Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-10
GENERAL NEWS.



The toBbost Celina passed up Sunday for
| Louisville.
THE little towboat Clara passed up yester-
| day morning for the Ohio river.
The Henry Lourey aud barges passed up
yesterday morning loF st. Louis.
The Future City aud barges passed down
yesterday evening for New Orleans
CAPT JAMES H. REEs, JR, arrived yes,er-
| day evening from Pittsourg by rail.
RECEIPTS by river yesterday, col bales OF
cotton, ~ bags OF seduction and 2533 sacks OF
| seed.
FIRST thug you know there'il be more
wafer here again than III be essentially necessary
| to run our waterworks.
"No shirkin' at die landin', bDypw said a
| coon lsst night when the electric light was
turned on the wharf.
SIGNAL SERVICE report: River 20 feet 4
inches-rise foot inch yesterday, and tue Ohio
| aud Tennessee continue rising.
The Annie P. Silver, from New Orleans.
passed up for st. Louis yesterday morning with
about 400 tons, discharging lot of freight and
| race horses.
The Commonwealth, 20 hours behind
time passed down for Vlcksburg at O'Clock yes
terday morning. discharging here about 5000 pack
ages OF freight and adding 80 TONS
The Psris @. Brown, with about 200 tons
OF freight and good trip of passengers passed
up for the Ohio river early yesterday nornil e.
diseharsinS lot OF sugar and molasses here.
The City of New Orleans, with abont 1000
tons. of which a large lot was corn, added in
Madrid Bend pass down for New Orleans cary
Sunday morninG after adding 200 bales OF COM
pressed cotton and good loI OF sunGries.
ALMOST the entire wharf and the Ievee as
FAR as the railroad track, between Girod and La
fayette streets, at New Orleans, are covered by
water from to inches deep, aud IL gang of ur-
chins amuse themselves there all day floating
around on skies and planks.
Col. J. w. PARAMoRE, nresident of the
Texas pmd St IoufS has tod
| mcnts with the Anchor Line Of steamers to bill
| through treieht from 81. Louis TO all points in
| take the shipments to Arkansas City; the Little
Rock, Mississippi River aud Texas will take it to
Pine Bluff, where the Phramo:R road will be in
into effect.
The report of Maj Ernst, United States
engineer in charge of the river Improvements be-
| mouth of the Ohio, has been received by the St.
| Louis and New Orleans Pilot Association and has
been subjected TO their criticism, and Of those
| sembled. thirteen members. there was but one
| opinion, and that was that the work done was OF
great benefit TO navigation, and far beyond their
| expectation.
NEXT to reducing the rate Of wharfage
which went in TO effect yesterday the lighting OF
| the WHAT with electricity, which 81 o began last
night, is the grandest move in the progress of i'm.
| provement that has been mace in the city fol
| years. Why it has not been done long ago moi
only on toe wharf but on all the thoruughfares Of
the city, is question difficult to answer unless il
was because the old slow-coach system OF govern
ment had too much perlitickle infooance.
Two weeks seo pilot of the Storm No {
claimed that he had demolished the dykes at The
head OF Stack Island ''in just two minutes send
| ing the piles hopping out like grasshOppeIs" 1hl
| piles still all tneTe-haye hoped baek agsin
| rs it were and the channel is exactly where tn,
United States engineers said they were {, ing Il
put il, in spite Of the assertion of that veIaciou
| pilot. This gives wide and direct channel TO
steamers auu lows. and is 10 itself sufficient evi
| dence of the sOundness and practica biity OF tn
, | plans of the Commission, and proof that tn
Mississippi! river can be control ed at reasonable
| cost.
THE viii S Havs paased this port ye.ter
day with the champion trip of the age-drawins
10 feet inches and laying fiat on the water a
sheet of paper. And right here we take occasion
Clerk Wash Floyd We're overwhelmed With happi
ness-too proud, too proud of the grand success
their beautiful palatial steamer has proven hersel
, to be. Her cabins were literally jammed viii
passengers from the ranks of the beauty aud 10
aud creme de r creme OF Ohio river circles, anon
: WHOM we learned the names of Mrs. W. B. Don
aldSon, wife of CAPT W. B. Donaldson, builder c
the Great Republic, and sister of Capt. Was
Floyd; also Mis- Alma Floyd, a younger sister c
Capt. Floyd: then come also Col. and Mrs. ].
Rufhn the latter gentleman formerly chief
police OF Cincinnati; and Col. and Mrs. A.
; Pierce; also Senator T. G. NcCieary. The Has
discharged here Is tons added go bales of cottor
y and passed on down for New Orleans with
much as she could swim uzder.
RIVER AND WEATHER.
J. OFFICE SIGNAL SERVICE u. s. A.,
MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 9, 1883
= The following observations are taken at tn
. same moment Of time Il :0s at all the station
| named: