Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-01
GENERAL NEWS.

Business was fair yesterday.
Packets had good trips out yesterday.
The APPEAL tenders New Years greeting
to the marine fraternity.
The Thompson Dean is for sale again-so
says advertisements in papers up the country
The Fulton arrived out of Hatchie rive
yesterday, being her second trip up tha'
stream.
Receipts by river yesterday, 279 bale
cotton, II bags seduction, and 1857 sack
cotton seed.
The Josie Harry got out for White rive
yesterday evening with a fine trip of freigh
aud several passengers.
Signal service report: River 20 feet
inches-rise 6 inches during the "a hour
ending l :0S pm. yesterday.
Mr.. ]. C.. Wykoff, clerk of the Josie Harry
did not go out yesterday, being too indis
posed to attend to business yet.
Captain Alex Moses, agent of the New
Orleans underwriters, was a passenger on ths
Josie Harry yesterday, going to Clarendon
Arkansas, and will return Thursday.
Mr.. j. C. Collins, the well-known mate
who has been away some time, has returned
and was around with old friends yesterday
The Gold Dust arrived from st. Louis yes.
terday morning with a fair trip for Vicks-
burg, for which point she will leave at II
o'clock this morning.
The new towboat w. W. O'Neil passed
down yesterday morning with % barges o.
coal destined to Natchez, Mississippi. The
ONeil is partly owned in this city.
TIL Mary Houston, on her seventh day ouI
from New Orleans, arrived yesterday fore
noon, and after discharging a lot of sugal
and molasses, passed on up for Cincinnati.
TIL Mississippi Valley Transportation
Company's barge, No. II, is at the wharf
loading for New Orleans, a part of her load
being 1000 bales cotton and 100 tons oil-cake.
A scheme was on foot yesterday to present
Captain Stack Lee with a new clock, with the
Fritz attachment, but no one could be found
h would venture to make the presentation
speech.
The John B. Maude, in from ST. Louis yes
terdsy morning, had 200 packages OF freigh,
for Memphis. She returned last night with
a good lot Of freight, including 80 hogsheadi
of sugar for St. Louis.
The Andy Baum left on time for Cincin.
natl with 6S3 bales cotton, 4S6 barrels oil,
142 barrels molasses, 1000 sacks oil-meal
It's bales of batting, a lot of sundries and a
fair trip OF passengers.
From the blow and buster which pre-
vailed just after dark last night it is inferred
that the Old Year was in a terrible temper
about having to leave this latitude in the
midst of so much prosperity.
This department of the APPEAL will re
ceive from 1906 am. this day TO II 80 pm
to-morrow-anythins, from a bottle of sods
water to a brown stone front. Callers viii
| please not crowd the gangway.
The Sam Roberts with a tow of barges,
laid over on the other side of the river all
yesterday. She is awaiting the loading OF (;
barge with lumber up Wolf river, and vii
probably get away by noon to-day Tor Gin
| cinnati.
The Guiding Star was loaded Hat and had
a large number of cabin passengers on when
she passed down for New Orleans Yesterday
She took on 100 sacks corn and 90 head o.
cattle below Cairo, and added here a lot way
freight; also discharged about 40 tons here
Captain George w. Neare, Captain Franl
y. Reno and Captain ]. L. Shallcross ar,
the gentlemen who are to determine the fu
ture fate of the VIII Kyle, and they will no
decide till the freight is all out of her, tina
her damage may be ascertained with mor'
precision.
One item of the Josie Harry's freight gu
for White river yesterday was 300 piow
from the Southern Agricultural Works Al
Atlanta. The APPEAL makes note of it a
an evidence that manufactures in the Soutl
are extending their business into ~localitiei
heretofore dependent alone upon Northern
enterprises.
This is the day "when the leaves begin tc
turn"-the new leaves in the spirit OF reform
This is something the mariners never have tc
do, their lives being one continuous sire am
OF purity, morality-kind o golden-rule sor
| OF existence, you know-from which nc re
form is necessary if it were possible. Theil
lives are examples that all new leaf-turneri
should endeavor to emulate Samples sem
free, and perfect cure guaranteed, or no pay
required for instruction.
The United States Mail Line Company
! have contracted with the Madison marine
ways for an entirely new sidewbeel paekei
for the Cincinnati and Louisville trade, &c
Be completed May 18th. She will be 265
feet long, 40 feet beam, 6 feet hold, with foul
doubIe-fued steel boilers, % feet long and
~ inches in diameter. Her cylinders will
be "a inches in diameter, Z feet stroke
Walsh & Stribiing, of Madison, have the
contract to furnish machinery and boilers
and will probably sub ct the contract Tor the
latter in Cincinnati. The United States
Mail Line Company will soon contract 10,
another sidewheeler, and the two will tssil
the places of the United States and GenIn.
| Hyfle.- Their @eabinSzEin- be c~cEnsoodiagi
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