Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-20
GENERAL NEWS,

Business dull.
The John A. Scudder is due up for St.
Louis.
Local river news items were as scarce as
hens teeth.
Heavy ice has caused suspension of nav
igation above st. Louis.
High waters are causing local packets at
Evansville to 60 to bank.
Receipts by river yesterday, 1SS bales cot
ton and IS sacks cotton-seed.
Lew Brannon second clerk of the Dean
Adams, was compelled TO stop off yesterday
by illness.
The New Mary Houston, Captain Charles
Miller, is due down for New Orleans to-day.
Elliott Miller in the office.
The wharf has been covered with freight
tho past two or three days, occasioned by the
difficulty of moving it during the bad weather.
The low grounds about Chattanooga have
been abandoned by inhabitants on account
OF the encroachments by Tennessee rivers
flood.
The James w. Gaff arrived about o'clock
last night-at least her little gun went off
about that time. She won't go off till Satur-
day morning.
The Belle Memphis, Captain l. III. Nc
Kee, is the Anchor-Line packet this morning
at 10 o'clock for Vicksburg and the bends.
Henry E. Corbyn is her clerk.
The Coahoma, Captain Henry Cooper, is
the packet this evening at 5 o'clock for
Osceola and the upper bends. William
Smither and John Haley are her clerks.
The Golden City, Captain Sterling McIn-
tyre, will pass up this evening at 4 o'clock
for Cairo, Louisville and Cincinnati. w. F.
Mcintyre has charge of her Office.
The City OF Providence, Captain George
Lenox, is the Anchor-Line packet this
evening at o'clock for Cairo and ST. Louis
Frank Perkins and James McMeen are her
clerks.
The Court street plank walk, leading to
the wharf, is getting out of order again. The
city authorities should abandon the penny
wise and-pound-foolish system of patchwork,
and make repairs in future of more SUBJ
stantial character.
1t was rumored in st. Louis Tuesday that
Captain Scudder had bought the David r.
Powell for the st. Louis and Vicksburg
Anchor Line, to replace the Grand Tower in
the Vicksburg trade.
The Marlin Speed, Captain J. ]. Darragh,
will be found in port to-day and leaves again
tomorrow evening for all points on Arkan-
river. Charles Musselman and Will
Darragh are her clerks.
The James Lee, Captain Stack Lee on
deck, is the packet this evening st o'clock
for Helena, Friars Point and all way land
ings. Lloyd Whitlow is her clerk, assisted
by Plat Rhoades and Arthur Browne.
Signal service report: River 30 feet 4
inches-rise, inches during the "a honrs
ending at :0S pm. yesterday. This report
shows the present stage of water to be within
feet 81 inches OF the high-water mark OF
1867.
The present stage of the river enables pas
sengers on steamboats, coming down either
river to get good sight at Cairo and its
principal buildings long before reaching it.
The elevator, customhouse, Halliday hotel,
union depot and some of the churches are
visible almost entire for miles away.
A number of the negro employees of the
wharfboats at Cairo have been detected in a
system of robberies from the wharfboats,
which have puzzled the officials for long
time. The thieves confessed their crime
after they found that they were in for it, and
are in prison awaiting trial.
William A. Pendleton, pilot of the Mem
phis packet James w. Calf, died at his resi-
dence in Newport, Kentucky, Monday even
ing, in the thirty -eighth year of his age, of
pulmonary disease. The deceased leaves a
mother, wife and four boys, the oldest of the
latter six years and the youngest six months
old.
captain hallaher Will have to stir up the
monkeys, metaphorically speaking about the
crowded condition of the levee. He cannot
resist the encroachments of the river, but he
can whoop up those who are dilatory about
moving their freights. Sufficient allowance
should be made, however, for the weather
difficulties.
Mr.. Bird, who lives near the river bank
on the Missouri shore, opposite Cairo, has
found it necessary to place boards against
the bank, opposite his residence, to depth
of about s feet below the surface of the
water, in order to prevent any further wash
leg there. The distance from the front fence
of the premises to the edge OF the bank is
only Is feet; it was several hundred not
many months ago
The r. Z. Lee will be sent to st. Louis in
March to receive an expensive overhauling
Fully $4,000 will be spent that she lay be
placed in as good, If not better condition
than when first built. In making the an
nouncement the New Orleans Pcayune says
Now if the Missouri pukes cannot apprecia ate
this courteous act of Captain Cannon's,
Chicago ought to annex their town as one Of
the rooral suburbs.'"
A dispatch from Nashville says: "The
Josh V. Throop arrived on one engine. She
had just passed over Sandy Shoals, 100 miles
above, when her starboard engine gave way
and lett the boat to the mercy OF the current.
The hands in the excitement in getting out
anchor let the anchor and line into the
river, thus leaving her in an almost helpless
condition. Fortune, however, favored them,
and the broken engine was detached from
the other machinery, so as to work the other
one, ana the boat was safely landed