The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-10

General News
THE Ruth left for New Madrid last even
ing
The river at this point fell nine inche.
yesterday.
A NEW 500 whistle has been placed on the
steamer Ruth.
The Allegheny River is frozen over al
Freeport, twenty-eight miles above Pitts
burg.
The Government steamer Minnetonka,
with tow of barges, passed up TO Cairo yes.
tcrday.
THE U. =. Schenck will be due here to-
morrow on her way from New Orleans IA
Cincinnati.
The steamer Maynower will be sold at
Pittsburg by the United States Marshal OH
the 18th instant.
The Memphis & Cincinnati Packet Com
pany VIII send out the steamer Buckeye
State to Cincinnati Tuesday.
The City of Cairo passed here yesterday
morning bound for st. Louis. She put oil
200 bales of cotton and 2,OOO sacks of cotton
seed.
lee is impeding navigation on the Upper
Ohio, and several steamers have gone into
winter quarters at Marietta and other safe
harbors
CAPT. BEN NJ. MERRILEEs, well known
stcamboatman, is an applicant for supervis-
ing inspector of the district with headquar-
tiers at Cincinnati, under the Harrison Adj
ministration.
The ice in the river below ST. Louis which
has been causing steamboats, considerable
trouble OF late has nearly all disappeared,
and the City of Vicksburg left there last
evening for Natchez.
The Granite State arrived from Cincinnati
last night with a full Cargo. She will re-
turn as soon as she can discharge her trip
She will get here 100 bales of cotton and a
lot OF miscellaneous freight
The GOODNESS of Capt Don A. Mars and
his assistants, OF the Granite State, pre-
vented an accident at Greensboro, Ky, last
Tuesday, during heavy windstorm. The
wind blowed so hard that the boat re-
bounded from the wharf and became I'M
manageable, but was finally got under con-
troll aud landed. Precautions were taken by
the officers TO get life prcseryers on all the
passengers, aud had the boat gone down
probably nobody would have been lost The
boat and cargo escaped uninjured.
The Monongahela miners will only work
for sixty days at the old prices. unless In the
meantime the kanawha operators can be in
duced 10 grant their miners an advance, aud
the scales IN force at both places thus be
the 9th inst. Every lawful means will be
used 10y the Monongahela miners TO effect
this purpose II II fails then operations in
the mines are 10 cease unless the miners
agree 10 accept the reduction offered them
by the operators. At the recent meeting Of
the Pittsburg Coal Exchange there was pres
ent a committee Of three miners. The agree
mcnt alluded TO above was ratified by all
parties, apparently to their entire sitisiac-
ton.
CART. W. II. THoRwEGAN, OF the steamer
Grand Republic, in an interview with a
Nicksburg Herald reporter a few DAYS ago,
said: Speaking Of the future OF river in
terests, that, In few years there would be
no large boats on the Mississippi The barge
lines have cut up the freight business and
parallel rail lines have taken all the passcn-
ger business. l think. however IN the
future, that fast light steamers, which could
make twenty or twenty-five miles an hour,
would do a good passenger and express
business Of small parcels while the heavy
freight shipments would drift perhaps, TO
some one gigantic barge line. Before this
would happen, however, the country would
have 10 settle up more thickly."