Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-07-22
went out as star gazers on the Clarks-

The comet strikes the earth to-day.
The steamboat Bartlett club better pre-
pare themselves for it.
The ST. Francis, Captain James Lee,
came in this morning from the lower
coast with fair list of people and
freight, and leaves this evening with a
return trip for Friar's Point and the
bends, carrying the mail Captain
Stack Lee, gentleman who is noted for
bis urbanity and uniform kindness, has
charge Of the office, and is ably assisted
by Messrs. b. P. Fields and Charley
Smithers.
The Mississippi Valley Transporta-
ton Company will build new towboat
at Jacksonville for the machinery Of
the Future City.
The Great Republic, Captain Thor
weigan, will pass up to-day for St. Louis.
The Anchor Line packet Capitol City
will pass up to-day for st. Louis.
The Future City and barges are due
UP tomorrow en- route to st. Louis.
The Ella Hughes will hereafter make
semi-weekly trips between here and Ma
rianna, leaving here Tuesdays and Sat
urdays.
The Paragon and barges, bound for
New Orleans, will be down Friday.
The Bransford left Cincinnati last
evening for Cairo.
The Mary Alice and barges are due
down tomorrow night bound for New
Orleans
Business in river circles is duller this
season than it has been for years.
Very little boat building going on this
summer on account of the dull times
and scarcity of money.
A Louisville dispatch says, The river
has risen here six inches in the last
twenty-four hours, and is still rising rap
idly. There are now four and ahalf feet
in the canal and two and half feet in
Indian chute. A fine rain fell this morn
ing, and it is cloudy tonight. There
have been no arrivals or departures ex-
cept the packets"
The Susie Silver passed down this
morning without landing. She would
probably have coaled and bought sup
plies if it had not been for the exorbi-
tant wharfage tax.
The John F. Tolle is due down to-
night, bound for New Orleans, with 1900
tons of freight.
The John B. Maude will pass up this
afternoon for st. Louis. The principal
items of her cargo are $50 hogsheads
and $50 sacks Of Havana sugar and
200 bales of cotton for Cairo.
The tug 0riole left this morning with
barge of lumber in tow and City Engi-
neer Burke on board. for the loot of
Presidents island where quarters are to
be erected for the officers Of the quaran.
tine station.
A disconsolate man who feared the
striking of the comet, jumped off the
Newport bridge into the river on Sun
day. His coffin was plain one.
The steamboat war at st. Louis is
waxing warm and getting lively for
steamboat owners.
News items on the landing to-day were
scarce, there being but one boat in port,
and all the steamboatmen, owing to the
hot weather, have gone into their holes
and pulled the holes in after them. In
fact, there was nobody to be seen on the
landing this morning
Why is it that the city government
does not compel ex,Aiderman Davis to
remove his engine and shanty from the
levee. which has been an obstruction on
the wharf for sometime2 The steam
ooatmen continually make complaints
about this obstruction, and the Landing
Committee should, by all means, have it
AS the Wharfmaster is too
much mixed up with water.tank at pres
emit, it is not expected that he viii carry
out the resolution of the Board ordering
its removal The Mayor also has neg.
lected to see that the resolution has been
enforced. The officers OF the city gov
eminent should do their duty. Remove
the shanty on the landing, as tits great
obstruction to boats receiving and dis
charging.
A marine editor at Cincinnati deres to
say that there is not steamboatman on
the Western rivers who would not die
rather than tell the truth HiH