Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-03-20
GENERAL NEWS.


The Commonwealth passed up Sunday
morning for st. Louis.
MAJ. JOHN d. ADAMS and Capt. james
Rees, jr, are in the city.
CAPT. WIN +. MCINTYRE is a rouHd trim
passenger on the Guiding Star
HE Failure City and barges passed down
Sunday morning for New Orleans.
The ID. r. Powell passed up Sunday for
ST. Louis. she put off here 439 packages CT freight
The Coahoma, Capt. Henry Cooper, left
yesterday evening for Paducah to go on the ways.
RECEIPTS by river yesterday, GIT bales of
cotton, ISL bags of seduction and II 40 SKIS seed
THE City of New Orleans passed down
early sunday morning with big trip for New
The City of Cairo passed down Sunday at
noon for Nicksburg she put of here 2l22 pack
ages Of freight and added 40 tons.
SIGNAL SERVICE report: River % feet 9
inches-decline l foot inches yesterday, and 8
feet inch since Saturdays report
The new Anchor Line stesmer CITY of St.
Louis will start out from st. Louis on her first
voyage TO New Orleans tomorrow evening.
CAPT. PETE MACARTHUR, of the upper
White river steamer Milt Harry arrived from Flor
friend.
THE Cons Millar, Capt. Jos. D. Miller,
of miscellaneous freight for this place and will
leave this evening for Cincinnati
GEN n. J. HUNT, Col. F. L. Guuther and
Capt. Z. 8. Dudley, army officers quartered at
Newport Barracks, were passengers down on the
Guiding Star yesterday, en- route to Florida.
CAPT. THos. 4. FOSTER, late pilot of the
Coahoma, has been promoted to the command OF
the Dean Adams, which has taken the place of
the Coahoms in the Memphis and Osceola trade.
THE Golden Rule arrived las! evening
for New Orleans, days and 20 hours out, with 700
tons of freight and good trip of people, She put
of here rs tons of misc laneous freight and added
$50 bales of cotton and left last evening for Gin
cinnau.
The Guiding Star, from Cincinnati, passed
down yesterday evening for New Orleans with a
full load and a good trip Of passengers. She re-
fused freight above here. she put of here 700
packages OF freight, and added 200 barrels Of flour
1000 SACKS of oil meal and 100 sacks of grain.
THE high wSter at WittsburE, Ark, un-
derniued A. W. Frazer & Co.'S storehouse and it,
with large stock of goods, toppled over aud fell
into 81. Francis river. A large warehouse belong
ing to the ssme firm fell into the river few min
utes after the store went In; then followed S ].
wears warehouse. The food was almost equal to
a fire at that town.
CAPT. TICHENoR, OF the steamer Will s.
Hays, has been placed under $500 bond, with
Capt s. z. Rumble as surety, TO appear for trial at
NatcheZ before Mayor Lowenburg on or about the
9th instant for violating section 70 of the health
and quarantine ordinance. twill be remembered
put off at Natchez one Albert Russell coIored who
was afflicted with smslpoI,
FRIARs POINT (Miss.) Gazette, Friday:
''We have but very little water news from the in.
terror of the country. They are everywhere un.
der water, and we don't hear from them. They
to be in better condition to stand the over
flow than they were last year, and the fact thai
the water is now steadily declining gives hope &c
the belief that there is food and provision ough
in the county to last the people through thii
trouble. Large quantities of supplies are being re
ceived here and shipped TO different points IN tbs
county, and all the planters We have interviewed
say that they VIII supply all their people, and ex
q flood off in Z rua on q
pitching their crops by the end OF this month";
| THE above is quite different story from thos,
| that region during the overflow. From some O
| the special dispatches sent one could hardly be
| lieve but that The country was ruined and the
people starving. Perhaps the authors were writinj
| for rations.-EDs. APPBAL-l