Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-08

to travel with these gentlemen, and the
Dugan never fails to have big list of
passengers.
The steamer Desmoines was sold at
St. Louis yesterday to. the st. Louis,
Alton and Grafton Transportation Com
pany for $4,000.
The steamer Belle Of Shreveport goes
from st. Louis to Pittsburg.
The Future City and barges are due
up to-day.
The Phil Allin, Captain James Lee, is
the regular Wednesday packet for
Friar's Point and the bends, leaving this
evening. Captain Stack Lee, clever
gentleman, does the honors of the office.
The steamer Oil City, which was
seized by the United States Marshal on
Monday has been released, and Captain
Randall is ready again to do towing and
job work with his boat
The Briggs Brothers have purchased
the bar on the Fort Gibson. They now
own the bars on the George W. Cheek,
Mary Boyd, A. ]. White, John B Maude
and Fort Gibson
The Andy Baum, Captain Yinton,
leaves tomorrow evening for Cairo, Lou
isville and Cincinnati, ticketing passen-
gers through to New York for $25, and
to Baltimore for 800, including meals
and staterooms. Charley Woodbury., a
courteous gentleman, has charge of the
Office.
Captain j. H. 0glesby, who recently
paid $4,000 for one half of the steamer
Indiana, loses considerable by her seiz
ure by the United States Marshal
The Exporter is due tomorrow from
New Orleans, en- route for the Ohio
river, with 400 tons of freight, including
$500 sacks of salt.
| The John Kyle, Captain Abe Hutchin-
son, will pass down this afternoon for
New Orleans She adds here 76 bales
of cotton, which is on the landing await
ing her.
Captain Dick Lightburne, Superin-
te1dent of the Memphis Elevator Com
pany, will commence operations in
few days on the new elevator. The city
government has granted the company
the privilege and location. The site
selected for the elevator is between
North Court and Washington streets.
The elevator will be quite an improve
ment to North Memphis.
The cotton shipments in Arkansas and
White rivers, as also in the bends, are
getting exceedingly light The cotton
has nearly all been forwarded to mar
ket. and the cotton season is rapidly
drawing to close.
The steamboatmen have had short
season of it, and few, if any, have saved
their seasons earnings to carry them
through the dull season. Fly time has
come two months earlier than usual,
and the steambeatmen have now seven
long months before them, and the ma
jority of the idle boatmen are studying
and planning how to exc Out an exist
ence until next season. We hope they
will be able to weather the dull summer
which is anticipated, and live to reap
good harvest next season.
Captain Dick Lightburne has few
hundred bales of cotton engaged for the
Ohio river for the Exporter.
The Nick Longworth leaves Cincin.
natl to-day for New Orleans.
Boats land and do business at New
Albany, and are not taxed for wharfage
All points that tax steamboats, to do
business at their ports are blind to their
own interests.
The little circus craft Laura No. is
not much damaged, and is lying secure
at Harkenroads.
The Anchor Line packet City of Ches-
ter Captain zsigler, is the Thursday
packet for Cairo and st. Louis, leaving
the elevator tomorrow evening. Billy
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secure good staterooms for all wishing
a pleasant trip up the river.
The Quickstep is receiving for all
points on White river, and will leave on
Saturday in the White River Packet
Company Line Captain Joe Elliott
will sign bills of lading for her. If the
weather permits, Tom Demmons will
dress her up in white coat of paint be-
fore she leaves.
The W. F. Curtis, which has been
running in the Ouachita river and lover
trades during the past season, arrived
last night from New Orleans and laid
over here to clean out her boilers and
make some light repairs, and left this
morning for St. Louis. She will spend
the summer in the upper Mississippi
river trade.
Jonn A Sender. Superintendent of