Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-07-10
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mouth Of White river for repairs to her
} shaft, which was broken. 8
J 1t is expected that all river men and
: railroaders will attend the seance by
General Barney Hughes at the New
Memphis. Of course everybody will be
furnished free tickets. gor.
The only boat advertised to leave port
to-day is the Henry s. Turner, and she
will be here to leave at six p. IN. for Hell
Jena, Vicksburg, Natchez and New Or
leans, and will make the usual landings.
Captain w. j. Rusk, an efficient and ia
vorite officer, commands and s. B. Mil
Ter is her agent.
An obstreperous darkey wanted to
shoot somebody while on the St. Louis
wharfboat last night, and finding no OBJ
jeet Of less use to the community let his
pistol off with the muzzle close to his
hand-so close, in fact. that portion
of the hand went off simultaneously
with the pistol.
Messrs. Bohlen, Huse & Co., of this
city, have perhaps larger supply Of ice
on hand than any other dealers on othe
river They have enough to supply the
city during the heated term.
A Fort Smith exchange contains the
following:
DIR. f. NJ. Paine, who lives on the
other side Of the river, nearly opposite
this place, informs us that during the
recent high water large slip Of land
near the Overland Stage Company's sta
bic was washed away, and that the low
water reveals the existence of large
drift of logs, sand, clay, etc., twenty or
thirty feet below the top of the bank.
The doctor says that there are several
strata of sediment, which he believes to
indicate or mark the rises in the river of
each year after the drift of logs was
formed. The logs are mostly sound,
and undoubtedly were deposited there
over century ago, and lie in what was
once the channel of the Arkansas river.
When the French first discovered the
mouth of the Poteau, and the land be-
low, they gave it the name of Bale
Point, which shows that point of land
was formed below the mouth of the Po-
teau, from which Belle Point derived its
name.
Yesterdays St. Louis Republican con-
tains the following items:
The river still falling. The weather
very hot. Business dull. Laborers ON
the levee are scarce as hens teeth. u
The sun is too hot There were three
strikes among the laborers on the
steamer Bismarck yesterday; cause
the weather was too bot and the sacks
of oats too big. There are number of
shippers who do not handle grain bags
with their own tender digits, have no
conscience about the size of the bags,
and are now sending forward grain in
sacks which, when filed weigh more
than two hundred and sixty pounds on
an average. OF course no set of laborers
likes TO attack such enormous burdens
with the thermometer standing at ninety
in the shade. The consequence of all
of which is that steamboatmen are sub
jected to much annoyance on account
of strikes among the laborers on the
leyee. II is generally conceded among
our lower river steamboatmen that the
thing is just little too heavy, and
that forwarders will have to descend a
peg or .wo in the size of their bags, or
they will not find transportation. The
leVee is very dusty.
Sealed proposals are advertised for
until Monday. August 5, for the removal
of Bacon rock, below Cairo.
Mr.. David Mills caught a catfish at
Louisville day or two since at the Big
Eddy, with hand-pole, weighing nine
ty-seven pounds. So says the Courier.
The following will constitute line of
boats to run from Louisville to Cairo du-
ring low-water season: Camelia, Eddy
vile, Longfellow, Ella Hughes and
Burksville.
q Benton telegram of the 18th says:
Katie B. Kountz left this evening with
sixty-fve passengers, which is double as
many as any other boat has had this sea-
son. River fallen two feet since last re-
port.
We copy the following from yester-
days st. Louis Democrat: Very low
water is predicted there for this summer
such as thirty inches water on the bars
between Louisville and Cairo, while there
will be- at least six feet water for boats to
get to st. Louis on. Rates to Little Rock
on bills lading given by the Memphis
and St. Louis Packet Company are ad
7anced, -four being now ninety cents per
barrel, and pound freight sixty cents per