Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-20

10 day for Hickman, Belmont Cairo aud
all way landings to st. Louis. The KYLE
is one OF tho most elegantly arranged
packets on the river, besides being A
good and stauneh steamer. and has every
accommodation that could be- desired.
FoR VIoKsBURG. fue Anchor
line steamer Capitol City, with Captain
O'Neal on the roof is the regular Sun.
day packet for Vicksburg, leaving at ten
o'clock tomorrow morning. ChiefpursSr
James M. Thompson will be found in
the office, assisted in his clerical duties
blythe Messrs. Stands No steamer on
the river has better accommodations or
more ahable otficere,
MISCELLANEOUS.
Captain ]. T. Washington, her agent.
this morning received dispatch from
the steamer James Howard that she
would arrive here Monday aud leave
Tuesday evening for New Orleans.
The Laura Davis and Arlington are
aground at Shawneetown; the Gray
Eagle and Mary at French Island, and
the Taraseon at Oil Greek, in the Ohio.
Captain VIM. L. Dill is, we learn, con-
fined to his house by illness, but expects
to be out soon. Clarence Hall attends
to his business while Billy is Eat tie
bank
Will p. and Cliff Walker, the Messrs.
McNeely and the Wharfmaster are the
latest known departures from the home
of their adoption for more genial chimes.
1t is understood among the marine
that the st. Francis is still in the clutches
of the law. and will De sold at marshals
sale. Her debts foot up $23. 900, and
her assets, in unsettled freight bills, are
$4,000.
Captain Milt Harry, Of the City OF
Augusta, has fine cotton patch on
White river, from which he raised and
brought here the finest bale of cotton
that has come to market this season.
1t sold for twenty cents per pound.
Thursdays New Orleans Picayune
states that the B. l.. Hodge No. 2, which
left yesterday for Baton Rouge, when
opposite the Company Canal bursted her
steam pipe. We understand that several
on deck were scalded, but none seriously.
The Hodge sent to the city for assistance,
and by this time she is on her way up
the river
Natchez, Miss, has quarrantined
against the entire outside world.
Vicksburg has established a blockade
against Memphis and New Orleans.
The Belle Lee will commences her
trips from New Orleans to Chicot
City early in September. and continue
as regular weekly packet for the sea
son of 1894, or until she gets enough
of that trade. Then she will come here.
The Vicksburg Herald says: with
the start of 600 bales she got here tits
thought the Natohez ought to 90 into
New Orleans with fully 1900 bales of
new cotton"
The following batch Of items is from
the st. Louis Times of Thursday:
Burglars recently made raid on the
grocery Of Little Old Jofeld at the
mouth of Smithland, and went muchly
for his hams, spced oysters, Bologna
sausages, and other jewelry. Jofeld
does not accuse his next door neighbor,
d. Caspar MONTE, the famous European
landlord. Captain James Gennett, one
of the original owners of the f. P.
Gracey, is in Paducah prospecting.
There are now only two boats, the
Burksville and A. P. Green, engaged in
the navigation Of the Cumberland river.
Captain Bob Riley, of the City of Vicks-
burg, telegraphed from Cape Girardeau
to Captain John p Keiser, of the An
Choir Line, yesterday, that the channel
at Devils island had changed to the
Missouri side where there was nine feet
water on the upper crossing"
Says the st. Louis Globe: THE
channel below is becoming very thin,
the last boats up reporting but five and
a half feet at several places between
this and Cairo and it is full of breaks
and snags. Pilots say that the river is
in a worse condition to the mouth Of the
Ohio than it has been for years past"
The same jouYnal says; "The sick
we are glad to state, are
rapidly eonvalesoing. They are Capt
d. Il. Symmes, Mr.. c. D. Carroll, clerk
'f the Clintoni Mr.. H. D. Dohrman, of
he Belle of Shreveport, and Mr. Tom
Fincher, engineer of the Bee "