The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-10
General News.

The w. w. 0'Neil is making up tow n
Louisville for this port.
THE Ruth pulled out for the upper coas
last evening with fine trip.
TnE Thomas Sherlock, having aboard
number of Mardi Gras excursionists, is du,
here, bound for Cincinnati
THE magnificent Anchor Line steame,
City of Providence, passes here this morning
at 10 clock bound for Natchez
THE Arkansas City, from st. Louis. passed
to Natchez yesterday forenoon. She dis
charged 200 packages and added about "a
tons for points below
The City of Baton Rougc,en route from st.
Louis to New Orleans, passed here last night.
She put off at the elevator 200 barrels of flour
and added 100 tons of sundries.
THE Memphis and Cincinnati Packet Com
pany will have the elegant passenger steam
er Buckeye State here in time 10 leave Tues
day, at O'Clock p. m, for Cincinnati.
The City of New reans passed here yes
terday morning on her way from New Or
leans to St. Louis. She put off at the eleva-
tor about 1900 packages, including three
barrels of sugar, $50 boxes Of snuff 100 boxes
sauce ten boxes cherries, and lis packages
sundries.
CAIno is now the head of navigation ON
the Mississippi, the river from there up be-
reaching nearly across the river. 1t Is not
especially heavy, but enough TO occasion a
very formidable blockade. The City of
Monroe, which passed here yesterday on her
way TO Natchez, had hard time reaching
the mouth of the Ohio. She ran through ice
all the way from ST. Louis, and upon reach.
ing Buffalo Island the situation was more
complicated by reason of back water, which
held the heavy ice, almost forming q com
plete blockade. She pushed through until
Greenleafs was reached, where the river was
completely frozen over cutting her way
through solid ice for three miles with con-
siderable difficulty. The head Of her barge
was sheathed at Grand Tower, being badly
marked and cut up upon reaching Cairo.
AT the mouth Of the Ohio the ice was COM
ing around Illinois Point and going up the
Missouri Bend, spectacle exceedingly I'M
usual, even in that river Of eddies aud boils.
Her pilots found with the lead @ feet at
Perry's Towhead, 81 feet at Fort Chartres
and feet at the head Of Jacket Pattern.
THE towing steamer Joseph b. Williams.
that Is 10 be sold by the United States Mar.
shal at Louisville the 10th OF this month.
was built in 1876 at Freedom Pa, by the
Grand Lake Coal Company, now defunct TO
replace the steamer Grand Lake. She was
modelled and her construction was super
intended by Capt. Peter spraguc, one OF the
noted boat builders OF Pittsburg. She is 2l0
feet long, 30 feet beam and ca feet hull. and
at her head she is % feet wide over all. Her
engines are high aud low pressure combined.
the steam, after passing through the high
pressure cylinders Is forced into the low
pressure cylinders by an auxiliary doctor.
The low pressure cylinders are az inches I'm
diameter and the high ones are 1917 inches.
with nine feet stroke of piston. She was
built at a cost Of So, 900, but, owing 10 the
complicated machinery numerous repairs
viii make her cost about 100000. She Is
the largest towboat that was ever built. and
one OF the most successful. She has taken
$1,000 bushelso OF coal from Louisville 20
New Orleans, feat that has never been ox.
celled by any other towing steamer. The
only disastrous accident that ever happened
70 her was in 1879. when going down the
mississippi with big tow Of coal. her shaft
broke, dropping her wheel overheard. sixty
miles below Memphis, losing a number Of
coal boats.