Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-08-13


carrying the mail and attending to
all way business. Mr.. Ed Thomas,
a clever gentleman, controls the
office.
The A. j. White, which has been
put in thorough order, will enter
the Memphis and Friar's Point
trade the LIST of September. Her
leaving days viii be Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays, thus
giving the shipping and travelling
public in the bends the advantage
of q daily line of packets.
The hull of the r. Z. Lee was
taken out on the docks at Mound
City on Thursday last. Captain ].
I. Washington is having it con-
verted into a wharfboat at a cost of
nearly $4,000. When completed
it will be one of the finest whalf-
boats on the river and viii be ready
for business. by the first of Scptam-
Der.
Captain W, Butler, ir, who is
interested with Captain Washing
ton in the new wharf boat, left last
evening for Jackson, Tenn, on a
visit to his family. He will return
in ten days and will have charge of
the freight department on the. boat
Mr., Butler is a clever gentleman
and an expert in his line of bust
ness.
The Mark Twain, Captain Ran
dali, arrived Saturday night from
the st. Francis, with Z bales cotton,
70 sacks of wheat, 1O5 sacks cotton
seed, "a coops chickens, and a lot
of other freight. She will return
tomorrow evening to the st. Fran.
els, going through to Wittsburg,
carrying the mail aud doing all
way business.
The Anchor Line packet John
B. Maude, Captain William Blake,
leaves the elevator tomorrow morn
ing at ten o'clock for Vicksburg
and the bends. She carries the
mail, does all way business and
connects at Vicksburg with the
New Orleans packet and The pack
cts for Yazoo river. Mr.. Gobel is
her purser.
The City of Vicksburg, Captain
Bob Riley, will arrive tonight from
V~icksburg and leave the elevator
tomorrow evening for Cairo and
st. Louis, attending to all bends
business and making direct connec-
ton with the principal railroads for
all points East and West and the
Northern Line packets. Chris
Sharpe, a courteous gentleman, is
her chief clerk.
Capt. Robert Speed, superintend-
emit of the Memphis and Arkansas
Packet Company, received a
telegram from Capt. John Hardin
this morning stating that the new
Arkansas river packet Katie Hooper
arrived at Cincinnati yesterday all
0 X, and would leave there this
evening for Memphis, arriving on
Thursday, and leave Saturday even
ing for Little Rock end all points
On the Arkansas.
The Hard Cash, Captain Ed
viii arrive tomorrow from
White liver with a good trip of
corn, wheat and flour, and leave
Wednesday evening with a return
rip for Jacksonpolt and all points
IN White, Black end Little Red
The famous and populqr passen-
ger steamer j. W. Gatf, Captun
Bob Wise, VIII arrive to-day from
The Ohio, with a full cargo Of West
.rn products, and leave promptly
;o-morrow evening for Cincinnati,
instead of Wednesday, on a grand
excursion tip. She will go through
without detention. Colonel J. d.
a gentleman with whom it
s a pleasure to travel aud do bust
less, presides at the desk.
The 0.ceola Belle, Captain An
is the regular mail packet
eaying this evening for Ashport
nd all way landings on the upper
.oast. Captain B. o. Michel does
he honors Of the Office. She ar
lived at 10 o'clock this morning
With 30 bales cotton, 21S sacks
ced, 5000 sacks corn, ISL barrels