Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-01-02
GEN ERAL NEWS.

ANOTHER year to be disposed of.
The James w. Gaff gets her new shaft to-
day.
LOCAL packets all left yesterday with good
trips.
The Fulton has gone to bank for the
present. .
THE City of Cairo passed down Tor Vicks-
burg Sunday morning.
CIVIL SERVICE report: River IL feet
lnches-rise inches yesterday.
The Cons Millar was taken off the docks
at Cincinnati Saturday, all e Ied up like new.
A SUNDAY dispatch from Cairo says that
steamboatmen are getting nervous about the
river.
The electric lights on the Kate Adams
are OF l6candle power and give a splendid
light.
The Mike Davis, with her load of railroad
bridge material, left for st. Francis river
yesterday.
The Harry Brown arrived Sunday from
the Ohio river with big tow of coal for
Memphis.
HAYS calls the Kate Adams ''the bad
Kate"-'csuse she made a mash" on the
TiptoHville bar.
THE Golden Crown and barge passed up
for Cincinnati Sunday at noon, with over
| 1900 tons freight.
The w. P Halliday, with 900 tons for St.
Louis, psssed up Sunday afternoon, having
cleaned boilers here.
RECEIPTS by river Yesterday, 1854 bales
Of cotton, 195 bags of seed-cotton and 1887
saeks OF cotton-seed.
CAPT. STACK LEE having stopped off to
| IL, k.o 81 T. 7
command o. Capt. Lloyd Whitlow.
| The Charles P. Chouteau arrived at New
Orleans Friday with 8107 bales of cotton,
S9S sacks OF cotton seed, and sundries.
HENRY WARNER, an old river engineer,
and who was for long time on the wreck
ing boat I. +. Eckert, is reported dying in
| Cairo.
THE Johu S. Brsnsford will drop down TO
the wharf this morning and begin TO receive
preparatory to leaving for White river thi.
evening.
CAPT. PHIN STARR, with the snagboat
John &. Meigs, has been employed the past
day or two bringing willows down to make
mattresses of
THE snow prospects of the early part oil
yesterday gave way to a splendid starlit
night, with temperature lowering around
| thS iAoeH'nS POiuis
THE City of Greenville, with a good trir
on, passed down for New Orleans late yester
day evening, adding here 81 bales cotton, 81
empty barrels and a lot OF sundries.
SEVERAL of the crew of the City of Provi
dence arrived by rail yesterday, and the re-
msinder will come down this morning il
time to go out on that boat for Cairo.
A. W. WARD, an engineer of Point Pleas
l Al 81 To- ! L
which burning of boilers becomes an impos
sibility, and half the fuel is saved.
THE City of Providence, which has beer
laid up here several weeks, came down t.
the elevator last evening and began losdiu.
with cotton, with which she leaves for CairI
| this morning.
Nh. FRED TRUCK formerly head euginee
on the James W. Gsff, has gone to Cincinnati
to meet the Will S Hays and take charge o
her engines. Fred is good one and will ru
her fer all she's worth.
CIscINNArI Ne,cs, Sunday: "The Souther
J transportation Line will send 8 steamer
to New Orleans next week-the new Will
! Hays Tuesday, the Mary Houston Thursdsy
and the Z. r. Springer Saturday"
. SAM WHITEMoRE, late steward on tn
: Golden Crown, now conductor on sleeper
on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, wa
/; quietly married in Newport, KY, La
/; Wednesday. Sam was good steward. is
) ''bulls" conductor, aud will make No.
9 husband.
FURTHER advices from the Welcome, th
!, sinking of which was mentioned in Sunday
APPEAL, say: "The cotton hoaied off an
;; was all saved. The boat ia now lying in
careened condition, with 20 feet of wate
on the outer and feet on the inner sid
and is securely cabled to trees en- the bsnl
t, Capt. George Alban, the pilot, thinks 81
e can be raised il work is commenced at ono.
ST. LOUIS Republican, Sunday: "Capt Bill
] Ball, q popular aud efficient master and pill
5 in the Missouri river trade, has been a
pointed 10 the position of pilot in the
y Louis and Vicksburg Anchor-Line, snd q
J; signed 10 the steamer City OF Helena. Car
Ball is thorough steambostman and nav