Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-03-30

ufies. che wa delayed on account q
being wind bound at Austin on Tuesday
She returns to Helena and the bends 70
morrow evening, her regular day.
The Thompson Dean went through th
nevent-o6 in eigh. minutes. The cat-oI
is 800 yards wide. with a good channel.
The lighthouse tender, Lilly, lef
Cincinnati last evening for the lowe
Ohio to pay OF the beacon light keepers
The Bismarck and Il. c. Yaeger 70
New Orleans and Grand Tower for Mem
phis left st. Louis yesterday.
The Carondelet passed up yesterda,
for St. Louis with 100 tons Of freight
She put OF at the elevator IL hhds. suga
aud 90 barrels molasses.
The A. ]. White, Captain George Ma
lone, arrived last night from Napoleon
with Ill bales Of cotton, a lot Of seed anC
sundries and q good list of people, Sh,
returns to Napoleon and the bends thil
evening, paying strict attention to al
way business. Captain Lee Cummint
controls the Office, aud is ably assisted
by Billy Smither and John Briggs.
The Thompson Dean. Captain W. B.
Miller, will arrive tonight from CnirO
and leave here tor, ofrow ,> sni : fol
New Orleans and the bends, making all
principal way landings. George Milten
berger is her prime minister. Major
Bradford and Captain J. 7. Washington
will make engagements for her.
The City Of Chester, Captain Zeigler,,
came in this morning from St. Louis
with a full cargo of grain and produce.
She returns to Cairo and St. Louis this
evening, connecting with the principal
railroads for all points East and West.
Billy Blenker is her prime minister.
The Colorado, Captain Ed Gray, is the
Anchor Line packet leaving this evening
for Vicksburg and the bends, carrying
the mail and doing all way business.
The Ruth, Captain Ed Postal, will ar
rive tomorrow from White river ana
leave on Saturday with a return trip.
The new steamer Grand Republic
St, Louis for New Orleans between
9th and 10th of April.
The St. Genevieve went through the
Elbow cutoff yesterday.
The Alice Brown arrived last evening
from the Ohio river with eighteen boats
Of coal, containing 100000 bushels, all
for this market.
The Osceola Belle, Captain Andrews,
is the regular Friday Haile's Point and.
upper coast packet. She leaves promptly
tomorrow evening. Captain 0. X. Jop-
lin does the honors Of the Office.
The Legal Tender, Captain Ed Now
and, will arrive tomorrow from Arkan-
river with big trip of cotton and seed
and leave on Saturday with a return trip.
She is the regular Saturday Arkansas
mail packet. ~
Sherley, Hite & Co., of Louisville and
Packet Company, have se-
the contract for carrying the Uni
ed States mails on the St. Johns river,
Florida, between Jacksonville and Lake
Monroe, a distance Of two hundred miles.
It is also reported that they intend tax.
ng n of their fine steamers, now run
hing in the line. around to that stream,
n order to. inaugurate a line of boats
hey intend putting on the St. Johns to
the mails and do a general trans.
'~ortation business.
Captain Ben Msrriles, commander Of
he General Lyle, has been compelled
o stop of the boat again on account Of
Il health.
Captain Tom Darrsgh Of the Rosa
has gone to Pittsburg on a visit to
lis friends.
Captain D. N. Brady, Of the John F.
'olle, while the boat was on her way
rom New Orleans to St. Louis, was de-
cending the forward stairs, when his
Get slipped out from under him and hs
ell With great force, dislocating his right
rm and bruising his head severely. He
able To be about, however.
The Robert Mitchell passed down this
iorning loaded to the guards. She put
q here a lot OF plows and brooms and
dded 81 bales Of cotton and a lot Of
HAdries.
The Simpson Horner passed down
lis morning with a tow of coal.
Old s%tesmboatmen predict an overflow
lore disastrous than that Of 1874 and
l
The Kate Kinney is due up to- day en-
'ute to st. Louis.
Two trappers arrived at Little Rock
q Saturday last in a skiG all the way
ON Kansas.
The streets Of Argsnta are navigabIe
II light-drAught boats.
The Susie Silver will psss ap this
Tor Cincinnati. She adds
IRE 700 bales Of cotton which Captain
lem, her agent, has on the wharf for
IT.
The foot of the DEVILS Elbow cutoff
'mes out just abreast Of and opposite
. head Of Pogleman's chute, or the
Outlets" and the chute and the wreck
the hinneola will therefore, soon be
in the country" /
The 10 Kinney, Of the Missouri Star
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