Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-12
GENERAL NEWS.

DOSlNEoS was LAX yesterday.
LOCAL packets had good trips out yester-
day evening.
A HEAVY rise in the Tennessee is antici-
paEed at Chattanooga.
THE Ida Darragh left for Arkansas river
with fair trip OF freight yesterday.
The Charles =. Cnouteau arrived at New
Orleans Monday with 4o5S bales ef cotton.
PERSONS from down in the bends report
the buffalo gnats doing much damage to farm ami
mails.
A PROMINENT planter in the bends yes
terday expressed some uneasiness on the overflow
question.
Receipts by river yesterday, 100 bales OF
cotton, 10 bags of seduction, and 4l2 sacks of
cottou-seed.
The Hsrd Cash, with good trip of freight
aud passengers, left for White river on time yes
terday evening.
SIGNAL SERVICE report: River 80 feet
inches-rise inches yesterday. All upper streams
are again on the decline.
The Centennial mad about 500 tons when
she passed up for st. Louis yesterday morning,
dlscharglng here 175 packages OF sundries.
GAIT. MILT HARRY telegraphs that the
Josie Harry will arrive out of White river to-mor-
row, and return Saturday evening as usual.
The Dick Fulton is due down with Is
boats of coal for Memphis and the w. w. O'Nein
with 81 pieces for New Orleans, is expected down.
THE Wyoming, which passsd up for Gin
cinnau late Tuesday night added here bales of
cotton. So barrels OF taow, 80 barrels of meal and
70 packages of sundries.
The City of Baton Rouge passed mp for
81. Louis yesterday morning, with about 1000 tons,
after discnargng lot of mo!asses here. She was
S1a days out from New Orleans.
THE Golden Crown passed down for New
Orleans yesterday afternoon with 1000 tons and
fair list of people. She discharged 500 packages
| and added 10 barrels of soap stock.
The remains OF the late L. r. Nixon, the
pilot, were inferred in Elmwood yesterday after
noon, attended by large number of friends of
deceased and family. Boats in port wore flags at
haif-mast yesterday in respect to his memory.
The Henry Frank arrived from ST. Louis
| late Tuesday night, with about 1000 ton trip of
5000 sacks Of corn below Cairo and took ON leo
tons OF oil meal here leaving for New Orleans
the afternoon.
STEAMBoATMEN speak in favorable terms
of the advantages the electric light affords them
on the wharf. Some complain that the towers are
| a little too high, but will be about right when
they wear off Little. Time tempers all things 10
| mans accommodation, You know.
CAPT A NJ HALLIDAY, of the Paris c.
Brown, passed down late Tuesday night in COM
mand of the ferryboat Josie and 5 barges of coal
ferrybostis new one just built for parties at New
Orleans, which Capt Halliday will turn over to
her owners on arrival there.
FROM statistics preserved al the cfiice Of
the Troy Steamboat Line il appears that there has
been no colder season along the Hudson than the
one just finished since 1913. This year the river
1885 1t was closed Us days, aud in 1913 for
1856 days. The winter of 1854 was an exception
ally mild one. 81 days being the period during
which the Hudson was closed.
THE Monroe Bulletin says: craftsmen are
supersttious creatures. They believe the sunken
whsrfboats have power over RATS that they can
not overcome. No matter how smoothly they
G. de along they come in range the RATS
defect snd II they cannot hit the Kilgour the
west they certain to strike the Memphis the
side of the river. and come to a dead stop to
| the peril OF the captains religion and profits"
RIVER AND WEATHER..
OFFICE 81 GNAL SERVICE, U. s. A.,
MEMPHIS, TENN, April II, 1888. (
The following observations are taken at the
moment of time Il :0S p. n.) at all the stations
named: