Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-12
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Two well known gentlemen who do
business on Front street and at the riv.
or haven't been seen for twenty hours.
Their friends are anxious about them.
On Thursday the r. A. Babbage came
here from Grand Tower with six boats
Of coal and returned the same night for
more.
Captain John WOODBURY. has contracted
with Elias Ehler TO put new texas on
the Belle Of Texas and widen her guards.
Captain WOODBURY. will make respecta-
BILE looking steamboat out of bis new
purchase.
A dispatch from Lawrence, Kansas,
Of the 9Th, says;
A half mile Of the Missouri Pacific
railroad track, near Kickapoo Station.
dropped into the Missouri river this
evening. II sank out of sight in the
flooded stream, in one lurch, and with
out any warning. IL seems that the
river undermined the track, without the
knowledge Of the railroad men. The
water where the track was situated is new
forty feet deep. Railroad men say il is
the most fearful rent ever seen. The
escape Of trains was almost miraculous.
The Bodmann begins loading on Mon
day at Cincinnati for the South. The
Longworth and James d. Parker are to
leave there to-day.
Parties from St. Louis who arrived to-
day state that the grand consolidation
will not take place right away, and they
even say that the stockholders of the St.
L. and N. o. and NJ. S. P. Co. laugh at
the idea of putting their property into
such an arrangement.
Some time since. says the Shreveport
Times ofthe 9th, the raft or jam formed
in Tones bayou had broken loose and
washed away. We learn that Lieutenant
Woodruff has again placed boom
across the bayou, or rather in old river
above the mouth of the bayou, which he
is Of the opinion will stand the pressure.
He has about three miles of the famous
raft above here to remove, and which he
will be compelled TO force past this point
to find an out of the way place. The raft
or as much of it as is necessary will be
coaxed to Tones bayou, where it will be
allowed to accumulate until it forms a
towhead and completely stops the flow of
water down the bayou. The plan is
feasible, and will doubtless be carried
out to the letter.
st. Louis rates to New Orleans were
advanced yesterday to 4Oc for -four and
zoe per 100 for pound freight.
The Lady Lee had in tow last night
for Shreveport the new barge Lizzie
Rea, craft just completed by Prime
Emerson, for the Upper Red river
packet Belle Rowland, and to be used
by her as lighter.
Says the st. Louis Times: The
City of Alton was hauled on the Sec
tional docks yesterday to be repaired to
the tune of from 5000 to $4,000,
among which will be the deepening of
the hold two feet, taking out all the
original timbers in the hull and replac-
ing them with new ones; giving her new
guards, new engine timbers, new hull
and new chmneys. She will be com
pleted in about four weeks when the
City of Alton will be as good and as
staunch a boat as when she was first
built.
A German couple, on bridal tour,
direct from Germany, were passengers
south on the Henry Ames this morning.
Neither of them understand the English
language and they carry with them an
interpreter who is about six feet tall.
Several friends of Captain Matt Glasa
were inquiring yesterday as to his where
abouts. Ee is now living in the country
and started several weeks since in the
wood business with excellent success.
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