Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-02-11
GENERAL NEWS.
BUSINESS was quiet yesterday.

DCoi1NIoo 40 4uiSt ySotOiudys
PACKETS out yesterday had good trips.
The Piasa arrived yesterday with a tow of
paving-stone.
Com. JAMES S. WISE left for Cincinnati by
rail last night.
No arrivals yesterday, consequently there
were no cotton receipts.
SIGNAL Service report: River "a feet 5
inches-rise Is inches yesterday.
HE Katie Hooper had a nice trip out for
Arkansas river yesterday evening"
THE John S. Bransford left for White river
with fair trip of freight and passengers.
A. BANKsMITH went out Yesterday in
charge of the Office of the John S. Bransford.
DEPUTY HAKFMAsTER JIMMY CARR was
engaged yesterday morning washing the mud
from the wharf.
The immense cotton-carrier Charles p.
Chouteau Is in port, and will remain till
Tuesday, when she leaves for New Orleans.
The David r. Powell passed Vicksburg
Thursday morning on her way up to ST.
Louis, She got IA, GOO sacks OF celton-seed
at Delta.
A DENSE fog hung over this latitude all
yesterday and last night, rendering naviga-
ton an impessibility. Three packets were
here at dark waiting for the fog to rise.
A PELICAN made itself at home about the
landing at New Orleans Thursday, and for
while during the afternoon was perched on
top of one of the chimueys of the Cherokee
THE James w. Gaff left for Cincinnati
yesterday evening with 700 bales of cotton,
500 barrels of oil, 80 barrels of molssGes, 20
bales of rage, 95 barrels of tallow and good
lot Of sundries.
THE Anchor-Line steamers laying up at
Cairo had to 60 over 10 the Kentucky shore
Thursday TO find something to tie to, the
ringbolts in the Cairo wharf being covered
by the overflow.
The temporary suspension of transporta-
ton of freight to the Irou Mountain railway,
at Birds Point, is announced, owing to a
heavy ice gorge at the foot of the incline at
the Missouri shore.
THE Josie Harry filed up with fine
cargo for Vicksburg yesterday, and was to
have left during, the night. The fog was
very dense at dark, and her departure may
have been delayed till this morning.
AT BellsIre trains cannot reach the city
by two miles, and freight and passengers are
transferred by steamboats,. The water has
invaded the cellars of business houses seve-
raj squares from the river, and the streets
are full OF merchadise.
The disastrous foods which have created
such havoc in Western Pennsylvania, Ohio
Indiana and Illinois, seem to have been con-
| fined to the western slope of the Allegheny
range OF mountains. OF the streams that find
an outlet in the Chesapeake and Delaware
bays, none were dangerously flooded. The
West Branch of the Susguehanna was bank
full, while the North Branch remained at an
| ordiusry stage of wafer On the other hand
the Pennsylvania tributaries of the Ohio, the
Allegheny and Monongahela, were disas
trously high, and running filled with float
ing ice, have done great damage.
A CORRESPONDENT writing to the Chatta
nooga Commercial says: "The work on Little
Muscle Shoals is completed. Another gooG
years work on the locks and the aqueduc
on Big Muscle Shoals will put them in
condition that will allow of navig alton. The
Elk River Shoals improvement is behind the
other divisions in amount of work done and
measures of completion. This is because, worE
was begun on this division later than on th,
others, and because it was not 80 successfully
forwarded under the first management as i
new is under the management OF Mr.. J. E
Willard, assistant engineer in charge. LIE
Congress give two succeeding appropria
tions, each of 100000, and in a compare
lively short time steamboats, will be runnin,
from Chattanooga 10 81. Louis, Louisville
Cincinnati and New Orleans. When thi
becomes an accomplished fact, freight rate
TO Chattanooga, Knoxville and the who'll
upper Tennessee valley will become merel,
nominal, as compared with present rates."
Capt. Eads's Very Just Complaint.
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