Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-07
GENERAL NEWS

Business fair, packets having fair trip
out.
| The Plow Boy left for Arkansas river with
fair trip.
Signal Service report: River 8 feet IL
inches-rise inch yesterday.
The Guiding Star leaves Cincinnati for
New Orleans next Saturday.
The Paris C. Brown passed up for Cincin.
natl at daylight yesterday morning.
The towboat Sam Brown took the Charles
Browns tow, the latter returning So 18th at
Louisville.
| The city has a new dump-boat. The old
one having become worthless, is being
wrecked on the bank where it was beached.
The wreck of the Golden City is showing
| up considerably. The wrecker Charley Hill
was expected down yesterday to begin wreck
| ing her.
Paul Boyton proposes 10 swim the Niagara
rapids IL the bridge company will pay him
SooOO. he Will take 10 the rapids just be-
low the falls and try to get to Lewiston.
Captain James Rallston, one of the local
inspectors, has been quite i'll since his visit
10 Hickman investigating the Gold Dust dis
sster He was able TO be out yesterday.
The Vicksburg gauge, which was formerly
located at the lower landing has been re-
moved 10 point on the Louisiana side. 1000
yards above the Delta wharfbeat, on which
the Vickssurg readings will be recorded as
heretofore.
Lower coast steamers are tickling the
Vicksburgers with great long stalks of cotton
weeds full of bells. Our steamers touch us
on occasionally with whole bales of the
stuff, ready Tor market The railways take
hand also once in a while-two bales yes.
terday.
Joseph Chaddick, pilot, died in New Or.
leans last Tuesday, after an illness of a num-
Der OF years. He learned the river as a pilot
on the Louisville and New Orleans packet
Lagrange, OF which his father was captain,
In 1884. From that date until the breaking
out OF the war he was pilot, most of the
time In the Vicksburg trade.
The Coahoma has tied herself up at the
foot of Adams street 10 take on a new battery
Of boilers, which will take about fortnight.
during which time the Katie Hooper will
run the Memphis and Osceola business, lesv-
Ing Yesterday on her first trip, with Andy
Durth in command and the Coahoma's regn.
lar crew in the other positions.
A letter from Pittsburg yesterday says that
the Kate Adams will be completed about the
18Th. Her boilers are all aboard the Frame
work is up and all bulk-heads fixed. Cap
tain Bill Tlchenor was up there few weeks
ago and says he looked into her fiues, SMELL
other, with otta of roses rushing out of her
chimneys.
The Hard Cash was in port this morning,
just as We announced-looked as handsome
as the sunny side OF peach and as saucy as
a maiden alter realizing the bliss OF a first
kiss. She was not long in shaping up a load |
Tor White river, leaving in the afternoon |
with all the freight she wanted and a hand |
some coterie of passengers. She'll be back |
next week. |
The remains OF the tug Oriole become |
more conspicuous as the river recedes The |
hull stands about half exposed at an angle |
OF forty -hve degrees in the edge of the water,
about zoo feet below Beale street, where she |
sunk when struck by the burning Golden
City. A great part of her machinery has
been removed. Her boiler is now nearly all |
out of the water.
Last Saturday, near Ravenswood, on the
upper Ohio, the Chesapeake, in attempting
to exchange passenger in midstream with
the Emma Graham, rang the wrong bell, and
came head on, striking the Emma Graham
aft OF the boilers, breaking in the guards, but
doing no serious damage. The Chesapeake
hsd her steai stove in, and knocked off about
30 feet of her guards.
Captain Rice, of the Anchor-Line wharf
boat, got tired of waiting on the wharfmaster's
and yesterday borrowed lot of
hose from the fire department with which he
cleared away the accumulations of river
deposit in the vicinity of the wharfboat. He
had 10 borrow the hose because the hose be-
ongIng TO the wharf department il so old
and broken as to be of little or no use.
Upper river pilots are still loud in their
complaints that the government officers in
charge OF the river do not properly attend to |
heir duties by removing snsgs when notified
VI their presence. Between st. Louis and
Alton, says the st. Louis Republican, there
ire no less than Is snags apparent at pres
mt, all OF them bad, and many really dam
,srous ones. As the river falls these foes to
ne steamboat interests pore their heads up
,ut OF the sand where least expected or de-
ired, and unless something is speedily done
or their removal by the proper authorities I
ur Board OF Underwriters will be called !!
pom TO pay for a boat or two lost or dam I
ged by ceming in contact with them. 8
Wheeling Intelh9encer: "The name of the O
ll-fated Scioto is 10 be changed What the
ew name will be will be known in a day or
wo, and the necessary papers taken out. The
oat will never again be known az the Seioto.
It present, repairs and general overhauliug
re being made by large force of workmea
q order to have the steamer ready for busi-
ess by fair week. With her name changed. .
aptain Thad. Thomas will again assume {
ommsnd. A better, nobler christian gentle 1
ian never lived. Everyone, in speaking of I
lie Scioto disaster, always refers in words of
dmiration 70 Captain Thsd. Thomas. At
during the past week, while the
rand jury was on the case, Captain Thomas
as exonerated from all blame.n
A walk over the wharf yesterday revealed
} US several important items that call for L
Immediate attention. The piles of con-
emned paving stone that nlonopolize hum
reds of square feet of that part of the wharf n
etween Union and Monroe streets most used
1ring the business season, now close at
and, should be removed at once. We learn
lat 1t belongs to the city, therefore the city q
lthorities should take itaway. In the new
art of the wharf appears evidence that the y
lb-drain is broken. A couple of hours A
ork will remedy now what may soon be- A
me an uglier place, requiring two or three
lys to fix. The immense deposits of mud
i the wharf below the Anchor-Line wharf | A
at will be in the way of business when
ton begins to move freely. The pile of A
one on the lower wharf should be taken out
the IN that ha Il, IL 1