Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-03-16
frst death that has occurred there in the

first death that has occurred there in the
last Elk months.
T.J. Harrison, pilot Of the Sabine,
being dissatisfied with the decision OF
the local inspectors as regards the col
lisicn with the Richmond, has taken an.
appeal to the board Of supervising in
spectors. His petition is lengthy one,
demanding review of the case.
Governor Baker, Of Indiana, has APP
pointed commission to look after the
improvement of the Ohio river and its
nayigable tributaries, aud adopt what
ever measures they may deem necessary
to accomplish the object, in conformity
with resolution Of the convention for
the improvement Of the Ohio river, re-
Gently held at Cincinnati.
A Burlington telegram states that the
river opened in front Of that city on the
18th.
A rise Of seventeen inches at Keokuk
day before yesterday.
The Mary Alice, with four barges,
each loaded to six feet and carrying 1000
tons, VIII be due from above tomorrow.
Among the many boats that will be
due from above tomorrow and Monday
are the John Kyle, Glasgow, Dexter,
Utah, Belle 81. Louis and Belle Memphis.
A Cairo telegram Of the 18th reports
1900 tons of New Orleans freight await
ing tonnage at 32lc per 100. Flour Csc
per barrel.
The steamer Hunter has been libeled
at New Orleans for carrying TOO many
passengers. She ran between New Or
leans and Quarantine, and had eighty
FIVE passengers, while only permitted to
carry fifteen, the penalty of which is
refunding Of the passage money and
fine Of ten dollars for each passenger
Judge Theard, of New Orleans, issues
an order that he will refuse writs of pro-
visional seizure, sequestration, arrest,
attachment or injunction after three
o clock p. M, and explains it thus: "Sup-
posing that steamboat with valuable
cargo and passengers was to leave at five
o'clock in the evening and she was one
hour or two before seized, would not the :.
owner be seriously damaged, not being
able to give bond on account of the clerk
and judge being absent2''
Captain Hutchinson has put white col
lars around the John Kyles chimneys.
Mr. James H. Yore takes charge OF
the Office of the Dexter in place of Mr..
Owen G. Gates.
Why didn't the Memphis papers tell us that
the City Of Alton, bound up, instead Of stop
Ping at the wharf stopped az Hopefeld. oppo-
site, put out her Memphis passengers, and
paid their fare over on the ferryboat? Can't
you see what your nice port charges are doing
for you? Your city Is being summed by other
steamers than Van Hooks Yaeger.-.S. Louis
Democrat, 18th.
Hopefeld does not charge wharfage
tax, but Memphis does. We presume,
however, that the City Of Alton had no
NOlicCblOuo uuc HcTt. nat was ln6
principal reason of her not landing.
The Missouri opened at Omaha on
Thursday.
Captain William Elliott, who has been
in St. Louis few days, returned to the
city yesterday.
The snag which struck the Minneola
was above the water and had two prongs,
one of which struck high out of the
water and ran against a tier of cotton,
checking the speed of the boat in time
to prevent the other from making clean
sweep of erveything back to the boilers.
Captain Milt Harry, late of the
steamer Hartford, is now in charge of
the little dinkey Summer Coon, and has
his craft in upper White river waters.
A Keokuk dispatch of Thursday says:
" The gorge Of ice still seems firm and
strong. The river is open from Warsaw