Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-09-06
The James Howard viii leave ST.

The James Howard will leave St.
Louis to-day for New Orleans.
The wharfbOas at Bed river sunk on
Tuesday night, and is a totaIlo ss.
Captain Drown expects to raise steam
on his new steamer Golden Grown on
Tuesday, the 18th inst.
U. s. Commissioner Chamberlain, Of
New Orleans, has been forced to resign.
Good
Mr.. h. NJ Drake, late steward Of the
James W. CAT, is now managing the
Clemens House, in Danville, KY, opened
July 4. 1877, for the FIRST time.
Captain William Weston, assistant
engineer Of Colonel Merrilrs corps, is
surveying and making a map of Port
land bar and the channel below the falls,
with a view of removing the same.
The II. c. Yeager passed down at
noon without landing. Her pilots came
ashore on the yawl. They report I feet
on the crossings at Oseeola bar.
The Grand Tower, Captain Lennox,
will arrive tonight from Vicksburg, and
leaves tOmorrow evening for Cairo and
St. Louis.
Captain AID Storm is giving through
bills of lading to Pine Bluff and all
points CD the Chicot City and Pine
Bluff railroad, via the Anchor Line
packets, which makes direct connection
at Arkopolis with the Pine Bluff road.
The Batesville will arrive tomorrow
from White river with another big trip,
and return Saturday evening.
The Katie Hooper, Captain Ed Now
lands new and elegant packet, will ar
rive tomorrow morning from the Arkau-
sss and leave on Saturday with a return
trip.
The Port Eads, due down for New Or
leans, adds to her tow here barge No. IL,
loaded with $50 tons of railroad iron for
Natchez.
The ferryboat JohA Overton will have
her repairs finished III a few days and
will resume her regular trips between
here and Hopefeld and Mound City.
The Golden City, Captain Hegler, will
leave tomorrow at ten o'clock for New
Orleans, making all principal way land
ings. Captain Sterling Mcintyre, q
worthy gentleman, controls the Office.
Captain AID Storm, superintendent at
the elevator, will ticket passengers
through to st. Louis and return on ex
cursion rates during the Exposition exhi.
bition at St. Louis, which opens on the
10th inst.
The Anchor Line packet City of
Helena, Captain Mckee, leaves the ele
vator tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock
for Vickburg and the bends, carrying the
mail, doing all way business and making
direct connection with the R. E. Lee for
New Orleans and the Yazoo river pack
cts. Tom White is her purser.
The A. ]. White, which during her
retirement has been put in splendid
running order, will resume her regular
trips in the Friar's Point trade on Tues
day next and continue in the trade
throughOutthe season, leaving Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays.
The elegant passenger steamer Illinois
will leave this evening at six o'clock,
sharp, on her initial trip, for Arkopolis,
carrying the mail and giving special at
tention to all plantation business, and
making close connection with the Pine
Bluff railroad, ticketing passengers and
signing through bills of lading for
f.eight. She will continue in the trade
throughout the season, leaving Memphis
on Mondays and Thursdays at 6 pm.
During the summe the Illinois has un-
dergone a thorough oyerhauling, and
been put in frst-clsss order, and is com
plete in ell her appointments. She is in
better running order than when she first
came out. She has also received a new
outfit and reprinted in handsome style.
Her passenger accommodations are
6rst class in every particular. She
opens the new season in. com
mand Of Captain Nat Green, an
experienced and careful boatman and
a worthy gentleman, who is we'll aud ia.
yorably known in commercial and river
circles Captain Green starts out with
a determination to please and accommo.
date every person and make the Illinois
as popular with the travelling public in
the future as she has been in the past
She has always been a i~avorite in the
bends az a passenger packet, owing to
rlnning regular on schedule time, pass.
ing landings with the regularity Of arail
way train, thus not delaying or keeping
in waiting on the banks passenger.
who wished to take passage on her vi
or down the river. Captain Lee Cum
Minis, who has endeared himself to tn.
people in the bends by his courtesy anc
fair dealing in business, controls tn.
Office, assisted by Messrs. Joe Boyd an,
Billy Hare, two clever and aecommo
dating clerks. Captain Henry Powers
an experienced boatmsn, has charge O
the lower deck. George Wright ha
charge Of her engines, Billy Hodges an,
j. B. McCune are her pilots, and Bill
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