Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-14
GENERAL NEWS.
Weather salubrlOus.
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Y Business lively on The wharf.
Captain ]. T. Washington was in Cincin
natl Friday.
The T. FL. Bigley and barges, for St. Louie
passed up yesterday evening.
Pilot George Williams, OF the sunken
james ID. Parker, arrived home yesterday.
r ceipts by river since last report, 165
bales cotton, "a bags seduction, and SOP
| sacks cotton-seed.
Thomas White, formerly clerk Of the
Grand Tower, is making trip in the office OF
the City OF Greenville.
The Commonwealth got 1120 bales OF ea.t-
ern bound cotton as she passed up for St.
Louis Sunday evening.
The Henry Lowry, passing south, Sunday,
of corn for this market.
The Gold Dust got so tons OF freight and
several passengers here on her way down to
Vicksburg Sunday evening.
The Andy Baum got in from Cincinnati
yesterday evening with 400 tons of freight
and several passengers. She returns this
evening.
The City Of Vicksburg arrived about dark
yesterday evening with a crowd of passengers
from Vicksburg and way points. She leaves
for St. Louis this evening.
The steamer Jennie May, which for some
time has engaged in the upper Arkansas
river trade, will hereafter ply the waters of
the Mississippi, near st. Louis.
The Guiding Stars people took walk up
town yesterday evening while the boat vas
taking on freight. 1t looked like process
sion celebrating some grand event.
The City of Helena arrived from St. Louis
yesterday morning, with 5646 packages Of
L. 81 n, h. I'll
403 bales OF cotton for reshipment east ty
rail at Cairo.
Signal service report: River IS feet
inches-decIineo of 2 ioches during the "a hours
ending i :0s p N. yesterday. Excepting slight
rises at Nashville, Cairo and Little & Ick,
d, clinee are reported from all points sh"-
The steamer City Of Baton Rouge n,eu.
the run froIl New Orleans 10 Cairo, includ
ing stoppings. in 8 days and Is hours-the
time from Memphis to Cairo, including the
time consumed here in cleaning boilers, be-
ing Is hours % minutes.
The Guiding S.ar, from Cincinnati to New
Orleans, passed down last night with plenty
of fright and 40 cabin passengers. She dis
charged 425 packages of freight, and added
$50 sacks peas, % barrels soap stock, 200 sacks
oil-meal, 8 bales cotton and 25 packages sum
dries.
towboat pilots are engaged by the year, and
are paid from $1,000 to $500 They are
hired az captain and stand a watch at the
wheel. A man commanding the salary
above named, with half the year to play, is
TO be envied."
A dispatch from Nashville, Sunday, ssyz:
''The river has risen . inches within the p ,st
"a hours, with a mark of 46 feet On the
gauge. 1t is believed that the river will be-
gin TO decline tomorrow unless rain should
prevail tonight. The river is falling fast al
the head of navigation, and has fallen IL
inches at Carthage, 100 miles above Nash
Vile"
The river has fallen inch each day up to
yesterdsy since Friday, and yesterday decline
of inches was scored. This looks as if the
End OF the food had come TO pass, and the
sufferers may now begin to count up the
damages II will be a sad count for many
who have lost all they had accumulated in a
lifetime, and are now destitute and without
the material upon which to begin earning
livelihood for themselves and their de-
pendsnta.
John D. Fuller, clerk OF the Marx Twain,
was the recipient OF a beautiful moekipg-bird
this trip, sent him token OF regard by
young lady resident of the upper bends. II
sings only at night, the gist OF its song being
"Too-hoot, too-hoot, too-who are yer 1t
roOsts on top OF the CHICKEN coop, and 81 ulnts
the skylights, with Its Two eyes look
ing ike the lenses of dark-lanterns. When
a hummer annoys Fuller he threatens 10
turn loose his mocking-bird on him.
An old acquaintance Will S. HAYS met on
Change Yesterday morning, and sitter the
usual exchange oil greetings, remarked:
"Why, Will, you don't look as ae.hy az you
we're in your younger days Hays replied
in a voice scarce above q whisper: -Ab, no;
you see I'm worried; and l didn't N AIRY an
orphan, either-Ive got moiher-in-lsW."
II was some time before the acquaintance
could realize what relations existed between |
a mans los of flesh and the ownership of
Colonel Will 8. HAYS visited the Cotton |
Exchange yesterday morning, during the |
hour or two spent By the Springer discnsrg- |
ing and adding 10 cargo. BE was not there |
long before b. wss surrounded by number |
Of old sce usintences 70 whom Hsys began |
relsting his experiences Of the trip 10
New Orleans on the Reuben Rynus." as ne |
sails ,hs Springer The story became 20 ia'