The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-15

THE DeSoto goes out this evening at 5
O'Clock for Cincinnati.
The Guiding Starshould pass here at noon
bound for New 0aleans
The James Lee was in and out yesterday
with good trips both ways
THE John A. Wood passed south yesterday
afternoon with tow of coal.
CARDS are out announcing the marriage of
James ii. Rees, secretary of the Memphis
and :Vicksbuig Packet Company, and Miss
Jennie Day, on the Goth inst
CAPT. WATT SPENCER, one OF the oldest
and best known engineers ON the Ohio River
died last Monday night at Newport, i'm his
seyenty-iourth year Capt Spencer was
well known and very popular with river
men from Pittsburg TO New Orleans.
Mrs. BEAzEE, wife of Capt Hiram Brace
one of The local inspectors OF this district
under the Arthur administration, dropped
dead at her residence in Cairo Wednesday
morning The remains were shipped to
Tell City, Ind, for interment
LATE Tuesday night the barge Caldwell
which was alongside the Pearl when she
burned, at Cairo, and was thought to be only
scorched, burned 10 the waters edge the
fire, supposedly, never having been extin-
guishcd. She was valued at about II, $50 and
insured,
THE boat-buildcrs throughout the United
States ur1 complaining about the way Uncle
Sam allows disinteresled parties 10 bid on
the building of boats and other water craft
Some time ago the Government let the con
tract for the building Of a tugboat TO be used
in the harbor of Mobile Ala. A Mobile
resident bid on the contract and secured IL
on bid Of little more than $1,000, being
half Of which about fifteen boat-buildcrs
bid on the construction of the hull alone.
There are no ways or shipyards at Mobile
How the new tug is 10 be built aud come up
20 the specifications Of the contract is puz.
zlor.
SOME time ago little yacht from Racine
Wis, passed Nicksburg, en- route 90 New
Orleans and Mobile, says the Vcksburg
Herald Of the 7th INST The trip has been
completed, and Mr.. j. Kelly, OF the party
yesterday passed through Nicksburg, ON his
way home. The route was through the
canal 10 the Illinois River, down il 10 the
Mississippi, down the Mississippi TO the
Gulf and along the Mississippi Sound to
Mobile. In the journey the party passed
through Wisconsin, Illinois Missouri, Ar
kansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana,
and ended the voyage Of over 1000 miles In
Alabama. The party are all lumbermcn,
and expressed themselves rs amazed at the
timber wealth of the South. The idea that
only the North has building lumber the
gentlemen think u great error The white
pine Of the Northwest is no better
than the cypress of the South, and
for shingles the cypress is, next TO
cedar, by far the most valuable lumber
wood. The culture of cotton was n curiosity
20 these tourists a. they stopped In the
Delta nj several large plantations, saw the
plant growing, saw il picked, ginncd and
baled. The stop az Nic,sburg was devoted
mainly 10 visiting the lumber industries Of
the city and the oil mills. When the boat
reached the Upper Coast OF Louisiana, the
stretch Of sugar country between Plaque
mine aud New Orleans, they made frequent
stops unl saw the process Of cane culture
ana sugar making, below New Orleans,
which they reached on Christmas eve and
were 10th 10 leave. They investigated the
orange plantations and rte fields, aud, pass
ing through the jcttics the great engineer
ing feat OF modern times, they were soon ON
the boistcrous waters Of the Gulf Of Mexico.
The run by the islands which dot the sound.
and the visits 10 the various watering places,
now deserted. was Of no special interest and.
reaching Mobile, after pleasant stay, they
sold their boat and started back by rail