Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-08
GENERAL NEWS.

Weather decidedly of the April pattern.
Receipts by river yesterday, 10 bales
cotton.
Captain Billy Ezell, OF the Terrene wharf
DO at, is in the city.
The tow boat Piasa is making up tow of
empties to go up the river after paving stone.
The City of Providence added 40 tons of
freight, and left for Vicksburg yesterday
morning.
The General Barnard continued her voyage
south with her cargo of government supplies
for the overflow sufferers.
The G. B. Reese was getting ready TO go
somewhere yesterday evening, but no one
aboard could say where or when.
Local Inspectors Garrett and Ralston were
yesterday occupied with the investigation of
charges of racing against the Jim Lee and
Belle Memphis. The examination was not
completed.
The Belle Memphis left for St. Louis yes
terday afternoon, after adding here $50
bales of eastern bound cotton, 81 900 feet of
lumber, and a lot OF sundries. She has a
good list of passengers.
The declining river is leaving plenty of
work for the wharfmaster and his squirting
apparatus of six hundred feet length. The
mud should be kept going with the river, if
you want to save trouble, Cap.
The Mary Houston, out of the Ohio,
loaded fiat with freight and crowded with
passengers, passed south yesterday morning,
adding 10 bales of cotton for Greenville, A
sacks of peas, and 1000 pounds of meat.
Signal service report: River 80 feet s
inches-decline inches during the "a hours
ending :0S Pun. yesterday. Excepting a
few inches rise IN the upper Mississippi and
upper Missouri, rivers at all points are de-
Ginning.
1t was rumored on the street yesterday
that the grand jury had found true bills
charging involuntary manslaughter against
Captain Mcintyre Mate Boudurant, Second
Mate Hill and the colored captain of the
watch, Wash Smith, OF the Golden City.
The wreckers' investigation of the Orioles
condition reports her a total loss. She was
owned by the coaldealers c. b. Bryan &
Co., was sixteen year old, valued at $4,000;
carried crew OF five men, including officers.
Captain N. b. McNeely was master. No
lives we're lost on her.
The Cons Millar was subjected to an in
spection by Captains Garrett and Ralston
yesterday, and found all correct. Her de-
was delayed till to-day, to afford the in
spectors ample time for thorough investi-
CATION of the boat from kelson to roof.
Hospital barge No. 10, lying at the point
at Fort Pickering, which was dam aged about
SIS worth by one of the coal barges set afioat
during the Golden City disaster striking it,
will soon be repaired. Captain Caldwell
has the Benner and the entire quarantine
fleet in excellent order, and ready to go into
commission at a moments notice.
O'Neil & Co., the Pittsburg coaldealers,
have sent the tug James O'Connor to this
port to take the place of c. B. Bryan & Co.'s
Oriole, sunk by the Golden City when she
burned. The OConner takes her name after
the Louisville coaldealer, and is said to be
larger and of greater towing capacity than
the Oriole. She is coming down the Ohio,
and will arrive here in few days.
Eric Bailey's Colonel party are enjoying
steamboat excursion from New Orleans to
Memphis. They are passengers on the
Annie p. Silver, and will arrive here Sunday
evening or Monday morning. People who
sou, as theatrical party have TO do, rarely
ever catch on to such bonanza as trip on
a first class ste amer like the Silver.
A meeting of owners of steamers plying in
the Cincinnati and New Orleans trade was
held at Cincinnati Wednesday afternoon, TO
start a subscription for the benefit of the
yonng widow and two children of Robert
Kelly, the heroic engineer of the Golden
City, who brAved certain death that others
might be rescued. The proposition Is to raise
a small, but comfortable and pleasant, home
for the little family. The list was headed
by Captain J. d. Hegler with 500, and
others followed with liberal subscriptions. a
list shouId be opened in Memphis. No
doubt there are many here who would will
ingly contribute toward making comfortable
the widow and orphans OF the lamented
Kelly.
Suit was fled in the Circuit Court at
Vicksburg, Tuesday, by Simrall & Simrall
against the ST. Louis and Vicksburg Line
Company for $4,000. 1t was instituted at
the instance OF Magths Kent, widow OF Henry
Kent, colored, who was drowned Tuesday at
Forest Home, about twenty miles above that
city, on the Mississippi river, as it is alleged,
by the careless letting down OF the Gold Dust
staging apparatus. 1t seems that when the
boat reached Forest Home the captain, as
the plaintiffs story goes, called for the mail
to be sent out to her, landing having been
rendered impossible by the high stage of the
water, whereupon Henry Kent and two other
negroes started out to the steamer In skiff,
taking with them a woman named Beckie
Palmetto. Just as the skif reached the
boat the staging was let down rapidly, strik
ing the woman and Kent, aud covering the
skiff, which filed full of water and drifted
under the wheel of the boat. The two boys
grabbed the side OF the boat, but Kent and
the woman disappeared near the wheel, and
we're seen no more. The husband Of the
woman who was drowned has employed
some parties to bring similar suit for the
loss OF his wife. Ia this latter case there
exists some technicalities affecting jurIsdie-
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