Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-25
GENERAL NEWS.

Business dull.
Receipts 20 bales cotton and III sacks of
cotton-seed.
The Josie Harry was left in charge of the
Memphis wharf last night
Weather continues unsettled, attended by
more pleasant temperature.
Signal Service report: River IS feet 2
inches-decline inches yesterday.
The John Dippold and barges passed up
for St. Louis laIe Wednesday night.
The Annie P. Silver passed down early
yesterday morning with good trip of freight
for New Orleans.
The st. Genevieve got in from St. Louis
yesterday with $3.50 packages of freight, and
returned in the afternoon.
Captain Charley Russell, of the Cons
Millar, who has been seriously ill of typhoid
fever, is slowly improving.
The Paris c. Brown passed down last night
for New Orleans with a good trip. She put
off here 800 packages OF freight and added
big lot of miscellaneous freights.
The steamer Vint Shinkle, being detained
by bad weather, will not arrive until Friday
evening, and will leave on return trip Satur-
day, 10Th instant, at o'clock pm, giving an
excursion to meet steamer Cons Millar at or
near Cairo, and steamer Gaff near Evansville
1t is rumored that the Mississippi River
Commission has under consideration the
question of employing convict labor on the
levees, with majority decidedly against
such employment and in favor of drawing
for laborers exclusively from the people
along the river, who have been impoverished
by the overdows.
Cincinnati Commercial: "Where discord
once existed, harmony now prevails. The
officers and crew of the Robert Fulton have
agreed to engage Miss Reese w. Dngan as
chambermaid, to complete the vessels COM
pliment in the Exposition pageant. 1t is
fortunate that Alex Montgomery arrived
from st. Louis in time to pour oil on the
troubled waters, else there might have been
an opposition boat put in the procession"
The Red river steamboa tmen have entered
a decided protest against the proposed
changes in that stream as Indicated IN the
proceed iugs of the River Commission. They
are in favor of Captain Eads's proposition of
placing sili across Old river, between the
Red and Atchafalaya, snd forcing the waters
OF Red river into the Mississippi. This plan
Injuries no one, and improves the mouth Of
Old or Red river, and gives a deep-water
channel through Old river.
st Louis Republican, Wednesday: eve are
compelled at last 10 make the painful an
nouncement of the death of Captain Lem
S. Gray, which sad event occurred Monday
years OF age, and had been employed on the
river since boyhood. He will be buried to-
day at o'clock pm. from the residence OF
his brother-in-law, Captain A. j. Carter, on
the south side OF Ashland avenue, second
house east of Taylor avenue. His remains
will be inferred in Bellefontaine Cemetery"
Vicksburg is about to be left without any
steamboat landing at all, as indicated in the
following from the Commercial of Tuesday:
gG1sI- ll1I
the lower landing last season when there was
20 feet on the gauge; this leaves IL inches
of fall, which which will only require two
more days for the river to reach the lowest
possible point that the wharfboat can re-
main. The outlook for merchants to transact
business at the lower landing is anything
but a favorable one. The street railroad
has given notice that they will handle
neither freight nor cotton. Pearl street
is in no condition, owing to the railroad
track, to be used for heavy teams. The hill
from Fair Ground street is nothing but
mud bank. The route by which the land
ing at Kleinslon can be reached is down
Levee street, which to the com press has been
rocked, and with slight repairs could be
made 6rst-class street. From the compress
down to Fair Ground street the city should
either plank or rock at once, and from there
TO the landing no doubt private donation
WOuIu COmpiele. Ine eOOueF Iuere Is eOlne-
thing done looking 10 putting this route in
order the better it will be for the business
interests of the city, as the Pearl street route
Is a failure of the first water. The City
Council will probably at some future day
repair Crawford street to Washington"
communication signed "Pilots,n written
from New Orleans last Saturday to the St.
Louis Globe Democrat, says: "Iu the matter
of government lights on the Mississippi river
between ST. Louis and New Orleans we wish
at this time 10 speak. The pilots have keen
asked by the Lighthouse Board, or through
The inspector Of the Fifteenth district, TO
name the number of additional lights that
will make the lighting of the river perfect.
The number asked for is $50 or $50 new
lights in the territory above named. In YER
bal answer they have been informed that the
appropriation for this year does not exceed
that OF last, and whenever at this time new
light is asked for (where one is badly needed),
the cry is that the appropriation is not SUI
6cient to allow it. In conversation with
some of the government. officers here who
have charge OF such matters elsewhere and
of much greater magnitude, they only laugh
this to scorn. Now II becomes the duly Of
all persons interested in this to urge upon
Congress larger appropriation for this
river in the coming years. The Board OF
Underwriters, the Merch ants Exchange and
the various transportion companies are the
ones interested the most, and should by their
efforts induce our representatives In Congress
10 make this system PERFECTION 1t is the
best government improvement to-day, until
some others are developed. Hoping that