The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-25
General NcMs


VIE City of Cairo from St. Louis, passed
down to Natchez yesterday with fine trip
The City Of Monroe passed here yesterday
afternoon, en- route from Natchez to ST.
| Louis.
| CART. AID. STORM, agent of the Anchor
| line, has returned from flying trip to St.
| Louis.
TnE Gayoso is receiving TO leave this even
| ing at o o'clock for Tiptonyille and way
points on the upper coast.
COMMODORE p. i. MANIoN is dismantling
| the old steamer Centennial at St. Louis, and
willsell her out in remnants.
THE elegant sidewhccl passenger steamer
| City Of Baton Rouge will leave here today at
noon for New Orleans and all way points en-
route
G. w. CLARK, United States army, inspec-
| tor OF government water gauges on the Ohio
and Mississippi rivers and tributaries, is
making his regular inspection tour through
| the south. lie is expected here in few
days.
ADDITIONAL dispatches from New Orleans
make the losses of the Pittsburg a Southern
Coal company much greater than at first
reported. Latest adyices report the number
OF boats of coal sunk at New Orleans DON
aldsonville and Baton Rouge between 40
and 800
|
! Of this city, received letters yesterday from
| sugar planters below to send all labor posi-
! BILE to be procured 10 the sugar coast rs soon
! as possible that the sugar crop may he gath
cren IN good season. Labor is hard 10 OBJ
| tain there and strong efforts are being made
! to import it.
Ar Pahucah, while the diver, Mr. John
/ Patrick, was recovering some sunkcn logs
near the foot Of the island, lac struck q hard
/ substance with his graphing irons, which on
/ Investigation proved 10 be an anchor with
some 800 feet OF chain attached TO it. II was
| lost from one Of the gun-boat fleet which
was stationed there during the war. IL was
/ in fair condition after being submerged for
over twenty years.
THE heaviest rain that has fallen at Pitts
| burg for eighteen years dclugcd that city
| last Tuesday. The rain seemed TO have
extended up the Allegheny, and men,
! thinking II would not amount TO much,
/ sent out small coal fleet, with light tow
| boats; but the rain Of Tuesday upset all
| their calculations, and the result is that a
! flood will bring out all the coal that Is
ready 10 come, calling into service all the
! whales 30 handle IL. so people may con
/ iidcnty look for another big run Of coal at
an early day.
TnE United States snag-boat, John n.
| Macomb, il on her way from St. Louis to
! NickrhufH, lulllng sings anu removing All
| obstruction out Of the Father of Waters. Her
master, Commodore Birch, desires pilots to
report all snags that may have fallen under
! auimadycrsiun, and such other work as they
may deem necessary for their peace Of mind
and safe navigation. The MacOmb has been
| lying idle at llushburg for the past eighteen
months but, thanks to the passage Of the
recent harbor bill, she eau now resume Opcr-
ntions with none 10 modest or make afraid.
She gives regular employment 10 about
! thirty-hyc men.
Is the race between the New South aud the
City Of Cairo after leaving Cairo on Sunday
morning there was diversity Of opinion as
10 which was the faster boat They were
not enabled 70 make the race evenly, as one
/ or the other was crowded out ut times,
| owing 10 the naTruVncss II the channel
| After racing about two hours the New South
was obliged 30 make a landing. which ended
! the contest, the Iity of Cairo coming on up
stream. Although both boats are speedy
ones, their officers are not much inclined TO
| racing. Other fast sidcwhccl boats running
| ~ st. Louis are the City of Monroe, the
| Crystal City and the Spread Eagle. OF the
stcrnwhccl boats the Hudson claims a. be
| the fastest ON the Mississippi. The New
! Cherokee has also proven 10 be n lively step
per. She and the Hudson have never had
an opportunity for speed contest. Tho
/ Pittsburgh, sidney aud Mary Morton are
/ also fast stcrnwheclcH.-St. Louis Republic,
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