Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-02-10
GENERAL NEWS.
WEATHER miserable.

BUSINESS fair yesterday.
THE Tiger has laid up till the roads get
better in the lower bends.
SIGNAL SERVICE report: River % feet
iuches-rise 4 inches yesterday.
The muddy condition of the wharf is
source OF great annoyance to the marines.
THE James Lee had fair showing of cot
ton, seed and oil out of the bends yesterday.
RECEIPTS by river yesterday, 1872 bales OF
cotton, 40 bags OF seed-cotton and 1888 sacks
OF seed.
CAPT. SPAIN JAY has retired from the Of
fee of the Josie Harry for the present, Mr..
George ID. Marsh taking his place.
The Josie Harry enters the Memphis and
Vicksburg trade this afternoon, having 10
lay over on account OF unfavorable weather.
The Josie Harry arrived out of White
river yesterday with III bales Of cotton, 627
sacks of cotton seed, good lot OF corn and
sundries.
Com JAMES S. WISE, general superintend-
ent of the Memphis and Ohio River Packet
Line, was a visitor at the Merchants Ex-
change yesterday.
THE Dean Adams was taken down 10 the
foot Of Gayoso street yesterday to get out of
the way of driftwood. She will soon be
ready for business.
The John Gilmore and barges passed
south yesterday afternoon, adding barge
loaded here with 7150 sacks of oil-cake and
425 bales OF cotton.
The james w. Gaff arrived out of the
Ohio yesterday evening with rafting load
Of freight, Notwithstanding the bad state Of
affairs up that river. She returns this evening.
COL BILLY PYERs, surgeon-general and
a mi ha0a af nj hn Tano La
gave Us pleasant call last evening. His
apparent good health will be pleasant news
for his friends here.
THE Charles P. Chouteau arrived from
New Orleans early yesterday morning with
| good lot OF freight detailed elsewhere. She
lays over till Tuesday, owing 10 the bad
weather, when she will return to New
Orleans.
JOHN DoUGHERTY, male of the Silver
| City, shot and wounded twice negro deck
| hand named Robert Carter, near New Or
leans, because the latter was about 10 leave
| the boat, alsng with number OF other ne
groes, who had been hired and found worth
| less.
VICKsgURG Commercial, Thursday: "There
Is considerable uneasiness felt among the
levee men in regard to the high stage of the
| river. 1t is feared that the high water and
the rapid rising of MANY of the tributary
streams will cause a sufficient rise in the
river to force the suspension of the work on
the levees at some points"
The project Of a canal around the falls, at
Louisville, on the Indiana side, is being re-
| vived, and it is very likely that decided
| steps looking toward its realization will be
taken. Gen. Weiizsl, United States engineer,
/ Is said TO have expressed an opinion that
| canal from the Four-mile Springs to point
below tins falls would be prof liable and
AVA tigeous venture.
HE Saivor No. 2 arrived early yesterday
morning from Atchaialaya river, where she
accomplished the task OF raising locomotive
| and several cars which had run off the in
cline into 30 feet of water. The Sslvor on
Der wsy up stopped in Arkansas river cut
| off and recovered four bales of cotton and
the machinery of the Plow Boy, sunk there
| several months since.
CAPT. DOUGLAS, of Lorrilton, Ark, has
built himself ferryb for that point which
10 attracting attention at Little Rock, where
she got her finishing touches. She is called
the Carrie S. Douglas, and one peculiar fsa-
ture OF the boat is the position of The wheel,
which is exactly 10 the center of the struc-
ture and covered over by the cabin and
pIlothouse, thus being entirely concealed
from view, 30 that it is impossible 10 sea
where she gets her motive power which pro-
pels her as sac glides through the water.
She cost her owner 5000 cash.
CAPT. BuRD PARIS, of st. Louis, and
about the oldes, pilot living, in speaking oil
Rule /, said: "The old timers did not use
any signal to designate which side they
would take. The ascending boat generally
kept the point shore, the descending boat
running the bend. Lights were burned at
night, and were the only warning gwen. In
1916, Cspt. Sellers, of the George Collier, in
troduced signaling with the bell-one strike
for the starboard, two for the larboard-the
ascending boat having the choice of sides.
Pilots at FIRST paid very little attention 10
the signals of the Collier, but after better
understanding of their service, began the
use of them themselves. The bell was con
J tinued as 8 means oi signal until about 1856
when the steam whistle was used instead. Il
was in 1852 that laws were first passed TO
J the government of pilots, and the signal
originated by Capt Sellers were adopted By
] the government"
We have received, through the kindness o
D MIR. Sidney ID. Maxwell, advance sheets from
3 the Thirty fourth Annual Report Of the Gin
cianati Chamber of Commerce, pages 9S TO LII
/ inclusive, which embraces an interesting re
. port of the river business of that city dnrIn
J the past year. The details of the repor
show an increase In the number of arrival
and departures, also large increase in tor
, mage. Ii refers to the increase in the capst
) ity OF the Portland canal by which boats Q
| larger dinlenaions could reach Cincinnati