Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-07-20


lowing freight: 5000 sacks Of sugar, 400
barrels of rosin and 300 tons of miscel-
laneous articles. stDt
The John B, Maude will be up to-
morrow bound for St. Louis.
Colonel Merrill suggests the propriety
OF building dam at the head of the
island at Henderson chute and closing
it up entirely. @
The steamboatmen at Cincinnati have
called meeting and will oppose the
building Of the new railroad bridge at
that place unless it be so constructed as
not to interfere with navigation.
The Future City and barges due up
for st. Louis, has 500 boxes of tin. 3O4
tierces of soda ash, 100 drums of soda,
374 hogsheads and 200 boxes sugar $50
packages of chemicals, 400 barrels of
rosin, 20 casks Of wine, so cases of steel
aud 10 crates of earthenware.
The Belle of Shreveport passed down
yesterday morning for New Orleans
with 1900 tons freight. She put off here
% tons of freight, but added nothing.
The Ella Hughes came in from st.
Francis river with fair trip and leaves
tomorrow evening with return trip for
Helena and all points on st. Francis
river through to Wittsburg. Captain
Drinkwater, an efficient and careful
boatman, commands, while Billy Hare
attends to the freight department.
The St. Francis, Captain James Lee,
came in yesterday morning from the
lower coast with good list of passen-
gers and a lot of cotton and seed, and
leaves this evening with a return trip for
Friar's Point and the bends, carrying
the United States mail. Captain Stack
Lee, an affable gentleman, holds forth in
the office, and is ably seconded by B. P.
Fields and Charley Smither
The City of Vicksburg passed up last
night for st. Louis with moderate trip.
She added here few head of stock.
The Frank Forest, Captain 0. K. Jop
lin, brought in from the upper coast
good list of cotton and seed. She leaves
this evening with return trip for
Osceola and all way landings on the
upper coast. j. w. Rhodes, genial
and clever gentleman, presides in the
Office.
The A. j. White, Captain Mark Cheek,
came in last evening from Napoleon
with a good list of passengers and 20
bales of cotton and a lot of seed She
leaves tomorrow evening with return
trip for Napoleon and the bends, carry
ing the mail Messrs. Bob Wildberger
and Charley Sharpe, two clever gentle.
men, do the honors of the Office.
The GAINESVILLE, Captain Reese Pritch-
ard, is receiving for Pine Bluff and way
points on Arkansas river, and will leave
positively tomorrow evening. John
O'Neil, gentleman who is recognized
for his promptness and attention to ship
pers and travellers, presides in the office.
The local packets out Saturday even
ing had moderate trips.
Prime Emerson and James Doyle have
received letters. patent for an improve
ment in portable wing dams.
Captain James Lee, jr., will spend ten
thousand dollars in repairing the Phil
Allin at Paducah. When her repairs
are finished she will be almost new
boat.
The Julia, Captain Wm. Blake, is the
Anchor Line packet leaving here this
evening for Vicksburg and the bends
carrying the mail John Blake is her
prime minister
Wesley Cunningham, an old, hard
working colored man, fell overheard
from the Ella Hughes on Friday last up
the St. Francis river and was drowned.
He leaves large family who reside in
the northern part of the city. $50
The splendid passenger steamer, Belle
Memphis, commanded by that most pop
ular of steamboatmen, Captain Crane,
will leave this evening for St. Louis and
all intermediate points, connecting at
st. Louis with the Northern Line pack
cts for St. Paul and the great Northwest
and with railroads for all points East
and West. Mr.. Hewitt, the pleasant and
accommodating clerk of the Belle, will
see that all passengers are made COM
Portable.
The Arkansas War Claims Commission
gave the owners of the Halle $l4,7OO
for their boat in State scrip. They will
be able to realize $4,000 in, greenbacks
out Of the scrip.
Captain r. S. Yerkes wants S2905 "a
for services rendered Governor Baxter
during the late unpleasantness in Ar
kansas.
y Ten cents per hundred for sugar and
ak cents bundle for cotton ties is the
rate from New Orleans to Memphis,