Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-11-21
GENERAL NEWS.


BUSINESS brisk.
THE lighthouse tender Joseph Henry
is seeming South.
MAJ. JOHN d. ADAMS is in the CITY, to
see the Hays pass down to-day.
THE Gayoso, having completed her re-
pairs, left last evening for Tiptonville with
a fair trip.
RECEIPTS by river yesterday, 1856 bales
OF cotton, 233 bags Of seej-cotton and 1889
sacks of seed.
A DESsE fog enveloped the city yester-
Gay and when it disappeared a large-sized
white frost was visible.
The Enquirer had a better showing of
cotton and sundries yesterday, and re-
turned in the afternoon.
The Granite State cleared for Cincinnati
with $50 bales of cotton, 1000 sacks of oil.
meal and a lot of sundries.
CAPT. FsANK ELLISON Of the st. Louis
and Paducah packet Hudson is i IN the city
attending to some law business.
The City of Cairo passed TO S.. Louis
early yesterday morning, ~dischsrging 81
bales Of cotton and 16 bags of seed, cotton.
TIE Lee Line packets csme in with good
loads Of cotton and sundries, and returned
in the afternoon With good bend business.
The Rene Macready came oat of st.
Francis river with 100 bales of cotton, of
which 50 bales were for Memphis. 1t is
rnmorsd she will return to-day.
THE City of New Orleans passed TO St.
Louis yesterday evening, discharginz 1853
packages, mostly sugar and molasses. She
hsd about 500 tons for st. Louis.
The Will S. Hsys's cbimney's were short
ened II feet, which will let her under the
Henderson bridge when there is 26 feet On
| fhn nornn HnE ILL l. .---I
TO let down.
A CINCINNATI dispatch received yester-
day states that Capt. John Kyle bought at
auction the steamers Cons Millar and
Andy Baum for $500. It is understood
that they are to be wrecked.
CAPT. HENRY LOWE advertises the Will
s. Hays to pass TO New Orleans at 4 o'clock
this evening, and any one wishing to
avail themselves of this splendid opportu-
nifty should call telephone No. 80, with a
large-sized "hello."
IT is alleged that the Henderson bridge,
which the Will s. Hays failed to knock
down, is not as high as the law REQUIRES.
Ii this is true the law can remedy it. The
Pennsylvania Railroad Company know
how mich il cost them to raise the Circ:n-
matte and Newport bridge.
PADucAH Ners, Thursday: at is our
impression mat capt. Jim Lee laid the
Dean Adams up somewhere above Mem
phis night before last in order to put her
in that place at daylight, just TO show
them how she can run. The Jim Lee
aud Kate Adams will have to look out or
the little fellow will get away with them"
CAPT. WIN WEAVER, the welI-known
lower coast pilot, and lately OF the steamer
Ed. Richardson, died Of consumption on
Monday morning last st New Orleans,
where he has resided for the past fifteen
years. He leaves a wife and five children
two sons and two daughters-to mourn
his loss. de was formerly of New Al
bany, Ind.
CINCINNATI Times Star, Thursday: "rhe
earthly remains CT Capt. John @. Briggs,
late a popular steamboat clerk from Men,
phis to Arkansas river. arrived this morn
ing from Little Rock, where be died Mon
day last. The funeral will take place FRI
day, the 20,h instant. from Epp'y's under
taking establishment. John was a favofite
with everybody and his place will be hard
to fill. He has a brother, Lewis II. Briggs,
now ON the J. W. Gsff as second clerk, and
another older brother, lately with the St.
Louis Anchor Line IS clerk, but now
editor Of the Weekly Trade Journal ia ST.
1 Louis."