Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-10-04

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little bender.
BUSINESS was good in spite of the con-
tinuous rains.
TENNESSEE river rose 5 inches at Chatta-
nooga yesterday.
CUMBERLAND river was stationary at
Nashville yesterday.
SIGNAL SERVICE report: River 2 feet II
inches-rise : inches yesterday.
THE Kate Adams leaves for Arkansas
City at 3 o'clock Friday evening.
THE r. S. Hays and barges passed up
for st. Louis yesterday morning.
THE upper Mississippi rose ] inch at
Davenport and Keokuk yesterday.
CAPT. Ed PosTAL's new steamer Chicka-
saw will raise steam at Pittsburg Saturday
TIE Thomas Sherlock is being got ready
for the Cincinnati and New Orleans trade.
BIT for the rain business would have
been unusually lively on the wharf yesterday.
CAPT. JoHS WooDBuRN, well known in
Memphis waters, is one of the pilots of the Webb
City.
RECEIPTS by river yesterday, 77S bales of
cotton, 4 bags of seed-cotton, and 223S sacks of
cotton seed.
ARKANSAS river rose 3 inches at Little
Rock yesterday, showing Il stage Of feet 3 inches
on the gauge.
CAPT. A. J. FLEsHER is building a large
Aatboat up the Ohio, to be used in loading ships
at New Orleans.
ARkANSAS river Is d IttI DelOW DtlCn
mark at Fort Smith, according to yesterdays
Signal Service report.
THE Montana, for New Orleans, passed
down yesterday evening, adding 60 tons to the 800
tons she left st. Louis with.
The Ohio shows rises of 10 inches at
Pittsburg, 2 inches each at Louisville and Cairo,
and stationary at Cincinnati.
THE Fannie Lewis passed down for
Vicksburg Yesterday afternoon, discharging 1873
packages OF freight, and adding Is tons.
nY- Dr. HI yooA
an the wharf yesterday. Mempfis hsiI.'s pur-
nellas would not get soiled in a walking-maIoA
up and down the levee.
rEDWARD EDWARDS came down IN charge
of the decks of the Webb City, but left her here
and returns to Louisville by rail to-day to come
out mate on some other boat.
SEVERAL boats were thrown considerably
behind time by the wind Tuesday night, but got
in port ali right. The Coahoma's departure for
Friars Point is deferred till 8 o'clock this evening
on account of delay by the storm.
THE Webb City, on her way from Louis
vile to Arkansas river, passed Cairo Monday,
full of freight, and arrived at this port yesterday
Company, and will start for that point this
morRing. She had 10 tons for Memphis, and a
good lot for Arkansas river.
THE Commonwealth arrived from st.
Louis yesterday morning, discharging 20 pack
ages, and adding 60 tons and 40 head Of horses;
Her pilots report the d. r. Powell still aground
at Tiptonville. They also founs 6 feet at Phil
lips's, Point Pleasant and at Tiptonville. She
left for Vicksburg late yesterday.
LOUISVILLE Post: "The log which SUM
the steamer Centennial is said to have been the
death Of some fifteen or twenty steamboats within
the last forty years, and pilots say it is a very bad
and St. Paul Packet Line. and is the second boat
lost by that, company within a week, the zen
City having been burned a few days since.
LOCAL Inspectors RALsToN AND BRAZEF
have reinstated Thaddeus Sederburg as frst-clas;
pilot between st. Louis and New Orleans. lie
: was refused a renewal oflicense in April, 1881, or
the ground Of intemperance, but flate he has re
} formed. ana ms PETITION Tor reinstatement wa;
, signed by tity-thrcc frst-class steamboatmen. II
' is hoped that Thad will stick to his promise, shur
liquor and command the respect of all steamboat
men.
SANTA FE New M~erican, Septembel
18th: ,.GopmodOre James 5; W Wi;E.e wifi
y &.Y. stevens, Of tho New Orleans, Chicago an,
is the Republican candidate for State Senate
5 from Cincinnati, and reports the canvass pro
ceeding successfully. The party was driven owe
Mrs. Maj. Tucker"
THE steamer John A. Scudder arrived a
= New Orleans on Friday last, having on board Al
: unknown white man who was specifies an
seemed to be in a dying condition. None of tn
: officers on the boat could give any informatiol
when the boat arrived at Memphis, on the 2lst,
men tool. passage for New Orleans, name
. Scattered; Mccormick and Lynch. He is not posi-
: tive which one of the three Is the sick man, bu
is under the impression it is Lynch.
The following gentlemen will com
South TINS lal with produce: Peter BentZ, VIC
- Hayman- Capt. VIM. Roberts, Charley Roberts
Capt. Thomas Alexander, Peter and JOSEF
Roush, Capt. Phil Elliott. Aft Douglass. Charlie
Crow and two others whose names are not mer
toned. Three from Riggs Landing, Messr
Clark, Riggs and Graham, will also tow. Tt
%towboats Dauntless and Jennie Campbell wi
probably do the towing for the above parties
John W. sayre will probably load 500 tons of pr,
duee on n large model barge of his if it can |
gotten home in time.
TIE allegations of the st. Louis and S
Paul Packet Company in the suit instituted
the United States Circuit Court against tho kei
= kuk and Hamilton Bridge Company for &c.,
~ damages to the steamer War Eagle in 1881, mr.,
4, That the accident occurred by the negligence an
Or mismanagcment of the bridge company; that d
bridge is not built parallel with the current. al
that the openings in the draw are not 100 feet
: the clear, as required by the act of Congress n
= thorizing its construction. The bridge is allegt
to be an obstruction to navigation. River me
= have long maintained that all bridges over Il
the suit will determine this question of liabili
D.. by accident at bridges. 1t is the first br1ugh
!, and will eventually be carried to the Unit,
y States supreme Court.
n TIIE Vicksburg correspondent of I'll
L. Commercial Gazette, writes October LIST: 1T
y, sufficient work to use up the 500. 900 appropriat,
at for the Nicksburg harbor expired last night. al
only $4,000 of the amount was used for dredgil
the harbor, leaving the balance, less the amou
. paid for the engineers, in the hands of the Xiv
Commission. As the work done so far by 4
> dredge was a total failure, there is no p~robabili
. of the time for its completion being extende
There is something over $4,000 yet unexpende
and it ought to be used in bringing the Yaz
u. river through Chickasaw bayou The survey n,
being made of the inner harbor, to determine he
y much il has filed since the last high water, W
u be completed to-day. This survey is made to
70 presented to the River Commission, now in 81
ny sion.'
o.; Successful Career Of n Good Boat.