Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-09

The Glencoe lost twenty-four hours by
grounding at Sculiletown bar in the Ohio.
Baggage is the name. so said by
morning contemporary, for the towboat
coming here with 10000 tons of Grand
Tower coal That's a new one to the
fraternity. Where was she built2
The upper works Of the steamboat
City of Cairo we're burned Monday night
at New Orleans. She was valued at
$4,000; insured for $4,000
Yesterday a travelling artist employed
by Barnum photographed the pig-stye
and stables on the bluff, as well as the
eadluarters Of the deputy wharfmaster
and the line of skid piles as we'll as sew
eral other prominent bluff and landing
features. Barnum's agent says he is to
send the entire scene TO the Vienna Ex'
position, to show the natural and arti6-
cial advantages Of our city front.
Pete Harris and AID WATSON want it
distinctly understood that their lottery
ticket did not draw the one hundred
thousand dollar Louisville prize, as was
rumored They only got five thousand
dollars for their ten dollar investment.
The storms and tornadoes of the past
two or three days in the North have
destroyed millions Of dollars worth OF
property.
The Lady Lee leaves St. Louis to day
for Red river.
Captain Bill Hambleton has recovered
all the ordnance stores from the wreck of
the Mary Z. Forsyth, and sent them on
to Pensacola.
The Nick Longworth and H. S. Tur-
ner are loading at Cincinnati for New
Orleans. They are competing for freight.
being anxious to get out on the present
water.
Captain John +. Baker, president of
the Merchants Southern Packet Com.
pany, celebrated his silver wedding on
the Fourth, having been married twenty
FIVE years on that day.
The Carroll Baker Combination Line
have advanced rates south from st.
Louis as follows: To New Orleans
-four, per Dbl, 3Oc; grain, per 100 lbs,
l5c; bacon, per 100 lbs, lSc; pork, per
Dbl, 45c; whisky, per Dbl, 81 %; hay,
per 100 lbs, 3Oc.
The City of Alton goes upon the Sec
tional docks at st. Louis to-day, and
will have her decks raised two feet, new
floor, side and cylinder timbers, in fact,
made almost a new boat. Her carrying,
capacity will be increased between 700
and 800 tons, the cost Of which will APP
proximate to $4,000.
Captain Butterfeld and the brothers
Mel have purchased the new tow-boat
Grand Lake at Pittsburg, for $24, O0O
The Nashville passed Paducah last
night on her way to this port.
On the Sd of June the officers Of the
Nellie Peck saw large cake of ice float
ing down the Missouri, supposed to be
from out the Yellowstone.
The Great Republic will have her new
chimneys up in about fifteen days. They
will be seventy.two inches in diameter,
sixty-four feet long and decorated on
top with ring of leaves each nine feet
in length.
Captain Rodgers, of the Red river
raft boat Aid, is in st. Louis. From him
the Republican reporter learns that in
clearing out the raft in Red river there
are engaged, besides the steamers j. N.
Kalbaugh and Aid, five steam saw mill
boats used in cutting the logs in small
pieces, thus preventing jams and block
AIDES from forming below. They are reg
ular 6atboats, about sixty feet long and
from fifteen to twenty feet beam, with
the machinery of saw mill on board.
The one commanded by Captain Butts
was built in New Orleans, and was the
frat tn cut n log in Red river.