Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-08-24
GENERAL NEWS.
Business unchanged.

TIE Mark Twain, out for Hales Point last
evening, had a good trip OF freight.
The Coahoma lie reported to have on board
the first river bale of the season.
RECEIPTS by river yesterday, 7 bales OF
cst;on and 800 sscks of cotton-seed.
The Kate Adams had a good showing of
freight and passengers out for Arkansas City
yesterday afternoon.
CAPT. 3. o. MICHEL, at present a mer-
chant at Hal.s Point, wss formerly chief
clerk in The upper bend trade.
GEORGE +. RooTEs, superintendent of
Brown & Jones's coal interest in New Or
leans, arrived by rail yesterday.
TIE hull of the new boat being built at
Pittsburg for the machinery Of the Katie
Hooper is ABOUT ready to LAUNCH.
THE broken eteel shaft Of the W. W.
ONeil has been sent 10 Germany, Krupp
having agreed to furnish a new one for half
price.
ANsEL BANKsMITH, we'll known in the
local trades, has taken charge OF the Office of
the Kate Adams, in Place Of Walker Outlaw,
resigned.
The City of Providence, in from Vicks-
burg yes erday evening", has a fair passenger
TRIP. She pa s g up for 81. Louis at 10 o'clock
this morning.
The following new lights have been placed
betw.eo Memphis and Cairo, namely, at
Forked Deer river, hal Of Island 16, and
Tiptonville No. /.
CAPT r W. L~IeHrBURNE has Geographic
inform alton from Csp'. Milt Harry ~snnounc
ing that The Josie Harry will arrive out of
White river at noon to-day, "fog permitting"
JOHN FULLER, clerk Of the Mark Twain,
| rsnoiuad a diem .toh f,onn Ont Hall -aata,
day stating In al the new Memphis and Hsles
Point packet Gayoso would arrive at Cincin-
natl to-day.
The weather was profoundly hot in the
early part of the day, up to about 3 o'clock
In the afternoon, when a gale sprung up from
The northwest, toning down the temperature
into the eighties.
SIGNAL SERVICE report: River 10 feet 8
~inches-decline 2 inches yesterday. D. lines
continue in all streams, excepting 4 inches
rise in the Ohio at Cincinnati, 8 inches at St.
Louis aud l inch at Davenport.
The City Of New Orleans arrived from
New Orleans late Wednesday night, and re-
manned here till daylight 10 clean boilers
and discharge about 800 packages. She
also added 100 barrels of oil, and passed en-
up for s.. Louis.
THE Nalch.z Stale Ledger says: "The
| river, eight miles above Natchez, is caving
rapidly in a direct line on the Mississippi
side through the Nevile chute. The dis ance
across THE point is less than a mile. More
thss a quarter Of a mile has caved into the
river during the last 20 month";, and it is
only a matter OF time, or IN the near future,
when the river will resume its old bed aban-
doned more than 40 years ago"
The Cincinnati airline Railway and Dry
| Dock Company are tuildipg the bull OF =
| uew steamboat for Honduras. Tn owner,
! Capt. Lewis Kerr, and her engineer, John
Riley, are here experimenting The work If
ccnstI uction. She will be 140 feet long, 80
feet beam and 5 feet depth CT hold. Dumout
is building her engines, the cylinders OF
which will be IA inches in diameter ard 5
feet stroke. The new boat will be completed
by November Isl.
CAPT. JIM WISE, (tbe old commodorr),
Who sspires 10 the Ohio State Senate from
Cincinnati, ,rned his frat dollar as p.gs in
that branch OF the State L g%'slalure com: =
thing less tn N l 000, 600 years aso. 1t is a
pog: IN his life's history he refers TO now with
pride snd-hops that it will be a big card in
his present contest for the sest be sspires to.
We don't ind5rss his politics, but the man
he's "a man for all that"
THE following changes have been made in
United 5 aies beacon lights on the lower
Mississippi river. between Cairo and s.,
Louis: Kinney Point discon,inusd; head
Devils Islapd moved down 100 yarde; VIII
kInaons Island, moved up 200 yards; Ham
ilton moved down $50 yards; Fairy Island
moved up 200 yards; foot Rush Island, Tow,
head, moved up 200 yards; head Rush
Island moved down $40 ysrds; Ce .ars dis
continued; opposite Perrys, Tow.hesd, new
light; Forrest Home re-Fs.. blished; foo,
Cornice Island moved up 800 yards; Cayton'
r ,ck moved up 200 yards.
RIVER AND WEATHER..