Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-10-03

Ing TO Huse, LOOMS i Co., John B, Maude,
james Howard. Continental, H. NJ. Shreye,
George c. Wolf, New Bon Accord, General
Anderson, j. IL. johnson, Exporter, Friend
ship. Phil Sheridan, Submarine, John Il.
Tolle. Andy Ackley, P. w. Strader. Mary e.
Poe, e. II. Durfee, Belle of Shreveport, Keo-
kuk. NJ. J. Wicks. Crescent City, Francis
Fisher, Schuyler. Andy johnson. Marble City,
Thompson Dean. Richmond, Maggie p, Wild
Cat. W. II. Brown, Liberty No. 4. Gasconade.
Belle st. Louis, Iron Mountain, Lady Lee,
Aid, May Lowry and Great Republic. Total,
forty-seven boats, valued at s2,OOo,0 900.
The recent rise in the Yazoo amounted to
ten feet. 1t has, however, since declined
seven feet.
William Cox. engineer of the Hale, fell
overheard and was drowned at Demopolis, on
Alabama river. last week. His body was re-
covered.
The wreck Of the Robert Fulton, sunk by Toe
at Shawneetown last winter, was sold at Pa
ducah on the 18th,
GLEAYINGs.
Dense fogs reported at Cairo every night......
The Belfast added considerable freight at
Cairo 1.-The Cincinnati Gazette asks the Lou
isville Commercial if it is big thing for
stern wheel boat 10 go from Cairo to St. Louis
on one wheel. The Commercial man had been
pilfering items. and had it so stated T The
| Carrie V. Kountz had to come out Of Bird 3
| Bend stern foremost, on account sf the
crossing into sthe Ohio river being so
near the Illinois point 49,. The Cairo
| Bulletin of the LIST says: - A runaway couple
came down ON the Lewis and disembarked
| here. They created quite an excitement on
the levee during the afternoon of yesterday.
| Another Teller was following them in their
DECENTRALIZATION. and was determined to put a
Mansard roof over the other feller's star
board if he didn't give Lusinda Jane to
him. At late hour be had not yet got her."
Two hundred and eighty-two arrivals at
st. Louis last month. The Northern Line
Packet Company has withdrawn from the pa
pers of Dubuque. st. Paul and Davenport its
advertisements of low rates. and has advanced
its rates thirty three and one-third per cent
"A noater was picked up Sunday, at Vicks-
burg. He had evidently been deck-hand, as
cotton hook was found attached to his side
| . The Howard loaded at St. Louis for New
Orleans, at 45c for -four and 22l19o per hundred
for pound freight.
RIVER PERSONALS.
''R. S. Taylor introduced on Change yester-
day r. A. Thompson, of the Memphis Ava
lanehe." So says the st. Louis Democrat of
yesterday. The same paper has also the fol-
lowing: miss Sallie e. Gormley was mar
ried yesterday to Louis R. McCord, son of
Reuben McCord. engineer. Miss Sallie is
daughter of Captain James GOrmley. we'll
known steamboat man."
Captain &. A. Levy, formerly of this city.
has been appointed to an excellent berth in
the St. Louis Water-W orks office.
Captain Howard, formerly commander of
the S. S. Merrill. and Della Stein, her chief
clerk, will fill the same positions on the Phil
Sheridan.
We learn to-day that Captain ]. T. Wash
ington, of our city, has been appointed agent
of the Mississippi and Dominion Steamship
Company. and will sign through bills lading
to Liverpool as soon as the form of bills ar
rive