Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-23
GENERAL MEMS


The Henry Lowry and tow passed up fol
st. Louis Sunday.
The S. L. Wood, with the Thompson Dean
in tow, for Pittsburg, passed up yesterday.
The Mary Houston, for Cincinnati, passed
up Sunday night with 500 tons and good
list of passengers.
The Annie P. Silver. three days and
eighteen hours out from New Orleans, passed
up Sunday evening.
The Hotspur, with two barges of slaves,
will leave to-day for New Orleans. She will
add three barges at Helena.
Signal service report: River SO feet 1
inch; decline of 2 inches during the "a
hours ending ] :0S pm. yesterday.
The James w. Gaff has dropped down to
the landing to receive her shaft. She will
leave for the Ohio some time tonight.
The David r. Powell. from Ouachita river
to st. Louis, passed up at late hour Sum
day night. She gave the wharfmaster the
go-by-not making line fast.
The river commenced to decline here yes
terday, and general decline is reported at
all points above, excepting 3-inch rise at
Cairo and slight rises in the upper Missis-
sippi.
Wesley Ware, colored, steward on the
Katie Hooper, died Sunday evening at 5
O'Clock, and was buried yesterday evening at
o'clock. He had been steward on the Ar
kansas river boats for many years and was
universally liked, both by steamboatmen and
passengers.
Suit has been brought in the courts of
Cincinnati for $4,000 damages, alleged to
have been occasioned by the death of George
81. Idlett some time ago. Deceased was in
Springer, and the Andy Baum, in backing
out, struck her stage against the yawl,
throwing young Idett into the river. The
suit is brought in the name of Henry Baer,
sr., who had been appointed administrator
the day before for the purpose.
In a new steamboat now building upon the
Hudson an attempt is being made to pro-
duce boat which shall be self-righting,
very fast, and which cannot sink unless
torn entirely to pieces. The boat is COM
paratively small, as it is intended only for
an experimental or model boat. Ii success
full, it is intended to build ocean steamships
upon the same principle. 1t appears that
the inventors aim is to make self-righting
boat for carrying the sides over the deck in
the form of dome. The side frames are
made continuous, and meet over the center
of the hull, or, in other words, the frames
being at one side of the keel, rise directly at
an angle of about forty five degrees to the
water line, and then curve inward over the
deck and back on the same lines to the keel.
Cincinnati Commercial, Saturday: Captain
John ]. Darragh, superintendent of the
Memphis and Arkansas Mail Line, passed
through Cincinnati yesterday, on his way to
Pittsburg on a visit to his venerable father,
and will return here on Tuesday next. He
is receiving proposals for new sternwheel
steamer for the Memphis and Arkansas river
trade, for the Marlin Speeds machinery.
The hull will be $50 feet long, 80 feet beam,
with feet hold and 81 feet sheer. The
machinery will consist of two boilers, 40
inches in diameter and 20 feet long, contain
ing hues each, the cylinders being II
inches in diameter, with 4-foot stroke. The
new packet viii ply between Memphis and
Pine Bluff. Captain Darragh visited
Change, where he was warmly received by
old friends"
Captain Mark Cheek, of the Dean Adams,
states that while the present high water is
doing considerable damage to planters IN the
lower bends, accounts from some localities are
considerably exaggerated. He states that
the break in the levee at Concordia has been
repaired, and no damage worth speaking OF
has occurred from that point down to the vi
cinity of Riverton. There Is about two feet
water at Floreyville, but the plantations in
the vicinity are not suffering. The Williams
bayou levee protects the Mound Place, and
the country round about is not yet covered
with water. Below Riverton, Captain Cheek
says, the planters are suffering. Captain
Cheek says that some Of the accounts from
there read more like the rehash of the great
overflow than details of what is transporting
now.
The treasury department at Washington
has sent out the following instructions rela-
tive to the assessments and collection of hos
pital dues: "You will hereafter cause the
names of all employees in the stewards de-
partment and bar-room TO be entered upon
the seamep's time-book, and to be accounted
for in the reports of the hospital dues, in ac-
cordance with the decision of the secretary
of the treasury, a copy of which is herewith
inclosed." The decision referredIto reads as
follows: "Persons employed on board a ves-
sci in operating bar, diuing-room or restau-
rant, whether 20 employed directly by the
owners of the boat or by others who bargain
for the privilege of operating the bar, restau-
rant or dining-room, are seamen, within the
intent of section of act of March 8, 1875,
and of paragraph 500 of the Regulations for
the Government of the Marine Hospital