Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-21

The City of Chester. Captain zeigler,
be Anchor Line packet leaving to-
&orrow evening for Cairo and St. Louis,
making close connection with the prin-
cipAl railroads for all points East and
West, and the Northern Line Packets
for St. Paul. Billy Blenker is her prime
minister.
The Capitol City, Captain 0'Neal, is
the Anchor Line packet leaving to.mor-
row evening for Vicksburg and the bends,
carrying the mail, and also pays strict
attention to all way business. Henry
Deadrick has charge of the Office.
Postmaster General Jewell has ad-
vertised for birds to carry the mail by
river from New Orleans to Vicksburg.
All bids to be in by September the Sd.
The Julia passed up this morning for
st. Louis with a moderate trip.
The Vint Shinkls passed up this morn
ing for Cincinnati with 200 tons of
freight and a fair passenger list. She
put off here a few packages of freight.
The 0sceola, Captain A. Haycock,
is receiving at the foot of Monroe street
for all points on St. Francis river through
to Wittsburg.
Pilot Wash Tenley Is going into the
grocery business at Covington, Ky.
A great deal of corn along the low
lands of the lower Ohio is submerged.
There will be three packets in the
Cairo and Nashville trade this season.
Mr.. Nick M. Johnson, formerly Of
Newport, KY, and Cincinnati, has been
appointed Southeastern agent for the
freight lines formed by the Wilmington
and Weldon, Wilmington, Columbia
and Augusta, and Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta railroads, with his head
quarters at Wilmington, North Carolina.
Mr.. johnson was formerly agent for the
old Cincinnati and Memphis Packet
Company.
Engineer Thomas Cook has retired
from the James D. Parker to engineer
the United States Lighthouse steamer.
The chief engineer of the G. B. Church
takes charge of the Parker's machinery.
The river water is very muddy. Look
out for sand bars and willows growing
on EN-. Whenever you begin to spit
dust it is time for you to clean out"
before you burn your biler or collapse a
hue.
Private dispatches report a coal-boat
rise at Pittsburg.
Major John D. Adams is in the city.
His smiling countenance and hearty
laugh enlivened Madison street this
morning.
The tug N. M. Jones, Captain Harvey
McNeeley in command, excurted the
Casino Club last night up to Island 40.
Eight-foot rile at Little Rock, and the
river still rising.
Another old friend gonel Death
never laid hold of a better man than
Robert Lodge. Kind, courte-
Gus, liberal, jovial Bob, as he was famil-
iarly known, is nc more of earth. We
knew him but to love him, and we have
often looked upon hat rosy face Of his,
radiant with smiles, and thought if there
was a shadow or dark spot in a mans
life in this world, that smiling face,
those cheerful words of his would soon
dispel it, and leave sunshine where all
was clouds. he was for a long time a
clerk on the ~river-making himself
popular during the life time of the low
pressure Richmond, and famous on the
Indiana. We trust he will meet with his
reward in the better land" He was
loved here, and he deserves to be loved
there. He had a charm about him that
won friends wherever he was, and he has
left behind him those whose hearts feel
the loss most deeply, and sympathize
with his bereaved family in their sad
loss. We, in common with all who
knew him, shed a tear to his memory,
and trust that when he knocks at the
"pearly gates" the angels will welcome
him with smiling faces Courier Jour
nal.
Officers Of steamboats, and railroads
will, by refusing to grant all favors in
the name of the LEDGER, and notifying
me Of the same, greatly oblige.
88I E. WHITMoRE.