Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-29
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
The new Arkansas river packet Maui
melle will be here Thursday to leave for
Arkansas river.
The Susie Silver for St. Louis passed
Vicksburg yesterday.
The A. ]. White for Napoleon, St.
Francis for FriAr's Point and the Frank
Forest for Osceola cleared last evening
with good trips Of freight and people.
The St. Genevieve passed down this
morning for vicksburg with 400 tons of
freight. She put of here 300 packages
Of freight.
The Capitol City passed up this morn
ing for St. Louis with moderate trip.
The splendid passenger steamer I'LL
nois is the regular Tuesday Napoleon
and bends packet, leaving this evening
and attending to all way business. Cap
tain Mark Cheek, an efficient and popu-
lar officer, commands, with Jimmy
Thompson and Charley Sharpe, two
courteous and attentive gentlemen, in
charge of the Office.
The fine steamer Mary Boyd will be
found in port receiving for all points on
White, Black, and Little Red rivers, and
will leave tomorrow evening, carrying
the United States mail and attending to
all way business. Dan Sullivan, genial
and clever gentleman, presides in the
office.
John Langlois goes to New Orleans
by rail to-day to join his packet, the
Belle Lee,
Captain James Lee left last evening
for Paducah to bring the Phil Alln out.
Freight rates at st. Louis for the South
have declined to fifteen cents per hun
dred, and thirty cents per barrel on
-four.
Captain DeHaven has hard time in
getting boat for the New Orleans trade.
The John B. Maude passed up yester-
day for vt. Louis, and will be back in
time to leave for New Orleans on the
9Th of October, and will remain in the
Memphis and New Orleans trade as an
alternate Thursday packet
The carpenter of the John B. Maude
had difficulty with John Mahon, a
drunken deck hand on the boat which
resulted in the latter receiving blow on
bis nasal organ which broke it. Mahon
was sent to the hospital for repairs.
Cornelius Storm of San Francisco,
California, uncle Of Captain Ad Storm.
of the Anchor Line, was
on Change yesterday.
The splendid steamer John Kyle,
Captain Abe Hutchinson in command,
will leave this afternoon for New Orleans
and the bends, The Kyle has superior
passenger accommodations. VIM Brown,
who is one of the best fellows in the
world has charge Of the Office.
The Anchor Line packet Julia on her
down trip added 400 bales of cotton at
Helena for New Orleans.
Captain Perry, of the New Orleans
and Arkansas river packet John How
ard, arrived in the city this morning.
Cook Creighton, Esq. of St. Louis, is
in the city. He came here with the re-
mains of his brother, DR.. Creighton,
which were inferred in Elmwood Gene
terry last evening. The deceased had
many friends among steamboatmen who
mourn his loss.
The John Kyle came in at eleven
o clock from st. Louis loaded down to
the guards, and full of cabin and deck
She left her barge here,
added $50 packages of sundries, and got
away for New Orleans at TIVE o'clock.
The Louisville Courier.J ournal of yes
-erday says: The new light draught
steamer Maumelle arrived from Cincin-
natl yesterday, and will leave for Mem
phis and Little Rock this afternoon
from the city wharf She is one of the
lightest, best built crafts of the kind we
have ever seen. She has l75 tons on
board now, and is only drawing twenty
inches Of water. John Carroll and Yves
Owens are her pilots. She'll go through
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