Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-07
GENERAL NEWS.

Business faIr yesterday.
The April shower yesterday morning was
good wharf sanitarian.
The Z. w. Cole, Captain William Ashford,
is reported laid up at New Orleans.
Receipts by river yesterJayJ 90 bales cot
ton, 2 bags seed cotton, and 90 sacks cotton
seed.
The sandbar on the point opposite Fort
Pickering is showing up, while the water
| still covers the point.
The Cons Millar arrived from Cincinnati
yesterday afternoon with 400 tons freight
| She returns this evening.
The Coahoma, out for Friars Point yestef-
| day, had a splendid trip of freight, as did
also the Dean Adams, for Arkansas City.
Signal Service report: River 80 feet IL
| inches-decline of inches during the "a
hours ending LOS pm. yesterday, making 8
feet inch below the highest point reached.
The w. p. Halliday, four and half days
out from New Orleans, passed up for St
Louis yesterday morning with 500 tons of
freight, discharging here a small lot freight
The Sic. GeneYieve, in from St. Louis
yesterday morning, had 1924 packages of
freight for Memphis, and returned yesterday
evening with 300 bales eastern-bound cotton
The c. B. Reese, which went down as far
as Luna Landing distributing government
rations, returned yesterday. She laid here
last night, and will return to St. Louis this
morning.
The towboat John A. Wood, with string
OF empties, arrived from New Orleans yester-
day morning and stopped on the opposite
shore cleaning boilers. She had not moved
at dark last night.
The towboat w. w. O'Neal, with tow of
empty barges, is. reported lying at the bank
about four miles above Terrene, with her
machinery disabled. The details OF the
damage are not known.
James III. R9es's new boat for the Cincin-
natl and New Orleans trade will be 800 feet
long, As feet beam, Al feet floor, feet hold,
new engines q inches in diameter, 10 feet
stroke, five steel boilers 46 inches in diane
ter, hues, and wheel Is feet.
The General Bernard Is down from st.
Louis, with another big load of government
rations, together with lot of private con-
trlbutions from citizens of St. Louis. She
distributed some bttween Cairo and Mem
phis, and will leave this morning for points
below, perhaps as far as Vicksburg. About
100000 rations will be left here for Missis-
sippi and Tennessee sufferers.
The old stereotyped expressions will de-
part" "will leave" "wilt sail" etc, hitherto
used in announcing the movements of
steamers, won't apply when the new Anchor
sion. The one expression will fly" can only
convey The idea OF what's going to happen
when her propellers begin to disturb the
bosom Of Big Muddy. There was but one
man. aboard of ther who enjoyed the run
from Cairo to St. Louis, and he was bald
headed-all the others became so before
reaching St. Louis. She's bird of passage,
she Is, and don't you permit the truth of that
assertion to become obliterated from the
tablets OF your memory.
Louisville CouTier-Jolu mall "The unfortu-
nate disaster TO the Inflated Golden City, at
Memphis, is the first serious accident of the
kind which has taken place upon our South
ern or Western rivers for fifteen twenty
years, and, when we take into consideration
the serious nature OF the accident, the time
and place, the burning and sinking of the
huge vessel, the loss of life was comparatively
small. 1t was miracle that even a soul on
board escaped to tell the tale. In the mean
time we would call attention to the fact that,
during the past year or two, there have been
no less than twenty accidents upon railroads
IN this country, attended by greater loss of
life and property than the Golden City dis
aster. So far as loss of life and property is
concerned, there have been more serious
accidents upon the railroads in this country,
more people killed and crippled, more prop
erty destroyed in the past eighteen months,
than has been on all the steamboats, in the
West and South in the past twenty years,
and the reason there is no howl goes up
about an accident upon a railroad is simply
because they are so common that the people
are not surprised when they hear of one,
like they would be of a steamboat disaster,
which are so uncommon of late years. Give
the steamboats, a chance. Railroads can
take care of themselves"