Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-03
GENERAL NEWS
Business lively.
Weather bright and pleasant.

| DusineSS lVeIy.
Weather bright and pleasant
Receipts by river yesterday, $50 bale
cotton, 40 sacks seed -cotton.
The Boaz, with heavy tow of coal
passed south yesterday afternoon.
The Coahoma, for Friars Point, and Dean
Adams, 70, Arkansas City, took good loads
out last night
The Pete Kerns, of the river commission
arrived from above yesterday and returned
| during the evening.
The Josie Harry arrived from White river
yesterday evening, with light load on. She
is receiving to return Saturday evening.
The City of Providence arrived from Vicks.
burg with a good showing of passengers.
She leaves for st. Louis at the usual hour
this evening.
The Dean Adams in from below early yes
terday morning, brought 1876 cabin passen-
gers, a number of them coming in from the
overfowei districts. She had large num-
Der OF farm-stock, etc, brought out for safety.
Colonel Will S. Hays, the celebrated song
writer, river news editor, school board moral
ist, steamboat, steamship and railway
agent, ETC., of the Louisville Couier-JomnaI
was passenger down on the r. r. Springer
last light.
Signal service report: River IS feet 8
inches-rise l inch. Tennessee still rising
rapidly at Chattanooga the upper Missis-
sippi continues light swell from Dubuque
down; sharp rise in the Ohio at Pittsburg.
Declines at all other points.
ST. Louis Globe DsRoerdt, Wednesday: "The
Belle Memphis had to refuse stuff before she
left for Vicksburg last night, and the line
finds it necessary to start the Memphis boats
again, the John b. Maude, Captain Harry
SrolasEi, leaving to-day. The Common
wealth, Captain McPheeters, is the Vicks-
burg craft for tomorrow"
The K. r. Springer passed down from
Cincinnati TO New Orleans last night, loaded
Hat and full OF passengers, many making the
round trip. She added here 40 barrels corn
meal, 240 sacks oil-meal a los of snndries
and several passengers. She was few hours
behind time, but will recover it within the
next "a hours if the weather remains rs ia
vorable as last night
"a horse jumped overheard from the Mag
gle Harper yesterday after she had left the
wharf and swan ashore. He was recaptured
and taken aboard" The above item is from
the Louisville Courier Journal, which fails to |
give the cause that induced such an extraord- !
mary proceeding on the part of the Harper. |
II is bad state of affairs when boat has |
to leave the wharf and swim ashore.
Colonel Will S. Hays, the river editor of |
The Louisville C0u,ier-JouIEai, popular poet |
and ballad composer, sthool- board regulator,
short story wrter-the most versatile genius
of the age-is a passenger down on the |
Springer, which passed this port late yester-
lay evening. Colonel Hays is accompanied
by his wife, son and daughter and sister-in-
aw.
The Golden Rule arrived from New
Orleans, on her fifth day out yesterday
'vening late, literally crammed with return
ng Mardi-tiras visitors. She has 200 tons
or the Ohio river, after discharging a good
OF here. The Rule lost Is hours by fog and
'ad weFther on the trip up. She left near
Iaylight this morning, having taken on $40
'ales cotton, 1900 sacks oil-meal and a num-
er OF passengers. During her stay here
rowds Of her passengers took in the town,
everal visiting the Theater and other points
( interest.
The David r. Powell, Captain r. J. Whit
ege, c. Il. Gould clerk, arrived from New
'rleans yesterday, 5 days out. She made
ne run from Helena here in hours, and
ON her movements on this, her first trip,
ne promises TO be one of the fast ones She
of easy model, 265 feet in length, IS feet
cam, "A feet hold and has full cabins. She
as a battery of boilers, with - inch
flinders, feet stroke, and has capacity of
100 tons. Her architectural designs and
bin Communications are of modern style
it'll excellent &C Communications for passen-
II traffic. She passed on up for St Louis
,sterday afternoon, for which port che has
10 tons.