Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-16
GENERAL NEWS

Business pretty fair.
Weather more saluorious, az April days
ought to be.
Receipts by river n bales cotton and A
sacks cotton-seed.
The David Il. Powell, from Ouachita river,
passed up for ST. Louis yesterday afternoon,
with light cargo.
The arrival of the City of Cairo was eager
Iy looked for by the admirers of splendid
steamboat architecture.
The Anchor Line Company have another
boat building at Jacksonville. Her frame
work is now ready to be set up.
Captain James Rees, John Hardin, Ed
Nowland and ]. D. Randall go to Little
Rock by rail to-day on business.
The Josie Harry, for White river, and the
j. A. Woodsou, for Arkansas river, both had
excellent trips out yesterday EVENING"
The mortuary report printed elsewhere
shows seven coroner's inquesis on bodies Of
victims of the Golden City disaster.
Talk about your summer resorts-not a
white person, child or adult, died within the
limits of the Taxing-District last week.
Captain Pete Macarthur, of the upper
White river steamer Milt Harry, is in the
city, and will return to Jacksonport by rail
to-day.
The Memphis and Little Rock railway
having resumed through trains to the city
the railway packet Katie Hooper has laid
up for the present.
The John B. Maude, in from st. Louis yes
terday morning with 1878 packages of freight,
returned in the afternoon with 81 pairs car
wheels and a lot of sundries.
The w. P. Halliday passed down for New
Orleans Yesterday evening with 1925 tons of
freight She was fat in the water. She had
also good showing Of passengers.
Signal service report: River % feet IL
inches-d cline inches during the "a hours
ending :08 pm. yesterday. Sharp rises are
reported at St. Louis and Cairo.
The wrecker, Charlie Hill, is busy at the
wreck OF the ]. d. Parker, which still re-
mains an obstruction to navigation as she
lies in the Indiana chute at the Louisville
falls.
We inadvertently stated yesterday morn
ing that the new boat building by the Reeses
at Pittsburg was for the Memphis and Ar
kansas river line. We should have written
Memphis and Arkansas City line"
The remains of the late Robert Kelly. the
hero engineer who lost his life at his post on
the burned Golden City, arrived at Cincin-
natl Thursday night, and were inferred Fri
day afternoon under the auspices of the Ma
rine Engineers Association, of which de-
ceased had been member.
The FIRST steamboat arrival in Nashville
was the Andrew Jackson, owned by Gov
ernor VIM. Carroll, Colonel w. H. CarrolPs
grandfather. The next was the General
Robertson, owned by company. Consider
able trade was carried on with the Indians,
who exchanged their furs and hides for
goods.
The Louisville and Cincinnati Mail Line
son 10 take the place of the General Lytle
She will be much lighter boat than those
now running, although some smaller. Her
length is about 260 feet, AZ feet beam, en-
gines feet stroke by "a inches diameter, and
is expected to draw about Is inches when
ready for business.
A Madison dispatch says: "At last the
big Centennial, which has been upon the
marine railways nearly three months, work
having been delayed by high water, was
launched at noon to-day. She has been
completely repaired, and will leave for St.
Louis in few days. Captain Davidson has
engaged band of music to make the trip
with him from here to st. Louis"
New Orleans Picayune, Friday: "In con-
yersation with an intelligent steamboatman
We were impressed with his remarks npon
the issuance of rations by the government.
He said: You may talk as you please, bat
the government supplies were the salvation
OF the planter in this State, so far as negro
labor is concerned, for if the rations had not
been issued the negroes would have left en-
H1sSe, never to return. So long as they were
fed they renamed There is a good deal of
common sense in such declaration"
The people who were wounded by the great
steam-pipe explosion on the Sidney have all
been cared for while disabled by the brothers,
William and Charles List, who have not only
paid all expenses incident to their disability,
including physicians and medicines, but in
some cases have entirely supported the fami-
ljS pendent on the injured, and are still
o. In the cases OF those whose death
Immediate, these brothers paid all
and other expenses incident to
death; and they also provided entirely for
others during life, and buried them when
dead, whose death was the result of the acct
dent
The new Anchor Line steamer, City of
Cairo, will arrive in port this morning, and
will, no doubt, be the sensation at the wharf.
While she is not quite as large as her imme-
diate predecessors from the steamboat fac
tory at Jeffersonville, she is said to be equally
as handsome and fully as well appointed in
her accommodations for the travelling public.
She was built expressly for the ST. Louis and
Nlcksburg trade, and is of proportions fully
adequate to the demands of that trade. This
Is all We are prepared to say about the new
boat until we have inspected her. beyond
publishing the following list of officers:
George w. Niekers, master; Thos. II. White,
clerk; John r. Crane, second clerk; Eph
Banks and Cook Hoyle, pilots; Thos- Car
penter, first engineer; Patrick Scanlon, sec
ond engineer; Alex. De Shea, mate; George
Boas, carpenter; John NJ. Walsh, steward;
DR.. Chris Weaver, druggist. These gen.
tlemen are all old employees of the Anchor
Line, each one having held places on
other boats, and made individual reputs-
lions in their various capacities.