Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-01-12


for Friar's Point and the bends, leaving
this evening at FIVE o'clock. Captain
Stack Lee, an amiable gentleman, is her
chief purser.
The towboats Lake Erie, Whale, James
A. Stone, Stella and Bengal Tiger, with
$4,000 bushels of coal, left Pittsburg
yesterday for Cincinnati. The Ella and
Mary Ann, with 265, 1000 bushels OF coal,
tor louisville left the same day, and the
Blue Lodge, with $4,000 bushels for
Bayou Sara, left Pittsburg yeterday
The A. J. White, Captain Mark Cheek,
is the Monday packet for Napoleon and
the bends, leaving this evening at five
o'clock. Messrs. Wildberger and Sharpe
are her gentiemanly clerks.
The H. S. Turner passed down for New
Orleans yesterday at noon deeply laden
She put of here 10 sacks corn
The Kittie Hegler passed down last
evening en- route for Little Rock loaded
down to the guards.
The R. W. Dugan came in from Ar
kansas river Sunday morning with 234
bales of cotton. She re-shipped at the
mouth 366 bales, and reshipped 1870
here on the C. B. Church for Cincinnati
at eighty cents per bale.
The splendid passenger steamer Legal
Tender, Captain John Elliott, is the reg
ular Tuesday White river United States
mail packet leaving tomorrow evening
for all points on White, Little Red and
Black rivers. She will be in port this
afternoon to receive freight.
The C. B. Church arrived yesterday
from New Orleans en- route for Cincin-
natl. She put off here 9 bales cotton,
2O6 sacks seed, and added 100 bales
cotton, $50 of which was compressed,
and goes East via Evansville.
The Mary Boyd arrived from Arkan-
sas river with $50 bales of cotton, and
put off at the mouth 46 bales She is
receiving for return trip to Arkansas
river, and leaves on Wednesday. Capt.
Rube Haines commands, with John
O'Neal in the office.
The Susie Silver passed down last
night for New Orleans well laden. She
brought down the cargo of the sunken
steamer Frank Forest, which was as
follows: Cotton, 81 bales; 80 bags Of
cotton, 200 sacks of cotton seed and 2
head of cattle.
The Phil Allin brought in 26O bales of
cotton and 326 sacks of seed.
The A. j. White had ZIG bales of cot
ton and $40 sacks of seed.
The Alice, from st. Louis, discharged
500 tons of freight at the elevator, and
returned to St. Louis last night.
The Augusta came in at noon from
St. Francis river with l22 bales of cot
ton and 2l5 sacks of seed, and reshipped
at Helena for New Orleans "a bales.
The St. Francis, from Mariana,
brought in so bales of cotton and lot
of seed
The Frank Forest, en- route from Full
ton to Memphis, in making landing
Sunday morning at 4 o'clock, above Is
land 40, struck hidden obstruction which
knocked hole in her hull aft of the
boilers, causing her to sink. She was
run on to the bar at the head of Island
40, and finally settled in six feet of
water. She is lying straight, and can
easily be raised. Her cargo, 81 bales
and 80 bags cotton, 200 sacks seed and
some cattle, was brought to port by the
Susie Silver, and was not much dam
aged. The Frank Forest is owned by
Captain j. G. Andrews and Joplin &
Webb, of this city, and insured here.
Captain I. P. Sexton was in command |
when the accident occurred.
The Capitol City, Captain O'Neil, is
the Anchor Line Jacket leaving this
evening at o'clock for Vicksburg and
the bends, attending to all way business.
The towboat Hercules sank at the
landing at Pittsburg last Thursday.
The May Lowry, with 500 bales of
cotton, bound for New Orleans, is water
bound at York.
The Katie Kountz is laid up forty |
miles above Little Rock.
Captain W. B. Donaldson, who built
the Great Republic, is silver mining in
Utah.
The City of Augusta, Captain Thomas
Bowman, is the regular Tuesday ST.
Francis river packet leaving tomorrow
evening for all points on st. Francis
river through to Wittsburg.
The John F. Tolle, Captain Bradley,
backs out this evening at five o'clock for
New Orleans and the bends.
The Louisville will pass down to-mor-
row for New Orleans.
The fine steamer West Wind Captain
J. G. Andrews, is the regular Monday
packet for Point Pleasant and all way
landings on the upper coast, leaving this
evening at Eve o'clock. Captain john
Darbey, a clever gentleman and compe-
tent clerk, does the honors Of the office.
The Vieksburgers are in terrible
stew about the bend trade.
Captain Dugan has gone to Cairo.