Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-11-30
GENERAL NEWS.

| Signal Service report: River z feet 4
inches-decline / inch yesterday.
-, The Port Eads and barges passed up for
| 81. Louis at an early hour yestemlay morn
| ing.
Receipts by river yesterday, $50 bales
cotton, 100 bags seduction, and S77S sacks
cotton-seed.
Up-country papers have commenced using
| the term "below zero" in connection with
| weather reports.
A thirty-nine- mile breeze, tempered to
about forty degrees below Cairo, struck the
early wayfarer on Front street yesterday
morning.
The United States snagboat Thos. J. Flor
| ence is pulling snags In Red river, from
Fulton down, and is thus improving the
navigation of that river.
The james w. Gaff left for the Ohio river
| last evening with 600 bales oats, 1000
sacks oil-meal, 100 barrels oil, lot of rags
and sundries, and several passengers.
The Hard Cash left for White river on
time yesterday with good load, and will
hereafter keep her regular day if not delay
ed by bad weather or other unforeseen inter-
ference.
A poem entitled "Snow Embalmed, is
subject to the order OF the author, who is
urgently requested to call for the manuscript
in person. Our already CORY hands are
burning for the blood of another snowflake
poet.
Capt. Marsh Miller, the well-known pilot
and commander, was on the street yesterday
looking somewhat worsted by the long tussle
with serious spell OF sickness. There is
| enough of him left yet, however, to accom-
| plish great deal of good in the world.
The New Mary Houston arrived out of
| the Ohio yesterday afternoon with a full
| load for New 0rleans She discharged here
| S75 packages and added 2925 kegs of nails:
| She has 50 cabin passengers and is full of
deckers. She will pass on down at an early
| hour this morning.
The committee 10 inquire into the expend-
| iture of money for improvement of the Ken
| lucky river met at Frankfort, KY, Monday,
| and examined witnesses. The sinking of
$3.50 900 with no pslpable return seems to
be cause for much wonderment. 1t will
probably be found to have been wasted for
| want of more to go with it.
Capt. J. Z. Randall has changed the de-
parting time of the Rene Macready for St.
| Francis river from three times a week 10
| twice week, cutting, ott the Thursday date
i from his schedule. This is necessitated by
the TACT that rise in that stream allows ex-
tended rips to upper parts which cannot be
accomplished three times week.
Our borse-editor says that knife has not
yet shown up, and his desk continues TO be
disgraced By that unesthetic combination OF
mech anism familiarly known to the email
boy rs a toad-dissector. Arrangements have
been contaminated with Judge MADDEN for
1O0days leave of absence to the island fer
the pufloiner OF that knife if it is not re-
turned IN forty-eight hours.
Capt. Hiram Birch died at his home at
Marietts, o., Monday, in the eighty-seventh
year OF his sge. He was born in Connecticut,
| moved to Pitsburg in 1900, and 10 Marietta
in 1908. He went from Pittssurg to Louis
vile on smah bateau as early as 1872. AT
the time OF his death he was probably the
oldest Ohio river captain living. He fol-
lowed the river about 6fty-fve years.
The steamer Samuel J. Keith, now nearing
completion at Howard's shipyard at Jeffer-
sonville for the Nashville aud Burnaides
| Packet Company, will be one of the finest
steamers which has piled the upper Cumber-
| land for many years. The boat is 100 feet
long by 81 feet wide; she has ffteen-inch
cylinders with fve-foot stroke, and two boil
ers "a feet long and 40 inches in diameter.
This steamer will be placed in the Cumber-
land in about three weeks and will run in
connection with the L. Z. EWald.
The New Orleans States thus gives utter
ance to threat of war sgainst the Annie P.
trade: Gas Independent boats in all trades
| are the go, and the merchants seem to pre-.
fer TO patronize them 10 any other. Capt
+. A. Blanks has an idea that the steamer
Fred A. Blanks will make a good one, and
| when her charter expires in the Greenville
trade will start her ont in the ST. Louis trade
10 keep company with the independent
packet Annie P. Silver, and see whether the
merchants of st. Louis will chip on the
Blanks ss readily as The merchants of this
city take hold OF independent packets in this
trade, and especially as the merchants of the
| Ouachita Valley have never complained Of
the freight rates charged by the Ouachits
River Consolidated Lfne.S
New Orleans Piceyune, Saturday: "Johr
/ g. Brevard, a commercial and travelling
agent, and a resident Of the city Of Natchez
has libeled the John w. Cannon fer SIC, 00(
damages, incurred by having his leg broken
on said steamboat. Libellant alleges hat
1 the damage incurred by him was all due e
the negligence OF The ofhcers Of the boat.
Capt. I. l.. Belt has placed the Katie B
Kouniz in the New Orleans and Arkansas
river trade. She is owned by himself and
Capts. John ]. Brown and Henry Harper
and commanded by Capt. John A. Williams
The New Orleans and Arkanzss river ship.
pers promise to sustain the Kouisz hfr. M
Schwabacher and all the other meabsrs OF
"a committee advocated strongly tia mer.
chants Of New Orleans sustaining the iius
as mutual advantage, and TO ignore all "a
rates, as the tariff was fair and Just one Z
the merchants as we'll the owners OF tn
line, and a good trade between New OrleaD
and the leading points along the Arkansa
river, such as the Little Rock, Pine Bluff
Dardanelles, Ozark, ETC., was bound to result
| thsrefrom.n