Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-14
GENERAL NEWS.

Business 1alr yesterday.
Major John d. Adams was in the city yes
terday.
Local packets left yesterday with good
trips for their respective destinations.
Receipts by river since last report, 1874
bales cotton, 6 bags seduction and 1S1 sacks
cotton-seed.
The towboat Belmont passed up for the
Ohio river, Sunday, with big take" Of
empty barges.
The Anchor Line Company will send three
packets out for New Orleans this week-one
more than usual.
The Annie P. Silver had handsome load
on when she passed south yesterday morning
She did no business here.
1t is about time this wet business was
stopped. Enough of it is enough, and too
much might cause another flood.
The Fannie Lewis arrived from st. Louis
yesterday with 4437 packages of freight, and
returned last night with a light cargo.
rumor is afoat that Major John ID.
Adams contemplates having built regular
clipper for the Memphis and Arkansas City
trade.
The Gold Dust, which passed south Sum
day, got 10 tons of way freight. The Com
monwealth, passing up the same day, got
nothing here.
The railway packets will hereafter leave
for Madison at pm. daily, Immediately on
the arrival OF the train on the Louisville
and Nashville railway.
Eugene Handlon has been selected as pilot
of the new Lighthouse steamer Joseph
Henry, which lett ST. Louis for New Orleans
to lock after the Mississippi river service,
In response to repeated requests the
WEEKLY APPEAL will hereafter contain the
latest river news, embracing conditions OF the
river at all points, movements of steam
ers, etc.
The City of New Orleans, four days out
from New Orleans, arrived Sunday evening,
and laid over here until early yesterday
morning, cleaning boilers, when she passed
on up for st. Louis.
A private dispatch from Waterproof, Lou
isiana, says that the Kemp levee, in Concor-
dia parish, is 200 feet long and from to )
feet deep. The Kemp levee is one OF the
largest in the State.
The new steamer David r. Powell, built
at St. Louis, recently, will leave that city
this afternoon for New Orleans, with Cap
tain R. j. Whitledge in command, and E.W.
Gould, jr., in the Office.
The John A. Scudder, with 100 tons OF
freight, and six days out from New Orleans,
passed up Sunday evening. She lost fifteen
hours below Helena with broken cam.
Upon her arrival at St. Louis she will be
thoroughly overhauled and repaired.
The levee was washed as clean as a parlor
floor blythe drenching rain OF Sunday night,
setting an example that the authorities
might profit by when the mud accumulates,
and there is no rain to wash ii of. What
we're those water-plugs put there for, anyhow?
The steamer Sam Fowler, standing at the
upper wharf at Nashville Saturday, broke
loose. There was large raft OF 10000 feet
of lumber attached, and both hoated down
the river. No steam was up, and there was
no fuel TO feed the fires Both chimneys were
broken.
The new river commission packet, Emma
Etheridge, recently built at JeHersonvllle,
passed south last night. Her late arrival
prevented the honorable reception she was
entitled to on account Of her being named
alter former popular young Memphis lady.
She is in command OF Captain James Good,
an old and experienced skipper.
The citizens OF Helena had to turn out
Sunday and fight the raging Mississippi in
self-defense. The levee began to show signs
Of giving away, but was luckily discovered in
time to avert the disastrous results Of the
overflow that would have followed. Mud
was raked from the streets, with which sacks
were filed and thrown into the breach, which
proved successful in stopping the threatened
break.
Pittsburg Commercial: 1--WE hear il stated
that coal is being sold at Cincinnati, afoat,
at u to q cents per bushel, which il IL
claimed by those who ought to know, as less
than actual cost. The Louisville, Memphis
and New Orleans markets are even worse.