Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-10-30

giving strict attention to all way
business. Mi. Holmes and Plal
Rhodes, two clever and accommo.
dating gentlemen, have charge Of
the Office.
A negro rouster named Tom was
lost overheard and drowned from
the Mark Twain at the mouth Of
st. Francis river Yesterday morn,
ing. Captain Randall sent out two
skiffs to rescue the unfortunate
man, but all to no avail.
The Belle st. Louis, Capt. Len.
nox, is the Anchor Line packet
leaving this evening for Cairo and
St Louis, doing all bends business
and making connection with the
principal railroads for all points
East and West.
MI. Robert Seymour, a we'll
known steamboat clerk in by-gone
days, but recently night Waterman
at the Little Rock depot, was found
dead in his room yesterday morn
ing. His remains were taken charge
of by the county undertaken. !.
The Katie P. Kountz,i Captain
James Luker, will arrive tomorrow
morning from st. Louis, and leave
in the evening for the Arkansas
river. Freight will be received for
her at Glenn's wharf boat.
Captain John Bowen, for the
past several years river editor of
the Globe Democrat, has severed his
connection with that Journal and
will engage in other pursuits. Cap
tain Bowen has many warm and
and personal friends among river
men who will regret to learn of
the veterans withdrawal.
The palatial passenger steamer
Illinois, Captain Nat Green, leaves
this evening for Yicksburg and the
bends, connecting at ArkopoliS
with the Pine Bluff railroad and at
Vicksburg with the New Orleans
and Yazoo river packets. John
Gwathmey, a gentleman with whom
it is a pleasure to travel or do bust
ness, controls the Office, with Neil
Booker and Joe Boyd for assistants.
The Glencoe, after knocking the
hole in her hull, which caused her
to sink, at Delta, below Vicksburg,
was run on the bar below where she
struck, and finally settled down in
the water above her lower deck. If
the wrecking boat reaches her in
time she can be saved.
The Katie Hooper, Captain Ed
Rowland, arrived last night from
Arkansas river with 1872 bales of
cotton and sundries and reshipped
at the mouth 2O9 bales, making a
total out of the river of BAL bales.
She is receiving for a return trip.
The John A. Scudder, Captain
Frank Hicks, will be in to-day from
New Orleans and viii leave to. NOR
row evening with a return trip.
Freight will be received for her at
the Lee wharlboat. Mr.. Ed Dix,
her gentlemanly purser, will regis
ter all wishing a safe and pleasant
trip down the river.
Captain Dick Lightburne fur
nishes the following programme Of
the Memphis and Cincinnati pack
cts : The steamer James W. Calf
will leave Memphis for Cincinnati
on Friday, November I'd; the
Cons Millar will leave Gin
cinnati for Memphis Wednesday
next, and the Vint Shinkle leaves
Cincinnati Saturday next.
The George W. Cheek, Captain
Mark r. Cheek, leaves this evening
at sharp five for Friar's Point, do
ing all way business. Capt. James
Roland is her top clerk, and is as
sisted by Hal Aydlett and Thomas
Hughes.
The Ruth, Captain Milt Harry,
owing to the bad weather and ship
perS being unable to get their freight
down, was compelled to defer her
departure until to-day. She leaves
this afternoon on time for White
river, and by next trip will get back
80 as to leave on her regular day.
She will make all of her regular
connections. Ed Crowell, whom
everybody loves, is her chief quill
driver which il q guarantna NJ a