Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-08
GENERAL NEWS.

Business moderate yesterday.
RECEIPTS By river yesterday, Is bales co.,
ton.
CAPT FRANK MARATTA, of the steamer
Clinton, is in the city.
The Ida Lee goes up to Dyersburg Mon
day alter load OF lumber.
The new law reducing rates OF wharfage
to "a cents per ton goes into effect tomorrow.
THEJ Sharpe Macdonald, with an i'm
mense coal tow, passed South yesterday morning
JIM MOORE, the yer, went out yesterday
on the Josie Harry for Helena, to raise the sunken
staye barge.
THE Henry Frank did not get away from
St. Louis until Friday morning on account of
heavy business.
THE City of Cairo arrived from Vicksburg
late Yesterday evening and laws over till the usual
hour this morning for ST. Louis
THE father of Gait Aft. Grissom was
buried at owensboro, KY, few days ago. Capt.
ALI. has the sympathy OF many friends
The Charles Morgan passed down for New
Orleans yesterday morning with 1900 tons, besides
30 for this point She added here 400 sacks of
oil-meal.
SIGNAL SERVICE report: River 26 feet Ii
inches-rise foot inches yesterday. The Ohio,
tennessee and Cumberland are still coming up
their banks.
Mr. w r. HUNTER, a prominent mer-
chant of Pocahontas, Ark; arrived in this city
yesterday on his return home from trip 10
Florida in search OF health.
LORD HARRELsoN, the popular mail
agent, has been assigned to duty on the Van
Ellen. from Terrene to Pine Bluff, and left last
evening to assume his duties
Mr. ALEX Moses, the New Orleans Un-
derwrter's agent who has been in the city several
days leaves by rail this morning on a business
visit TO Camden aud Shreveport.
IT was an Irish pilot who, being asked if
he knew the rocks in the harbor replied with con-
fdence: 81 do, your honor, livery wan av them.
That's wan" he added calmly, as the ship struck
it, filed and sank
The Harry Brown passed down yesterday
barge Of Pittsburg coal; and l Of French creek
and Shotwen coal for Greenville, Miss, leaving
here barge of Pittsburg coke.
CAPT. CHAs. MUssELMAN went out on the
| Josie Harry last night bound for Terrene, where
| he takes command of the Van Ellen. the Terrene
and Pine Bluff mail packet. Harry McNutt went
down also to take charge OF her pilot house.
THIS chronicler measures off his two score
years of miserable existence to-day. Con-
tr buttons received up to 9 O'Clock this evening
Orders left for express wagons fer non portable
| packages will meet with prompt attention.
| ."WALT," OF Cairo, save: "The number
Of steamboat explosions that occur just after the
engineer has tried the water in the boiler leads
friend to suggest that, perhaps, this is the cause
of all the explosions, and he advocates the passage
| of law compelling engineers to let those gauge
cocks alone"
| HENRY SEAMAN, an old and popular sec.
ond clerk out of st. Louis, and brother-in-law OF
L
| ALI Grissom in the Office OF the Henry Frank.
| These two make a team hard to beat, and to them
in large degree be attributed the success OF
the great steamer with which they are connected.
MEssRs. Brown & Jones, the coal dealers,
| request us to contradict the statement published
| In other papers that they have abandoned Terrene
| ment was reyer contemp plated by that firm, and
they expect TO continue in the coal and wharfboai
business that point, and keep full stocks OF Goa
at Helena, Terrene. and Arkansas City for theil
steamboat friends.
In the United States District Court a
Evansville, Thursday, Judge Gresham rendered 1
Henderson Packet Company, against the city o
| Evansville, growing out of the sinking OF th'
water works last wear. The Judge held that n,
| city could place an obstruction TO Navigation II
| the river, which was g natural highway, w1thou
| responsibility.
A CAIRO special 10 the St. Louis Globe
| Democrat says: "Freights of all kinds are brough
from Cincinnati to all points on the Ohio to Cair
at ten cents per hundred the cut being made
The freight is reshipped Evansville at five cent
per hundred, the Evansville packet receiving th
and Memphis Packet Company will, within tn
next ten days, make a rate on freights to all ON
| river points from Cincinnati sufficiently low as
| please the most fastidious."
The Will S. Hays is coming down tn
| river with rousing big excursion party on boa-'
| Among the excursienists are the following; Cll
!. | ]. P. McLaren, Mrs. John Reed, Miss Nellie Rec
o | Louisville-Charles II. Conner, wife and son. ID
troit-Mr H. II. Hodgson and family, Mr.. Swabt
wife and mother; Capt. Packer and two daughter
Mr.. Doty, the Rev. Mr. Ditton, the Rev. i
. | Thompson and Mrs. Simpson and child. Dayton
; Mr. ]. r. Reynolds and wife, Miss Hattie Reynold
Mr.. Charles Reynolds, Mr.. Hairy Reynolds al
Mr.. Thomas Reynolds. Indisnapolis-Mr. H.
Pierce and wife. Owensboro, Ky.-Ex Senator
C. McCreery, DIR. w. D. sturmsn and wife, Nj
Mary Lloyd, Mrs. E. D. Tyler, Mrs. John Mathe'
| and Mr.. Lee Vile. Evansville-MI. ]. Z. Willial
son and wife, C. w. Benneman, wife and daught
Toledo-Judge ]. D. Haplin, wife, daughter a
| niece Thomas III. Jones, wife and son, Phil
Rogers. John B. Brooks. Chicago-Philip Rag
IL and wife, John r. Ellison and wife, TheodC
| Rogers, Charles J. Cheney. Greensburg, Ind
| Capt Thomas Phelps, mother, wife and T.
daughters, Albert Dixon and wife. indianapolis
g. G. Cheney and family, and Others.