Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-06-23
GENERAL NEWS.
BUSINESS moderate.

ACoGANhco 4AO0CAalo.
PLEASANT on the wharf yesterday.
THE Lee Line packets were in and out
on time.
CAPT. JAMES RKEs arrived home from
Pittsburg yesterday.
TIE John F. Walton, with big tow a
coal for Southern ports, will pass to-day.
REogiPTs by river yesterday, three
bales Of cotton and $40 sacks Of cotton
seed.
THE Arkansas City passed 10 st. Louis
and the City of Cairo TO Vicksburg late
Saturday night.
TIE Chickasaw arrived out Of White
river yesterday evening, and returns to-
| morrow as usual.
WoRKMEs are engaged laying the fouu-
| dation Of the customhouse enclosure wall
| fronting the river.
CHIEF CLERK BILLY BLENKER resumed
| charge Of the Kate Adams's Office yester.
day, after brief absence for rest.
THE City of Vicksburg passei to Vicks.
burg yesterday evening, dischargiDg Sic
packages and adding 10 tons OF way
freights.
THE r. L. Cobb arrived out Of Arkansas
| river yesterday morning with lot of cot
| ton-5eed and sundries. She returns to.
morrow evening.
THE W. W. O'Neil, on her way South
with a heavy tow of coal, arrived yester
day evening and was moored at the head
| Of the island at dark.
SUPERVISING INSPECTOR GARRETT, who
had started ON tour of his district, go. az
far as Cairo, where he was taken seriously
i'll and had to return home on the City o.
| VicksbuTg.
TIE Ohio arrived from Cincinnati, Sun.
day, with 2099 packages, and returned
| yesterday evening with 172 bales of cot
ton, 40 bales of rsgs, so, 900 feet OF lumber
and good list of passengers.
ST. LOUIS Republican, Sunday: 'The
river az this point has again commenced
rising under the influence OF the late
heavy rains. This rise is not merely local
and coming as it does on an already high
river, may cause considerable damage be-
fore it subsidies"
Mrs. ANN CAvETT, No. 927 North Four
| teenth street, St. Louis, would like to
know the whereabouts of George W. Ca.
yett, who was assistant engineer on the
| Confederate ram ArkansaW at the time
she was destroyed in Red river. Mrs. Ca
| yeti would also like to have the names
and postoihce addresses of some of the
officers or crew OF the Arkansaw.
CAPT. JOHN KLINEFELTKR died at his
residence in Bunker Hill, H., last Mon
, day, in the ssyenty-tifth year of his age
| Deceased was native of Pennsylvania
He was commander of the Inflated Penn
sylvania wien she blew up, nearly SOC
lives being lost. During the war he owned
an interest in the q Gladiator, and chartered
other vessels, with which he served the
government transporting troops 2pd stores
In 1868 he retired and removed to BGiIItSselI
Hill, where he has since resided.
TIE st. Louis Republican OF Sunday
contains the sad announcement of the
suicide in that city, on Saturday, OF Capt.
| Isaac Mckee, commander of the Anchor
Line stesmer' City of Baton Rouge. The
act is attributed TO illness and domestic
| troubles, OF which no details are given.
Capt. Mckee was an old and experienced
steamboat master and pilot and was well
known in the Missouri and Mississippi
river trades. For the past twenty-five
years he has been with what is now the
st. Louis and New Orleans Anchor Lipe a.
master OF the Colorado, I4rahalA, Helena,
Belle Memphis and City of Baton Rouge,
eleven years of which time he spent as
master OF the Helena. Previous to his
connection with the Anchor Line he COM
manded the Gen. Laze, Ploughboy, Lucy
Bertram and other steamers ia the Mis-
souri,. The last steamer com handed by
him wss the City of Baton Rouge, from
which he was taken on the 9th instant,
suffering with congestive chill. During
his long service with the Anchor Line
Capt. Mckee was regarded as one OF ite
most faithful officers. He leaves a wife
ana two children.