Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-12
GENERAL NEWS,

The VIII Kyle has been taken on In e
docks.
Business quiet-exports greatly in excess
of receipts.
Cincinnati is to have a Board of Marine
Underwriters.
The Josie Harry got away for White river
with fair trip yesterday afternoon.
The railway packet Katie Hooper left on
time yesterday evening for Madison.
Weather bright and pleasant, but toward
evening indicating the near approach of
another season OF rain.
Oscar Witten and John Emrie are pilots
of the Golden Crown, and James Carroll and
Hack Kelso are on the Vint Shinkle.
Captain Joseph A. Stone, the well-known
coal man, is candidate for the State senate
from the Forty-fourth district of Pennsyl
vania.
The John B. Maude got ia from ST. Louis
yesterday morning, with 1886 packages ct
freight, and returned last night with the
usual upstream load.
Captain John J. Darragh stopped off this
trip, Captain Charles Mnsselman going out
yesterday in command of the Marlin Speed
for Arkansas river, which left with a coed
trip.
The Cons Millar left for Cincinnati last
night with 600 bales of cotton, $50 bales of
oats, POPS barrels of meal, 20 head of cattle,
a smart showing of sundries, and a good list
of people.
Among the excursionists on the Golden
Crown are three bridal couples, viz: Jos
Schwagmanu and bride, Charles McVey and
bride, of Cincinnati, and Robert Caldwell
and bride, of Newport.
Steamboatmen say that the electric light
on steamboats, is all right enough for the
boat which carries the light, but makes it
dangerous for the opposing one that does not
have it, as the light llinds the pilot.
Signal Sarvice report: River, So feet
inches; stationary during the "a hours end
ing :0S pm. yesterday. A rise of 40 inches
is reported at Cincinnati; % inches at Chat
tanooga; 8 inches at Little Rock, and 10
inches at Louisville. Rivers were generally
stationary at other points.
Secretary Henry Hotter, of the Cotton Ex-
change, has placed the APPEAL under obi
cations for pamphlet copy of the Report
Of the Cotton Exchange Committee and
Memorial to the Congress of the United
States" concerning the dangerous condition
of the river front of Memphis from the en-
croachments of the Mississippi river. The
full text of the report has already appeared
in the columns of the APPEAL.
The Louisville Comier-JournaL, OF Tb urs-
the powerful towboat Raymond Horner, from
Pittsburg, where she was recently built by
the firm of Simpson Horner & Co., and says
of her: 'She arrived with tow of IA
coal boats and two barges, exclusive of fuel
boats, amounting in all to 357 ,4S0 bushels of
coal-the largest tow ever brought to this
city from above by any one towboat. She is
commanded by Captain Simpson Homer, jr.,
and leaves to-day on her maiden trip to New
al l.
at the wheel. she is certainly marine mon
ster, and is no less handsome in her proper
lions. She takes Is coal-boats, exclusive of
fuel-b boats. The fleet composing her tow will
occupy a water displacement Of 700, 900 cubic
feet, and the average draught of water is Z
feet inches. In size the tow is 1S5 feet
wide, $50 feet long, and, including steamer,
712 feet long. She will have in the Is boats
429, $40 bushels of coal, making 10 1873 tons,
not including that which she takes along in
fuel boats or on board herself. Estimating
Is tons to each car, it would require 1890 cars
to transport the coal by abroad, or 40 trains
of % cars each, and the whole would make
a continuous train of over miles in length
and require young army of locomotives 10
move ii. The Raymond Horner is a whale
and will handle this immense fleet with as
much power, ease and grace as if it were a
feet Of empty barges. She has already
officers should be proud of her as towboat."
The Golden Crown left Cincinnati for New
Orleans Wednesday evening, and may be
loose ed for Monday. She is literally thronged
With excursiopists for the Mardi-Gras fes-
tiVaI, among whom are Mrs. L. Waters, Mrs
Z. Waters, Mrs. Soards, Mrs. G. NJ. Hord,
Miss Lillian Hord, Mrs. Miller, Miss Miller,
A. Schnier and wife, Miss Schnier, Mr. j.
Schwagman and bride, Miss Schwagman,
Mr.. Mckee and wife, Mr.. Hooker, wife,
child and nurse, II. II. Baeder and wife, Miss
Gertie Bennett Charles c. Jacobs and wife,
Mrs. Meyers, Miss White, Miss Mcclure,
Mrs. Marshall and maid, Mr.. Hord, Frank
thinner, w. J. Caruthers, Harry Galespie,
james White, of Cincinnati, Ohio; n. Fl.
Peck, wife and child, Mr.. Caldwell and bride,
Charles McVay and bride, of Covington,
Kentucky; T. J. Allen, Miss Allen, of New
port, Kentucky; Mr. Thompson, A H. Gratz
and wife, Miss Cox, Miss Thompson, of Lex
ington, Kentucky; Mrs. Mary z. Crawford,
Mr.. c. Battles, of Cleveland, Ohio; DIR. Sat
terwhite and wife, Mr.. Yoeman and wife, Mr..
LymiDgtep, Miss Route, Miss Miller, Mrs.
Warren, Miss Warren, Miss Cheatham, Mrs.
Maize, of Louisville; II. c. Sherord, D. B.
johnson, of Steubenville, Ohio; Miss Har-
court, of Henderson, Kentucky; John y.
Doggy and three friends, of Bedford, In
diana; Miss Parsons and three friends, OF
Catlettsburg, Kentucky; Messrs. Armstrong,
Viehle, Mackey, Burke and Dallam, OF
Evansville, Indiana; j. l. Ficklin, of
Osensboro, Kentucky; Messrs. Boggs and
Bindley, of Pittsburg. Pennsylvania
The APPEAL Is in receipt of q printed
copy of the proceedings of the New Orleans
Chamber of Commerce, at a meeting held
December 80, 1881, at which the following
resolution was adopted: 'The Chsmber Of
Commerce declares that the effectiveness of
the jstty system has been demonstrated by
Captain Eads in the removal of all obstruo-
tions from the mouth of the Mississippi
river TO the passage OF the largest ships
and steamers across the bar at the South
Pass, and the official report Of the govern