Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-05-18
GENERAL NEWS,


RECEIPTS by river yesterday, 14O bales of
cotton.
THE Centennial has laid ap at st. Louis
for the present.
THE Tiger leaves 10 day for New Orleans,
with tow Of slaves.
The Signal Service reports 10 feet inches
on the gauge, with q fall of 8 inches during
the last "a hours.
TIE Kate Adams departed last evening
for Arkansas City, with q good showing of
freight and passengers.
THE Vint Shinkle arrived last evening
from Cincinnati, with 1854 packages OF
,, freight for this place, and leaves again this
evening for Cincinnati.
THE U. P. Schenck, from Cincinnati,
passed down at an early hour yesterday morn
Jog for New Orleans, loaded fat She put
off here buggies and added 400 sacks of oil
| meal.
The City of Providence arrived last even
ing from Vicksburg. She put off here lis
bales of cotton and adds 303 bales of eastern
! bound cotton, She leaves this morning for
st. Louis.
THE st. Louis Post Dispatch, of Tuesday.
I says: "Mr. VIM. A. Hobbs, for twelve years
past river editor of the Globe Democrat, has
resigned that position, and is to become as.
sistsnt chief 10 Clay Sexton"
THE Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, of
| Wednesday, says: "Capt. B. c. BIakesIy, of
Fort Smith, Ark, is in the city, negoti ating
fer the construction OF light-drsught stern
wheel steamer TO ply 10 that vicinity.
Capt. John S. Patterson has gone over 10
st. Louis, with view of buying the Belle
| of Shreveport, for the Cincinnati and New
Orleans trade, for $780,"
| PREPARATIONS are making at the War
Department TO put snagboats at work on the
Ohio as soon as the stage of water will per-
NIT, the chief OF engineers having decided
that the general fund for the improvement
of the Ohio still remaining can be used for
this purpose. This removes the cause for
alarm regarding the inability of the govern
NEXT to take care of the navigation of the
Ohio because OF lack of appro Priations.
The Davenport Democrat, of Monday,
says: "a telegram came to Capt. Lon Bry-
son to-day informing him of the death of
John Sheather, formerly secretary of the
Keokuk Northern Line Packet Company,
who was we'll known in Davenport during
the years that that steamboat line hourished,
as he spent great deal of his time here.
Capt. Sheather died suddenly of heart dis
ease in New York City this morning. He
was a native Of that city, and was there on
As years of age"
A CORRESPONDENT of the Cincinnati Com
merciai Gazette on board the Mary Houston,
on her last trip up, writes that paper as fol-
lows, under date of May 18Th: "The river is
falling all the way up, and the water will
now soon be off all the overlooked lands on
the lower part of the river. The planters
are all busy now blowing and planting, and,
unless We have another overflow, they will
have plenty of time to get in their crops.
Since the Big ri.e last winter the channel of
the river below Lake Providence has changed
down around the Mississippi point to the left
of Ajax bar, the bend having filled up, 80
that there is no water that way now at all.
1 noticed, as We came up, that Island 65 had
entirely disappeared. There was a small
portion of it still remaining as we went down,
but now it is all gone. At Burdo Island the
river is about cutting through above thu foot
of the island. In that event the channel
will go through into the old river above Wal.
nut Bend, say some or miles higher ur
than the present crossing"