Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-22


along, and. after Tightening some Of her
freight upon her barge, pulled her OF.
The Thirteenth Era and Q. II. Durfee
have laid up at New Orleans.
Captain Broad sold the Peerless to
Mobile company for $4,000, and she has
gone there.
The following is from "McGuire's
letter Of the llth TO the New Orleans
Herald from Shreveport;
tried TO telegraph your paper this
morning but il is impossible; the Office
is closed; the manager is down with the
fever; the other operator is gone
vamoosed. AS soon as il is possible TO
get telegram through you shall be
attended TO. Now, Jim, you cannot form
the least idea OF the trouble here. The
physicians have proclaimed this fatal
disease the Mexican vonito l
don't know OF but three that have
been attacked that ever got we'll
Business houses are closed. Charley
Pomeroy was taken down yesterday, and
is pretty badly of. Whose turn win
come next, God only knows. They are
dying all. around me. The town is
nearly depopulated. At the rate they
are dying now there will soon be very
little material to work on.
The Kitty Hegler, with 300 tons Of
groceries for Cincinnati, the reshipping
freight Of the Thomas Sherlock, is
aground at Flint Island. The Henry
Probasco and Laura Davies are aground
at the same place.
The Henry Ames passed up yesterday
with 1000 sacks Of salt and about $50
tons Of miscellaneous freight for points
above. She had barge in tow with
$1,000 feet of yellow pine lumber.
A negro rouster named VIM. Soren
was accidentally killed on board the
Anchor line steamer City Of Helena
near Leota, while the boat was going
down. Soren was the man whose duty
it was to attend to the hosting and low
ering CT staging, ard it was while man
aging this that his hand became tangled
in the rope, and in endeavoring to ex-
] tricate it the rope caught him around
, the neck and broke both his jaws, kill
ing him instantly. An inquest was
held on the body and verdict returned
in accordance with the above facts. At
Browns landing, little further down, a
: coffin was procured, and the body de-
Gently inferred.
The st. Louis papers say the new
John A. Scudder will be ready to enter
the Memphis trade in two weeks.
The mutineers on the new South
American steamer have resumed work
at Cincinnati, the difficulty between
them and the commander having been
! compromised.
Says the st. Louis Dispatch: There
is some dispute about the proposed mill
between Allen and McCoole coming of,
! as there is danger of an interference
from police headquarters. Wouldn't
one of Virgins ferryboats under way
dispel all alarm if the ARRAY took place
on the deck; and then the railways
would make such nice ring, so difficult
to cut; besides general fright among
the roughs would be more likely to re-
suit desperate and improve the local col
umns of the press"
The Davenport Gazette says:
1t appears that the pilots in the en-
ploy of the Northern Line Packet Com
pany have had their demands for more
wages complied with, the company
quietly acquiescing after endeavoring to
secure pilots in place of those who de-
manded the advance. The engaging of
two or three pilots, who gave evidence
that they didn't know the river" in
low water, has cost the company good
deal of money in delays on sand bars.
A pilot in this city was telegraphed for a
couple of days since to take boat at
Montrose. His reply was only at the
new figures p" 1880 q month for the two
pilots, and the response came quickly
come on" And he is now at the
wheel on packet. Guess, though, that
should the river reach a respectable
stage again this season, the $3.50 men
would have to give way for new men.
The Pomeroy boat Ashland had to
leave passengers on shore at Cincinnati
: last Thursday, she was so crowded.
Will Kyle is now commanding her.
, Fridays New Orleans Times says:
A report reached the landing yester-
day to the effect that Mr.. John Britton,
mate of the Great Republic, had died,
which caused the steamers in port to
display their colors at half mast. 1t was
subsequently learned that Mr. Britton,
who has been i'll for several days past,
was getting better, and the packets being
notified hauled the colors down, or ran
them up to the summit of their jackstaff.
Nearly everybody that comes here
from New Orleans complains of having
the Dengue or break bone" fever.
FREIGHT.