Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-21
GENERAL NEWS.

SGlNETAHI N6VNS
The Josie Harry was well represented with
freight and people.
The W. W. O'Neal, with a big tow of emp
ties for the Ohio river, passed up last even
ing.
The John s.. Bransford, Captain Holt
passed down for Helena yesterday morning
without landing.
Signal service report: River 50 feet i
inches-stationary during the "a hours end
ing LOS pm. yesterday.
The City Of Baton Rouge passed dow
yesterday at noon fer New Orleans, with
1000 tons and a big list of passengers.
The Gold Dust arrived last night from st
Louis with a good trip. She will add II
tons and leave at 10 o'clock this morning
for Vicksburg.
Well, Big Muddy has settled down to {
quiet caper again, and we hope this time fol
a sufficient season to give the planters
chance. A rapid decline will not be tot
much to ask for.
The Anchor Line company has a boat con
tracted for to make tri-weekly trips between
St. Louis and Cape Girardeau. She will
bear one of the three names, Marble City
Grand Tower or Belle of Nuremberg.
Hobbs, of the St. Louis Globe Democrat, in
dorses our theory concerning the quarantine
business, that the railroads should be brough
under the rule as we'll as the steamboats,. L
it is worth doing at all it Is worth being well
| done, and it ia not we'll lone when the restric
lions are confined alone to steamboats,, and
railways allowed to go uninterrupted. Civ
us a thorough quarantine, or abolish th'
nnisanoe-
Captain Bob Wise, of the James w Gaff
desires to return thanks to Hugh n. Bur
ford, master mechanic of the Charleston
roa1 fnr his o-5sofonna - Ok. NkA -.
pairs on his boat The captain is more thar
pleased with the work, and says it compares
very favorsbly with the best work of the
class done East. Captain Wise heartily
recommends Mr.. Burford to s~teamboatmer
in need of his services.
Chattanooga special to the Gourier-JoursaL
Thursday: "a man named J.. X. Dutten
living in North Alabama, who had been deaf
and dumb for sixteen years, having lost the
faculties of speech and hearing by disease
was on the steamer Wilder a few days ago
and while he was asleep ia a berth the boat
struck a snag and he was thrown out. He
imagined the boat was sinking, and ran from
his room almost stupefed with terror. He
fell ill from the effects of his nervous pros.
t~ration, and in a few days his speech and
hearing were restored. These facts are at.
tested by the captain and all the officers Of
the boat, and were confirmed to-day by the
man himself"
Louisville Courier-J Journal, Friday: "Tht
i~ron-hulled towboat Alex. Swift, Captain
| Milt. Woods, came down from Pittsburs
yesterday morning with a tow of coal tor
the Browns. She goes on to Cairo with 8
tow. The gay and festive AIex.-alwayl
SgJt-knowipg that the races ksre were at
tracing 30 much attention, took a notion
she'd run against time. She took the bit in
her teeth at Pittsburg ..and came here IL
seventy hours, with seventeen pieces-whict
is no doubt the quickest run on record. Cap
tain Milt Woods and John Dippold were a
the wheel, and Joh says: She run gracefully,
handled beautifully and behaved s~plendidly.
She belongs to the famous coal operators
the Browns-and is a remarkable towboa'
any cake being handed around, clean the
platter"
Edward Conery, jr, of New Orleans, is the
inventor OF a system Of electrical goDgs
which are attached to an ordinary house OF
Office clock, making the one clock answer
the purpose of Two or a hundred clocks
The modus opeTaadi is as follows: As the
hammer strikes and announces the hours, oil
portions of hours, the wires, which are con-
nected by a magnet situated in the CLOCK
close to the hammer, are charged with elec.
tricity, and being attached to as many gongs
as there are wires, the time of day is an.
nounced on the gongs which are in the other
portion of the building. Thus a clock in
the office of a steamboat, or factory, can be
connected with each and every room BY
wires and gongs, and when the hour is struck
in the Office it is Immediately duplicated in
all tie rooms. He has applied for a patent
and will shortly be a millionaire.