Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-20

Hiram Hill has gone 10 Louisville 10
try and complete some work on the falls
and vicinity, which he has been forced
to abandon three or four times by rise
in the river.
\ Frank Rollins, formerly river editor of
the Cincinnati Times and local of the
Evening Journal of St. Louis, is now
proprietor Of the American Trade Jour
nal in New York.
The bodies Of FIVE of the victims of
the recent hatboat disaster 1t Wheeling
have been recovered from the river and
inferred by their friends.
The towboat Smoky City has laid up
at Portland, and the Charley Brown at
the foot of the canal.
The steamer City of Alton has been
sold by E. A. Sheble, seven-eighths, and
P. W. Sheckley, one-e;ghth, to the City
OF Alton Transportation Company, for
$24, 900.
The wealth of the Northern Line
Packet Company is set down at $780,
900, and that Of the Keokuk Packet
Company at S6,5OO,OOO. This embraces
more than the companys property
ahoat.
The ]. J. Albert is now at work in the
bend above Evansville, where she has
already pulled up sycamore log one
hundred and ten feet long and fifteen
feet in circumference. She also removed
thirty snags while en- route from Louis
vile to Evansville
Louisville collected $l279 26 wharf
age for two weeks ending last Saturday.
The single-chimney screw propeller
John F. Tolle passed up'last night.
Red river iS again down to low
water level, there being but FIVE feet be-
low Shreveport.
The Natchez leaves New Orleans for
Vicksburg Saturday, August "a, on her
first trip.
The John Kyle left St. Louis drawing
six and half feet.
The Pittsburg Mail says Captain John
Dippold sold to John Mccormick the
Tigress No. 2 for $4,000, as she lay at
the wharf, coaled and ready to leave on
first water.
The tri-weekly passenger steamer st.
Francis, Captain 7. R. Bowman, leaves
this evening at five o'clock for Helena,
Mariana and all the usual way landings.
Captain Sam Paine is her chief secre-
tary.
The regular United States mail packet
Thos. II. Allen, Captain Eugene Smith,
leaves at FIVE o'clock this evening for
Pine Bluff, Little Rock and all points on
the Arkansas river. Pat Morrison holds
forth at the desk.
The United States mail and passenger
packet A. j. White, Captain Mark Cheek
in command, will back out at 5 o'clock
this evening for Helena, Friar's Point
and Napoleon. She has been thoroughly
overhauled, renovated and reftted, and
with Messrs. Fields and Sharpe, her &C
complished clerks, will be warmly well
coined by her friends down the river
The St. Joseph, Captain Corbett,
leaves this evening at five o'clock for
Cairo and st. Louis connecting with the
railroads at both points, as well as with
half dozen lines of opposition steamers
at st. Louis.
st. Louis has three steamboat lines
and one barge line competing for freight
to New Orleans.
James II. Fitch, steamboat engineer,
died suddenly at Evansville yesterday
from the combined effects of liquor, NOR
phine and sun.
The st. Joseph came down during the
night with 400 tons produce.
The GAINESVILLE, from Little Rock,
came in during the night with light
freight trip.
A telegram was received this morning
by one of our steamboat agents, direct
from the Apache country, stating that
James Speed, ticket agent and John
Clark, conductor of the Louisville rail-
road, were having excellent luck among
the buffalo herds. In one days sport
the latter shot and killed FIVE large bulls
that the former had lassoed. Clark's
first attempt at lassoing, while riding at
full speed is said to have resulted in his
getting the rope over the wrong end of
the buffalo, and when he gave the Jerk"
out came Mr.. Buffalo's narrative, which
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