Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-07-18
GENERAL NEWS.


Evansville was cooled off by gale SUM-
day evening.
Receipts by river since Saturday, 80 bales
cotton and 221 sacks cotton-seed.
Signal service report: River % feet 8
inches-decline inches yesterday.
The heavy rain of Sunday nigh. and yes
terday morning did good sanitary work on
the wharf.
Lish Cannon, the bar-owner of the James
Lee, who has been on visit TO Hot Springs
returned yesterday and resumed his place on
the Lee.
John Haley, second clerk of the Coahoma,
is off on two or three weeks resting-spell,
Charley Bowen taking his place during thai
interval.
The City of Alton, four days out from
New Orleans, arrived Sunday evening with
400 tons for St. Louis. She cleaned out here
and passed up late Sunday night.
The City of Greenville arrived from ST.
Louis yesterday evening with a fair trip,
dischsrging here 1908 packages. She passes
down for Vicksburg this morning.
The City of Vicksburg got in from Vicks-
burg yesterday evening, the principal item
OF her load being fair list of passengers.
She sails for St. Louis this morning.
The City of Helena, in from St. Louis yes
terday morning with 65s5 packages OF
freight, returned in the afternoon with the
usual amount OF upstream way freight.
The City of Cairo, with q fair list of peo-
pie, passed up Sunday for St. Louis, and the
Gold Dust passed down for Vicksburg the
same day, adding here Is tons of way freight.
The James w. Gaf arrived from Cincin-
natl early yesterday morning with 4049
packages of freight. She discharged yester-
day and lay at the compress last night tax
ing on cotton.
Robert w. Mccoy is in the office of the
James w. Gsff, Chief Clerk James Surtees
having been forced to stop off this trip on
account of illness. The interests of shippers
and the comfort of passengers will be care
fully looked after by Mr. Mccoy, who is the
peer of any in the profession in point of
cleverness.
Vicksburg has gone in cotauk with New
Orleans in Safeguarding Memphis on the
subject of quarantine. Wait till it develops
that Memphis was wise in taking such pre-
cautions against New Orleans, then see how
quick Vicksburg will flop over to the Mem
phis side of the question and slop over in
commentator of the movement.
As evidence that Southern freigbts are
improving at Cincinnati, the Commercial, Of
Sunday, says: There was oid-time rush
of NsH @. iaAas z Sigh @letst tllc gsagway
of The U. p. Schenck yesterday, when she
received the bulk of her cargo-at least 500
tons-leaving with over 600 tons, and fully
$50 tons additional engaged for her at Louis
vile and intermediate points. She has also
twenty cabin people,"
Cincinnati Commercial, SUNDAY: .Samuel
s6Srter, Esq, the veuerIbfS father OF Captain
J. Lawrence Carter, of the steamer q. P.
Schenck, celebrates the ninetieth anniversary
of his birth to-day on his farm, near Amelia,
in Clermont county. o. He was born in
Frederick county, Va, in 1892, and COM
menced fiatboating on the river in the winter
of 1910 and 1911, from Wellsburg, Va, and
followed that occupation, taking produce to
New Orleans, until 1S49, since which time he
has been engaged in farming in Kentucky
and Ohio. He boated powder for General
Jackson from Pitisburg to New Orleans iu
keelboat. He was engaged many years in
the produce and whisky distilling business
in Cs,silly's Row in Cincinnati, and is well
known to all OF our old-time boatmen. He
is still hale and hearty for a man of his age"