Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-09
GENERAL NEWS.

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for Madison, loaded fiat.
The Hard Cash departed last evening fol
! White river with fair trip.
Receipts by river yesterday, 103 bales Of
cotton and 34l sacks cotton-seed.
Signal service report: River 35 feet :
| inches-stationary during the "a hours end
ing :OS pm. yesterday.
If it would only rain little every few
minutes or so we might have some wei
weather once in while. Sic.
Tones OF metaphors have been exhausted
without discovering one applicable to the
weather conditions the "just and the unjust
of this locality have had to endure the past
several weeks.
Mr.. G. w. Madison, an old pilot whose
| license was suspended some time ago for the
period of one year, has been restored to his
former privilege of plotting from st. Louis
to New Orleans.
Another season of gloomy, rainy, uddy
nasty-real narsty-weather. Old Pluvius
sticks to this latitude same like a sick kitten
to warm brick-if it be no crime to speak
of the matter allegorically.
Emery Wood, a deck passenger on the
Houston, died suddenly on Saturday. He
was i'll only an hour. He was from Leaven.
worth, and had gone to Baton Rouge on
one of Captain w. c. Hardwick's produce
boats.
The City of Baton Rouge passed down last
night for New Orleans with 1000 tons OF
freight and crowded with passengers. She
added below Cairo 1000 sacks of corn, and
here II bales OF cotton, lot OF sundries and
II cabin passengers.
The James w. Gaff departed yesterday
evening for Cincinnati with 500 bales of cot
ton, 600 sacks of oilmeal, 80 barrels of oil,
40 tons of old railroad iron, So bales of rags,
500 feet of lumber, 100 packages OF sundries
and fair list OF people.
Steamboatmen would do well-in fact con-
suit their best interests-by calling at the
Office of the local inspectors and "getting
the pattern" of government signal lamp"
which not only covers the law in the case,
but is also said to be convenient, economical
and pretty.
Local Inspectors Garrett and Rallston
have decided, from all the evidence they
could obtain in regard to the Paris c. Brown
accident, that no blame could attach to any
one. The boilers are known to contain a
suficiency of water five minutes previous to
the occurrence. and the pipes bursting several
feet from the boilers leave abundant evil
dence that they may have been weakened or
fractured by the boat passing over a bar an
hour or two beforehand, which Jas also given
in evidence.
Vicksburg Commercial, Tuesday: 'The case
of Frank Rickerson and Turner johnson,
against the steamer Dean Adams, was de-
cided in the United States Court Monday.
These parties ibelled the Dean Adams on
claim of $4,000 for failing to carry an excur-
sion party from Greenville to this place and
return last summer, according to contract.
The court decided IN favor of the boat and
dismissed the libel with costs. Pittman, Pitt
man and Smith, for libellants; Albert NJ.
Lea for owners"
Cincinnati Tfmes-StaT, Tuesday: captain
Robert Nelson, pilot OF the Parker, took a
run up to the Madison House Saturday night
to say good-by to his son, and while gone his
boat backed out and left him. He had been
seen on the boat just before she left and it
was not known that he had got off, which
caused some fears that he had fallen over
board and been drowned. His appearance
this morning after vain race to overtake
his boat, set all doubts as to his safety at
rest. Captain James Good is only figur-
ing on a prospective boat for government
work, there being no appropriation for the
purpose just yet. In the meantime he is
anxious to charter light towboat fo- service
on Mississippi river improvements"
New Orleans Times Democrat: "An officer
of the United States marine hospital service
on an inspecting tour has had more or less
fault to lind with the boatmen OF this port
because of the manner in which their hos
pital books were kept, and particularly from
the fact that they do not collect dues from
barkeepers, who are in no sense considered
employees. On the other hand, the boatmen
have their cause for complaints. The rules
governing the admission of an applicant to
the hospital are SO foolishly strict that a man
has to be seven times purified, SO to speak,
before he is accepted, as the following
case in point will show: Charles Nelson
has been seaman for twenty years, has
followed no other occupation, has been
almost continuously employed as such and
has always had his dues deducted from his
wages. Recently he shipped on the Amite,
and while on that vessel was taken sick. He
received hospital ticket, but was refused
admittanee to the United States marine hos
pital because he had not been employed con-
tinuously on the Amite for one month, and
he had to go to the Charity hospital, whose
doors are ever open TO the needy sick for
treatment. The Tincs-DSB,ocTdt has on
previous occasions given publicity to just
such instances as the above, and adds now
it did then, that it is very unjust law that
exscts payment Of dues without conditions
and grants only under certain, and often i'm
possible conditions, a return for those dues"