Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-21
GENERAL MEMS.

The weather continues delightful.
Captain Pete Macarthur, of the Milt Harry,
was in Little Rock Monday.
Signal service report: River % feet 4
inches-decline inches during the "a hours
ending 0S pm. yesterday.
The Josie Harry will arrive out of White
river this morning, and begin receiving for
her return tomorrow evening.
The Vint Shinkle arrived from Cincinnati
late yesterday afternoon with 1858 packages
of freight, including a considerable amount
Of flour and meal.
The Paris c. Brown, while in a fog near
Cave-in-Rock, backed her wheel into the
bank, breaking it badly, and was detained
several hours repairing.
The Ste. Genevieve in from st. Louis yes
terdsy morning with 6783 packages of
freight, returned during the evening with
400 bales Eastern bound cotton.
The Guiding Star, from Cincinnati, passed
down FOR New Orleans yesterday afternoon
with a heavy load on, adding here about 20
tons of sundries, including 2 bales cotton.
Captain Kallaher was not satisfied with
the way the mud was being removed from
the wharf, and pnt his waterworks into COM
mission, from which we expect to hear a
good report.
The City of Providence arrived from ST.
Vicksburg and way points, but nothing for
Memphis. She passes on down at 10 o'clock
this morning.
Persons desiring to visit the Cincinnati
musical festival have the opportunity to do
SO at special rates on a comfortable steamer
the Vint Shinkle-which leaves Memphis
Tuesday, May 9th. and arrives at Cincinnati
Tuesday, 10th, the opening day of the festi-
val and remains until Saturday, 10th.
While launching the new tug Central City
at Cuttings ship-yard, Metropolis, late Satur-
day evening, several of the cradles gave way,
letting the hull drop, and several of the
death. The Gus Fowler afterward pulled
her into the river uninjured. The tug is
built for the Illinois river, owned by Hillard
4 West, and is the largest ever built at the
yards.
A dispatch from st. Louis says: at is
reported and believed in steamboat circles
that Captain Bueson has sold the Montana
to Captain George Keith and some Kansas
City parties, and that she will enter the st.
Louis and Kansas City trade under COM
mand of Captain Keith. The Centennial
will be here in the morning and enter the
st. Paul trade at once.
Cincinnati Gazette, Wednesday: "The City
of Ironton has quit. Cause, losing money.
She left for Ripley last evening to lay up
There was party here from Vicksburg not
long ago to purchase third interest in her
and take her South, but her owners would
sell all or none. We have heard it limited
that Captain Holloway has sold his interest
in her to Superintendent Mccullough, of the
United States Mail-Line Company, and that
she may run between Carrollton and Louis
vile after che is overhauled."
Morgan Transportation Company, of New
i,f he Ia Of artf 81
ration filed in the clerks office of Campbell
county, KY, Tuesday. The incorporates
are VIM. II. Thompson, Albert Stein, Harry
w. Stein and Paris G. Brown, and the stock
holders are the owners of the steamer Charles
Morgan. The capital stock is 81 900, di-
vided into shares of 500 EACH and the gen.
eral nature OF the business to be done is the
charterIpg, buying, owning, running and
selling of one or more steamboats, and barges
in the transportation of freight and passen-
gers on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
The company will go into operation imme-
dIately.
A dispatch from New Albany, Ind, re-
ceived at the APPEAL Office last night an
nounces the death of Captain Robert Bald
win, probably the oldest steamboatmsn
living, at his residence in that city last night.
He was born four miles below Pittsburg, on
Chartres creek, and was eighty-one years of
= .
and during his career as steamboatman he
built, owned and commanded some of the
largest, finest and best boats on the Western
and Southern waters. He was the father of
Captain Nat Baldwin, well known engineer
and commander, and Robert Baldwin, clerk
in the Henderson Packet Line. The deceased
was a man OF excellent character and was
highly respected by all who knew him.
New York Daily Indicator: 'Some of the
reports by engineers who have made SUI
veys Of creeks and harbors, ordered by the
river and harbor act of the last session of
Congress, are amusing and likewise instruct
i've a. to how the South goes in for the old
aag-and an appropriation The engineer
who has examined Old Town creek, Miss.,
says: Il suppose a box drain twelve inches
square wouidreadily pass all the water that
was flowing in the creek when 1 saw it, The
cost of improving Crystal river, Fla, is es-
timated at S1l5, 900, most of which must be
expended in excavating 10000 cubic yards
OF rock in order TO make channel six feet
deep. The river is ten miles long. On the
other hand, the yearly shipments which
make up the commerce of that region are
100 bales of cotton, fifty barrels of sugar,
fifty barrels of syrup, and a little fruit. The
! cost of removing bar in Crooked river,
Fla, is reported at $4,000, and the COM
merce' to be benefited consists of two saw
mills"
The Late Captain John w. Cannon.
The Cincinnati Gazette, Of "Wednesday,
prints the following brief but truthful
Biographical sketch Of this famous Western
steamboat owner and commander: Captain
John W. Cannon, the king of western boat
men, is dead. His was busy life