Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-01-06
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The weather clerks are of their base.
The Colorado has been converted into a
wrecking boat.
SIGNAL. SERVICE report: River 10 feet IL
inches-decline inches yesterday.
The Montana passed up for St. Louis yes
terday evening with big cargo OF cotton
seed.
CINCINNATI papers are overlooking with
praises of the new Will S. Hays and her
officers.
The W. w. O'Neal passed down for
Natchtz yesterday afternoon with heavy
TOW Of coal.
RECEIPTS by river yesterday, 176 bales of
cotton, n bags of seed-colton, and 1476
sacks OF cotton-seed.
The Centennial didn't get away for New
Orleans until daylight yesterday morning,
on account Of the Jog.
The Kate Adams will arrive from Arkan-
sas City early Sunday night, and those who
have not seen her lighted up with electricity
will be afforded an opportunity.
SEVERAL packets are overdue, including
the Paris G. Brown and City of New Orleans,
both bound south. The foggy nights and
bad weather generally is doing it.
THE J. Grace arrived yesterday evening
with a tow of produce boats, one of which
was dropped here. She lays with the re-
mainder at the island above here.
The blue.eyed deck-hand says that there
has been a marvellous increase in the number
of jugs shipped to points in Arkansas since
the prohibition law went into effect.
WASH FLOYD, chief clerk of the Will S.
Hays, is winning golden opinions up the
Ohio. Wash has numbers of friends here
and hereabouts, who feel good about it.
The Belmont arrived from the Ohio ri yer
yesterday noon with tow of produce boats,
which she dropped here, and proceeded to
Helena to take in tow a string of empties
Tor the OHIO.
The Thomas Sherlock, with 700 tons OF
freight and fair list OF passengers, passed
| up for Cincinnati yesterday evening, dis.
| charging here 25S barrels and Is hogsheads
of sugar, and 80 barrels of molasses.
Our Evansville Journal contemporary looks
| we'll in his new Dress" but he will stick to
that internal provincial style of "runniug
| up" his "matter." The crank who invented
that abomination bursted the paper and
| starved to death.
The Granite State arrived out of the Ohio
early yesterday morning with 400 tons, and
left in the afternoon, taking as princi pal
items of freight 300 bales of cotton and 500
barrels OF cotton-seed oil, besides big lot oil
miscellaneous freight.
| A STRANGE feature of the present cold SNAP
| is that the river at great many points above
| St. Louis is rising. At Keokuk rise of ovel
3 feet is recorded, and it is thought a gorgs
has formed below there. At several point
on the Missouri river slight rises are re
ported.
CHIEF-ENGINEER HILLEoUsE, by specia
notice In another column, warns Hatchi'
| river steamboaImen that the Chesapeake
Ohio and Southwestern railway bridge acro=
that stream is completed, and the draw
ready to admit of the passage of all vessel
to points above.
On, the mud! the Internal mud-how WEI,
abolish it if we could-no, not bit of it
we'd make it knee-deep, and kill the frs
losfer who dared take peep at our jularky'
CATERS, when she daintily glides from step
stone 10 step stone when the mud's at high
tide. Our funeral will be duly announced.
The Will s. Hays has entered REGULAR,
into the Southern Cincinnati and New Or
leans) Transportation Line, and left Cincin
natl Wednesday with a good showing o
freight and So cabin passengers for
starter, and having engagements on the rout
that will fill her out, perhaps, before sh
reaches Memphis.
CINCINNATI Enquirer: "Mr. Louis Mag
nsnt, No. IS Temple Place, Boston, Mass, j
anxious 10 hear from Mr.. HurI, who, durin
the war, was in service on she tin clad s.
Clair, at Donaldsonville, in 1858 He is
500, if alive, of Capt. Hurd, who was a
old-time steamboatman on the Mississippi
Capt. Jesse Hurd and Capt. Jacob Hurd ar
both dead.