Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-07-21
GENERAL NEWS,

business lair.
WEATHER overwhelmingly torrid-no ques.
ton about 1t.
RECEIPTS yesterday, so bales of cotton, 1873
sacks of cotton-seed.
TIKI John A. Wood, with q tow of empty
coal barges, passed up for the Ohio yesterday,
The Arkansas City cleared for st. Louis,
with Is tons OF way business taken on here.
The Will S. Hays goes TO Paducah to be
remcdeled into a cotton carrier for the lower
coast trade.
The City Of Providence, down for Vicks-
burg, discharged here 1884 packages, and
added 10 tons for points below.
The Will Kyle passed down for New Or
leans yesterday evening with about 1900
tons, sfter discharging 1873 packages here.
The propeller Central CITY, from S.. Louis
yesterday morning, had 1888 packages for
Memphis. She was in port at dark last night,
RoUsTABoUT labor on the Mississippi river
above Cairo is getting scarce now that the
wheat harvest is progressing 10 that section
OF the country.
Nh. w. ii. RICHARDSON and wife are
among the passengers coming to this city on
the Anchor-Line steamer Arkansas City, due
f'om Vicksburg to-day.
THE Andy Baum got away for Cincinnati
yesterday evening with 290 bales of cotton,
rs bales of rags, a good lot of miscellaneous
freight and a fine showing OF passenger.
CAPT. WILLIAMS, of the Missouri river
steamer DAkots, on the last trip down TO st.
| Louis, reports that river falling all the way
down, and he does not look for any more
high water, as the SHOWS in, the mountsirs
are melted.
EVANSVILLE Journal, thursday: aThe con-
tract was signed yesterday for building a new
sternwheel towbost, to run from Red river to
New Ofleans, and to tow barges loaded with
~cottop-seed. The hull will be 135 feet long,
"a foot beam and 81 foot bold, wheel II feet
in diameter and 19-foot buckets"
DICK CARRoLL, nate of the steamer City
of New Orleans, did some quick work with
his crew on her last trip up from New Or.
leans. Having for Lower Providence planta-
ton 8 large boilers and fully 100 pieces of
heavy c~aslipgs, he succeeded in putting them
all off the boat in ] hour and 10 minutes by
the watch.
THE Charles d. Shaw, a pretty little new
sternwheel steamer, built by Bsrmore, OF
Jacksonville, passed Evansville Wednesday.
She will take the place of the Red Stock,
now running between y atchez and 81. Joseph,
on the Mississippi. Her captain said he
would probably extend her trips from Natchez
to Hard Times or VIcksburg.
THE Supervising Inspector General of
Steamboats, has received reports Tor the lsst
half of the fscal year from the Fourth, Fifth,
Seventh and Eighth steamboat districts. The
balance will arrive in a few days, when a
statement OF the Casualties an ! accidents for
the past year will be prepared. Inspector
Fehrenbatch's report is the only one yet re.
ceived showing a loss Of life, and that but
two. The large reduction in the number of
Academia is very gratifying, as it shows the
high de rec of perfection attained in the ser
vice.
SPEAKING Of the expiration Of the agree
ment July LIST between the boats tn at corsti-
tute the big 90" line, the Evansville Journa
ventures to hope that they will start out IN
the fall with a new organic ,tion and a good
season, aud applies TO their case the advice
given by the Apostle Paul to Galatians
"For, brethren, ye lave been called unto lib.
eriy; only use not liberty for an occasion 10
The flesh, but by love serve one another. For
all the Law is fulfilled in one word, even
thus: thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy.
self. But if ye bite and devour one another
take heed that We do net consume one
another. Let Us not be DESTROYS of vair
glory, provoking one another, euvying Que
another"