Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-28
GENERAL NEWS.


Business quiet
Receipts by river yesterday, Is bales cotton.
The weather yesterday was the choicest
sample of the spring season.
Captain w. J. Ashford has laid the E. W.
Cole up at New Orleans, and returned home.
Tue w. P. Halliday passed up for ST.
Louis late Wednesday night with good up
trip.
Orleans yesterday, with four barges of slaves
in tow.
The City of Providence brought in good
list of passengers from Vicksburg yeste rday
evening.
Will johnson, formerly clerk on the Josie
Harry, is now clerk on the wharfboat at
Greenville, Miss.
The Dean Adams got in late Wednesday
night, and returned to Greenville yesterday
morning with good trip.
Signal service report: River % feet II
inches-decline, 3 inches during the "a hours
ending at l :08 pm. yesterday.
A colored roustabout, known by the name
of Pompey, fell overheard and drowned
from the Mary Houston, at Greenville, Satur-
day.
The Ste. Genevieve, in from ST. Louis yes
terday morning with 4544 packages of
freight returned in the afternoon with 500
bales cotton for reshipment at Cairo.
The Greenville Mssissippian, of Saturday,
contains an interesting announcement of the
marriage in that place last Wednesday of
Captain 3. +. Hughes, superintendent of the
wharfboat, and Miss Leila Manifold.
Mr.. Edward Atkinson's head is level when
he ridicules the making of wasteways or
outlets for the surplus waters of the Missis-
sippi river floods, and Endorses unqualihedly
the narrowing of the channel by mats and
levees.
The extreme Northwest is beginning to ex-
perience the results of rapid denudation of
forests and cultivation OF land, among the
first of which is extraordinary floods, similar
to the now perennial overflow in the Missis-
sippi valley.
The Paris G. Brown, on her fifth day out
from New Orleans, passed up for Cincinnati
yesterday afternoon with 800 tons of freight,
and barge in tow loaded with 100000 feet
of walnut lumber for Cairo. She had also
fair trip OF people.
Colonel VIM. Tracy, the well. known stew
ard who kept the tables of the City of
Helena groaDing with the fat of the land, is
now on the Belle Memphis, which passes
down TO day. Tracy's knowledge of the
anatomy of the human appetite is proverbial,
and folks must live high where he sojourns.
Cairo Bull tin, Tuesday: "In honor of the
new steamer City of Cairo, which arrived at
this port on her second trip yesterday after
noon, the flag was hoisted on the Democratic
fisg-pole on Ohio levee. The steamer came
into port flying the elegant set of colors pre-
sented her here on her first trip, and was
the observed of all Observers until after her
departure"
In 1875 a young man travelling on the
Vint Shinkle lost s. at a quiet game of
poker. The winner refusing to refund the
money, the loser complained to the boats
officers, whose sympathy for him Was found
to be lacking. AT Hswesville he went TO the
authorities, and Captain james Remission,
who was supposed to be in command OF the
boat, was indicted for permitting gambling.
1t happened, however, that Captain Kennis-
ton was not on the boat, and consequently he
paid no attention to the papers served on
him. The authorities, however, tried the
case, aud fined him 5000, which the governor
Of Kentucky promptly RENTED upon being
made aware of the circumstances. Some
one, it seems, has trumped up this old case
against "Old Tubular" for purposes I'M
known, and Saturday, as he was about to
leave for the Granite State, on which boat
he had secured passage to Memphis, he was
arrested in Newport, but released on bail
being promptly furnished.