Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-05
GENERAL NEWS .

Receipts by river yesterday, 20 bales cot
| ton.
The Tiger departed last evening for St.
| Francis river with good trip.
The Josie Harry departed last night for
| White river with big trip and full of people.
Captain James Lee, sr., went up on the
Coahoma yesterday evening to Osceola.
The Annie p. Silver, from st. Louis, passed
down yesterday evening for New Orleans
| loaded fiat
The Gold Dust arrived from Vicksburg
| Yesterday afternoon. She goes 10 st. Louis
this morning.
The Oakland and barges passed down yes
terday evening for New Orleans. She
| dropped loaded barge here.
The John b. Maude arrived yesterday
morning from st. Louis, with 7647 packages
| OF freight for this place and returned again
last evening.
The Josie Harry yesterday took out, free
OF charge, a lot of government supplies for
the sufferers by the overflow on the Missis-
| sippi and White rivers.
Among the passengers out on the Josie
| Harry yesterday evening were Colonies Hugh
Brinkley and Sam Tate, who go to Little
Rock by way OF Devalls Bluff.
Master James Speed Lightburne, a bright
| lad of ten summers, son OF Captain X. w.
| Lightburne, visited the APPEAL editorial
rooms last evening, accompanied by his
| father.
The mother of Captain NJ NJ Deems,
chief clerk of the Andy Baum, is reported
| quite i'll at her residence in Charlestown, w.
| Va, and the captain has been summoned TO
her bedside.
Signal service report: River 35 feet s
inches decline / inch during the "a hours
ending ;os pm. yesterday. Excepting the
| light rises reported in the upper Mississippi,
the rivers are declining at all points, with
nothing in sight to prevent the early abate-
ment of the food.
The Ohio river having subsidized from its
season of extraordinary aquatic tantrums,
| the Memphis and Ohio river packets have
resumed regular trips. The Cons Millar
| will arrive in time to leave for Cincinnati at
sharp o'clock Tue sday evening next. All
the other packets will follow in their regular
| rotation.
A telegram from New Orleans last night
announces the arrival of the City of Baton
Rouge, and the following incident in that
connection: Among the names tof passen-
gers on the steamer City of Baton Rouge
was Captain John A. Scudder, president of
the company this magnificent steamer so
creditably represents"
New Orleans Times Democrat, Friday:
"There seems to be a good many Millers
had in this city Arthur Miller, of the Sam
Roberts; Harry Miller, of the U. P. Schenck !;
Natural and Anderson Miller, of the Saline,
and Charles, Elliott and Frank Miller OF
the New Mary Houston"
ST. Louis Post Dispatch editorial: "The
proposition to establish life-saving stations
along the Mississippi river, similar to those
on the Atlantic coast, is a most excellent one.
| A few regiments of trained men with boats
strung along the river from the mouth of the
Missouri to the jetties would be able to rem
der great service in rescuing people from
burning and sinking steamers, and IN carry
ing off inhabitants from inundated districts
In their spare moments they could be en-
ployed in shoveling dirt and patching up the
broken levees."
j A correspondent writes the Cincinnati
4 Commercial FROM Memphis as follows:
/ "This howl about the overflow is overdone.
| / was brought up almost among the over
flows, and l have to say that save in the loss
of cattle this one upon us is the poorest ex-
cuse for one of any former flood. There is
some distress, to be sure, there always is
and always will be, but really there is
scarcely a neighborhood that cannot easily
take care OF its pauper population. Many
here believe the free distribution of rations
by the government will have demoralizing
tendency, and really do more harm than
good"