Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-24
GENERAL N EWS.
Business quiet.
Weather delightful.

Business quiet.
Weather delightful.
The Will S. Hays is launched at last.
81. Louis is troubled with cool weather.
The Katie Hooper leaves in day or two
for Paducsh to be repaired.
The John Dippod and bsrges passed up
for 81. Louis yesterday evening.
Signal Service report: River IL feet 8
inohes-rise inches yesterday.
the Josie Harry had a good trip OF freight
and passengers out for White river.
Foggy weather has knocked the socks out
OF schedules, and everything is behind.
There is talk in ST. Louis of organizing
another ST. Louis and New Orleans line.
The q. P. Scheuck passed down for New
Orleans late Friday night, disch arging here.
lot Of freight.
The tug Laurel lett at daylight this morn
ing for New Orleans, where she will be taken
possession Of BY her new owners
The City of Cairo, with a fair list of pas
sengere, arrived from Vicksburg yesterday
afternoon, and leaves here for St.sLouis this
| morning.
The John B. Maude, due from St. Louis
early yesterday morpiug, had not arrived at
late hour last night. She is fog-bound
somewhere.
Oscar Jolly, pilot of the ST. Louis and
New Orleans Anchor-Line steamer w. p.
Halliday, has been in Cincinnati for week
past recovering from an attack OF chills.
The Naomi, neat little sternwheeler, ar
rived out of the Ohio yesterday towing a
new hull to be completed at some point be-
low. She did not land. and it was hard 10
:ell "what was her lay"
The engines of seyeral defLact boats are
mentioned in connection with the proposed
reconstruction of the J. E. NJ. Kehlor, from
which draw the Inference that she is to
have boilers OF some kind.
A half interest in the Jimmie Baker was
yesterday sold TO F. l.. Bates & Co., of
Greenville, Miss. She is TO be used as
railway transfer from Arkansa, City to
Greenville, Miss. She leaves here Tuesday
evening.
Capt. r. w. Iighiburne is home sgaip,
and he says he has been swimming on the
pillows Of an unprecedented business boom.
We hope those pillows will lash these shores
| until The last vestige of the old time sober
john spirit is washed out forever. Let's all
go with the boom-make or break.
Louisville Courier-Jo,snGl, Friday: "The
wife and family of Capt. John J. Darrsgh
accompanied him home on the new steamer
Ida Darragb. The beautiful and accom-
piished daughter of the captain, in whose
board. We wish the new boat every sue
cess, for her owners are gentlemen, and Capt.
John j. is as big-hearied as he is handsome"
The public has given up the idea of ever
having another steamer to equal the old
Grand Republic, destroyed by fire in 1878.
1t is learned that the J. B. NJ. KehIor's hull
is to be mounted with a set of elegant upper
works and the engines of the Grand Tower,
thus making boat as large, if not larger,
Ill. Ill. \ L. L. IL
Republic. The new boat will draw but 20
inches, and she will be called the Edwin
Harrison, gentleman who has shown
world of enterprise in business. The boat
will be ready for business November 1st.
Cincinnati Gazette, Friday: "Capt. John
Dsrragh can boast of comm anding one of
| the prettiest boats that ever went up Arkan-
sas river. She is substantially built, and
every care for comfort has been attended to
in very scrupulous manner. She leaves
for Memphis this evening 10 enter the trade
from that point up Arkansas river. She has
been named the Ida Darragh, after Capt.
Darragh's eldest daughter, by the packet
| company to which she belongs. She is one
of the most roomy steamers ever built for the
trade, and is handsomely finished and fur
nished throughout. She draws but 16 inches
forward and IL inches aft, and can carry 400
tons, having capacity for 1900 bales of
cOttOH. Que Is lou leeL long, DO Ieet DehDn,
3 feet depth OF hold, 81 feet sheer. Three
double rive.ed steel boilers, 20 feet long, 40
inches in diameter, with 5 hues in each, sup
ply steam to engines with cylinders IL inches
IN diameter, feet stroke Her ca bin is neat
and tasty, and has Is state-rooms. Capt John
j. ID srragh ia in command, and his SOD, w.
Il. Dsrrssn, is clerk, with Gus Young as
assistant. Frank Carroll and George Wolf
will be her pilots, and James Darragh and
John Harten, engineers"
Piitsburg Commercial, September 18th:
"The splendid new sidewheel steamer VIII
s Hays will be launched at the Freedom
Boat-ysrds Saturday. The boat is named
in honor OF Mr.. Will S. Hays, the well-known
song writer and river reporter of the Courier
Journal. The hull of the vessel is 307 feet
in length, 43-foot beam, S-foot depth of hold
| and 5-foot sheer. The engines are % inches
in the diameter OF the cylinder, with 10
foot stroke. 1t is equipped with superior
steel boilers, so inches in diameter, % feet
10 length, and fues escn. In addition to
| this there is a donkey boiler for use as
steam fre-punp. The water wheel is "a feet
Ia diameter, and the buckets Is feet in
length, with IL arms. The ehimneys stand
55 feet above the main deck. The vessel
will be supplied with steam elevator for
lowering and raising freight from the hold.
A powerful electric light of the Edison pat
tern VIII Ie employed Ior Illuminating Inc
entire steam palace, inside and outside. The
cabin is taken from the Thompson Dean,
and Is the best appointed 10 be seen on a
river steamer The new VIII s. Hays will
have capacity for carrying 200 passengers.
The cost when finished will be 100000.
When placed in active service she will ply
between Cincinnati and New Orleans, in
| charge of Capt. William C. Tichenor, with
Mr.. Wash Floyd in the Office and Mr.. josh
Harrison, the noted mate, on the lower
deck"