Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-06-25
GENERAL NEWS.
PLEASANT.
BUSINESS quiet.

PLEASANT.
BUSINESS quiet.
No COTTON received by river yesterday.
A RAIN STORM was threatened yesterday.
THE War Eagle is called the race-horse
of the upper Mississippi.
THE Chickasaw got away on time last
evening for White river.
TIE Lee Line packets arrived and de-
parted on time yesterday.
THE r. L. Cobb departed last evening
for Al kansas river with fair trip.
THE John A. Wood, with a big tow of
coal, passed down early yesterday morn
ing.
THE JOS B. Williams and Raymond
Homer passed down yesterday evening
for New Orleans, with big lows of coal.
Mr.. CHAs. B. ZBIGLER, pilot on the City
OF Cairo, who has been sick at st. Louis,
has resumed his position on that steamer.
THE James w. Gaff, Capt Wm. Ticke-
nor, arrived yesterday morning from Gin
cinnati with 1885 packages of freight for
this place, and returns again this evening.
Ar st. Louis petition to Congress is be-
ing sigued asking that the work OF improv-
ing the river be taken from the army en-
gireers and be given in charge OF the naval
engineers.
Coz. BILLY BYERs, big medicine Of the
CAT, and Harry Bruce, chief purser Of the
same boat, have got stuffed owl apiece,
OF which they are very proud. Stuffed
owls are all the rage.
THE Cincinnati Iimes-Star says that if
pilots are compelled to report boats which
devisted from government rules, more
narrow escapes from collision would come
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effect would result.
A CORRESPONDENT writing in the Louis
vile Courier Journal on "Tbe New Era in
Steambosting," predicts that the only
steamers to succeed in the future must be
fast, light-dfaft express packets, to make
quick trips and always leave port as adj
vertised. a line Of steamers of the proper
size and power, If organized must prove
success, and of commercial advantage to
all along the coast of the great rivers.
THE Cincinnati and New Orleans pilots
have got their dsnder zip about the course
pursued by some OF the association mem
bers, and have bounced tao or three. a
couple OF names more are on the black list.
] he excellent system of obtaining and ex-
changing information observed by the as
ISOLATION is valuable to Western naviga-
ton, and should be promoted, instead of
the efforts which are being made to de-
stroy it.
A sMALL-sIzED cyclone struck Vicksburg
Tuesday evening. When il struck the
steamboat landing it caught the steamer
Headlight, which was moored at the foot
of China street, broke her stages and blew
her down against the Corona where she
was securtd without damage to either
boat; the model barge j. b Dress was also
blown out aud started off down the lake
ahead of the wind, but the tug Dime went
out after and brought her SAFELY back.
VIcKsBURG Herald Wednesday: "The
available funds having been exhausted
Messrs. Dabney Il Gray, the contractors
who have been building the levee across
the lower END of Lake st. Joseph, have
stopped work and shipped their outfit to
this city on the Corona. One month more
OF wors, on this piece OF levee would have
placed il in sale condition, as it has only
been OF late date that their work quit sink
ing Sufficient earth has been thrown on
this leTee to build two like 1t, but during
the wet season it would sink as fast as it
was put on"
The Cineiunati Times-Sidr, of Tuesday,
says: injecting a downtown merchant,
who is a large shipper to the South, this
morning, we asked him how shipments
were to New Orleans by river. He replied
that since jim NIolett went around for
the steamer Big Sandy when she went to
New Orleans last winter, he had not seen
or heard Of snyone hunting freight except
for railroads, and now most of the orders
come '''ship by rail-" One boat per week,
advertised 20 leave Wednesday and laying
over till Saturday, combined with an indif-
ferent soliciting of freights by hi-h-priced
agents, managed by red tape directory.
have made matters worse for the s. 7.
Line this season than there was actual ne
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