Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-13

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bond.
Beerman has sued the GAINESVILLE and
Henry Powers for 100000 damages.
The Phil Allin came up through the
cutoff in Commerce bend. with Captain
Cummins at the wheel The current was
so strong that it brought the gallant Phil
to a stand for few moments, but she
soon recovered her headway and steamed
through bravely. The officers and pas
sengers of the favorite steamer chris.
tened the new cutoff Phil Allin. A bot
tie of wine was broken over the bow and
amid speeches and cheering the cutoff
was christened. The City Of Vicksburg
went down through the cutoff yesterday.
The big red wharf boat will be moved
up to between Jefferson and Adams
streets as soon as the river recedes suf-
ficient to make good landing.
DIR. James Cowan, veterinary surgeon
and horse trader, left last evening on the
Pat Rogers with his celebrated blooded
mare aud racer Dolly Day. he takes
her to kentucky for breeding purposes.
The City of Chester, Captain zeigler,
is the Anchor Line packet leaving to-
morrow evening for Cairo and St. Louis.
Captain Mark Cheek is having his
fine pet steamer A. J. White put in
complete repair and leaves on Friday
for Napoleon and the bends.
The Exporter, due from New Orleans
for the Ohio river, has 700 tons Of
freight.
Captain Joe Elliott's son, Fred Atwood
Elliott, aged sixteen years, will be buried
this afternoon at Bray's Station, on the
Memphis and Charleston railroad. The
deceased was an interesting and promis-
ing young man. He was taken sick at
the Sewanee College, and died in few
hours after his arrival home. We deep
Iysympathize with the bereaved family.
The splendid passenger steamer Jas.
D. Parker, in command of that ever
popular and worthy officer, Captain Bob
Wise, is receiving for all points on the
Ohio river, and leaves at sharp five for
Cincinnati, ticketing passengers through
to all points East at low rates. Bill
Mcintyre, clever gentleman, presides
in the office.
Mayor League is in favor of reducing
or abolishing the wharfage tax, but the
General Council is too much interested
in politics and self.interest to look after
the welfare and commercial interests of
our city. Reduce the wharfage and en-
courage river commerce, or in few
years Memphis will be like Louisville,
have but few steamboats, to tax or col
lect from; they will all give us the 60
by.
The Phil Allin, Captain James Lee,
leaves this evening for Friars Point and
the bends. Captain Stack Lee does the
honors o! the office.
The excellent steamer Ella. Captain
Cummings, is receiving at the big wharf
boat for all points on White and Black
rivers, leaving this evening. Mr..
Boulder is her gentlemanly clerk.
Shipments of merchandise to Little
Rock have been stopped on account of
the war.
The Indiana will be sold by the United
States Marshal at Evansville on Satur-
day next.
The ST. Genevieve will be here tomor-
row morning from Vicksburg, and leaves
at noon for St. Louis.
The levee at Fort Penny, opposite
Friar's Point, gave way Monday night
Helena is still o. K, and large force
is kept busy in strengthening the levees
Captain Reese Pritchard received a
dispatch from Little Rock at noon to-day
saying the river had risen three feet
there and was still rising, the rise being
from the mountains The Kittie Hegler
and Mary Boyd left Little Rock for Fort
Smith.
Captain Dick Lightburne has fitted up
new Office at Is Madison street, two
doors from the LEDGER Office. Richard
is himself again, and ever ready to at.
tend to steamboat business, as also that
of notary. Passengers for ST. Paul
will find through tickets at his Office
over a line Of the finest boats on the
river.
The colored magistrate at Austin,
Mississippi, needing little Sunday beer
money, under a trivial pretext fined
Captain VIM. Hardwick, who was get
ting ready to leave that point with his
corn boat for down the river, S25 and
costs, amounting in all to S42 so for
violation of the Sunday law Of Missis.
sissippi. Captain Hardwiek thinks Aus
tinis governed by a peculiar set of Off
cials, and that their ideas of law are
foreign to all good governed people.