Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-11-13

leaves this evening with return trip for
Friars Point and the bends Captain
Stack Lee, genial and clever gentle
man, has charge of the office.
The Frank Forest, Captain 0. K.
Joplin, came in from the upper coact
with 70 bales cotton and $50 sacks seed.
She leaves this evening with return
trip for Osceola and all intermediate
landings. j. W. Rhodes, an efficient
officer, presides at the desk.
Captain Martin Waits residence on
Adams street was consumed by fire this
morning.
The City of Helena, Captain Mckee,
is the Anchor Line packet, leaving the
elevator this evening for Cairo and St.
Louis, connecting with the principal
railroads for all points East and West
Mr.. Walton, courteous and attentive
gentleman, has charge of the office.
Hereafter the Illinois will leave on
Mondays and Fridays, and the A. j.
White leaves on Tuesdays and Satur-
days.
Reeves bar, below here, is getting
quite troublesome, there being scant
seven feet water in the channel, and is
lumpy at that.
The steamer Osceola en- route from st.
Paul, bound. for this port with 1000
bushels of potatoes, will winter here and
ply in White or Arkansas river.
The Susie Silver will be up Saturday
for st. Louis. The following are the
principal items of her cargo 5000 sacks
salt, 24O hogsheads sugar, l6l barrels
rice, $50 barrels molasses, 10 barrels
oranges, 40 casks soda ash.
Quite a number of steamboatmen at
tended the funeral of Tip Fields this
morning and accompanied his remains
to the Louisville depot.
The St. Luke, Captain Crapster, is the
Anchor Line packet, leaving this even
ing for Vicksburg and the bends. attend.
ing to all way business.
The excellent steamer John A. Scud-
der, Captain Jack Carter in command,
leaves tomorrow evening for New Or
leans and the bends. Mr.. Dix has
charge of the office. Capt. Washington
will make engagements for her.
The Paducah Kentuckisn of Wednes-
day says:
The case of Bryant and Louden,
owners of the steamboat Keokuk, against |
the Collier barges, Nos. | and 2, in ad-
miralty, was tried by his Honor Judge |
Ballard at the recent sitting of the |
United States Court in this city. The /
libel was for extra towage and for dam
ages for detention in New Orleans. The |
libel was dismissed. An appeal was
prayed. In the cases of Durbey Il Bro.
and others, inter-owners, the court de-
cided some points of general interest to
steamboatmen and merchants. The
court held that the lieu for supplies fur
nished to the towboat Collier extended
to the barges, they being a part of the
towboat's equipment, and that in ad-
miralty there is a lien for supplies fur
nished upon the crecit of the vessel in
the home port. Marshall & Bloomfield
appeared for Bryant and Louden, Bigger
& Moss for the inter.owners and J.
Campbell, ir, for the Collier barges.
A newspaper called the Indiana Blade,
dated November 2, 1874, gives an ac-
count of the terrible explosion of the
Lucy Walker, which had oc
cured on the twenty.third of October,
about four miles below New Albany, and
bv which sixty to eighty persons we're
killed and wounded. Joseph Meeker, a
citizen Of Rising Sun, was among the
killed. The Presidential election was
close at hand-the race between Polk
and Clay--and both parties we're to have
a torehlight procession that evening in
Lawrenceburg. The announcement is
made of the marriage of James II. Pep
per to Miss Rebecca X. Shocley, which
took place at Springfield, Ohio, October
29th The river is reported as being in
good navigabls order, and rising fast. /
Produce business brisk, and good many
boats loading. Wheat, IS 10 zoe; -four, /
B 6j at retail; potatoes, 20 to 25e; on
ions, SOC; green apples, 75c to 81 per bar
rel; oats, l6 to Zoe; corn, new, &c. The
Pike No. Z, new mail boat, had just
come out, aud is mentioned as being .
very beautiful, large, and, it is presumed,
will be one Of the fastest boats ahoat.
Extracts are made from the ST. Louis
newspapers that have received news
rem the steamers Boreas and Osprey,
Of the impending Mormon war st Nau-
700. A convention for the promotion
OF Western interests was 20 be held at /
Memphis on the 18th. The result Of /
that convention vas to get the navy /
yard at Memphis, The steamer Apdrew !