Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-09-11

The peace jubilee at Louisville will be
big thing for the boats above the
falls. The Robert Burns goes there
from Cincinnati, and adozen other boats
are named as having been engaged to
carry passengers up from Louisville to
the water-works, where the jubilee takes
place. One enterprising fellow has
boat and is rigging up three barges for
that purpose.
A Pittsburg telegram says Captain
John Mcmillan has asked the United
States Court there to fix day to hear
the arguments on the preliminary in
junction to restrain steamboats, from
using his capstaD. Captain Mcmillan
intends to push those who do not at
once settle.
Old Prob. prophesied clear weather
to-day. The mistake occurred probably
from the indisposition of his assistant
The Cairo Bulletin says: THERE'S less
tan six feet at Greenfeld's. and unless
boats succeed in getting over there in
daylight they had better lay up for the
night. There is about eight feet from
here to Memphis.
Freights from Cairo to New Orleans
are twenty cents on pound lots, and
thirty-fve cents on -four.
The other day the towboat Bee cracked
boiler head and had to leave her barges
at Grand Tower and 90 to St. Louis
light for repairs. The j. N. Kellogg
will, therefore, take her tow to New Or
leans.
GLEANIEGs.
Rain at Nashville and at Grenada,
Miss, last night. Louisville had a
first-class storm on Monday night, dur
ing which two of the NJ. V. 7. Co.'S
barges broke loose, but we're recovered
...."...A dispatch from Quebec says the
steamer Edith Emile has gone ashore,
and eight of the crew drowned. .......J.
B. johnson recently tried to swim across
the Bristol channel, small steamer &C.
companying him. He swan seven miles
in an hour and seven minutes and then
got aboard the steamer. The Lib
erty No. 3 has been sold by her recent
owners, Messrs. Wise and Brawley. of
Ironton, Ohio, to John Ingle, jr., for
$4,000. She will be used in towing az
Evansville and vicinity, and will be in
charge of Captain Bob Hornbrook. ........
Morse & Co. and Charles Drew
we're about to construct a ma
rine railway at East st. Louis,
but had to suspend operations owing
to outside influences of an unfavorable
character.........Captain +. NJ. Humph-
rey has retired from the wharf boat bust
ness, as Evansville........ Walt, writing
from Cairo, says: Zone of the Salvors
took out part of the shaft of the Oceanus
and one engine. The other engine can
not be found or got at. The bow of the
0ceanus lies thirty feet below the sur
face, and is all covered up with sand.
The Salvor is now working on the wreck
Of the Glendale, attempting to recover
some iron blooms .........The Louisville
peace jubilee takes place to-day and to-
morrow.........An attempt to burglarize
the residence of Commodore Kountz was
made at Pittsburg the other night.........
Thirty inches on French Island and
three feet below Evansville. Capt.
Ryman, owner of the Eddyville, will soon
have another boat at his disposal, one
half of the James Rankin, valued at
$4,000, having been bet against the half
value Of the Eddyville, of the same
amount, on the presidential election.
Capt. Ryman bets that Greeley will be
elected. Cairo Bulletin, Sth.