Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-12-14
GENERAL NEWS.

BUSINESS good yesterday.
SIGNAL SERVICE report: River 7 feet
decline inches yesterday.
The Golden Rule and Golden Crown are
both long overdue from Cairo. I
JOSEPH GRAY and Lew Schrasg have been
engaged as pilots of the Kate Adams TO
Memphis.
THE Fulton eontemplates trip as high
up Hstchie river as she can go. See notice
elsewhere.
RECEIPTS by river yesterday, 1887 bales of
cotton, 1l5 bags of seed. cotton and 54Sl sacks
OF cotton seed.
The Montana loaded at ST. Louis and left
that port for Vicksburg in the Anchor Line
service Tuesday.
CAPT. j. NJ. CHENowETH will command
the Granite State on her present trip 10
Memphis, and Mr.. r. w. Mccoy will be her
clerk.
The New Mary Houston, with HOO tons,
passed up for Cincinnati at an early hour
yesterday morning, about a week out from
New Orleans.
THE Clinton has Withdrawn from the St.
Louis and Memphis trade, and loads at St.
Louis for Cinciunati-going around to help
the Wyoming an Independent" perhaps.
IT Is rumored at Cincinnati that Capt
John Woodburn will have command of an
Arkansas river boat this season. Capt.
WOODBURY. is an old Arkansas river boat
man.
CINCINNATI Gazette, Tuesday: ga muskrat
knawed hole in the hull OF the Big Sandy
wharfboat Saturday night, which caused il
10 take about Is inches water, but it was
pumped out"
The Vint Shinkle took on 4SS bales of
cotton, 90 bales Of paper stock, so sacks of
rye, 10000 feet Of lumber, and lot of sun
dries, and left for Cincinnati at the usual
hour yesterday evening.
1HE Hard Cash arrived from White river
Yesterday morning, bringing 623 bales OF
cotton, 1000 sacks of seed aud big lot OF
sundries. She returned in the afternoon
with good load of merchandise.
ANOTHER petition to restore steamboat
signals to their former code is being circu-
lated for SIGNATURE and will be presented in
Washington next month. Delegates from
different Pilots Associations will present the
petition.
The Henry Lourey and bsrges passed up
for st. Louis yesterday afternoon, adding
here barge No. 90 loaded with 1885 bales of
cotton, and dropping 2 empties to be loaded
with cotton, one for Cairo and one for New
Orleans.
CAPT. MAURICE McNEELY was fishing
around yesterday after his suuken tug, the
lying in 43 feet water. Nothing will be
done toward raising it probably until the
Eckert arrives from New Orleans.
A STRONG line of rip-rap wall is being
built at the foot of the wharf from Jefferson
street down. The line has been built as far
down as nearly TO the foot of Madison street.
No better use could be made of the money
that ought to be spent in improving The
wharf.
A PARTY of pilots, who have been on
the river for at least 80 years each, stated to
a Globe Democrat reporter that never in their
experience have they seen the river from ST.
Louis 10 Cairo so clear of snags and breaks.
They were enthus astic ia their praise of
Capt. VIM. Patterson, of the snagboat
service, who has charge OF that district.
THE new elevator Just completed by the
ST. Louis and Mississippi Valley Transports
ton Company at Belmont, Mo, on the Mis-
sissippi river, 20 miles below Cairo, and st
the terminus OF the Belmont branch of the
Iron Mountain railroad, was formally opened
for business yesterday. The event was par
ticipated in by a number of st. Louis mer-
chants who went down 10 assist 10 the cere-
mony.
COUPLE of well-knowH river clerks have
been @tsking in the town" the past 8 or 4
days en- masse Yesterday morning they
arose from different couches, and up TO noon
had not formed junction. One made
landing against an iron railing about that
hour, when an acquaintance OF both came
along, to whom he appealed: Say, Charley,
have you seen anything OF Jim; god dern
i'm, l knowed he git lost?"
ST.. LOUIS Republican, Tuesday: "Bob
Hull, former well-known second clerk in
the lower river trade, having been on the
Great Republic, the Grand Republic and
several Anchor Line boats, was found wander
ing sbou. the streets Sunday night by the
police in a state almost of nudity and talk
ing 10 an incoherent way. He was taken to
the stationhouse and kept there until yester-
day morning, when he was sent to the hos
pilsl."
ST. LOUIS Republican, Tuesday: "The
river here il still declining very rapidly, and
although we have no reports steamboatmen
state that there cannot be more than feet
OF steamboat water between this point and
Cairo. Ii this be the case, and we see no
reason TO doubt it, there are but few boats
here now that could get out on that water
and take enough freight to cover expenses.
AT o'clock pm. yesterday the gauge st the
foot Of Market street read SIS feet above low
water mark, thus indicating a fall of 09 OF
loot in "a hours."
AT meeting of representatives. of COM
peting railroad lines between st. Louis and
destined 10 river points below Cairo at the
following rates: From st. Louie, per 100
pounds, frst-class, 40c; second class, SOC;
third-class, 25c; fourlh-class, zoe; bacon, zoe;
grain, Zoe; bran, zoe; ties and bagging, zoe;
-four, per barrel, Acc. II is said the Anchor
Line of steamers will get the bulk OF the
business from Cairo, while the Barge Line
will carry the business of the Iron Mountain
road from Belmont, and q portion of the
business from Cairo.
CINCINNATI COMMERCIAL Tuesday: The
new Kate Adams arrived from Piltsburg
yesterday morning at s O'Clock, and landed
at the Central Transit wharfbozt. Her crew
sat down to breakfast Just alter leaving
Gailipoiis, and were eating when -Four
Mile was reached. Messrs. Joe Alexander
and VIM. Hall were her pilots, and they say
| she runs like a deer. To attempt 10 AIDE.
qustely describe the solid mAgnihcence OF
the Adams would require more time and
space than We have at our command. She Is
manliestiy an improvement over anything IN
4 the afQamh0af lIna furnRd Tor The