Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-01


sengers through to all points East at lew
rates. Charles B. Russell, a clever gen
tleman, has charge Of the Office.
The towsoat Fox capsized and sunk
where the Allegheny and MonongaheIa
join below Pittsburg. and will prove a
total loss.
Inc George W. Cheek, Captain Nat
Green, is the regular Wednesday packet
for Helena and the bends, paying special
attention to all way business in Council
and Walnut bends. Mr.. D. P. Davis
controls 'the affairs Of the office, and ia
ably assisted by Billy Willis. She came
in at 10 o'clock with l8l bales Of cotton.
lO49 sacks seed and a good passenger
list.
/ Over five million bushels Of coal will
be shipped south for a market on the
present rise.
The government surveying steamer
Baton Rouge passed down at noon for
the lower coast. She is an odd.looking
craft and attracted much attention while
laying at the wharf.
The Legal Tender, Captain Stack
Lee, came in last night from the mouth
OF White river with l59 bales and IS
bags of cotton and 800 sacks Of seed.
She leaves this evening on a return trip
for the mouth Of White river, making
direct connection with the Fort Gibson
for Arkansas river.
The famous passenger steamer Charles
Morgan, Captain ALI Stein in command,
with Harry Stein in the Office, will pass
up this afternoon for Cincinnati.
The Oseeols, Captain Thomas Bow.
man in command, leaves tomorrow eve
ming for st. Francis river and all way
points through to Wittsburg. Captain
A. Haycock does the honors Of the Office.
She will be found in port to-day ready
10 receive.
The broad-horns, loaded with produce
and garden truck, are passing down
quite lively for the coast and New Or
leans.
The Anchor Line packet St. Joseph,
Captain Sam McPheeters, came in this
morning from St Louis with a full cargo
Of grain and produce. She returns this
evening.
A private telegram from Little Rock
this morning reports a decline OF | inch
at that point aud no reports Of a rise
above.
The Belle Of Shreveport leaves St.
Louis this evening for New Orleans.
The Tom Jasper is 70 be rebuilt at st.
Louis and heightened thirty feet.
The Grand Tower has laid up at Cairo.
The Fannie Lewis loads at ST. Louis
for Memphis.
The Robert Mitchell leaves Cincinnati
to day for New Orleans.
The Phil Allin, Captain James Lee,
brought in from the lower coast 1872 bales
Of cotton and 4lS sacks seed. She
leaves this evening for Friar's Point and
the bends, carrying the mail and attend
ing to all way business. Jimmy Thomp-
son holds forth in the office.
The A. j.. White, Captain George Ma
lone's popular lower coast packet, is the
regular Thursday Napoleon. and bends
packet. She will be found. in port to-
day ready to receive, and leaves prompt
" tomorrow evening.
The great leviathsn steamer of the
Western waters, the Mary Bell, came in
this morning from New Orleans with GO
bales Of cotton, 100 sacks seed and sew.
eral hundred packages of suudries. She
leaves this evening on a return trip to
New Orleans and the bends, making all
prominent way landings. The Belle is
one OF the largest and best carriers ION
the river and has no equal as a passenger
packet. She is differed by experienced
and careful boatmen. Captain Frank
Hicks commands, with the ever popular
and courteous gentleman, Captain Alf
Grissom, in charge of the Office. Cant.
Washington will make engagements for
her. She gets here 1909 bales of cotton
and has engagements in the bends for
all she wants, and her officers feel san
guine that she will go into New Orleans
this time with a larger trip than last.
She has engagements for 5000 bales Of
cotton and all the seed she can handle.
The LEDGER job printing Office, 10
Madison street, pays especial attention
to printing steamboat posters, bills of
lsding, manifests, bill-heads, ETC., etc.
We guarantee our work to be second to
none in the city and our prices to be
reasonable. 58t