Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-14
GENERAL NEWS.
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Business was moderate Yesterday.

Business was moderate yesterday.
Receipts by river yesterday: 243 bales cot
ton and rs sacks cotion-seed.
The weather prospects were better yester-
day There is plenty OF mud on the levee yet.
1t is pretty well settled that the Grand
Tower cannot be raised, and win prove total loss
Signal Service report: River 30 feet 10
inches-rise inches during the u hours ending
Los PIN. yesterday.
The City of Providence arrived from ST.
Louis y. Yesterday morning, discharged 1l5O pack
noon ' 49, - O''O''
The Belle Memphis arrived from below
and passed up for St Louis during the evening.
The Golden Rule, from Cincinnati, passed
down last night for New Orleans with 400 tons of
freight and 90 cabin passengers. She put of be-
tween here ana Cairo over 90 people.
Captains John n Hardin, Ed Nowland
and J. D. Randall were on the streets yesterday,
having recently returned from cruise up the
country, taking in the National capital in their
tour.
Captain James Rees, jr, will bring out
from Pittsburg soon steel-h1ll steamer built ex-
pressly for Chsttahoochie river. Steel used
prevent the aligators of which that river abounds
from gnawing holes in her bottom
The denizens of this latitude are not the
only sufferers from disagreeable weather condi-
tions Exchanges from all parts of the country,
particularly in the eottongrowlng regions, are full
of complaints about the weather. There should
be no complaint after such a long season of eter-
nal summer, such preceded the present wet
spell. But it Is human nature TO growl
At noon yesterday the Signal Service re-
ported the following conditions and prospects of
the rivers Cumberland river has reached the
danger line Mt Nashville, and floods will occur in
the Cumberland valley below Nashville, and in
the Tennessee valley below Oh tttanooga. The
Ohio and lower Mississippi rivers continue to rise
and floods will occur in the lower Mississippi
Memphis, Helena and Nicksburg during the COM
ing week"
The Vicksburg Herald, of Thursday, says
the Henry Frank passed that port with 1928 bales
cotton and 1000 sacks seed on board This state
ment is in conflict with Captain Hicks's telegram
displayed at the Cotton Exchange in this city We'd
with 800 bales. The Herald man must not ex-
aggerate in order to advertise his town great
eottoIi,shippinS point. The errauc-compositor
dodge is pretty good way to get out of it.
At Pine Bluff the government corps Of
engineers are busy with the river improvement
They are extending the mattress work down from
neck north of the town. Already this season
there has been over one thousand feet of bank
and over two hundred feet OF this has been COW
cred with the bank protection. Instead of pro-
engineers will probably divert the current into the
higher wat'r chute, which will nearly double the
distance across the neck, and thus prevent the
much dreaded cutoff.
Cincinnati Commercial, Thursday: "There
were five New Orleans packets in port last night,
her time to depart. The Schenck, which left last
night, will lie followed Saturday by the New Mary
Houston The sherlock will leave ON Wednesday
OF next week, and the Springer the Saturday
following. The Paris c. Brown will leave on
Wednesday two weeks hence The Charles Nor
turn sitter the Browp. This is the present pro-
gIamme, subject TO any changes which the South
ern Transportation Line may see fit to make, but
it is not likely that the plan will be altered owing
to the extreme dulluess along the river occasioned
roads rendering it next to impossible for shippers
along the line to haul freight. Many of the roads
leading 10 the lower Ohio ports are absolutely i'm
DaSSable.'