Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-06


Rock yesterday for Memphis.
Captain Glenn has on the wharf
boat 400 sacks Of oil meal and a lot
Of other freight awaiting shipment
to New Orleans.
Rates ON freights from St. Louis
and New Orleans are 90 cents per
hundred and 40 cents per barrel on
flour.
Mr.. I. H. Rice is putting up on
the bluff a patent fence, which is
quite anovelty.
The Ruth passed Deyall's Bluff
this morning for Memphis with
1000 sacks of corn and seed and 40
bales of cotton.
Captain John Boyd is repairing
the Fleta, putting her in complete
order, and will place her in the
Arkansas river trade as soon as
business opens out.
General JEFF Thompson, who is
we'll known in marine circles, died
yesterday at st. Joseph, Mo.
The Cherokee is advertised to
leave Cincinnati on Saturday for
New Orleans, aud the Parker leaves
the same day for Memphis.
Capt. John Hardin, Superintend-
ent of the Memphis and Arkansas
River Packet Company, has moved
into his new Office, No. 1929 Front
street, a few doors from Madison.
The Capitol City, Capt. 0'Neal,
is the Anchor Line packet leaving
the elevator Friday morning for
VickSburg and the bends. She car
RES the mail and attends to all way
business.
The Rosa Miller, Capt. Thomas
Darragh, came in last evening from
Arkansas river with a fair list of
cotton and sundries, and reshipped
at Terrene for New Orleans 81
bales of cotton, including 26 new
bales, the largest shipment of new
cotton that has ever came out Of
Arkansas river at this season of the
year. She leaves this afternoon fol
Little Rock, and will return in time
to leave on her regular day.
The George w. Cheek, Capt. al
Green, came in at noon from the
lower coast with a full trip of PEG.
pie and freight. She was detained
on account Of her way business
She met with a warm reception il
the bends. She returns this even.
ing at sharp five to Friar's Poin.
and the bends, attending promptly
to all way business. Capt. D. 7
Davis presides at the desk.
The hopping Phil Allin, Captain
Stacker Lee in command, came int
port yesterday afternoon with flying
colors and looking better than ever
She has undergone a thorough
overhauling at Mound City and pu.
in complete running order for tn,
seasons business. She is now in
better condition than when she frs
came out, and in order to facilitate
business and accommodate heI
many patrons she has changed he.
leaving days to Mondays and Thurs
days. She leaves tomorrow even
ing for Greenville, carrying the mai
and attending to all way business
Jimmy Thompson, a gentleman
with whom it is a pleasure to d.
business and travel, presides at TIN
desk.
Capt. David DeHaven, known t.
most every steamboatman on tn.
Western waters, died at Lincoln
Illinois, Of typhoid fever, a weel
since, and was buried last Tuesda.
at Brownsville Missouri, the funera
ceremonies being conducted by tn
Masons, Of which order he was
bright and enthusiastic member 70
over twenty-five years. Capt. De
haven commenced his steamboatinI
career several years before the war
and at the breaking out of the wa
owned and commanded the Alonz
-
Childs, which was confscated b
the United States authorities, carg
and all. Of Capt. DeHaycni it ma
be said there was none more genel
GUS, kind and courteous to his fel
bowman. AS a husband and fathe
we never knew one who loved an.
cherished his family more than GU