Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-05

distractions Of a far more formidable
character.
The Arlington has been hauled out ON
the marine ways at Cincinnati, where
she will be heightened thirty.three feet.
She viii be completed and ready for bus
mess in three weeks.
After leaving here on her last trip, one
Of the colored cabin boys on the James
ID. Parker. named VIM. Bisot, died, aud
was buried at Lucas Bend in the FIRST
bunch Of timber on the Missouri. He
was twenty years Of age, and his homo
is in Xenia, Ohio.
A correspondent lays the following on
our desk; "Mr. N. NJ. Jones is in ST.
Louis working for the Anchor Line, aHd
Bob Speed has gone to help him out.
Captain Sam Tate, jr., Of the St. Ber-
nard Coal Company, has gone on with
Speed TO help him out
A Cairo dispatch says the Ella Hughes
on her way to the Cumberland, picked
up lot OF corn, but the dispatch don't
say whether il was on the cob or in the
shock.
One corner Of the null Of the barge
Eliza, which capsized last winter at the
elevator above Cairo is just visible at
the surface Of the water Tho barge is
bottom upward, badly twisted, appa-
rently, and has lot Of logs and drift
over and around it. The job Of right
ing and saving it, if attempted, will no
doubt be attended with some difficulty.
Thereas competition between the two
steamers running in the Cincinnati and
Vanceburg trade. The Wildwood has
declared war against the Bermuda aud
commenced hostilities. She left Vance
burg promptly on Tuesday with her OPP
ponet, kept alongside of her all the way
down, aud landed alongside of her at the
Cincinnati wharf. She has cut the rate on
tobacco to fifty cents per hogshead, and
is carrying people TO Maysville and
Vanceburg for one dollar per head
The Cincinnati Commercial furnishes
the following bit of history:
The recent death at Evansville of Capt.
w. p. Miles reminds our semi-occasional
correspondent, "Buz," of a desperate
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on the Both of December, 1912. Jas. L.
Alcorn, the present United States Sena-
tor from Mississippi, was at that time
sheriff of Livingston county, Kentucky,
and W. p. Miles was his deputy. The
steamer Princeton, Capt. VIM. Keys, en-
route from Nashville to Kanawha river,
landed at Smithland, and Alcorn wenton
board, ordered by subpoena to demand
the payment Of debt or the execution
of bond. Captain Keys refused to pay
the claim, and delivered the boat to the
sheriff, who proceeded to have the fires
in the furnace extinguished. The cap
tain, however, went directly to the pilot
house, took the wheel himself, and com
menced backing the boat out into the
current. Alcorn at this time was
the only person from the shore
on board, but as soon as he dis
covered the boat was ahoat he ran up
to the roof entered the pilothouse, drew
a bOwie.knife, cut the tiller rope and
made a cut at the captain neck, which
would have proved fatal had the knife
not been stayed by the protecting folds
Of large comfort. Keys begged for
his life, promised the boat should be sur
rendered; but, having armed himself
with double-barreled shotgun, he soon
returned to the roof accompanied by
his mate and engineer. Alcorn held the
three men at bay and maintained his
position uatil Miles, Smith and Brewster
came out to the boat in a skiff.. Miles
handed Alcorn a pistol, who immedi-
ately shot but did not kill Keys, who
drew his gun and fred at Alcorn, miss
ing him, but instantly killing Brewster
Alcorn then leaped overheard, and Miles,
with the dead man, was landed on the
point opposite Smithland, and the
Princeton proceeded on her voyage.
The Gondola, commanded by Captain
T. N. Throop, was dispatched by the
citizens of Smithland in pursuit of the
flying vessel, but having chased her
about fifteen miles abandoned the race.