Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-03-03

control the Office affairs. She came in at
IL an with good list Of cotton and vas
foil Of people. 70 ~o |9s
The leveea front has commenced cav
ing toto the river iaa N 81 70
FreiRhts to all points are unchanged.
The Ruth, Captain Ed Postal, is the
regular Saturday White river mail pack.
ct. She will be found in port to-day re-
ceiving q
The A. j. White, for Napoleon, had a
good freight trip and was crowded with
people, the rear end Of the excursionists
returning home. :
Shippers will bear ia mind that the
Iilewild leaves promptly to morrow eve.
ming for Gaines Landing and the bends.
The Phil Alliu, Captain James Lee, ia
tie regular Friday mail packet leaving
this evening for Friar's Point and the
bends, attending to all way business
Messrs, Jimmy Thompson, Murray aud
Burke, a trio of clever gentlemen, are
her clerks.
The elegant steamer IdIewild, Captain
Stack Lee, will arrive this evening from
the lower coast, and leaves tomorrow
evening with a return trip for Gaines
Landing, carrying the mail aud doing
promptly all way business. Ed R.
Thomas is her purser.
The Legal Tender, Captain Ed Now
land, is the regular Saturday Arkansas
river mail packet. She will be found in
port to-day ready TO receive. Walker
Outlaw ia her prime minister.
The hull of the burnt steamer Mary
Bsll lies sunk near the elevator at Vicks.
burg. There we're 23Os bales of cotton
in the hold, and it is thought the major
p )rtion Of it caa be saved in a damaged
c condition.
The City Of Chester returned to st.
Louis last evening with a fair list of cot
ton and a good passenger trip.
The U. P. Schenek is due up to-day
bound tor the Ohio river. She has on
board the engines and other machinery
OF the Tsllequah, which will be placed
in a new boat to be built this summer by
Captain Perry for the 0uachita river
trsie.
The Anchor Line packet Capitol City
leaves promptly this evening for Cairo
and St. Louis. connecting with the
principal railroads for all points East
and West.
The Grand Tower, Captain Lennox,
is the Anchor Line packet leaving to-
morrow evening for Cairo and st. Louis.
The famous passenger steamer Chas.
Morgan leaves Glenn's wharfboat Sun.
day morning at seven o'clock for Cairo,
Louisville aud Cincinnati. Captain
Glenn will make engagements for her.
The 0sceola Belle, Captain o. K. Jop
lin, is the regular packet leaving this
evening for Haile's Point and all way
landings, paying strict attention to all
way business. Ally Hancock assists
Captain Joplin in the office.
The 0sceola is being repaired, and
leaves next Tuesday for St Francis river.
The q. s.. Turner will be down Sstur.
day for New Orleans.
Captain Frank Hicks will arrive to.
day from New Orleans. He is about to
negotiate for an interest in the steamer
Thompson Dean.
The City of Helena for Vicksburg and
Bismarck for New Orleans leave St.
Louis to day.
The City Of Alton on her up trip to
st Louis ran IN a bar and sprung her
butts, and had to 20 on the docks for
repairs.
The following Cincinnati companies
held risks on the Mary Bell: Enterprise,
$4,000; National, $4,000; Commercial,
$4,000; Farmers, $25OO; E ma, $4,000.
The Vicksburg Herald says the wreck
ers are saving all they a from the hull
of the Mary Bell.
The Commonwealth passed down last
night for New Orleans well laden.
The Vint Shinkle leaves Cincinnati to.
morrow evening for Memphis.
The towboat Stella was sold at auction
yesterday at Pittsburg
The present shipment of coal from
Pittsburg TOR Southern markets foois up
100000 bushels.
Captain A. F. Power has sold the
sternwheel steamer Louisville to parties,
residing in Toledo, Ohio, Tor SIS, 900
payable in Toledo city property. A real
estate trade.
The following are the original names
Of the OHIO river: In 1872, a map (attrib
uted to La Salle) calls the Ohio by the
%Iroquois name of "0lighin sipen," or as
called by the Ottawss The Beautiful
River" A map in 1851 Gala it "DonO,
or "Albscha" (0hio or Wabash A
Dutch map of l7OS calls it "Cnbach." A
map Of 1910 makes the Ohio and Wabash
one river, and calls it 90" In I'LL
it is called "0chio." In l7l9i it is called
"Saboqungo," ard after that the French
named it "Labelle'' or beautiful river.
and finally the name settled down to the
word "0bio."
The city authorities of Brighton, the