Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-13
GENERAL NEWS.

| passed up for st. Louis on yesterday morning.
| The Centennial, the largest boat aloat,
passed down for New Orleans yesterday
afternoon, after spending several hours here
discharging large amount of freight. She
| is in comm and OF Captain Thomas Davidson.
and is doing the independent" business be-
| tween 81. Louis and New Orleans upon the
principle that the Mississippi river is free
| to all.
The remains of Captain Enoch Price, who
died in Boston, were brought to st. Louis
and inferred Sunday. Captain Price was an
| old steamboat captain, filling varied posi-
| lions. An account of his experience during
The 80 years or more he followed the river
would I'LL volume and furnish good his
tory of boating on the river during that
period.
The Arkansas City, with her cabins full of
passengers, arrived from st. Louis yesterday
noon, discharged here 700 pack ages, and
added % tons of lower bend freight. Eighteen
of her passengers got off here-some citizens
of Memphis, and others destined to various
points on the railways leading out of the
city. She passed down for Vicksburg early
in the afternoon.
The paving of Jefferson street from Front
to the wharf is nearly done, and the street
will be opened to tine public within two or
three days. It's hummer for speed and easy
travel, and has, perhaps, the lightest grade
from Front to the wharf, lie only competitor
in that respect being Beale street. The work
is we'll done, and, barring the objections our
seniors are making to wood pavements, is
one of the prettiest in the city.
The New Orleans Times Democrat river ed
itor becomes somewhat inspired under the
influence OF the electric light on the wharf
of that city: "The simultaneous lighting of
the extended lines of electric lamps along
the city's front, in the evening, affords a
novel and exhileratipg sight when seen first
from the Algiers and Gretna side OF the
river, or from a ferryboat crossing the wide
stream. One moment the sweeping shores
OF the grand crescent with itsforests of masts
and smoke-stacks silhouetted against the
evening sky, are but dimly discernible in the
dusk OF the Southern twilight, and the next,
as il by the wand of magician, great Jets of
steely-white fame leap suddenly out of the
gloom, TRANSPORTING the whole scene into one
Of sparkling, almost dazzling effect"
The Cincinnati Gazette, of Monday, says
This about Captain John J. Darragh's new
Memphis and Arkansas river packet: "The
new Ida Darragh arrived from Madison yes
| terday, and is advertised TO leave for Arkan-
sas river Wednesday. She is the best look
ing boat OF her class that has been built at
Madison for years. Drawing, light, only 16
inches forward and IL inches aft, she can
carry 400 tons, and has capacity for 1900
bales cotton. She is $50 feet long, 80 feet
beam, feet depth of hold, 81 feet sheer.
Three double-riveted steel boilers, 20 feet
long, 40 inches in diameter, with fues in
each, supply steam to engines with cylinders
II inches in diameter, 4 feet stroke. Her
cabin is neat and tasteful. and has Is state
rooms. Captain John J. Darragh is in COM
mand, and his son, w. II. Darragh, is head
clerk. Pilot Robert Brown, jr, OF the Ben
Franklin, brought the Ida Darrsgh up"
The Arkansas City Journal, of last Satur-
day, rejoices over an important coming
event, as follows: snow comes the new
Katy Adams in the Arkansas City and Mem
phis trade. A beauty. The city authorities
are going to give her a set of resolutions
and her officers the freedom of the city
Good. Major Adams's enterprise ought to
be appreciated by our people, and we think
a COON reception ought TO be rendered the
boat to show that we are not unmindful of
his interest in our city. We frequently hear
of the majors liberality in behalf of enter
prIses pertaining to our individual welfare,
such donation of lots to churches and
Ievee encouragement, and his many other
public favors toward US. As his line OF
steamers are great good to our commercial
growth, such demonstration would only be
an act of appreciation on one who is in a
close tie identified with our peeuniary inter-
ests. We only make this as a suggestion,
ana snOulQ move OF InIS KIM De started, q
demonstration would be made commensurate
with that gentleman's popularity"
Captain Yeiser, former prominent citi-
zen of Bolivar county, Miss, returning from
a recent visit there, informs the Arkansas
City Journal that below Williams bayou and
other points above the late overflow, crop
prospects are perfectly splendid, but large
amount of the best bottom lands are not in
cultivation this year, and many places are
in as destitute condition as the overflow left
them. The levees are being rapidly repair
ed at Catfish Point by Mr.. J. s. McTighe,
who has large force of men at work now
snd will soon increase his force several hun
bred more. At Lake Bolivar the work under
Captain Perkins is being in like manner
pushed with expediency and energy. At
Riverton landing, where there were several
stores and dwellinghouses before the break
of the levees, there is now a big lake and not
a vestige of the village remains. There had
been two business houses moved back before
the flood, and in these are the entire business
of the place. The damage done BY the late
overflow is best known to-day by the alb
sence of crops on some of the most valuable
plantations in Bolivar county.
Cinciunati Commercial: ave are more than
pleased to announce TO the marine fraternity
that the day is not far distant when the river
without government subsidies) shall be
Tree, as Captain Al E. Boluss, brother of
the genial, warm-hearted Captain Tom, of
Evansville, has struck 1t at last in a most
important invention, simply that he can con-
vert an old antiquated slide-valve engine
into the modern poppet-valve without ex-
pense and with economy. The motion of the
new power is simply rolling, making water
superior to steam. All who have fol-
lowed the river know the genial Captain
Tom Roluss. In the language of Charlie Du-
mont, Charlie Barnes, or Captain Norwood
McClelland, we congratulate Captain Al
Boluss on his great revolution of steam and
his modest, self made success. May he reap
golden harvest in 'yeliow-leaf days. Well,
to cut it short, Captain Boluss has invented
an automatic engine, which can be applied
to any mode of power. The motion OF the
new power is rolling, making tudter equal to
steam We are not at liberty 10 say more
now, only that in the Paris Of America we
have the sBoluss Patent Natural Motion
working. Only tlco pounds of a0dfsr did the
work of an engine carrying forty pounds of
steam of equal dimensions. Will wonders
never ceasei We sigh for the good old days
of Adam and Eve.