Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-28
GENERAL NEWS.

Business was fair yesterday. local packets
having good trips.
The Iron Mountain and barges passed
down for New Orleans Sunday.
The -R--R- Springer left Cincinnati for
New Orleans Sunday evening.
The Sam Rogers and barges, from New
Orleans, passed up for the Ohio river yes
terday.
A Cairo dispatch of Sunday says the :evees
there are still holding, with encouraging
prospects.
Receipts by river during the past 4S hours,
12S bales cotton, % bags seed-cotton, and 2l5
sacks cotton-seed.
The City of Greenville ia due from St.
Louis this morning with 5000 packages for
Memphis merchants.
The Gold Dust passed south Sunday morn
ing, discharging 1921 packages, and added
25 tons for points below.
The New Mary Houston passed south be-
fore daylight Sunday morning heavily
freighted and full of passengers.
Flags in port were at half-mast yesterday
in respect to the memory of the late Captain
J. G. Andrews, an account of whose death is
printed elsewhere.
The J. H. Bigiey and bsrges, from St.
Louis for New Orleans, passed south yester-
day morning, dropping barge loaded with
$4,000 bushels of corn and 1000 empty bar
rels.
Captain Cummins, chief clerk of the Dean
Adams, reports that on Thursday, while a
negro man, wife and child were crossing the
river at Niblett's Landing in dugout, the
craft was overturned and all drowned.
Signal service report: River 35 feet 8
inches-rise inch during the "a hours end
ing los pm. yesterday. Slight rises were
reported in the upper Mississippi, but de-
clines at all points on the OHIO, Tenness e
and Cumberland.
Mr.. VIM. Smithers, the old-time and pop
ular clerk Of the Coahoma, left last night..for
Evansville, accompanied by his wife. Mr..
to engage in other pursuits at Evansville,
and carries with him the hearty well-wishes
of his scores of friends here.
Mr.. Hugh Tomlinson has been promoted
to the first clerkship of the Coahoma, made
vacant by the resignation of Mr.. William
Smithers. Mr.. Tomlinson has well earned
his promotion by his faithfulness and eff
ciency.in subordinate clerkships on the Goa
homa Osceola, Belle, and other local packets
during the past several years, and the AP-
PEAL extends him hearty congratulations.
The w. P. Halliday arrived at this port
at 6 O'Clock Sunday morning, just days and
DOuTs out tTOn new Orlcdus. one iOet %
hours on the voyage by fog and bad weather,
which leaves her running time 8 days and
hours. She cleaned out boilers here, and
left for st. Louis in the afternoon, discharg-
Ing Lot of fEsiaht- aaa LIZ assenaers--Has
cabin register showed 40 passengers aboard
whepl.he arrived here.
Louisville Couier-JotIndl, Saturday: 1--WE
had the pleasure of visit from Mr.. Lloyd
Whitlow and Mr.. Arthur Browne, the popu-
lar clerks of the 'rattliDg' Jim Lee, OF Mem
phis, yesterday. These gentlemen are in the
enjoyment of a little 'jaunt' while the Jim is
laid up for high water, and are receiving a
royal welcome among their many friends
here. They are among the best and most
popular clerks on the river"
At Cairo Saturday night james Biggs,
steamboat agent, was shot to death by Nick
Mayfeld, a bill clerk at the Mississippi
Central railroad Office. An eyewitness says
the quarrel began in the Iron Mountain
railroad Office, in a word, about nothing.
Final Biggs drew a small revolver, ordered
Msyfeld out of the Office and followed him,
both quarreliEg. Mayfeld turned at the
door of the Planters House, which is adjoin-
ing the railroad Office, and as Biggs APP
preached fired five shots, and at last Biggs
fell and Msyfield escaped. B:ggs was dead
when he fell shot through the heart.