Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-07-23
GENERAL NEWS.

oueiltso ldLs
Thu Bransford skipped out for White river
with a good trip.
Signal service report: River "a feet Z
inches-decline 10 inches yesterday.
Weather delightful-the finest summer re.
sort on the face of the earth, Memphis is.
Either convert the bluffs into parks, or die
'em down. They mar the beauty of the
picture.
The City of Baton Rouge passed south at
dark, loaded 1at-probablY 200 tons-for
New Orleans.
The towboat combination has been dis.
solved at New Orleans, and towage reduced
from 81 to 35 cents per ton.
Captain Milt Harry. was in the city a few
minutes yesterday, but returns to Paducah
by rail this morning where the josie Harry
10 undergoing rsPsire
The John B. Mauds sailed in from st.
Louis early yesterday morning, with 4545
packages for Memphis. She returned in the
afternoon with the usual upper way trip.
The Gold Dust, from Vicksburg, arrived
yesterday afternoon, and the City of Cairo
got in from ST. Louis. Both boats lay over
I'll this morning-the first for st. Louis, the
latter for Vicksburg.
A Pittsburg special to the Cincinnati Ga.
zette, of Friday, says: "At a large and en-.
thusiastic meeting of steambostmen, mer-
chants and manufacturers, to-day, Rule No.
! Of the navigation laws, relative TO paszing
steamers signaling, was loudly
.ra resolution VA unsplnopsly sdop.se
cipcinnati Gazette, Friday: The Marine
1ngiaeers' Association held their regular
neellng last night, and ths oonzmiltse sp.
Poinssd 70 i~uyeztisate tue E. A. Woodruff sx.
pioslon made its report, which will be found
in the local coIunns. The association takes
the ground that Mr.. Bsteman, second engin-
eer, has been made q 'scapegoat' by the
United States local inspectors for the only
reason that he is = member of the Marine
Engineers Association
A dispatch from Louisville to the Cincin.
natl Commercial reports the canal in a bad
condition as follows: 1.-THE river has fallen
fully l foot at the foot of the falls, and the
canal passage is very Troublesome, owing to
the vast accumulation of mud in the locks.
The owe or outlet gates have been kept
open during the past eight months of high
water, and now there are about 8 feet of mud
at the outlet, and the gates cannot be closed
until the mud Is cleared away. The outer
locks will now have to be used on account OF
low water. The superintendent is working
night and day to clear the locks. Over the
inter sill OF the middle gates this evening
there Is but 6 feet 8 inches water, and the
Cons Millar, drawing z feet, has been at the
loot OF the canal all day, unable TO get
through"
New Orleans Tines Democrat. Friday: aThe
are considerably exercised at
The possible reduction of the beacon light
service. They believe that the establishment
Of these lights has resulted in more real good
than anything else done by the government,
and Will regret any interference with it in
my way exceedingly. During the late flood, |
when the river extended beyond its banks
or miles, and was an almost trsckless waste |
II waters, the usefulness of this service was |
'hown the greatest, for their eagerly sought |
sghts showed the pilot the shape of the river, |
else he would have had to lay his boat
o the bank, rather than take the chances of |
eaving the river and landing out in some
'ody's field. 1t will be sorry day when any
those lights are put OUT, SO say all the
teamboatmen.n
Louisville Cou~rier-JournuL Thursday:
Captain Charlie Russell, of the Cons Mil
ar, due up last night, is in a hurry this
rip-Har received Dispatch at Paducah.
the Ners says when the boat left there
over 100 passengers were trying to hold
Russell down on the roof, He had
cen trying to climb the chimneys, turn
ipiacks over the guye, running back and
hold of the wheel with his teeth,
ow and then giving a ~war.whoop, and
Give me room; Pm all wool and a
ard wide He told the clerk to carry every
ody free anywhere they wanted to go, and
eat all the ladies on board with lemonade
nd a chrome, and charge it all to him.
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