Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-15
GENERAL NEWS {.

business lar.
Receipts by river yesterday SO bales cotton.
The Tiger departed last evening for St.
Francis river with good trip.
The Raymond Horner and tow Of empties
passed up for the Ohio after dark last even
ing.
The City of Greenville departed yesterday
morning fer Vicksburg. She added 10 tons
freight here.
The Piasa, with tow OF empty barges,
departed last evening for Chester after more
stone for pvving purposes.
Jesse Nichols, son of jam es Nichols, pilot
of the Thomas Sherlock, has been elected a
member OF the Cincinnati and New Orleans
Pilots Association.
The City OF Vicksburg departed yesterday
evening for St. Louis, after adding here AS
900 feet walnut and ash lumber and 200 bales
eastern-bound cotton.
The lighthouse tender Joseph Henry,
from New Orleans. passed up yesterday
evening for st. Louis. She is paying off
light-keepers and furnishing them with oil.
The Andy Baum departed last evening
for Cincinnati with 400 bales cotton, 100 bar
rels oil, 81 barrels tallow, 800 sacks oil-meal,
% bales paper stock and 10000 feet walnut
lumber, and fair list OF people.
The Emma Ethridge had the misfortune
to get her chimneys knocked down while
passing through Cow Island chute 20 miles
below, Monday evening, but got them up
again without much loss of tiue.
The towboat s. L. Wood, en- route from the
Ohio with tow of coal for Southern points,
left her tow at the island above, and came
down TO the wharf to make some needed re-
pairs. She will probably get away to-day.
The vernal equinoxes are near at handi
and a season of stormy weather, with rain or
snow accompauiments, is almost sure. Ii
NAV not be expelled for day or two, as the
barometrical premonitiops indicate fair
weather during the next twenty-four hours
or two.
Signal service report: River 80 feet
inches-,lecline l inch during the "a hours
ending at :0S pm. yesterday. ID, clines are
reported at ali points above and below, ex-
cept a rise of > inches at Cairo snd l inch
at New Orleans. The indications are that
the present food is preparing to bid the dem
liens final, and it is hoped, eternal adieu.
A letter received by Captain Thomas Rees,
and dated Barauquilla, s. A, February 18th,
states that the river Magdalena is lower than
for years. and that all the English and Ger
man built craft are either tied up or snagged,
the Pittsbnrg steamers being the exception,
and the Calisto being the only boat able to
keep up the trade of the river at one point.
The local packets have about as much as
they can do carrying free rations for the
overflow sufferers. By the way, is it exactly
right TO accept this generosity on the part OF
the marines? 1t does not occur to this chron-
icer that one party should be impoverished
for the benefi of another. If there is neces-
sity for government aid for these sufferers,
the government would not have to go much
further to provide means for sending the as
sistance to the distressed localities. Steam
boatmen should be reimbursed by Congress
for this work.
There's going to be drowning match in
which compositor is going TO play briet
but successful star engagement. This end oil
the APPEAL yesterday attempted to repeat
Will S. Hays's reasons for not growing fat
over the luxuries he had been INDUCING IN
during his pleasure trip on the Reuben R.
| Springer, in which he plead that be twas
married-didn't marry an orphan, but had q
mother-in-law," etc, and the composition saw
| proper to use-perhaps to him the synonym
-,rorried for married And then, again, the
| departure Of the Emma" Etheridge was an
nounced, which appeared in print Anna
Etheridge. o, for lunch composed of dyrc.
| mite thickened with matches for proof read
| ers and compositors 10 feed on.
RIVERS AND WEATHER.
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