Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-24
GENERAL NEWS.


Col. GEORGE RooTEs left for New Orleans
by rail yesterday.
THE Future City and barges passed up for
st. Louis Sunday.
CAPT. JAS. LEE, sR., held a reception on
board the James Lee yesterday.
The Billy Kilby goes to James's Bayou
after raft for Memphis saw-mills
CAPTs. BRAzEE add Ralston, the local in
spectors, left for Arkansas yesterday.
The Clarence left for James's bayou YES
terday morning after a raft for this place.
The Vsnderburg leaves for Helena to day,
where tow of lumber awaits her to be taken to
New Orleans.
RECEIPTS by river yesterday, $40 bales Of
cotton, Is bags of seed-eotton and 14sO sacks OF
cotton-seed.
The W. W. ONeill and Smoky City, with
tows of empty coal barges, passed up yesterday
for the Ohio river.
The Commonwealth passed dswn for
vicksburg At noon sunday, dischargiDg $500 pack
TIE tug 1Ilda leaves for the Ohio river
| to-day, to get a tow of barges of slaves, which
she Will chaperon to New Orleans
SEE if some prominent marine don't cap
| ture choice of seats at the Thomas Mozart con-
certs when the auction begins this morning
WHEN Joe Mulhatton turns his attention
to writing up flood news he will tackle formid-
able rival in some of the lower river correspond
| ents.
TIE City of Cairo. for st. Louis, left Sun
| day morning, adding 500 bales of eastern bound
cotton, 600 packages OF box material, and lot of
way freight.
The City of Baton Rouge, for New Or
leans, psssed down Sunday morning with good
trip, adding here OF barrels of soap stock so bar
rels oflime and 40 tons of sundries.
TEE Paris G. Brown, for New Orleans,
arrived from Cincinnati yesterday afternoon, dis
charged about 20 tons, added 100 tons of oil-cake
leaving last night with full load
ni.I &C.
about dark yesterday evening, discharged IA
packages. added small a lot of freight and leaves
| Tor New Orleans this morning with 1000 tons.
VICKsBUBG Herald Saturday: "Mr. Ed
Israel went to Memphis TO see Capt Milt Harry in
rua in place of the White duringithe summer"
CAPT. SAM Brown, the Pittsburg coal
king, of the firm of Blown q Jones, left for home
last night by rail- having experienced all the pleas
ure and big luck possible at our race meeting.
The W. P, Halliday, days out from
New Orlesns, arrived Sunday evening and passed
up for st. Louis at an early hour yesterday morn
| ing, having cleaned boilers here. She has about
800 tons OF freight aboard.
SIGNAL SERVICE report: River 80 feet
inches-stationary Cumberland and Tennessee
rising rapidly at St Louis with considerable rises
| all the way up to Dubuque
AMONG the passengers who got on the City
of Cairo al this point were Mrs. George w. Viekers
wife of the captain, and Mrs. Thomas White ana
Nefe Dukes, the discharging clerk of the Elevator.
CAPT. JOHN CowDoN spent half his life
trying to convince the world that the Mississippi
river was suffering for want of outlets, and now,
according to reports, he has Topped over and is
devoting his talents toward the best means of
closing htchafalays bayou.
OUR Eelsnas correspondent is food his.
torian OF the first water. When he gets tired ex-
patisting upon what the Mississippi river can do
on bender, he rests his wits by writing up a six
/ inch rainstorm. He's bound to have a flood from
some source. He's a flood historian, and ne don't
care who knows 1t.
THE Coahoma, with Capt. Henry Cooper
in command, arrived from the repair shops at Pa
| ducah Sunday, looking ike a bran-span new boat
out and out She has been on the ways several
weeks, aud from roof to hull received attentions
from the carpenters that makes her now stsunch
and good when first built. She will remain
here till some time next week, when she takes the
place OF the James Lee i'll the Memphis and Friars
Point trade. while the latter takes dose of the
| same kind of physic