Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-15
GENERAL NEWS.

Farmers in the lower Ohio are preparing
for a heavy flood.
Receipts by river yesterday 3fz bates cot
ton and IL 40 sacks seed.
The towboat Charles Brown arrived yester.
day with Is barges of coal for this market.
The Marlin Speed got away for Arkansas
river with a fair load of freight for thai
stream.
Signal service report: River so feet l inch
rise 3 inches during "a hours ending :0S
Pm. yesterday.
Clerk J. C. Wyckof, who bas been i'll sev.
eral days, resumed his place on the Josie
Harry yesterday.
Ga her return up the Ohio the Cons Millar
was detained several hours at Evansville re-
pairing a weak fue.
The freshet in the valley of the Ohio is
playing havoc with the lumbermen on the
tributaries Of that stream.
The Gold Dust arrived from St. Louis yes
terdsy afternoon and laid over for schedule
time Tor Nicksburg this morning.
The Dick Fulton passed south yesterday
afternoon with Il tow OF coal, destined TO
Natchez. She dropped two barges here.
The John B. Maude arrived yesterday
morning from st. Louis with 41G3 packages
freight, and returned again last evening.
LIE y amSs l.. L dfkST got away LOT AlnCin-
natl last evening with 400 bales cotton, 225
barrels oil, 800 sacks oil meal, and 20 tons of
sqnirics.
After discharging her load last nish t the
Charles p. Chouteau took on 200 tons oil
meal, $500 sacks cotton-seed and a lot of SUM-
dries, and left for New Orleans late in the
night.
The Charles p. Chouteau got in with the
biggest load of cotton seed yesterday ever
brought to this port. 1t took her till near
midnight, with the aid OF her electric lights,
to get the load discharged.
The Josie Harry had a fair trip OF freight
and passengers out for White river yesterday
evening. Her passenger list contained the
names of several merchants OF this city and
of various points on White river.
The ~electrie lights of the Charles P. Chou-
teau made the entire wharf as light as day
last night, and attracted crowds to admire
the novelty of an army of longshoremen dis
charging her immense load OF cotton-seed.
The Henry Frank arrived at New Orleans
with 1880 bales cotton, 1853 sacks cotton-seed
and $40 sacks oil-cake. The Democrat of
Friday says: "The Henry Frank arrived
during the afternoon from Memphis, and,
owing to the fact that there is not enough in
sight to justify another trip, she has been
laid up"
Wm. Goldson, the grandfather of Mr..
Richard G. Burns, clerk of the steamer UP.
Schenck, celebrated the ninety-irst a~nniver-
sary Cf his birth at his home, in Rising Sun,
Indiana, last Thursday. He is hale and
hearty. Mr.. Goldson fitted out the steamers
Grampus, Iris, Indiana and others at Rising
Sun for Colonel James, and followed the river
in early days.
The Chattanooga Times, criticising the
Cincinnati's Commercials praises OF Captain
Cowdon and his Mississippi river i'm
provement schemes, writes: "Cowdon is very
wise aboat the Mississippi river-in the
Commercials opinion-beceuse he believes
with the editor OF that paper thai the way to
improve the stream is to let it alone. Hal
stea1's everlasting praises of Cowdon, and
Cowdon's huge estimate of Halstead's great
ness and grandeur, remind US of an old idiot
We knew IN our boyhood, who was given to
strut about and certify TO the immensely of
every ones knowledge who 'a.reed, egad,
with me and President Polk and other great
writers, thinkers and statesmen Halstead
and Cowdon are organized permanently as a
mutual admiration society"
St. Louis Post Dispatch, Friday: "Captain
John Z. keiser returned from the sunken
steamer Grand Tower on the Gold Dast yes
terday. Everything has been removed from
the wreck except the machinery, and that
will be taken as soon as possible. Captain
helser says that the whole bottom was torn
out OF the boat by the obstruction, and she
went down so quick that the engineers on
watch scarcely had time to stop the engines
before the water was upon them. The Grand
Tower lies on top Of some sunken craft in
What is known to bostmen as the Graveyard.
The river improvement commission should
give this marine cenleterr their earliest at
An inquest held over the barges
Oneota and Grand Tower, both of which met
heir fate here recently, might lead to the
development OF facts that would lessen the
mortality OF the future"