Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-09
GENERAL MEMS

Business dull, on account OF bad weather.
The Rene Macready left for Madison yes
terday to connect with the Memphis and
Little Rock railway.
A st. Louis dispatch Gays: at is stated
that the Katie Stockdale will soon enter the
Paducah trade under the management of the
Big Eight Line"
Mr.. Walt J. Raymond, who is working up
the commercial capacities of the Mississippi
valley in the interest of the New Orleans
Times Democrat, is in the city in pursuit of
his task.
They don't like Will S. Hayes much in
New Orleans. The first thing they did on
his arrival there was to buy a tug and get
him aboard and head for the National Gem
etery. Maybe Hays will write a song about
that excursion.
The David K. Powell, the new boat which
made one trip through to New Orleans, from
st. Louis, in the interest of the Anchor Line,
retired on her return to st. Louis, to await
her day in the Lower Missouri Star Ina,
when she will perhaps go into commission
permanently.
Captain Marsh Miller believes that the
present nigh water is equal to that of 1915,
when, as he has often heard his father say,
the highest water ever known in the Missis-
sippi valley occurred-the water marks of
that year never having been reached by any
Nothing of the James D. Parker could be
seen above water Monday except the pilot
house. She was reported lying across the
channel, so that nothing can get to her, and
going to pieces, and it was believed that all
OF her cargo would he lost. She was valued
by underwriters at $l2 900, and insured in
six local companies for $4,000.
Signal service report: River So feet IL
inches-decline of inch during the "a hours
.strrr 1.00 nL~.o =
still rising-sharp at Cincinnati, but light nj
Louisville. Cairo shows fall of inches.
gentle swell still prevails in the upper
Mississippi, but declining at st. Louis. The
rise in the Cumberland is checked at Nash
vile, but the Tennessee is coming up a little
at Chattanooga. Rivers are declining at
other points above.
In Arkansas City the water covers the
floor OF every store and dwelling to a depth
varying from six inches to four feet The
only house to escape is one built nine feet
the floor of the hotel to the depth of twenty
inches, while the new oil mills are also suf-
fering by the deluge. Quite a number OF
planters are feeding their hands, who fear
that the movement to furnish rations will
demoralize the negroes. Many of the latter
are anxiously waiting the arri> al OF the boat
with government rations.
"A LOUISVILLE Qlspatch received last night
has the following: "The Andy Fulton took
a barge TO the Parker wreck, and all the cargo
that can be reached will be loaded thereon.
The life-savers while trying to save two men
from going over the falls this evening, upset
their boat an would have been drowned, had
1t not been for another lifeboa at coming to their
assistance and rescued them. Ed Farrell,
member of the life-saving station was hurt
in the breast but not seriously. All the men
were landed safely at Portland, where they
took the cars and came up"
Captain Marsh Miller has located a water
mark showing the level reached by the pres
ent rise of the river. 1t is on the southwest
corner of the Auction street bayou bridge,
a spike driven on the upper edge of an iron
washer, and is exactly Isl inches above the
high-water mark of 1867 on the same bridge.
Another mark was made on the south corner,
and another on the east corner-both spikes
driven in the bricks-showing the hight at
3 pm. on Monday, March 9th, when the
river, according to the signal service report,
was at stand at sc feet. Three spikes have
also been driven under the seventh layer of
brick, counting from the top OF the sewer-pipe
abuttments at the foot of Jackson street.
All these marks correspond exactly with the
marks recently established at the gas-works,
and the hood-tide OF this season has
effectually wiped out all old references, these
will establish tide-line that will do to refer
to in future, until Old Pluv. sees proper to
set us a new example of what he can do
with Big Muddy when he takes a notion.