Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-29

should get their heads together and try
TO have their reports at least within a
foot OF the actual stage.
An Arkansas penitentiAry bird was
drowned few days ago while unloading
iron from = steamboat above Little Rock.
The Lady Lee has the last Of the 5000
bars OF Texas Pacific railroad iron to be
shipped from st. Louis. She has 1000 bars.
The Carter Line, including this 1000
bars on the Lee, have transported 1000
Of the bars which they carried to shreve-
port, and reshipped it from there. The
other 1000 went to New Orleans by the
Barge line, and we're sent up Red river
by the New Orleans Red river line.
Andy Pauley, chief engineer Of the
Natchez, publishes In the New Orleans
PIoayune challenge for a race between
his boat (the Natchez) and the Robert
y. Lee from New Orleans to Carrollton,
or any designated point from there to
St. Louis. for the sum Of three thousand
dollars. both boats 10 be lashed together
at the start. The terms, play or pay.
subjec. to orders of Captain T. P. LeAth-
ers, owner and master Of the steamer
Natchez. Time of starting to be named
by both boats hereafter.
The funeral Of Captain John V. Nc.
Donald took place at Pttsburg last Sun
day, and was largely attended, about
5000 persons being present The crowd
was so great at the residence that the
floors gave way, but were cleared before
any damage was done.
A telegram from Captain Albert
Smith states that the Batesville will
leave Jacksonport to-day for this port.
The following, from yesterdays St.
Louis Republican, goes to show that,
although the season has been bad one,
some of the steamboat owners have made
money:
Captains II. Bixby and Z. A. Sheble,
Of the City Of Alton, returned yesterday
frcm q trip to the Ohio, where they have
been receiving bids for the construction
Of q new st. Louis and New Orleans
packet, somewhat similar to the James
Howard, and for which they closed con-
tract with Captain ALI. Cutting, the
bost-builder at Metropolis, Illinois, for
the hull, which is 10 be 800 feet long,
Sc feet beam, IS feet floor, 9 feet hold, s
feet in the clear, and to be completed by
the middle of November. The boat is to
be 1upplied with 6 new four-fued. boilers
% feet long, AZ inches diameter. The
rest Of the machinery will be taken out
of the City Of Alton, whose cylinders
are 9 feet stroke, 30 inches diameter;
water wheel, "a feet diameter; length
of buckets. IA feet. Her machinery
was formally in the Baltimore. The
new hull as soon as launched will be
towed here for completion, and will re-
ceive a three-quarter length cabin, with
twenty-four staterooms eight feet square,
twelve on a side. She will have a ca
pacity for 2700 tons, and will come out
on three feet of water, and Captain
Sheble thinks she will carry 1900 on six
feet Of water. Captain Woods, one of
the partners of the builder, is in the
city and took look at the Howard yes
terday to see if there could not he some
made on the new steamer.
When the boat is completed she will be
the widest steamer on the Western wa
tiers, being one foot wider than the How
ard, three feet more floor, one foot less
hold and the same size in length. That
Of her being economical in fuel, large
carrier and q complete success in every
way there is but little doubt. Her
owners are talking of christening her
Joe Brown, after the Mayor of this city.
A better selection or more popular
name could not be found.