Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-11
GENERAL NEWS.

Business dro gned out by rain.
A heavy fog hung over the river yesterday
afternoon.
The Rene Macready left for st. Francis
river yesterday evening with good trip.
The heavy rains yesterday carried the mud
from the bluffs on the paved wharf in sluices.
Receipts by river we're light yesterday
only bales. cotton and $50 sacks cotton-seed
The Vint Shinkle has a big trip in sight
to leave for Cincinnati with this afternoon
The City of Helena returned TO 81. Louis
at daylight yesterday morning with 2003
packages of freight.
The City of Greenville passed up for ST.
Louis yesterday evening, adding here 3Ol
bales eastern-bound cotton.
The City OF Vicksburg, which passed down
Tor Vicks6urg yesterday morning, added here
90 barrels lime and lot of sundries.
Signal Service report: River 20 feet 10
inches; decline of l inch during the "a
hours ending ;0S pm. yesterday.
The Hatchie river packet Fulton came in
walnut and poplar logs. She had a lot of
cotton and seed also.
The marine death-roll of the past year in
the West and South, as published in the ST
Louis Republican, of Saturday last, embraces
the names OF "a captains, 10 clerks, 20 pilots
y engineers, mates, 2 watchmen, 3 car.
penters, stewards, cooks, and 5 bar
keepers--140 in all.
Pocket book snatcLors will give Bob jam
ison, bill-clerk of Captain Lightburne's
agency, wide berth; he won't take any fool
ishness. A big, black, burly fellow followed
Bob too close the other day, up in North
Memphis, and the first thing he knew Bob
handed him one that made him think the
full moon had been atomized on his nose
Jacksonville department OF the Louisville
CO11 ierJoW7dt, Monday: "Jack Grey, who
went out with Captain Crooks on his little
Il d river steamer, has returned home. He
reports Captaia Crooks at Fulton doing we'll.
Ii he makes plenty of money this year he
will build big steamer here in the spring
His many friends will be glad to see him"
The list of deaths among river men dur
ing the past year, as shown on the books OF
Secretary + Ct. Shipkle, of the Pilots Asso-
citation of Cincinnati, embraces the names Of
the following Memphians; Captain w H.
: Morgan; Clerk Charles l.. erase; Pilot Add
WATSON; Engineers John Welsh, J. NJ.
Phillips and James ii. Davis; Watch IN an
Thomas Thompson.
Nicksburg HcrdLa: 1--WE understand that
Mr.. Charley Quesnel, the popular clerk of
the Anchor-line packet City of Greenville,
VIII retire after the present trip 10 embark in
business IN ST. Louis. Mr.. Quesnel has been
valued employee of the Anchor Line for
number of years, and during that time has
made a host of friends, who will unite in
wishing him the success and prosperity his
merit deserves"
Louisville Courier Journal: "The big tow
boat Joe B. Williams has performed a feat
which entities her 10 the horns She brought
up last trip from New Orleans seventeen
large empty coalboats and seven smaller
ones, making twenty-five in all-the largest
tow Of empty coalboats ev. brought up the
river from below by any one towboat, and
she brought them up over the falls when she
got up here, and never grunted once. Shes
awhale, and old Captain Jack is a 'whaler'"
The Osceola (Ark) Times, OF Saturday,
tells how a steamboat barkeeper got his
work in on an official who was trying to work
up job on him about the new tipping law:
"a certain town official, who shall be name
less, concluded, last Tuesday morning, that it
was too long time between drinks and
remembering that there wss good bar on
the Coahoms, trsmped down to Hearn's
landing and waited an hour or more for the
boat, and when she finally landed, boarded,
and, proceeding 10 the bar, called for sugar,
etc. but the bartender, catching a glimpse
of the officials insignia Of office, very
sternly asked that officer il he took
anybody for a dem fool and said he
uiuh propose 10 pay OH any part OF
our county debt, If he knew himself In vain
the official swore he did not intend to get up
a case against the mixer and that he never
thought Of arresting him; his pleadings were
OF no avail and when the boat landed at
Osceola he walked the plank as straight as
shingle, dryer, if not wiser man. The
joke leaked ost soon, and anyone wanting a
hrst class fight on his hands has only to in
quire OF that official what kind OF whisky
the Coahoma carries"