Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-02-23
aud Murray, 3 trio Of clever gentlemen,
have charge Of the Office.

and Murray, 9 trio Of clever gentlemen,
have charge Of the Office.
The Illinois cleared for Vicksburr with
q good trip Of freight aud people. She
will come in next Monday With q zig
Msrdi-Gras trip.
The Idlewild will have her repairs
completed in time to resume her regular
trips on Saturday next. She makes a
grand Msrdi Gras excursion on her M
trip, leaving the landings from Chicoi
City up at e given time.
Horsetail bar. below St. Louis, is get.
ting troublesome again. The packets
report only five feet water in the channel
at the above point.
The Andy Baum leaves Cincinnati
this evening with a Mardi Gras excursion
for Mem his.
The George W. Cheek. Captain Nat
Green, brought in this morning 100 bales
Of cotton, l28 sacks of seed, and a good
lot Of people. She returns to Helena
aud the bends this evening. Messrs. D.
p. Davis and John Langlois are her gen.
tlemanly clerks.
Southern freights at St. Louis will
probably be advanced this week on &C.
count of the shoal water between there
aud Cairo.
The Viut Shinkle, Captain Kenniston,
will arrive to-day from Cincinnati with a
full cargo of Western products, and leaves
on Friday with a return trip, taking ex-
cursionists through TO Cincinnati aud re-
turn at half rates. Billy McIutyre, one
Of the best fellows in the world, presides
OF the desk.
The A. ]. White. Captain George Ma
lone, is the regular Thursday packet for
Napoleon and the bends. She attends
promptly to all way business. Captain
Lee Cummins is her prime minister.
The City OF Chester, Captain zeigler,
10 the Thursday Anchor Line packet,
leaving tomorrow evening for Cairo and
s., Louis, connecting with the principal
railroads for all points East aud West.
The Thomas Sherlock leaves Cincin.
natl to-day for New Orleans.
The Charles Morgan passed down this
morning for New Orleans we'll laden, and
had $50 cabin passengers, who make the
round trip. SSe added several people
here.
Frank Smith, who lie one Of the best
stewards oil the river, resumed his old
position this morning on the Mary Bell
MI. Slant. ]. Bachelor, who is we'll
and favorably known along the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers, has assumed control Of
the river department of the Pittsburg
Evening Telegraph.
The large, commodious and magni6-
cent freight and passenger steamer Mary
Bell leaves this evening for New Orleans
on a grand Msrdi Gras excursion. She
will land at all the prominent way points
aud arrive at her destination on Monday
next in good season for the great carui-
val aud lay owe until the following FRI
day, thus sfording her excursionists am.
pie time and opportunity to witness or
participate in the festivities Of the Mardi.
Gras jubilee. The passenger sccommo-
dations of this palatisl steamer are su
perb; her cabins are highly adorned and
her staterooms are furnished With home
like comforts. No hotel in the country
sets q better table than the Mary Rell
We understand that about fifty couple,
including some Of our beautiful bellies
aud gallant beaux, have engaged passage
from u own city, and, with those who
await her at the cities, towns and in the
bends below, will make up a gay and Joy
Gus party. There is plenty Of room and
q pleasant trip for all who may decide to
make this excursion on the Mary Bell.
Captain Frank Hicks is in command
and Captain ALI. Grissom, that generous,
handsome. polite and attentive gentle
man, whose reputation as a host is uni
verssl, controls affairs in the Office and
will preside as master OF ceremonies
the trip. On such a boat, under
the management Of such officers, and re-
membering the fact that one of the finest
bands of music in the country has been
engaged and will entertain the guests
throughout the entire excursion, and
that Frank Smith, the king of the cui-
sine, will be there to supply comforts for
the inner man, and that the genial Billy
Thomas will act right-bower to Captain
Grissom, and last, but by no means
least, that four bridal parties (which we
came near forgettiug-having been mar.
ried so long oursel0 are included in the
party from here, who can doubt hat the
Mardi- Gras trip Of the Mary Bell in 1876
will be stored away in the memories Of
those who participated in it to be remem-
bored in the far of future as the most
pleasant ia their life's experience.
How She Was Fooled.
A LADY in this CITY. aays the Marnnetta