Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-10
GENERAL NEWS.

Business quiet.
Receipts yesterday by river, IA bales cot
ton.
Captain r. w. Lightburne returned home
yesterday.
Captain o. X. Joplin resumed xecmmand
of the Rene Macready yesterday.
The Rene Macready got away last evening
for St. Francis river with big trip.
Captain R. w. Wise will probably bring
the James w. Gaff here for repairs.
The City of Vicksburg cleared on time
last evening for st. Louis with a fair list
of people.
The Boaz, with tow of empty coal
barges for the Ohio river, passed up yester-
day morning.
The Annie p. Silver, from st. Louis,
passed down last night for New Orleans
losded fiat.
"Mark Twain" (Sam Clements) is a pas
senger up on the Baton Rouge, which passes
up to-day.
Signal service report: River % feet 7
inches-decline of l inch during the "a hours
ending :0S pm. yesterday.
The City of Greenville departed yesterday
morning for Vicksburg. She added here 10
tons miscellaneous freight.
If the Katie Hooper does not arrive from
Arkansas river in time to-day the Plow Boy
will be sent out in her place.
The wind-storm yesterday evening shook
up things lively down about the wharf, but
no damage was done as far as heard from.
Mrs. L. A. Jameson, mother of Bob
Jameson, bill clerk for Captain Lightburne's
agency, was a passenger out on the Vint
Shinkle last night.
Tho H II. Bonner took the yisiti.s, ..,-ai-
dow
afternoon. The quarantine station was one
of the points visited.
Two cyclones in one day, as experienced
yesterday, is calculated to put ones nervous
organization to pretty severe test. But we
are still in the ring, though somewhat nerv-
GUS.
Local Inspectors Garrett and Ralston
leave for Helena on an inspection tour. They
will ''go through" the Argo and Eagle at
that point, and probably extend their trip to
Arkansas City, where the Canary No. will
be interviewed.
The Vint Shinkle got away after the storm
last night with 745 bales cotton, 600 sacks
cotton-seed meal, 81 bundles hides, 20 pack
ages sundries, 10000 feet lumber and As pas
sengers, nearly all the latter through to Gin
cInnati The gentleman from Kentucky"
says he's "not attenuated, but fat"
New Orleans Times Democrat, Monday
"Among the boats that have been paying
wharfage for some time past, under protest,
are those of the Anchor Line. Saturday the
collector of these dues refused to receive the
money that way, and the boat refusing TO
pay except under protest, has been sued"
A correspondent of the New Orleans
Times Democrat telegraphs that paper from
Baton Rouge, on the 9TH, as follows: "The
| City of Baton Rouge arrived at a. M
| Natchsz behind, Jesse X. Bal distanced.
| This makes the time of the City of Baton
| Rouge to Baton Rouge 10 hours, so minutes
and 80 seconds, beating her former run two
hours, "a minutes and 80 seconds, and thai
OF the City of New Orleans two hours, fom
| minutes and 80 seconds. Captain Bixby
has evidently started in to give his distiE'
guished friend, Mark Twain, faster ride
| up the river than he has ever enjoyed be-
| fore"
Cincinnati Gazette, Monday: at will b.
| remembered that early on the morning O
| February 9TH the Katie Slockdsle collidec
with the disabled towboat Evan Williams
which was in tow of the B. D. Wood, abou
a mile above Pike Island, and the Stockdals
| was damaged $1,000, besides a loss of forty
| days time in repairing. William Holloway
| was pilot of the Stockdale, and Louis K
j Zoles was pilot of the B. d. Wood. The
United States local inspectors at Wheeling
| have suspended the license of Zoles fol-
thirty days, because he sounded his whistle
first on the upstream boat, by reason o.
which the collision is said to have occurred