Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-11-25
GENERAL EWS.

Business satisfactory yesseraays
Signal Service report: River 8 feet 7
iuches-decline 4 inches yesterday.
Atchewi Whichever We sbile that way it's |
a Sgd that sdow is dol very lar of.
Receipts by river yesterday, 993 bales OF |
cotton, 66 bags of seed-cotton and 1902 sacks |
of cotton-seed.
Mrs. DIR. Frank and Miss Moore, of Mar
shall county, Ky, are making the round trip
on the Vint shinkle.
The Belle Memphis discharged 400 pack
ages, added twenty tons and left for Vlcks-
burg on time yesterday morning.
The Vint Shinkle arrived from Cincinnati
yesterday morning with $50 tons OF freight
and several passengers-details elsewhere.
The John A. Scudder passed up for St.
Louis at an early hour yesterday morning,
with $50 tons, after discharging 800 tons at
the elevator.
The Paris c. Brown, Tor New Orleans,
passed down yesterday morning, dischargipg
about I35 packages. She had full load
Tor her destination.
Among the passengers down by the Vint
Shiukle yesterday was Mrs. Capt. John
Harpham and daughter, Miss Rosa, return
ing from visit up in the Ohio river regions.
The City of Providence arrived from
Vicksburg early yesterday morning, having
on board 600 bales of cotton taken on at
Arkansas City, and HOO sacks of seed, $40
SACKS of oil-meal and 900 BARRELS Of oil. The
cotton is for reshipment at Cairo, as is slso
10; of 1857 bales taken on here: She Lett
for St. Louis yesterday afternoon.
Louisville Coarier-Jobanal, Thursday "The
pretty Kate Adams got tired of the Will S.
Hays squeezing her at the wharf at Pitts
burg; so che backed out Monday, went down
| 10 Browns Landing, and left the Hays 10 hug
the shore, if she wanted TO. The Kate is an
upheaded, proud-looking piece, and didn't
want the Hays 10 rdb her paint of"
River men at st. Louis are feeling little
nervous about the prospect of freeze-up.
| They are afraid ii will come go suddenly
| that preparations will be very meager. The
upper lines are preparing to get into safe
quarters, but it is doubtful il q full pro-
| vision will be made should a sudden snap
come. Memphis being at the head OF persn.
| NAL navigation, our marines are bothered
with no such anxieties.
A friend yesterday morning while giving
his bureau drawers their annual overhaullns
| came across an old stowaNay in the form o.
| half.emptied box of double-rectihed ca
thertic pills. Being of an economical humo
st the moment, he did not wish to waste then
by heaving them out Of the window, so b.
swallowed them. LAST evening he was heart
|
ing star-chamber meetings, discussing III
probable cost of funeral.
A contract has been awarded for buildin:
an iron sidewheel steamer for lighthous
tender on the Hudson for $4,000. The yes
sci is named in honor OF the late Rear
Admiral John Rodgers, who, at the time G
| his death, was chairman OF the Llghtbous
| Board, and is the first iron vessel built o
the Hudson for the United States govern
ment. The hull will be Isl feet long, molde
81 feet. extreme beam over guards A fee
depth OF hold feet inches. The engin
A has So inch cylinder with feet stroke
; Mrs. Sarah Carroll, who committed suicid
in Louisville Monday, aged eighty year
, was the widow of Capt. Ned Carroll, VII
. died many years ago. and who commando
| the low pressure Ben Franklin after Cap
| Jacob Strader sold her, and who also supe
intended the building of and commando
| the Tuscarora when she made her quick tri
from New Orlesns TO Louisville in 1884,
seven days and sixteen hours. He also cor
4 manded, in the same trade, the Homer,
her last days, and lost her on her doWnWai
e trip in 1887 or 1888.
We reprint the following paragraph fro
the Louisville Courier-Jotlsuaf moi that the
is any of the kind of business aiiuded
carried on in these waters, bat because 1t
a good hit where it does apply, and may
warning In places whsre the ssYstemo no
be inaugurated: "The science of stesmbos
!: ing now adays seems to consist in boatm
seeing how often and how quickly they C
starve each other 10 death, and ruin
river business by cutting rates on ca.
i other and carrying freight for nothing.
wonder the railroads are getting away wi
the river business. The boatmen theI
selves are the cause of it, and they alone a
W to blame for it. They should study th'
own interests by trying to help each 9th
make money, instead of trying their lie,
best to make each other lose money. \
" have no sympathy for any man who W
O. run steamboat TO lose money, or try
81 make others lose money, and We think
u u sooner the sheriff gets the boat and the POI
Is house gets the man the better off the nv
interests will be. There is no excuse
n such steamboaiing this, and the To-
killer ought to be turned loose al once