Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-15
GENERAL NEWS.
Business fair.


7 The little steamer Jimmie Baker is in
port.
I The local packets departed yesterday even
| ing with fair trips.
Receipts by river yesterday 35 bales cot
| ton and -546 sacks of seed.
The Port Eads and barges passed up early
yesterday morning for st. Louis.
The Annie P. Silver passed up an early
hour yesterday morning for st. Louis with a
fair trip.
The City of Baton Rouge passed down
early Sunday morning for New Orleans with
big trip.
Arthur Brown leaves by rail for Metropo-
lis, Ill, this morning. He will be absent
several weeks.
morning for Vicksburg, in place of the i'll
fated Gold Dust, with good trip.
Lloyd 4. Whitlow, clerk of the James Lee,
returned Sunday morning from Louisville,
and resumed his place on the Lee.
William Hall, second clerk of the Paris
G. Brown, is confined to his room on the
boat with severe attack OF erysipelas.
The City of Helena arrived Yesterday
morning from St. Louis with 4763 packages
OF freight for this place, and returned sgain
last evening.
Among the passengers by the City of Hell
ena Yesterday were Mrs. E. Whitmore and
her niece, Miss Arnett Brown, who have been
on a couple of months visit 10 Topeka, KS.
A ST. Louis special to the Cincinnati Com
mercial, of date August 18th, says: "The
latest report from Hickman says John Lang
lois, second clerk of the Gold Dust, is dying"
Captain James Surtees, the obligiDg
purser OF the James w. Gaff, advises US by
IL Il.
from Cincinnati Thursday morning, and re-
turns on Friday evening usual.
Louisville dispatch OF Sunday says:
Erred Manifold, second clerk of the steamer
Paris c. Brown, died on that boat below this
city this afternoon. The remains were taken
to Cincinnati, the home of his parents"
Cincinnati Commercial, Sunday: "Among
the CATS passengers from Memphis are Col
onel Lewis Hanauer and family. The colo
mel is one of the greatest cotton kings of the
Mississippi valley. Major II. P. Thompson
and his young and beautiful wife; Major
Hampson ia a planter of the bends, and
came with his family for little recreation
TO the Queen City. r. III. Henry aud fam
lily, of the Brookhaven (Miss.) Ledger. The
Calf had quite party from the lower coun-
try All well pleased-from a vote of thanks
to the crew for kind attentions on the trip"
Vicksburg Herald, Sunday: young John
ONeil, whose death is reported from ST.
Louis, was deckhsnd on the Gold Dust. His
father was an old steamboatman and John
was schoolmate of most of the young men
of this city during the years OF 1866, 1867
and 1868. He was fne-looking fellow, in
telligent far beyond his alton, unobtrusive
in his ways, and his manners and address
were remarkable for his position. We un-
derstand Mr.. O'Neil was in a fair way to
promotion in another year or SO. He had
lust been married to St. Louis lady about |
two months ago."
The New Orleans Times Democrat takes the |
for a text, and editorializes at some |
length: Insurance, more than anything |
else, is hindrance to the competition be- |
tween the river and the railroads. Freight |
by the former route has no insurance 10 pay, |
or at least, merely nominal one, while the |
river rates are very high. A merchant ship
ping by river has TO pay two charges, by
railroad only one. The railroad company,
can actually charge a higher !
freight TO a given point and yet carry the
goods there cheaper than a steamboat can.
Our merchants, consequently, find this in
surance opposing, fighting and injuring river
Trade at every point on the Mississippi |
reached by arailrosd."
The Cairo correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial, writing on the 11th, says: al
most serious ccluent occurred In Inc narD Dor
Yesterday Messrs. Ralston and Brazee had
inspected one battery of boilers on the ira ns-
Ter steamer Junius s. Morgan, and the en-
yineer, after heating the water, as he
thought, sufficiently, turned on steam from
he other battery 10 facilitate the heating
process Either the water was not hot
enough, or he turned on too much steam,
and the result was that the boiler heaved |
md surged like man in commissions. The
engineer saw how the thing was acting in
lime 10 cave catastrophe by turning of the
team. The boiler had surged one inch for
yard out OF place, and but little more would
rave broken the steam-pipe connection with
he other boiler, and :he result would have
,een the same as a bIow-up. Every body on
,oard would have been sealded. 1t stands
.s a warning to engineers not to let a Jet of
lot steam into boiler full of cold water.n
WALT of Cairo, presents some sensible
uggestions: sOne of the evils of the pres
nj day in engineering on steamboats, ia the
lablt of letting the striker have charge of
he water gauges aud the steam register
principally. 1t appears that this is the habit
Il many engineers. The chief has 20 many
,ther things to look after that perhaps this