Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-13

for which she is well adapted BY
Captain Pete Macarthur, her com
mander, and named in honor oil
Captain Milt Harry, of the Harry
White River Mail Line.
The following are the shipments
of coal from Pittsburg on the pres.
ent rise: For Wheeling, 10 barges,
ISL, S4S bushels; Ironton, s barges,
451, 500 bushels; Cincinnati, ISL
barges, 2,3O9,352 bushels; Louis
vile, las barges, 1,s3O,496 bushels.
Mr.. Thad Ely, the energetic
steamboat agent, received a letter
last evening from Captain William
Thorweigan informing him that he
would leave st. Louis on Saturday
next for New Orleans with his new
iron steamer, the @. P. Choteau.
The John +. Tolle, en- route from
st. Louis to New Orleans with a
cargo of general produce and grain,
including $4,000 bushels of grain
in bulk for export, burned at Grand
Gulf Sunday night. Boat and cargo
a total loss. The Tolle was valued
at $4,000, and owned by Com
modore Kountz and Captain Brady,
her commander.
The Mark Twain, Captain J. D.
Randall, leaves this evening for St.
Francis river, carrying the mail and
going through TO Wittsburg, the
rise in the river admitting of him
going through with his excellent
packet without detention. Captain
Randall will run the Mark Twain
and West Wind through to Wits
burg the remainder of the season,
or as long as the water keeps up.
Mr.. D. B. Abrahams, a courteous
and attentive officer, officiates in
the efice, and has for his aid Birdie
Banning.
Among the passengers making
the present round trip on the Andy
Baum are Mrs. John j. Rape, Miss
Florence Rape, Mrs. Captain
Hiram J.. Vinton, Miss Fannie Vim
ton and Miss Ella Davis.
Captain R. W. Lightburne, SUI
perintendent at this end of the line
of the Memphis and Cincinnati
Packet Company, received a tele-
gram this morning from the Parker
dated at Cairo stating that she
would arrive here tonight and
leave tomorrow at pm. promptly
for Cincinnati. Captain Light
burne will have a clerk to-day at
the foot of Monroe street receiving
freight for her.
Major Hardin, superintendent of
the Memphis and Arkansas River
Mail Line, received a telegram this
morning from Little Rock stating
that the Hattie Rowland left there
this morning for Memphis two days
behind her regular time, having
been delayed by fog and bad
weather. He also received adviees
of the Katie Hooper arriving at
Pine Bluff this morning from Mem
phis, being delayed by fog and bad
weather.
The cotton seed steamer Tom
Morgan exploded her boiler Satur-
day evening at Scrubgrass towhead,
on the Mississippi shore, wrecking
the boat and killing her captain
and owner, d. R. Powell, Of Gov
ington, KY, and the engineer. The
captains wife and remainder of the
crew and passengers were saved.
The Morgan was a sidewheel boat
of 200 tons burden and engaged in
the cotton seed business.
The Phil Allin, Captain Carrot
Huls, came in from the bends with
$50 bales and 20 bags of cotton, 1S47
sacks seed, and snndries, and a big
list of people. She done a heavy
way business all the way up. The
Allin returns to Vicksburg this
evening, giving particular attention
to plantation business and connect
ing at Arkopolis with the Pine
Bluff railroad and at Vicksburg
with the Lee Line for Yazoo river
and the New Orleans packets. Her
passenger facilities are not excelled
by any boat on the river. Captain
Lee Oummins, her chief clerk, well
known to travellers and shippers, is