Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-14
GENERAL NEWS.

Business quiet.
A snow-storm was among the possibilities
at dark last night.
Yesterday was one of those days some
times encountered at high noon of fy-time.
The Josie Harry had big trip of freight
and passengers out for White river yesterday.
Colonel n. NJ. Jones, the coal monarch,
returned yesterday from a trip up among
the coal mines
The City of Cairo, in from ST. Louis yes
terday evening, has a good load of freight
on. She lays here.
A case of smallpox was put off the
Golden Crown late Friday night as she
passed up for Cincinnati.
The Golden Crown passed up for Cincin-
natl before day yesterday morning. She
was on her sixth day out from New Orleans.
A buttonhole bouquet, stuck in the lapel
of an overcoat, was the manner of adorn-
ment of awell-known highly aesthetic steam
boatman yeiterday.
The John B. Maude, in from st. Louis
yesterday morning with 1924 packages of
freight, returned in the evening with good
trip of way freight and passengers.
The City of New Orleans passed south
yesterday afternoon with 1900 tons freight
and fair list of passengers, adding here 16
bales cotton, 800 sacks peas, 80 sacks cotton
seed and tons sundries.
Under instructions from the National
Board of Health, the inspecting stations at
Memphis and Vicksburg will require health
certificates, same as last year, from all river
craft leaving New Orleans on and after
Monday, May 18th.
Signal service report: River so feet
inches-rise of inches during the "a hours
ending at :08 pm. yesterday. The upper
tba ~ h. harl I'D
are rising above, are also all lower tribu-
taries, but no rises are reported in the Mis-
souri, and Tennessee.
Some of the "boys" on the John E. Maude
had on the new Anchor-line regulation uni
forms yesterday. All the employees in the
line are TO have them by the LIST of June, it
is understood. They consist of full suits of
navy blue, decorated with anchor buttons,
caps with badges of rank, etc.
New York Indicator, May 18th: Sensible
persons and good patriots, whose intelligence
has not been dwarfed by sectional prejudiees,
will rejoice at the liberality of Congress in
provement of the Mississippi river during
the coming year, which is probably as large
a sum as could be expended iudiciously in
the time named"
Nashville World, Friday: I'D. G. Patter-
con, Alex. Kendall, 7. G. Ryman, ]. S.
Tyner and F. D. Wyatt yesterday had regis
tered an application for a charter for the
Nashville and Cairo Packet Company T.
q. Ryman, ID. g. Patterson, Clint Byrne, T.
NJ. Gallagher and w. R. Grace applied for a
charter for the Nashville and Evansville
Packet Company"
The following snake story is clipped from
the Louisville Courier Journal: eThe London
Times Gays: Americas song writer, wit and
journalist, Colonel Will s. Hays, is to be
complimented by having a very large and
magnificent steam vessel named after him i.
jess so, joint And if we take an ocean to
call over and see you some day, We know
come aboard, and bless yer heyes, wen show
ye vessel as is vessel"
Billy Byers, the major domo of the Gaff7f
drug store, who was taken off that boat al
| Evansville trip before last, turns out to have
been afflicted with smallpox, and we are glad
| to learn from the Cincinnati Commercial OF
| Friday that he is recovering. Billy was
| always kind and genial to every body and
everything with whom or which he came in
contact, and we have no doubt he got in with
the smallpox the same way and got of
| lightly.
A dispatch to the Nashville World OF
yesterday, says: another volcanic upheaval
| in the river occurred near this city yester.
| day, of which the signal service observer
was an eyewitness. The water in the basin
| known as the Big Eddy about twenty acres
| large, suddenly became agitated, was thrown
| up several feet, accompanied by a large mass
of vegetable matter which had accumulated
at the bottom. 1t was also seen by promi.
nent minister, our scientist, in wonderment.n