Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-09
The Dean Adams, Captain Mark r. CheeI
is the United States mail packet Mouaa
GENERAL NEWS.


Receipts of cotton by river yesterday 5
bales.
The Ida Darragh leaves Cincinn att to-day
for Memphis.
The Andy Baum left for Cincinnati last
evening with light trip.
Signal Service report: River 10 feet 2
inches-rise inch yesterday.
The Port Eads and barges passed up for
st. Louis early yesterday morning.
The government snagboat G.. w. Howell
passed Vicksburg Wednesday on her way TO
Red river.
steambostman, died at the Cincinnati hos
| pital yesterday.
The james Lee, Ste. Genevieve, Katie
Hooper and Josie Harry each brought new
| bale of cotton this season.
The City of Providence passed down for
Vlcksburg yesterday morning after discharg
ing 200 packages and adding 40 tons here.
The Charles z. Chouteau will leave st.
Louis Tor the South on the 2Ist Instant, and
will immediately enter the New Orleans and
Memphis trade.
The offices OF the Lee Line and of the
Adams Line of steamers have been removed
10 No. Madison street, up stairs, Just OPP
posite their former location.
The Josie Harry came in out of White
river yesterday with good showing of pas
sengers and the first new bale from that
stream, of which mention is made elsewhere.
Captain Henry Loyell, of Nashville, is
building tow and Job boat for that harbor,
which will be 20 feet long and Is feet wide.
The machinery Of the Mary Clees will be
used on her.
Bob anison, bill clerk of Captain r. w.
Lightbnrne's river agency, left by the Chesa-
peake, Ohio and Southwestern railway last
night for fortnights absence, taking in
Paducah, Louisville and Cincinnati.
Captain Hugh C.. Smith, of the Josie Har-
ry, left by rail yesterday for Sciotoville,
Scioto county, Ohio. Hugh thought he was
pulling the wool over the eyes of the boys,
but they tumbled TO his racket when they
found out that he had been 10 consultation
with the officials of one of the marriage asso-
Citations. THAT'S all right, Hugh, old boy.
The Pine Bluff Commercial, of Wedhes-
day, speaking of the new steamer Ida
Darragh, says of her owner and comm ander:
Captain John ]. Darragh will be welcomed
back to the Arkansas river by host oil
friends. No cleverer a captain or large
hearted gentleman ever pulled a bell rope
than John ]. Darragh. Long may his gal
liant pennant wave prosperously in our
waters.
".
says: "The fun has commenced in the lower
trade. Thomas L. Davidson, who was one
OF the original owners to enter the Anchor
Line in the New Orleans trade, announces
the Continental 10 leave for the Crescent City
this afternoon as an independent boat. 1t is
probable there will be no ill-feeling between
Captain Davidson and the Anchor Line, and
it Is probable neither will cut rates to any
great extent"
New Orleans Times. Democrat: TUESDAY,
while the Neptune lay at the Belair planta-
| ton, negro man and woman fell from the
stage into the river. The man looked out for
number one, and quickly swan to shore, but
the woman, nearly drowned, was saved by
Mr.. Lawrence Sweeney, the mate of the
Neptune, who jumped overheard from the
bow, caught her, and swan ashore with her
jus. in time. The woman had two turkeys
| IN one hand, and some chickens in the other,
but she held on and never let go of them"
The New Orleans Reayule is kicking up
muss because the last two Anchor-Line
| steamers, the City of New Orleans and John
A. Scudder, which arrived in that city inside
of four days of one another, each put ont 600
tons of freight below Vicksburg, and asks:
"Are the merchants OF New Orleans asleep,
or what is the matter with them? They GER
tainly have every facility for shipping their
goods, and there is no reason why the mer-
| chants OF St. Louis should be so far ahead of
them: Whoop FER up, gentlemen, and try
| and do yourselves and your country justice"
Captain Alexander Kendall, of Nashville,
has contracted for the building of steamer
to be used in the upper Cumberland trade.
She will be completed about the LIST of De-
cember. She will be 160 feet long, 80 feet
| beam and feet hold. She will have a
| 13-inch cylinder with 5-feet stroke. Two
| boilers "a feet long and 40 inches in diane
Ter will be the power, and she will no doubt
bear the name of some prominent merchant
or citizen of Nashville. Some of the best
| merchants and shippers of the upper Cum
berland are associated with Captain Kendall
in this new enterprise.