The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-16
General News.

ONLY one boat is announced TO leave here
today
THE Lee line packets departed last evening
with fair trips.
The Chickasaw got away yesterday after
noon for White river.
The Alice Brown is due here from Cairo
with ten boats of coal.
The Port Eads and barges passed up from
New Orleans TO ST. Louis early yesterday
morning.
THE Boaz with a tow Of empty coal barges,
is due here, en- route from New Orleans TO
the Ohio river.
The cabin Of the 81. Louis excursion steam
or Grand Republic is said to be the hand
soonest and finest on the river.
ScANT four feet at Flint and French island
bars and three and one-half at Scullletown
aud other points ON the Ohio river between
Evansville aud Cairo.
TIE Commonwealth is TO receive battery
OF new boilers and be placed in first class
order at Cincinnati for the coming season in
the New Orleans trade.
CAPT. gro. VANDERGRIFT has received the
appointment of master OF the new light
house tender Golden Rod by the lighthouse
commission.-CiH Cincinnati COmmereiIi- Gafeite.
THE City of Baton Rouge, from New Or
leans, passed up to st. Louis yesterday after
noon with moderate cargo She discharged
n lot Of sugar and miscellaneous freight at
the river.
THE Kate Adams will be found in port
this morning receiving 10 leave at 5 u. m.
for Helena, Friars Point Concordia, Ter
rene aud Arkansas CITY. Captains Mark X.
Check and William c. Banker are her chief
officers.
Tue Raymond IIorner, towing number
OF empty coal barges, arrived from New Or
leans yesterday morning and tied up near
the mouth Of Wolf river 10 clean boilers.
She is on her way 10 the Ohio river and will
leave today.
NJ. JoyIs, a French aeronant, Is said 10 be
building an air ship in which he proposes
10 attempt 20 cross the Atlantic from New
York this fall. II is 10 be called the at
lantic," and will be 2OO feet high, with n
cubic measurement Of nearly 10000 feet.
IL viii weigh 1000 pounds, and will carry
the same weight Of passengers and freight.
NJ. Joyis thinks he can make seventy
miles an hour in II, and expects to land in
Norway and Sweden or else in Ireland in
three and half days after starting The
cost OF the enterprise is fixed at about
$4,000.
THE wharfboat belonging 10 the Cairo, Vim
ccnncs a Chicago line. at Cairo, sunk at its
moorings Monday morning aud will be a
total loss, having broken in two. Her head
and stern are nearly out of the water. while
her midships lies In two feet on the outside.
The cargo Of the steamer Ohio, consisting Of
=, 800 sacks Of cotton seed and 800 bales Of
cotton, was put on the wharf.boat Friday,
but was partially rolled ashore Saturday,
when the boat was discovered 10 be sinking,
and was saved by the Coal company's pump.
boat when the accident occurred About
2,O1O sacks Of seed and 200 bales Of cotton re-
manned on board, the greater portion Of
which will be saved uninjurcd.
TIE Gen. Jackson wns the first steamboat
In the Cumberland river. She was built Ia
1918 at Pittsburg for Gov. VIM. Carroll who
aftcrwnrd sold her for s33, 900 She struck a
snag ut llarpcth Shoals In June, 1921, aud
sank The Gen Robertson, the James Russ.
the Fayctto and the Fclinciana were run.
ming on the river In 1921. Freight 10 New
Orleans was cents per 100, and the boats
We're well patronizcd. The boiler Of the
Fclinciana exploded near Eddyvillc, Ky, IN
May, 1871 and six lives were lost. This was
the first accident TO a steamboat IN the Cum.
bcrlnud river The quickest time Of the
Rilcman from Nashville 10 New Orleans was
thirty days, and Il was then considered fast
trip. Tie Nashville aftcrward made the
trip In i've days aud nineteen hours.