Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-10-31
GENERAL NEWS.


The r. r Springer will be down to-day
for New Orleans.
The Cons Millar is having a hard tussle
with the reefs in Ohio river.
The Sam Roberts and barges passed down
Sunday morning for New Orleans.
Receipts yesterday by river, 1887 bales OF
cotton, 16l bags OF seduction and 6i54 sacks OF
seed.
The Josie Harry departed Sunday at noon
for White river with a good trip OF freight and
full of people.
Signal Service report; River 6 feet
inch-deeline inches yesterday. indicating that
q rise OF , inches occurred Sunoay.
Capt Gus Colem ans tug, Tilda, is doing
harbor work for MeSsrs. Brown q Jones while the
Frank Jones and Desoto age being put in order.
The City of Cairo passed down Sunday
morning for Yicksburg. She added here 40 tons
of way freight ana lot of raee.horses for Green
vile
The Commonwealth passed up Sunday
morning for st. Louis She added here 40 bales
of Eastern bound cotton and a 10 -of race-horses
for st. Louis.
The Carrier had portion OF her stsrboard
gusEd torn away while going up to g. LOUIS 1 Th
damage light.
The d. R. Powell, from New Orleans,
passed up yesterday evening for St. Louis with
of miscellaneous freight.
George Wilson, who goes as engineer on
the VIII :. Hays, was engineer of the famous
James Lee for long time. George is practical
mechanic, and can dIaught anu build an engine
as well as run one.
By strange coincidence the other day the
steamboat Scioto struck rock in the Ohio, and
Her tSSc fs tn aga toGgh ali We're
stderably frightened
The CITY of Helena arrived yesterday
morning from St Louis with 1901 packages OF freight
for this place. She unIoaded at the new elevator
ana Ietsssa aain last eyenaHs WIN goo I0s
horses fer St. Louis
The rebuilt Rapid Transit will be ready
Tor business Inside OF tive weeKs. Il IS now cur
rent that she wlll be named the Enquirer in honor
OF energetic river editor Mr.. lallanee, OF that
par who was too modest TO permit his own name
TO be used. Capt Lew Morris Will command the
between Cincinnati and Chilo.
81. Louis Globe Democrat, Sunday: "The
pilots OF the ]. S. Hopkins report the Golden
the head of the Sisters. The Hopkins met the
Minnie aud barge Mahala sayer at the head of
| aground. The Crown would have TO tighten
largely to get at1oat"
The w. P. Halliday and barge passed
down yesterday evening for New Orleans with d
| Dig tIip. She was drawing feet inches water.
She added here 20 tons OF sundries, lot Of race
horses for New Orleans and Greenville, and good
| list of people among them the Eclipse Baseball
Club. of Louisville, and so deckers 10 WORK on the
| leVees below here.
The BODY of Jonas Larash, the carpenter on
the Carrier who fell fron the wheel of that packet
| and was drowned while in port to-day week ago,
the surface st the foot of Beale street sun
an inquest, and the remains were Inferred in Elm
WOOD at ne t ePehSe So Wbsr5oa
bruises about his face indicated that he was struck
by something as ne Went down wnien rendered
The Louisville Courier Journal, of Friday,
tells OF new boat just finished there-Capt w: j.
Turner's Osceola and Cairo packet Henry a. Iyler,
| built and very handsome boat. Her dimensions
are as follows Huh, 165 feet long, SO feet beam,
| rooms and berths for GO cabin passengers. En-
gines. 15-inch cylinders, feet stroke; wheel 10
feet diameter, 25toot oucket: sne mas pol a
in EACH together with all the other engines neces-
| sary MAKE her complete in every detail She
was to have left Louisville for Memphis yesterday
| letter received from Capt james Rees
| of Pittsburg states that the steamer Kate Adams
| raised steam on Wednesday last, and by the end
of the present week will finish her painting etc.
| In addition to all modern Improvements and con
veniences suggested by Capts Cheek ana Cum
Minis she will have iron coa-cars running IN the
/ hold which, when light, will keep her IN good
running trim, and save piiing coal IN the aeeK
s1 Saanfifp design and finish, com posed Of mahog
any birds eye, maple cherry ash and.waIinISt a.
fiTst cabin of the kind ever put or steamer II
the whole West or South, and Will nken ne PHlt
man palace cars only geer t sne VII Thu Wi
| HAYS is also progressing finely The Dean s eanlI
is over and in place and Is 9ehng fe9 t IN
| This boat is to be lighted with electric lights en-
| tirely will have Chrlstys natent CHIMNEY holstsI
! and steam elevators for hosting freight from IN
| hold and will be ready fer business by NoveInpe
18th.
The St. Louis Republican "goes for" III
Missouri River Improvement Commission will
words as pointed pitchforks - he recent orde
? fOrbiddiug all infOrma Ion as to the future III
provements TO be made on the missouri river GU
only be construed as indicating tnat toose nav
. the matter in charge have no settled plan, ana a
! they teem to be cropping in the dark they are un
Wiling to let the public know OF their IGNORANCE
| AS therefore, cannot in the future know VIE
| is To be done ii is in order to examine Wbab na
. | been done and how it has been done. First, VIVA
: has been done? This is problem difficult {
solution, if restricted to any permanent goo
= | which has been accomplished by the expenolInl
| Of the vast sums which have had no other Tesu
than to educate the public to believe that nothlh
| ont Of proportion TO the good to be accom-
| piished II it be permissible to laugh
what is ridiculous, we can mud enouls
| in the work already done along the n, NJ
| indefnite period. 1t is only necessary
| mention two of the methods, costing tnousahos
| dollars employed by the parties IN eharge, an
which, could the public see them as they aPl51 1
| to Missouri river steamooatmen, would eNclt
their merriment- A steampump Is useu 70 WASH =
the banks to low water, so as to prevent the suP5
| incumbent mass from causing them 10 cave II
| folly of such method Is readily seen Wnen IL y
tSaIi-SnoWn fact that the caving of the banks is
| result of undermining, and not from any NelS.
at the top. Fully as ridiculous ana needlessly e
Densiye. is what is called the Wlre-net pIOces
This process consisted o. stretching wren
with ueshes about foot square end fssteneQ
niles across the current to retard II Could
surdity go fRrt-er? 1t is just such ioonsn lneoit
iesI projects which render the problem oil the II
movement of the Missouri so dirhcult OF soIouf
nv those who think that the scienunc genteln,
having the matter in charge know al that is 10
| learned