Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-10-11
y all pOInts on ths ArLan.a. throush . Lii

for all points on the Arkansas through to Lit
tic Rock.
The Phil Allir. Captain Stack Lee, will 20
out this evening for Helena. Friar's Point and
the lower landings. William Gray is her
clerk.
The United States mail steamer Belle of
Pike. now one Of the popular vessels Of the
Anchor Line, will be here to-day to leave at
FIVE ?. m. for Belmont, Cairo, st. Louis and all
the upper landings.
The United States mail steamer A. J. White,
Captain Mark Cheek, leaves this evening at
five o'clock for Napoleon, Chicot and all bend
landings.
The excellent steamer La Belle, now at the
landing, will leave at five o'clock this even
ing for Vicksburg, Natchez and New Orleans,
making the usual landings. Captain M. N.
Wood commands, and J. J Dodd is clerk.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The City of Chester lost twelve hours by
grounding at Island q, and the Exporter was
aground thirty-si1 hours at Bulletin bar,
coming down. The pilots of the latter boat re-
port six feet Ten inches over the shoalest places
between here and Cairo.
Teams are 70 ding the Ohio river from New
Albany to Sand Island, and transferred from
the island to the Kentucky shore by the ferry
boat.
Laborcrs command fifty cents per hour at the
st. Loui levee. and are area at that.
The Pauline Carroll left st Louis with 1000
tons on herself and la ges. and 200 head of
stock; also cabin crowded With people.
There are numerous " foreign" seamboat-
men attending the ST Louis Fair. Our Sam
Shock is not the least prominent among them,
if epor,s received be true.
The machinery of the snag boat Tbayer is
all taken out and in good order and will go in
the hull of the new iron hull snag boat the
government contemplates building.
N C. Selby has aalrchased one-half Of the
Glasgow for $1,000
Parties rom New Orleans have offered
$1,000 for the Burksville for the 0uachita river.
On Tuesday last the Francis Fisher,did the
excursioning for prize fight arrange
ment that came of few miles below st.
Louis between Tom Kelley and Fred Bussey.
Bussey was "busted" in twenty-eight rounds
in thirty-fye minutes, and Kelley hardly
scratched.
The sidewheeler Josephine, of one hundred
tons capacity. will load at st. Louis for Red
river. and thereafter run between Shreveport
and Jefferson as a general transport and pas
senger boat, but more especially under the
auspices Of Boinger and Pegram.
On Monday $3.50 bales of cotton were received
at New Orleans by boats. The R. E. Lee had
1923 bales and 1882 sacks of seed; the Katie
| 764 bales and 202O sacks Of seed and the Gov.
Allen 1866 bales and 1870 sacks of seed
| The Glencoe towed barge with a couple of
locomotives and a tender on board from New
Orleans to Red river.
| The Bismarck and Bodman are due from
below.
There are seven feet of water at Reeves and
Island 90. and eight feet at Choctaw.
| GLEANiNGs
| Alex Boss and Sam Mcbride, Cincinnati and
New Orleans pilots, have bought tn ,mselves 4
| farm in Kentucky......The sunken barge Annie
Laurie, lying in the channel at Rising Sun, has
been removed with the assistance of eighteen
torpedOes, and now nine feet Of water can be
found where the wreck laid...... Cincinnati col
lected sA wharfage last week.. Commodore
James Wise, James d. Parker and William
Voris attended the silver wedding Of Captain
W. II. Finkbine, at indianapolis, Monday
night The Great Republic will be let into
the water in about two weeks.....The total rise
in Red river was five feet......C Chicago was the
coolest place in Grants empire this morning
at six o'clock. The mercury there stood at 80
only 80 above freezing.