Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-03
GENERAL NEWS.
Business fair.

DuSlUeSS ldII.
Weather Just the ticket for New Years
purpose
The Port Eads and barges passed up for
st. Louis yesterday afternoon.
The Annie z. Silver passed south late
Saturday night with a good trip.
The Grand Tower passed up Sunday night,
taking here 204 bales cotton for ~reshipment
at Cairo.
The Gold Dust got off for Vicksburg on
time Sunday, taking on 10 tons lower-bend
freight here.
Signal-service-report: River 30 feet l inch
rise 2 inches during the a hours ending at
Los pm. yesterday.
Receipts by river during the past forty
eight hours. SAB bales cotton, IL bags seed
cotton, and 2064 sacks ~cotton-seed.
Captain Enoch Price, ore of the old
timers-way long back as far as lS27-wss
a passenger up on the City of New Orleans
yesterday.
Miss Louise Kellogg, escorted by her agent,
visited the steamers at the wharf yesterday,
and spent considerable time ABOARD the City
of New Orleans.
The City of Helena arrived from st. Louis
with 2477 packages OF freight Sunday night,
and returned yesterday with a good lot OF
upper-bend freight.
The APPEAL river department kept open
house, as promised. Result: five callers
with black books under their arms, one book
agent, and a policeman.
Father Young, a Catholic priest from New
York, is making the round trip for his
health on the City of New Orleans, and
speaks in high praise of the hospitality of the
officers cf the boat.
A Monroe, L2uisi :na, special says: "The
steamer Rosa E, with about 500 bales of
cotton, was totally destroyed by fire yester-
day In Bayou DAibonne, five miles from
that place. The boat was valued a. $4,000.
The cook was drowned.
The Charles Morgan, Captain Harry Stein,
is due dow for New Orleans at noon to day.
Frank Ellison is chief clerk. Be on time,
or you Will miss the opportunity to take a
pleasant trip down the river on a safe and
reliable packet, differed by as clever people
as the world affords.
Captain Sterling Mcintyre, the clever com
mander of the great Golden City, will be &C
companied this trip by his estimable wife
and Miss Lottie, his vivacious and pretty
little daughter. The Golden City is coming
out of the Ohio with a well filled passenger
list. Her cabins have been tastefully dec
Grated with flowers add evergreens, and pre-
sent a very inviting appearances.
At Cincinnati SATURDAY the officers of the
Emma Grah9m, before her departure for
P~ittslurg, surpris d Captain J.. y. William
son and lady by presenting them with a
costly and beautiful water urn, bowl and
goblets, the hight of which is nearly two
feet. Inscription: Presented by the officers
Of steamer Emma Graham to Captain J. y.
Williamson AID wife, January l, 1SS2.s
The City of New Orleans arrived before
noon yesterday, 4days and lFhours out from
New Orleans. She has 800 tons for St. Louis,
alter dischargiDg a good lot here. She dis
charged along the route about $50 tons. and
took on as much. The time made and the
amount OF business done proves beyond
question that the new boat is all she has
been represented in pointrof speed and ca.
pacity. When she gets limoered up she will
distance the best on the river.
A new packet line is in process, OF organi-
cation, to be Inlwn as the New o leans,
Vicksburg and Mississippi River Company,
the charter members of which are John VI.
Cannon, William Campbell, r.. II. Woolfolf,
George Moormau, John S. Cannon aud L.
Conery, sr., an6ssIts principal place of trans
acting businesss is the city of Louisville
The general nature of the business to be
transacted is the building, purchasing, char
teriUg, hiring, owning, running and selling
one or more steamboats,, towboats, barges,
aud other vessels on the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers and their tributaries, for the transpor-
tation of freigh; and passengers, and also
Tor the purchasing, leasing, owning and SELF
ing wharves, landings, wharfboats, barges,
elevators, and any and all other property
necessary or convenient Tor The transaction
of the business of the corporation. The au.
thOrizsd amount of the capital stock is $780,
600, divided into shares of 500 each, an or
gan cation TO be ~elfectel when S15O,0OO shall
have been subscribed.