Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-12
GENERAL NEWS.

NO COtton received py river yesterday.
Captain w. c. Hardwick has returned
here.
Weather continues of the extreme autumn
persuasion.
Signal service report: River II feet inch
rise inches yesterday.
The John Dippold, with 6 barges in tow,
passed south yesterday evening.
Jerry Matson, steward of the Dean Adams,
is off this trip on account OF illness.
The City of Providence added ten tons of
lower-bend freight and left for Vicksburg on
time.
Mrs James o. Durf left by rail yesterday
for Brennan, Tex, on visit 10 her invalid
daughter, Mrs. Venable.
The Vint Shinkle left for Cincinnati yes
terday with los bales cotton, 140 packages
sundries, 10000 feet of lumber and fair list
of passengers.
Cincinnati Commercial Thursday: "Mrs-
Trask, the esiimable wife of Captain w. l..
Trask, of Memphis, was among the Cons
MiIlar's passengers last night for Memphis,
after spending two months in Brown county,
Ohio.p
Mrs. E. L. Shinkle and Mrs. Chant Shin
kle, wives of the captain and clerk OF the
Golden Crown, together with their families,
and Misses Lee Liebhart and Ollie PeIcival,
OF Covington, KY, were passengers down on
that boat yesterday.
The Golden Crown passed down yesterday
evening with heavy trip, discharging
good lot of freight and adding as much, be-
eides several passengers. She looked as
pretty picture in her new suit Of paint
and bright decorations.
A Cairo dispatch to the St. Louis Democrat,
dated 9th instant, says that John LangloIs,
,L,a san0uI olark If the Gold Dust p,uob
worse Tuesday evening, but considerably
better Wednesday. He was to have left
Hickman for Cairo Wednesday evening, if
able to be moved.
The body of Willie Dart, the lad who was
drowned while bathing in the river at Fort
Pickering week or go ago, was found at
Leatherman's Landing, Miss, So miles be-
low, last Wednesday. Oscar West, the land
ing-keeper, recovered the body, and has it
buried so that his parents can reclaim it.
Clarence Hall, the very accommodating
passenger agent of the Anchor-Line Com
pany in this city, is off on a brief summer tour
which takes in the Canadas. He was in De-,
troit last Monday raising "halifax" because
he missed connection on the Grand Trunk,
but he is probably in Montreal to-day as
happy as he tries 10 make those who take
stock in the lines he 'runs" for here. Clar-
ence will be happy where nine-tenths of the
human family would die of ennui.
st. Louis Globe Democrat: "Henry H. In-
graham, brother of Third-Clerk Ingraham,
one of the Gold Dust victims, was a pilot on
the Inflated Sultana. He was blown to
atoms when the boilers of that boat ex-
ploded, April 81, 1865. His body was never
recovered. Ingraham was twenty-three years
of age at the time, and the loss of another
son in a similar way is terrible blow to the
aged parents. w. A. Ingraham had just
attained his twenty-sixth year. Ingraham's
father and sisters are away from the city,"
Cincincinnati ITmes-Star: s'There has been
much curiosity in steamboat circles to know
exactly how the vote stood among the super
vising inspectors at the time the signals were
changed, and we have been at pains to find
out. 1t appears that five supervising in
spectors voted against the change and five in
favor of it, leaving tie to be decided by
General Dumont. The inspector-generars
vote was cast in favor of the change, and it
became a law. The yeas were az follows:
Mr.. Kirby, of the Second district; Mr.. Men
shaw, of the Third; Mr.. Fehrenbatch, of the
Seventh; Mr.. Cook, of the Eighth, and Mr..
Norton, of the Tenth. The nays were as fol-
lows: Mr.. Bemis, of the First district; Mr..
Bennett, of the Fourth; Mr.. Stephenson, of
the Fifth; Mr.. Carr, of the Sixth, and Mr..
Shepard, of the Ninth. Mr.. Fehrenbatch was
chairman of the committee recommending
the change and individually proposed it.
We believe he takes the credit of first sug-
gestirg the chaHge, but the fact is Colonel
w. E. Merrill. major engineer of The Ohio
River Improvement Corps, went out of his
wsy to propose an alteration OF the law, and
should be entitled to the full credit of it.n
Cairo correspondent Cincinnati CONNER
eiaL: Soon Gallaher, who was killed by
the cars here on Saturday last, was one Of
the Oldest residents Of Cairo. In early years
he was in the employ of the Halliday
Brothers, and was a very faithful and indus
trious man. By care and frugality ne saved
up out of his earnings, at one time, about
$780, which he sewed up in his coat for safe
keeping. One day, while he was at work, some
one stole his precious coat, money and ALL
The blow was hard one on Con, who was
so much depressed over his loss that he took
to drink, and finally lost his place. More
than a year after he was standing on the |
street, looking into ditch where some men |
we're at work, when suddenly, with an ex-
clamalion, he jumped into the ditch and |
seized man, and literally tore the coat off |
mis- back. 1t was Cons old coat, and he |
recognized it on sight. As may be expected, |
he was not long in ex aiming the lining, where |
he sewed the money away so long ago, and |
10 his delight he found it all as he had |
placed it, and in good condition. The mag |
said he had bought it from another, and |
Con wss 80 we'll pleased with recovering his |
ost money that he never pressed the matter
iurther"