Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-04
GENERAL NEWS.

ALL aboard Tor Salt rlvah.
Several hard showers yesterday did good
sanitary work on the wharf.
Receipts by river yesterday, 80 bales cot
ton and 56 sacks of cotton-seed.
Signal service report: River Is feet 6
inches-decline inches yesterday.
Mr.. James Surtees has resumed his place
as chief clerk of the james w. Gaff.
The James w. Calf got in from Cincinnati
yesterday about noon with 800 tons freight
and some passengers.
The Will Kyle, Captain Law Hates, passes
down this evening at 4 o'clock for Vicksburg,
New Orleans and all way landings.
The st. Genevieve arrived from st. Louis
yesterday with 2746 packages, and returned
in the afternoon with the usual upstream
way trip.
The Oakland, from st. Louis, passed down
at 6 o'clock yesterday evening with seven
barges in tow aggregating 10000 tons OF
freight. She is destined to New Orleans.
The City of Baton Rouge, which left here
about noon Wednesday for st. Louis, got
aground in the chute at Island 30. causing
her to lose about 10 hours. The james w.
Gaf, which arrived yesterday, reported pass
ing her at Plum Point going up ali right.
We were importuned something less than
q hundred times yesterday to.exercise nrr
elective franchise, and regret tina. we were
unable to respond as often. We, as a rule,
vote early and as often as our conscience and
the poll officials will let us.
The Southern Transportation Company
filed articles of incorporation in Newport,
KY, Saturday. The incorporates are M. V.
DAILY, Alexander Montgomery, Louis Hates,
James Nichols and Harry w. Stein. The
capital stock is $4,000.
There was but little doing on the levee
Yesterday, the interest of the day being the
county election in which the rouster and the
commodore were on an equal footing = the
vote of one counting equally as much as
that Of the other. This is the only court in
life that will admit of paraphrase of the
old and familiar legend, Death levels all
ranks"
Vicksburg Herald, Wednesday: "The
steamer City of Alamo arrived here at IL
o'clock m. yesterday, having come all the
phia, where she has Just been built, en- route
to La Crosse, Wis, where she will enter a
trade. She has an iron hull, and is as
staunch as they make 'em.' She Is COM
manded by Captain Jacob Hickman"
Vicksburg Commercial Wednesday: "From
Pilots Lem and Ed Gray, of the Gold Dust,
we get some interesting items in regard to
the river. At Mayersville there has been a
fall of at least 10 feet. At Ajax bayou, be-
low Providence, the channel now runs on the
Mississippi side. Last season, at the present
stage OF water, steamers could not go up;
now there is no bottom. There is change
in the channel at Stack Island; steamers can
now take either the chute or down the Louis
lana shore. There is no water at Bale Shed.
At Cottonwood Point Landing there is bar
forming, the landing is moved down about
one-half mile. The government feet that
has been lying at Wilson Point is being
moved 10 Postum Point. Many of the gov
ernment lights require moving at once, and
should receive attention. Many, and some
very dangerous snags are now coming up,
and the safety of steamers demand that the
snagboat should commence work at once"
st. Louis Globe Democrat: captain Billy
Mcclellan, OF the Barge-Line, is iust now
superinte nding the construction OF the
lsrgesl tug on the Mississippi river. She is
TO have hull ITO feet long, 20 feet beam
and 10 feet hold, engine 20 by 20, working q
screw wheel feet q inches in diameter; she
will have two steel boilers, As inches diane
ter, % feet long and 10 fues. The hull was
built at Metropolis and shipped in sections
to the Wood Preserving Company in South
st. Louis, where 1t will undergo the patent
process of that concern. This is done as a
test by the Barge-Line people, and if success
full the timber of all crafts built in the future
will be subjected to it. After the process has
been gone through with the timber work will
be sent back TO Metropolis, where it will come
out pretty tug named the George n. Rea
after the ex-president of the line. Captain
mU6feff1u, IL thUugnr, viii oozauzand 49,
new craft temporarily, and his reputation or
the tug Rescue is gilt-edge."