Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-05
GENERAL NEWS.

| Business quiet.
Receipts by river yesterday, 119 bales
cotton.
The outlines OF the State of Arkansas are
| plainly visible above the food.
The City of Vicksburg took on 40 tons and
| left for Vicksburg yesterday morning.
The hot sunshine on the levee yesterday
was regular buffalo-gnat demolisher.
The HI. J. Dickey departed for ST. Louis
| yesterday afternoon with SOC, 900 feet lumber
and 100000 shingles.
The City of Greenville got away for St.
Louis yesterday afternoon after taking on 100
bales Of cotton for the East.
The new Anchor Line steamer City of
| Cairo is receiving at st. Louis for her voy-
age TO Vicksburg, for which point it is
thought she will sail Saturday.
The towboat Daniel Kane, which blew out
her cylinder-head above here Monday morn
ing, arrived in port yesterday, and will re-
pair here. Her tow was left at Island II.
Signal service report: River SO feet 4
inches-decline ! inch during the "a hours
ending LOS pm. yesterday, making feet s
inches below the highest point reached dur
ing the overflow.
The sandbar is beginning to define its out
lines, and from appearances is but few feet
below the level of the Arkansas shore An
old tree has lodged in the bar, and has been
visible several days.
The Vint Shinkle left for Cincinnati yester-
day afternoon with 234 bales cotton, 446 bars
old railway iron, 120 barrels oil, 800 sacks
oil meal, a lot lumber abeut 100 packages
sundries, and fair trip of people.
Captain Albert Stein, OF the Charles Nor
gan, and his excellent lady, father and
mother of Captain Harry w. Stein, the pres
ent commander of the steamer, in St.
Louis on visit of health and recreation.
Captain Randall yesterday sold the Mike
Davis to Mrs. j. V. Linden and Mr.. A. Hud-
son, of Golconda, Ill.,, for which point she
left yesterday evening. The price paid was
$2350. 1t is not known what use will be
made of her.
A suit for $4,000 damages was filed in the
Circuit Court at Vicksburg yesterday against
the AnchorLine Company by Martha Kent,
for the drowning of her husband, Henry
Kent, last week at Forrest Home Landing,
by the steamer Gold Dust.
The architects are progressing rapidly
with the reconstruction OF the Jim Lees
pilothouse. The order of architecture is
different from and quite an improvement on
tn OF the one burned, consequently will
add to the beauty of the Jim's proportions.
The new pilot wheel, also an Improvement
on the old one, is in position. Captain Stack
top, and his boat will then be perfection TO
his eye.
The improvements of the Tennessee river
going on. There will be sixteen miles
of canal, which will contain eleven locks
and an aqueduct equal to two locks. A chan
mel had TO be cut partially through solid
rock in the river for about two and quar-
ter miles, and a bed must be built through
woods, over hills, valleys, etc., for about if
teen miles OF the eleven locks, Nos. l, 2,
3, 4, and are completed and ready for
gates; No. s is three-fourths done; No. is
one-half done, and No. 10 is two-thirds DONE
The aqueduct masonry Is entirely finished.
1t was one of the heaviest pieces of masonry
in the entire canal. Locks A and B, on the
Elk river division, are well under way.
About thirteen miles of the canal trunk has
been excavated, and about one and a quarter
miles of river channel has been deepened by
building heavy stone retaining dam par
allel to the shore. The Little Muscle Shoals
division, about six miles long, extending
from Florence to Brainbridge's ferry, has
been made navigable by channel excavations
and stone wing dams, so that steamboats, can
now ascend to the lower end of the main
canal. OF the entire work on the canal,
fully 6ye-sixths is now finished.