Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-01

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as for way landings. are hereby reminded
that the regular and popular passenger
steamer Mary Houston, Captain Charles
Miller, departs at ten am. tomorrow for
Louisville and all way stations. Go on
board early and secure your rooms. Our
friend, Mr.. Elliott Miller. does the hon
ors Of the :onice, and Captain Dick
Lightburne is agent,
MISCELLANEOUS.
ST. Louis has II at last, although the
papers Of that city had TO stretch the
truth point ortwo to conceal It.
On Saturday last Captain John Can.
non was the guest Of Captain T. +.
Eckert at Cincinnati.
Proposals for the work Of improving
the Mississippi river. above St. Louis.
were opened at ST. Louis on Thursday
morning in General Simpsons office.
The act Of Congress appropriates $780,
600 for the purpose. The seven bids re-
ceived will be forwarded TO General
HUMPHREYS, Chief Of the Engineer De-
partment, who will make the awards.
The coal diggers Of nearly all the
mines along the Panhandle railroad
have struck to force operators to adopt
the scale Of prices, which gives miners
the same pay for nut coal as for mer.
coal. But few mines along
the Monongahela have stopped operat-
ing, the miners up to this time having
struck at but four works. Operators say
they are fully prepared for a strike; in
fact that they would sooner diggers
would strike now than at any other sea-
son Of the year.
W. II. Curtis, late bar.keeper of the
Exporter, has bought the Traders Bank
saloon, at Cass avenue and Broadway,
St. Louis, and quit the river.
Captain Darragh's elephant stern
wheeler, just contracted for at Pittsburg,
will be: Length 26O feet, beam 4s feet,
hold Z feet, shear feet, cylinders 22l
inches in diameter, with 81 feet stroke,
4 boilers, 30 feet long, 40 inches in diam
eter, with hues each. She will be built
exclusively for freight, and will have ca
pacity for two thousand tons, and will
be the longest stern-wheeler aAoat;
some twenty-five feet longer than either
the Henry G. Yeager or John f. Tolle.
Captain Darragh intends placing her in
the Cincinnati and New Orleans trade.
He expects to have her completed about
the first of October. rn
Regarding the scarcity of aqua dis
tillatioR about the port of Louisville
and in the Ohio above and below there,
the Courier.Journal says: 1t is re-
ported that an expedition is being fitted
out to 20 in search of the hole that all
the water is running into, and cork it
up. Somebody suggested that it would
be found at Evansville, when bystand-
er remarked, No, he don't drink water.
His mouth is sufficiently capacious, aud
if the river ran whisky, right there would
be the place to LOOKOUT nothing short
Of a mountain peak would do to plug up
that enormous cavity.
The little steam yacht building at
Mound City as a snsg boat, tender and
survey boat is to run twenty-five miles
an hour.
The George c. Wolf came here from
St. Louis in forty-six hours with 1000
tens of freight. She lost seven passen-
gers by not landing.
The big Republic makes two daylight
excursions at st. Louis on the 4th, and
at night makes an excursion to Alton.
The st. Louis Democrat speaks in this
wise about Memphian;. Captain VIM.
G. Postal is commander of the Grafton.
He brought some barges to La Sale and
came down light; found water low and
feet in the channel above
Peoria. The Grafton leaves for Grand
Tower this morning. Thus Captain Pos
tai has returned to his old love. He
did heap of work, and ran
popular boats in the Missouri and to
Namnhia