Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-27
GENERAL NEWS.
Business quiet.

BUSINESS quiet.
Weather more settled and warmer.
Receipts II bales cotton and 10 sacks
cottou-seed. ~
Arthur Brown, bill clerk OF the james
Lee, who has been absent a couple of weeks
has returned and will resume his place
Monday.
The John B. Maude arrived from st. Louis
early yesterday morning, bringing $685.
packages of freight, and returned during the
afternoon.
The Vint Shinkle left Cincinnati drawing
over 6 feet. She grounded at Rising Sun
bar, at Portland bar and P~eckenpaugh's bar,
losing much time. az
a rousing trip of freight out for White river
yesterday evening, and no doubt will get all
she can fetch back.
The Wetters and the Eckfords, both home
mines, will pay a contest at Olympic Park
this evening, for which buses will leave
corner Monroe and Main at 3 and $50
o'clock.
Mail advioes from Colonel Beyers states
that the James w. Gsf will not leave Gin.
cinnati until Wednesday, August 30th, and
arrive at Memphis September 5th, when in
ducements will be held out to persons de.
string to visit Cincinnati during Exposition
week.
Captain r. w. Lightburne is notified by
telegraph that the Vint Shinkle will arrive
this morning and return to Cincinnati Mon
day evening, giving ample time for parties
wishing TO enjoy a short excursion up the
river until the next boat of the line is met,
or even further up until the second one, il
desired. The rates of these excursions are
liked SO low that persons OF very small means
can participate in them without feeling the
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particulars.
The submarine vessel now being con-
structed at Bucharest, it is claimed, will sc-
complish what no other submarine craft has
ever been found equal to. Til plan con-
templates 4 vessel capable of moving under
water for II hours without any renewal of
air. Steam is the motor employed, and the
speed reckoned upon is greater than that al
tanned by sailing vessels. Practically, the
management consists in simply sinking the
vessel by opening certain valves, but its re-
turn to the surface involves more complex
operations. An electric light, which is 10 be
supplied, will, it is ascerlained, render OBJ
jects fairly distinguishable. For renewal of
air 1t IL not necessary that the vessel rise to
the surface, the means resorted to for this
purpose being an apparatus that can be sent
up, and which, by working a pump, forces
air into a suitable receiver.
CINCINNATI Gazette, Friday: wv. Il. Smith
mot I'll. D.. White, as previously reported), a
deck passenger on the Fleetwood when on
her last Up trip, died suddenly Tuesday
evening. He had been eating meat, and
choked TO death. A small wire was forced
down his throat to extract the meat, but be-
fore II could accomplish lis purpose he had
ceased TO breathe. Letters and other evil
dences on his person showed that he was a
clock mender, resident OF Rhea Springs,
Rhea county, Tenn and that he had come
to Cincinnati on the steamer Il. S. Rhea.
Memoranda in his pocket showed that he
had repaired more than 100 clocks, and noted
systematically the names and places where
the work was done, indicating that he fol
lowed a regular route In his busin
card, also found OIL his person,
words, "a. d. Smith G. Co., IS4 and
street, CINCINNATI A coffin was mr.
I~ronton, and his remains were
Huntington. His effects are beingt,,
of by the coroner at Huntington