The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-02

lnr river here is steadily rising.
TuG ChickaNw is the Wednesday packet
! Tor White river
IHr big Ed Richardson will bc sold at New
Orleans ON the 10th inst
The Buckeye State leaves here Tuesday at
3 O'Clock pm. for Cincinnati
TuE GayoSo got away last evening ON time
| Tor ItptonNlllc with mir trip.
IlE Eugene will bc hcr to leave Tuesday
at' q clock p.mp for Arkansas river
TE Lee Line steamer Colhuma lclyrs CO..
morrow evening at . O'Clock Tor llrlcua and
| friar, Point.
IuE large and commodious Anchor line
steamer BELLE Memphis clears from the clu-
| Natur at noon for 81 Louis
Ttr dcct and elegant passenger steamer
! 'ltN OF Providence pa>sc, here thi, morning
at ~ o'clock, On route FROM st. Louis TO
Nutchcz
TINS tug Charlie Wood sank near Donald
sonNillc, Ia, last "Wednesday. n belonged
to Wood, Widucy n Co., Of Baton Rouge
The tug was insultcd.
IuE Paris e. Brown will most probably
leave New Orleans next week Tor the Ohio
river. Tho Golden Rule Is To leave Cinciu.
matt next week Tor New Orleans
rur popular Rosa Lee, in command Of
| Capt Henry Cooper will arrive to-day and
leave again tomorrow at O'clock pm for
oil points On the upper coast rs tar rs
OsCculu.
The palatial passenger steamer Kate
| Adams departs tomorrow evening at .
O'Clock Tor Helena, Friars Point Coucnrdn.
Icrruc and Arkansas city giving prompt
| aud careful attention to an business cutrust,
| cd IN her. Capt. Mark r. Check commands,
with Capt William &. Banker In charge OF
her office.
TIM Grand Republic was the largest car.
rivr over built on the western waters. She
was $40 feet long, i6's ioct beam. 10 icrt
hold. Her machinery was transferred from
the Great Republic, which WI, lSl feet long,
'n'3 feet beam and 81 feet hold She ear.
rird ., lOO. whilr the GrBud Republic carried
i,uup tons Tho james Howard carried % 2lO
tons The iirt Thompson Dean carried into
Nrwurlcans 2uoO tons.
TIN impression prevail. among Cumhcr.
land river ,tulWbuUlmcu that thrr, will be-
moro business 90 that stream the coming
SEASON than the prr.yul complement uf
Nu1t- will be able tu manage, and move.
mcnt Is ON foot 90 bring loo few outsider,
u Is Slii that there is uu unusual quantity
at corn. iron, lumber and tobacco to move
in the lower part ut that river and the CON.
ditiuu ul things above Nashville being oven
better than below
SpNE dty, ago two ugbo,ls sailed from
Boston. engaged to tow the prlt raft which
has been built No lorrius y - The ait
consist, ui "Auuu sticks varying iu length
from ~ tu 'n feet, containing about sUN.
ON running feet of spruce ,puIs. The
structure is built around great chain ~ ~
inch iron. 10 this arr connected eros,
chains, which run through the unlhcr- q
intervals. SEQ arranged as Ia be- frightened hy
Oh, pail uu the main chain, hy which the
rIft will Doc tuvrd, There are nlsp wire
rnprs around tho raft NJ intervals The
whole structure is UN feet long. affect beam
md Do feet deep, aud draw. q feet ut wa
tor u carries two masis Tor lanterns
Ir1v a report lust arriyrlhy the engineer,
Zoe rhnrrr of the United state, beacon lirht
srr,ir, uu fho Western rivers. it would up.
puf that Uncle sam is illuminating Ens1
milys ui waterway with lan lpiruu light.
employing three steamboats,, divided a1 iul-
lows
Fourteenth District rlt,burr Ia Cairo.
rs lights p'N milv-, kauaWn riyvL ~ li.lts,
q miles lUuuU see river N lights, 3ii Wilca
Fifteenth Di-tryt-st Paul tp tuiri. 40
| liFhis, r2 milcs, Missouri river ~ lights.
/ iSBmilcs.
sixteenth pisirlct-Cair, io New Orleans.
3slishis, 100 miles, Red rINrr siN lights,
miles.
The lighthouse service 81, nov managed ~
constantly grow. ug in Popularity with
sir4mhunfmru. whose uurl Tor iis Cnl"uDN
q. such that ihr slightest irpgunhiy M thr
placing of linhts. ur 81 ONE b. found accident.
iiiv rNtiuuiahrI b. mHdr the subject ui nu
energetic sluril. The average river man BE-
moro interested Ia the proper management
cot thr snl 'bunt and Lighthouse thnu be- b. iu
the personality ui the neat President