Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-07-25
GENERAL NEWS.
Business as usual.


Weather very nice.
Receipts BY river since last report, 2 bales
cetton and 200 sacks seed.
Signal service report: River % feet 4
inches; decline 2 inches yesterday.
The City of Greenville got in from vicks-
burg at dark last night with light load.
The Pillow Boy takes the place of the Hard
Cash in White river, the latter laying up for
repairs.
The Andy Baum was detained at the
Louisville canal, and had not got in up to
dark last night.
The City of Helena, in from St. Louis
early yesterday morning, had 5947 packages
of freight. She returned in the evening with
light trip.
The City of Cairo addsd 20 tons and left
for Vicksburg Sunday morning. The Gold
Dust left for st. Louis the same day, doing
little or nothing here.
The City of Vicksb1rg arrived from st.
Louis yesterday evening on her way to
Vicksburg, for which point she lays over till
this morning. She discharged here $40
packages.
1.-THE canal was thrown open to navigation
at an early hour this morning, and with pre-
caution 1t can be kept clear of mud for some
time TO come"
The Annie p. Silver, out from New Orleans
little over four days, arrived Sunday
evening, her machinery being somewhat out
of order. She lay here till yesterday even
| ing making repairs, cleaning out, ETC., when
she continued her voyage to st. Louis.
The Granite State has been chartered
again by the Memphis and Ohio River
Packet Company, and will leave for the
| lower Ohio and Memphis this evening, with
Captain w. G. Tichenor in command and
Mr.. james Surtees in the ofice-says the
Cincinnati Gazette, of Saturday.
Captain Sam M'Pheeters is in command of
| the City of Vicksburg this trip in place of
Captain Bob Riley, who is enjoying his usual
summer excursion to the lakes and Eastern
cities, with all the fashionable Watering
places embraced in his schedule. New York
City, Rockaway Beach and Coney Island are
some of the points he win visit.
st. Louis Republican, Saturday: "A long
article in the Davenport Gasstte of Monday,
commenting on the prospects of . revival of
the sport of sculling on the upper Missis-
! sippi, contains description of q craft which
was built for Diamond Joe Reynolds's son,
| Blake, and il now ut the Eagle Point ways
| in Dubuque. As soon rs Blake returns from
| Hot Springs, Ark, he will take trip down
the Mississippi on the yacht"
The Paducah Times of Friday contains an
| interesting river column, from which we ex-
cerpt the following items about some of our
| or three weeks, as that length of time will be
| required to repair, caulk and paint. Captain
Denny O'Neal, the big, good-nstured coal
and ice man of Memphis, is in the city,
having come up with his friend and fellow
| pitcher, Captain Milt. Harry. Captain
Charles Reed, Colonel II. NJ. McCarty, Cap
tain Jim Browne and Mr.. George Irvan, and
Captain Milt. Harry and Mr.. Denny O'Neal,
of Memphis, go to the Illinois lakes on .
will take one little fshing-pole and about
five gallons of miscellaneous bait. Captain
Harry will send the broken shaft of the
| Josie Harry to New Albany for repairs. i
will probably 20 up on the vipt shinkle
Monday night"
"Walt" OF Cairo, writes the Cincinnati
| Commercial, under date of July 21st: "The
earthquake shock felt here Yesterday morn
ing, at sos O'Clock, was the heaviest felt
| were three shocks together, and they were
accompanied hy a rnmhling nsissy A. of cxre
going through tunnel. The unduIating
motion was from south-southwsst to north
northeast, and lasted altogether probably ten
seconds. People were wakened out of their
sleep by it, and loose articles ratified in the
houses but nothing was displaced. 1t il re-
ported a having been felt along the line of
the Illinois Central railroad as far as Du
Quoin, and it no doubt extended farther.
The telegraph operator at East Cairo thought
that locomotive Lad jumped the track and
went down in ditch. A man named George
Coonrod stole fatboat from q man at Mound
City and all the household goods that it con-
tanned, among which must be enumerated
the owners wife. The goods and the wife
were disposed Of, no one knows were, but the
| boat was sold here 10 4 man named Lee, in
whose hands the owner found it yesterday
Both these men are now on the hunt foI
Coonrod, with no probability of finding him
| soon.