Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-10-13
GENERAL MEMS

All boats ahoat are delayed BY fog.
Capt. John Hardin is confined to his home
by illness.
The Piasa has arrived with another tow
OF stone for paving the streets.
Signal Service report: River 6 feet z
inches-stationary yesterday.
The Ida Darraugh departed yesterday af-
ternoon for Arkansas river with a fair trip.
Receipts by river yesterday: al bales
cotton, bags seed-cotten, and 1927 sacks
seed.
At Cairo Monday the Montauk fouIed
some barges belonging to the Port Eads, and
in backing off lost her cabin and smoke
stack.
1t is thought that the new Auchor-Liue
steamer City of Natchez will prove to be
faster than the City of Baton Rouge or City
OF New Orleans, owing to her increased
length,
Stone at one end, salt pile in the center,
and sand and gravel at the other end, leaves
but little space on the wharf for receiving
and forwarding freight. Wharfage rates are
all the same, however.
Chris Langetrim, Waterman of the steamer
Arkansas City, was dangerously stabbed in
the left breast by Tom Jeffrey, negro,
whom he csught stealing freight off boat
at Cairo jeffrey is jailed. Lsngetrim died
from his wounds.
The petition praying for the reinstatement
of Pilot Dave Keller, who was at the Scio-
to's wheel when she was run down by the
Lomas, is being generally signed at Wheel
ing by captains and pilots, who believe an
injustice was done.
Notwithstanding the new locks are closed
at Louisville, the Memphis packets will con-
tinue TO run along as usual. They can go
through the old locks without any trouble.
The u. =. Schenck will remain at the foot of
the canal until it is open for business.
David NJ. Gilky, former mate, but of
late employed as Waterman OF the Katie
Stockdale, fell overheard from that boat
Monday night, short distance above Steu-
benvllle, and was drowned. Deceased was
we'll known IN Pittsburg and at Cincinnati,
and was upward OF so years of age and
unmarried.
London Public Opinion: 'sThe use of high
steam pressures is increasing in the merean-
tile marine. The Albertine, steamer re-
Gently fitted with engines by Messrs. Douglas
& Grant, Kircaldy, has boilers which have
been tested to pressure of 300 pounds per
square inch, and which are intended TO work
a $50 pounds"
New Orleans Picdysle, Sunday: "Steam-
boats are commencing 10 have trouble with
the niger again. The Henry Frank, which
left Friday, had to pay $40, and the Yazoo
Valley aud Silver City yesterday had to
pay $50, the Yszoo Valley only getting II
men-about one-third the required number
at that price,"
ST. Louis Republican, Wednesday: "Having
entered the st. Louis and New Orleans
Anchor Line, the elegant steamer David r.
Powell will leave that company's wharf
| boat, foot of Market street, at o'clock pm.
to day for New Orleans. Capt. r. j. Wit
| ledge will command the Powell, and we be-
speak for him and his fine boat = hearty
| welcome down South"
st. Louis Globe Democrat, Wednesday: "The
poor old City of Alton, after a service of
| twenty years, is 10 be dismautled. She is
nearly as good as ever in the eyes of her
many friends, and il is with feeling of sor-
row that her demise is referred to- There
| will probably never be another City of Alton,
either in name or quality, but her many fine
records will always be pointed to with pride,
and her profits are on the right side of the
| ledger"
| Pilot Chapman and Mr.. Harleston, the
latter mail agent, both of whom were on the
| Pillow Boy when she suuk, arrived yesterday
| on the Dean Adams. According to their
statements, no one was hurt by the accident
excepting Pilot Chapman, who, while aiding
Capt. Smith in securing line to check the
boat as she hoated down the stream, was
struck in the side by hog-chain which
slipped off the brace. His injuries are quite
serious, though not dangerous.
| Cincinnati Tfnles-Star, TIL rsdsy: "The
Rene Macready is getting good freight trip
| for Memphis and ST. Francis river, and
leaves tonight without fail. Messrs. Lew
| Shragg and Charles Purcell will be her
| pilots. Capt. AL Randall and Clerk Joplin,
of the Rene Macready, speak in high terms
| of praise OF the ability. 4 steamboat
builder, of Capt. Sam Coffin, owner OF the
Covington ways. Capt Colin is a young
man and is proving success in his line of
/ calling He has built one boa, for Capt
Randall, rebuilt another, and just repaired
the Macready."
| Cincinnati Gazette, Wednesday: "Consid.
cradle anxiety was caused at Fulton yesfer-
day by a report 1.-THE source of which we
| were unable to learn) that another boiler
| explosion had occurred on the United States
suagboat E, A. Woodruff, between Cincinnati
| and Louisville. Most of the employees on
the Woodruff reside in Fulton. The Wood
ruff passed through the canal at Louisville
last Thursd4y night and is, therefore, not
between Cincinnati and Louisville. Besides,
Col. Merrill. of the United States Engineer
Corps, having control OF the Woodruff, had
heard nothing of the report last evening,
| which indicates that il was groundless.n'
A dispatch from Aurora, Ind, of the 10th,
says. ME- l.. 44ylOf, SISTER OIL tue ue-
ceased, has Just received intelligence of the
death of Capt. Hiram l. Dean, which oc-
CURED at his residence, in Mansfield, DeSoto
parish, La, on the Sd instant, at u 80 O'clock
| am. His disease was typhoid malaEial
fever. Capt. Dean was for long time a
citizen OF Aurora, and q prominent river
man. He was brother of Capt. Thompson
Dean. He will be remembered as an old
time clerk and ommander on the Dean Line
of Cincinnati and Memphis packets before
and during the war. He commanded lhA
Neptune when she SUNK il The - =;
| WA highi- - CIarksville bridge, and
! 10y esteemed by all who knew him. u
| The st. Louis Republican Wednesday:
Several weeks ago there Was reshipped on
the steamer Hudson from Cairo, by the Andy
Baum, SO barrels of oil for this port. Uror
her arrival here the Hudson was seized by
Collector Whitney, who claimed that the on
was Illuminating oil, and that in carrying