Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-08-04


The Thomas II. Allen came in hi
morning from White river with n fair
trip. She returns tomorrow, leaving az
five pm.
Captain Sam Shock thinks since his
Northern trip that the weather has be-
come very warm, but is confident that
even with the Mercury at 1902 in the
shade, his shirt collar would be impene-
trable.
The Fort Gibson, Captain Cooper, will
leave at five o'clock this evening for
Pine Bluff and Little Rock.
The A. j. White, Capt. Geo. Malone,
backs out this evening at five O. clock for
Helena, Friar's Point and Napoleon,
making all the landings to accommodate
passengers.
The Mary Boyd will be due from the
Arkansas tomorrow.
The Henry Ames and Indiana are
due from below
Joe Locke has all the latest literature
at his news stand, on Main near Jeifer-
son street.
The Cincinnati and New Orleans
steamboat owners are preparing to build
wharfboat Of the following dimensions,
to be located at Cincinnati The hull
will be 260 feet long, so feet wide and 81
feet hold, with one guard feet wide;
floor feet 10 inches, and Tapped s feet
from the. center on both sides. The
center will be IA inches, top timbers 4
inches thick by inches at the top and
8 inches at the bottom. She will have
three keelsons, s by s inch bulkheads, 6
inches thick, boted and fastened.
The Arlington takes the place of the
General Lyle in the Louisville and
Cincinnati Mail Line.
The Commercial, St. Marys, Cham
pion, st. Charles and Robert Burns were
engaged in the negro picnic trade at
Cincinnati on Tuesday.
The Ohio river pilots held conven-
ton at Cincinnati on Wednesday.
The 7. f. Eckert raised the st. Jo-
seph. The break was about twelve feet
long and fourteen inches wide.
Freights from Louisville to New Or
leans is forty cents per one hundred
pounds on bacon and lard; fifty cents
per one hundred pounds for dry goods;
potatoes, seventy-fve cents per barrel;
whisky, two dollars; pork, one dollar;
way-freights ten cents per one hundred
pounds less than given above.
The Dexter on her upward trip had
1000 tons, including 1911 bars of rail
road iron and 1900 boxes sugar.
The Belle Lee was taken to the sec
tional docks, at st. Louis, Wednesday
to have her cylinder heads raised two
feet and her wheels enlarged proportion
ately.
Seventy-fve thousand eight hundred
and sixty tons of freight was received at
and seventy-three thousand two hundred
and ninety-two tons shipped by river
from st. Louis during July.
A large steam grain elevator has been
commenced at Kansas City. 1t will
cost 100000 Its storing capacity will
be 100000 bushels 1t is contemplated
so we understand, to construct an eleva-
tor at Hopefeld, nearly opposite this
city. Then, if a neat depot is erected,
there will be no necessity of even bring
ing passengers to this side. Memphis
built the Little Rock railroad, but don't
seem to be benefited much by it. st.
Louis seems to have the preference
A New Orleans exchange says: The
Havana packets touch at Cedar Keys
and st. Marks, Florida, where passen-
gers frequently disembark and reach
New Orleans without detention. The
poor bipeds who stick to the steamers
remain for days at quarantine to be
preyed upon by mosquitoes as big as
and sung to sleep by frogs in
the adjacent marshes. They are often
at the useless quarantine regu-
lations, and especially when they find
their more sagacious friends snugly
in the city, having gone
through by rail from Florida ports. The
quarantine is pronounced both a nui-
Iance and humbug.