Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-05-19

The City Of Helena. Captain Mckee,
is the Anchor Line packet leaving this
evening for Cairo and st. Louis, connect
ing with the principal railroads for all
points East and West. George Walton
presides at the desk.
The Ruth, Captain Milt Harry, is the
regular Saturday White river mail
packet. She will be found in portto-day
ready to receive. Captain Ed Postal
holds forth in the office.
The C~arondelet loads at St. Lsuis for
New Orleans. On her arrival at that port
she win be used as a transport to convey
coal. cotton and other freights outside Of
the mouth for large steamers.
The Storm will have her tow Of sal
discharged to-day, and returns this 9
ing to the Ohio river.
The Thompson Dean will be down
Monday morning for New Orleans.
The fate of Captain Dick Fowler Of
the exploded steamer Pat Cleburne has
cast a gloom over a large circle Of friends
in our city. The deceased was we'll and
favOrably known throughout the Missis-
sippi valley, and has relatives here and
in Kentucky.
The Susie Silver, due up tomorrow
from New Orleans, has a lot of marble
for tits port.
The Idlewild is the regular Saturday
mail packet for Arkansas City and all
way points in the bends; she will be
found in port tonight ready to receive
and leave promptly tomorrow evening
Captain ALT Grissom left this morn
ing on the Charles Morgan on q tour of
observation in the bends.
Brooks, ofthe Appeal, who is ripple"
like a cataract, endeavored to engulf US
with "beer,haben," but we did not
buck" We played the left base and
made a run on Bob Gibson's tank Of
Blossoms Extract"
According to an ordinance of our
neighbor of the Vicksburg lake, it shall
be unlawful for any steamboat running
to and from the city Of Vicksburg to re.
ceive, keep and entertain passengers for
a period Of more than six hours before
their departure from the wharf, or keep
passengers, as such, for more than three
hours in daylight after their arrival in
port, unless such steamboat first takes
out a license as a hotel.
A few years ago the upper Arkansas
river was all cotton but now the bulk Of
the freight is -four, wheat, corn and bulk
meat.
The Era No. 9, for Arkansas river,
Golden Rule, for New Orleans, and
James D. Parker. for Memphis, leave
Cincinnati tomorrow evening.
The new Calhoun made the run from
Cairo to st. Louis in twenty.six hours,
which was a remarkable run for q new
beat against a strong current, and no
dip to her buckets.
Val Entriken is clerk of the Ouachita
steamer Willie.
There was a family gathering Of TWEEN.
ty-fve of the Wise family at the coy
residence of the venerable VIM. Wise,
in Westwood, Hamilton county,
Ohio, on Tuesday, on the occasion of the
s~eventy-ffth anniversary of his birth.
Mrs. Margaret S. Wise, the venerable
wife of William Wise, was present to
enjoy the festivities of the occasion, to-
with her eldest son, Captain Jas.
s. Wise, Superintendent Of the Memphis
Packet Company and Treasurer elect of
Hamilton county, and family. Duke
John r. Wise, Of St. Louis, Of the Van.
dalia Short Line railroad, and family;
Captain Robert W. Wise, Of the steamer
James D. Parker, and family; Mrs. Jane
of Wilmington, Ohio, and fam.
lily; Miss Martha Wise, Miss Mary Wise,
Mrs. George Miller and family, of West
wosd. The parents, sons and daugh.
tiers and their families numbered thirty
seven. The father and mother were the
recipients of handsome tokens of affec-
ton from their children and descend
ants, while the gathering was indeed a
one.
The Cincinnati Commercial of yester.
day says:
In the 0berly House last evening,
James, Thomas, a mate, threw a glass OF
into Pilot Robert 0stranders
face, and then threw the tumbler at him.
Ostrauder afterward walked down Broad.
way, and took q seat in front Of Railroad
In the meantime, Thomas
around the square, and, it is said,
had an unopened knife in his hand,
which 0strander observed, when the
cut Thomas twice across the right
hand, inAicting ugly wounds. Thomas
had his wounds dressed, while the police
arrested 0strander, placing him in the
street station-house. 0stran.
der was engaged with Lew Pierce to pilot
Fontenelle to st. Louis, but neither
vent. Pierce is detained at his residence,
back Of Newport, by the serious illness
IF his aged father.