Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-03-08
THE Vint Shinkle, {
GENERAL NEWS,

The Sidney Dillon aud barges passed
down yesterday evening for New Orleans.
THE river is reported falling at Elmot, go
miles above here; also at osceola and Fulton.
TIE Smoky City, with a big tow of coal,
passed down for New Orleans yesterday morning.
RECEIPTS by river yesterday, 4l6 bales of
cotton, 20 bags of seed -cotton and Sss sacks of cot
ton-seed.
The Chss. Brown, with a big tow of coal.
passed down yesterday for Terfene and Arkan-
sas CITY. She dropped 4 barges here.
SIGNAL Service report: River 80 feet s
lnches-stauonary yesterday. The decline at
Cairo is on the increase, and may be expected to
begin here within the next SO hours.
WHITE river is falling from Jacksonport to
Devalls Bluff, and rising from Clarendon to the
mouth from the effect of backwater from the Mis-
sissippi and Cache rivers. Clarendon and Indian
Bay are under water.
CAPT. GEORGE LENox, of the CITY of
Providence, one of the old experienced Missis-
sippi river commanders, and who has studied the
tides closely, gives it as his opinion that there will
be no very disastrous results from the present
high water.
FROM private sources we learned Yesterday
that Frisrs Point is yet all right, but a break was
expected. The outlook there was indeed unfayor-
and at Westover (Apperson's plantation two
breaks have occurred, one above and below, and
the water is running over in great volume.
LOUISVILLE Courier. Journal: ''Our harbor
is fast filing up with mud, and another food will
fix it forever. When there is 6 feet water in The
canal boats will have q hard time landing here
The cause of it was Weitzel's 'theoretic ideas and
Uncle Samfs dam ioolishneSs in giving him the
be carried out. weitzeis gone the moneys gone one
catching more mud"
THE Psduesh News damns its rival towns
with faint sympathy: Cairo is filling up with
sipe water. 1t is not only furnishing lakes on
which the bellies and beaux can takes pleasure
rides in skitis, but it is covering the low places
and causing considerable trouble to the occupants
OF houses on low grounds. The bowl iu which
fow from the inside. The Cairoites should aston
ish the Ruler OF the Universe with prayer for dry
weather."
PEGGY LANCASTER, tutrix, has libeled the
steamboat John w. Cannon for $4,000 damages,
Lancaster sets forth in her petition that she is the
tutrix Of John and Pauline Boyd, children of Paris
Boyd, deceased; that Paris Boyd shipped on the
steamboat John w. cannon as a roustabout. and
when opposite Bayou Goula was so numerically
beaten by the captain of. the watch, then in the
discharge of his duties, that the said Boyd died a
few hours later. Libelant, therefore, on behalf OF
Paris Boyd's children, claims damages as before
stated.
The new tug Billy Kilby. was completed
here yesterday, and will 60 into commission to.
day. She raised steam yesterday and worked like
a charm. She goes to Tiptunyille to-day after a
tow OF slaves. Her hull was built at Helena, hel
machinery at Chicago, and her upper works here
SO whatever credit arises from her success must be
commanded by Capt. Oscar White, a wei-known
pilot, and her owner is Capt. W. d. Kilby, o
helena, a1ter whose little son the tug is named
We will wager the hat of u.s. that what Memphis
artisans did on that tug will stay there as long as
the rest of the boat remains, barring the unavoid,
able dangers OF navigation and the providence o.
the Great Commodore of the Universe.
Abiding to the report printed in the
Padueah Netcs some time ago that an empty cradle
had been seen afioat and picked up during tht
flood in the Ohio, the cradle containing a pair o.
shoes and some baby clothing and bedding, tht
Kuttaws Democrat gives, most likely, the stream
out OF which the cradle found its way into tbs
Ohio, with the additional fact that it contained 6
child. The Democrat says: THAT must have beer
the same cradle s-en by some raftsmenj Just above
here two weeks ago. The raftsmen stated that or
seeing something like a cradle floating down upoi
the high, swollen waters, and hearing g cry com
ing from that direction, they rowed out 10 the
cradle, but before they could reach ii q little CHILD
was seen to raise itself up and then fall over the
side of the cradle into the water, and was carried
by the swift current under some drift, from which
it was never recoveTed nor seen again. After ex
aiming the cradle the raftsmen let it proceed OF
its way down the river, having their RATS to lool
after"
THE Charles p. Chouteau bad trouble herr
yesterday with a number of roustabouts who hsd
shipped at New Orleans, signing an agreemen
that they would make the round trip from New
Orleans and return or forfeit whatever wage
might be due them at the time they left the boa
previous to her return to that city. Eight OF tn,
rascals, on arrival OF the boat here yesterday, con
cluded to quit, and demanded the amount du,
this far. The clerk refused to pay them, as the,
had not fulfilled their contract. They immedi
ately began suit before a magistrate, who decided
in their favor. Capt. Jhcrwegan appealed tn
case, which leaves the roustabouts without a cen
until the case is decided in the higher courts
Approaching their helpless condition. Capt. Thor
wegsn humanely offered to EN- ploy them again s.
that they might not suffer any Inconvenience tina
might arise from their treacherous conduct TO
ward him. The remainder of the crew mani
tested much interest in the result OF the suit, auC
the supposition is that if the appeal had not beel
eight fellows did. Seeing the failure Of their pal:
they went back TO work.