Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-02
GENERAL NEWS.
Business fair.
Weather continues threatening.

Weather continues threatening.
The Henry Frank has been provided with
electric lights.
Receipts by river yesterday, bales cotton
and 692 sacks cotton-seed.
The snsgbost c. W. Howell gets away for
Red river early this morning.
Signal Service report: River feet IL
inches-decline of inches yesterday.
Captain Fowler. of New Orleans, is at
Madison, contracting for new boat for Rec
river, to be 140 feet long, 80 feet beam, and 4
feet hold.
The U. P. Schenck passed up from New
Orleans yesterday on her way to Cincinnati
with fine freight trip and about so cabin
people.
The City OF Providence, for ST. Louis, and
Belle Memphis, for Vicksburg, both got
away on time yesterday. The latter added
80 tons for the lower bends.
Captain Alexander NJ. Halliday, of the
Paris c. Brown, aud Mrs. Kettle 7. Beebe, of
New Orleans, were announced to be married
Thursday afternoon at the residence in New
Ofleans Of the brides father, Captain Thoma as
Pickles.
The New Orleans Picayaae sees blood on
the face of the moon and states that prospects
are not very bright for steamboalmen The
coming season. There will be war in the
Vicksburg and bend trade, war in the upper
and lower coast trades, war in Red river, and
war in Bayou Lafourche.
s.. Louis Republican, Thursday: "a low
consisting of barges Maggie Sayre and No.
30, loaded with package freight, and barges
SO, SO and rs, loaded with bulk grain, will
leave the St. Louis and Mississippi Valley
Transportation Company's wharfboat, foot of
Elm street, Tor New Orleans at daylight this
morning in charge of the steamer John DIP
pold."
The Louisville Courier Journal says:
Steamboats,, outside or inside, goose-bite or
galliuipper, that will carry freight at cut
throat rates, ought to starye to death, and
The sooner they starve and die the better for
legitimate boating business. This applies
as we'll to some boats we know of here as IL
does 10 any on the Ohio" Yes, and we have
a few tubs around here that exc out an ex-
istence by this undermining process.
James Chaddick died in New Orleans
Tuesday and was buried Wednesday. Mr..
Chaddick learned the river as pilot on the
Louisville and New Orleans packet La
Grange, of which his father was captain, in
1884. From that date up to the breaking
out of the war he was pilot, most of the
time in the Vicksburg trade. Since the war
he has been resident of New Orleans, and
for number of years past an. invalid.
A Louisville special says: "The divers
and wreckers have succeeded in getting
away down into the bowels and pulling the
entrails out of the Buckeye State, but she
still fingers, as it were, like the false skin Of
serpent on a rustic log in branch, and
what remains of the wood work is of very
little value. TOE Life-Savers inherit a good
deal of the wood work, and they probably
will make kindling wood of it. She is fas,
and will soon be out Of sight"
The w. p Halliday, four and half days
out from New Orleans, passed up early yes
terday morning, after cleaning boilers, with
800 tons of freight. She was detained al
Warrenton, the quarantine station below
Vicksburg, a couple OF hours or more by The
absence of the quarantine official. Ii is
creditable to the officers OF the Halliday to
observe the ruler, even when it causes delay,
but it reflects upon the quarantine officials
when they are not at their places when
wanted.
The Board of United States Inspectors have
made their report on the explosion of the
steamer Fanchon, which occurred on July
26th. According to the report t be Fanchon
was inspected fret in 1878, and regularly
every succeeding year, and found to be in
good order. 1t seems, however, that the
bottom hue where it collapsed was weak,
caused by rust, and that the engineer could
not have made the discovery under existing
Rumors of racing were not
sustained, and the officers of the boat were
exonersted from any blame, as they were not
for the disaster.
There is a diff renee of opinion among
the Falls pilots regarding the obs ruciion in
the Indiana chute that rips the planks off the
bottoms of so many steamers. Some believe
il is large rock blasted out there, while
others think it is an anchor left when the City
of Baton Rouge was nung up on the rocks.
The way to decide the matter would be to
take the Charlie Hill with the Charlie De
Paw and catch hold of the trouble by means
Of diving bell and pu | it out. II would
then be subject to inspection. This reporter
il willing 10 bet that keg of beer is sunk
out there, bung up, and that the bung is the
cause of all the trouble