Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-05
GENERAL NEWS.

Business pretty fair.
Weather began cool yesterday, but wound
up as hot as blazes.
Signal Service report: River 9 feet 10
inches-stationary yesterday.
Receipts by river the past 2 days, o bales
of cotton and 523 sacks Of cotton-seed.
Colonel Rock Summers, an old-time stew
ard, is in the city, waiting for "su'thin' good
to turn up"
A meeting of Cincinnati and New Orleans
pilots is called to take place in Cincinnati
to-day. What's up?
The City of Cairo passed south Sunday
afternoon several hours behind time, lost by
getting sground near Cairo.
The Commonwealth was in port Yesterday
making repairs to her machinery. She left
for St. Louis during last night.
The Arkansas City arrived in port from
Vicksburg last night. She had a jolly re-
ception at all points down the river.
Mrs. A. L.. Cummins and her son, MI. Gus
Cummins, returned from Iuka yesterday BY
the Memphis and Charleston railway.
The Annie P. Silver, out four and a half
days from New Orleans, passed up for s..
Louis yesterday morning ischarging a nall
lot.
The City of Baton Rouge passed south
yesterday afternoon with about 100 tons
freight, adding here a big lot of lime, farm
wagons and sundries.
The City of Helena arrived from ST. Louis
yesterday morning, bringing 1925 packages
of freight, and returned in the afternoon
with the usual pickup.
Msjor-G General Nick Hooth, than whom
there lives no cleverer man on the face OF
Gods green earth, has chartered all the bar
privileges in the Adams mail line.
nights-just the ticket for comfortable travel
on teamers II somebody will report a
scheme that will afford time 10 go, here's in
Tor an IllImltable excursion to somewhere.
Captain Ed Postal telegraphs from Cairo
yesterday that the Hard Cash will arrive
this evening to leave for White river to-
morrow evenipg-her regular day. The
Hard Cash, they say, has been fitted up until
it will trouble the inspectors 10 distinguish
her from an entire new boat.
1t is suggested that the reason the authori- |
ties will not remove the bluffs is because it
will conspicuate several eye-sores in the
shape OF city weigher's shanties, tarpaulin
sheds, coal checkers huts, etc. The poor. |
who have no friends, have been compelled to |
move on" for slighter provocation.
The Jim Lee, as usual, brought in The |
first bale of the season, and sent it up to the |
Cotton Exchange by hand. 1t was given
quarters in the bridal chamber, and Captain
wss in personal charge of it while
off watch. He was SO proud of it that he
thought he had a whole stack of new bales.
Our mention of the disgusting condition of
the wharf a few days ago seems TO have been
passed unheeded. The wharf is now in
worse condition than ever. Who is wharf
master anyhow? And what do steamboat
men pay tilhes 10 the city for? What use
ia made of tho WHARFAGE fnpd1 Ona n = |
Mrs. Lizzie Love, the eldest daughter of
Pilot Ferd Montana, and wife OF Captain
c. Love, the ~well-known stave man,
died Sunday night and was buried at 4:30
yesterday afternoon from her late
residence on Fourth street in Chelsea. The
friends of Captain Love sympathize
with him in his sad bereavement.
The ST. Louis Globe Democrats Cairo dis
patch, OF Saturday, says: "a submarine
diver goes to Hickman tonight on the City
Of Helena, for the purpose of making a
borough search for the safe of the Gold
Dust, which contained at the time of the
explosion, besides money belonging to the
4 package oil $1,000 belonging to a
Wiutersmith, a merchant of Helena,
sho Is also a passenger or the Helena. The
had 4 fair trip and got away at 8
o'clock pm.
st. Louis Republican, Sunday: SIM her
by the ST. Louis and New Orleans
Anchor Line, the steamer Belle of Shreve-
has received a thorough o~verhauliDg
nd has been much improved, being now a
etter boat than even when first built. She
5 all ready TO enter the line When the water
SO low SIS 10 recessitate the withdrawal
f boats OF greater draught. 1t is rumored
hat when she does come out the omm and
I her will be given TO Captain William
Jason, at present the very efficient and
sreful chief clerk of the City of Alton"
The Gazette Maritime ct Commercials, in its
ews regarding ocean disasters, relates the
curious example Of the formidable
over Of molecular forces: The italian ship
francesca, loaded with rice, put into port on
lay 1lth, at East London, leaking consider 4
bly,. A large force of men was at once put
n board to pump out the water contained in
lie ship and to unload her, but in spite of all
lie activity exerted the bags of rice soaked
water gradually and swelled up. Two
avs a%fterward, on May 18th, the ship was
burst asunder by this swelling of
n cargo. 4