rise in the Ohio river, though it is
impossible to tell when the rise will occur,
and yet it is liable to come at almost any
time.
The Will S. Hays will raise steam at Pitts
burg to-day, and her namesake will do like
wise at Louisville. The first may move off
gracefully Hnder its influence, while the lat
Ter will have 10 be swept up and hauled of.
The best time to die is when a man is hap
piest-Hays's time will come when that boat
reaches the Louisville wharf.
Pittsburg Telegraph: "Capt. Thomas Hun
ter, one of the Oldest and best steamboat
men, has assumed command of the steamer
W.. n. Chancellor, her former commander,
Cap. E. P. Chancellor, having concluded to
STOP off 10 take a rest during the winter.
The patrons of The Chancellor will not only
find Capt. Hunter a 6rst-class boatman, but
a gentleman as we'll"