Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-05

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The Belle of Texas will arrive
tomorrow morning from the Ar
kansas, and return to Little Rocl
on Saturday,
The Ruth is the Saturday packe.
for White river. She will arriy,
tomorrow morning with a gooC
trip of miscellaneous freight.
The Coahoma returnd to Friar'l
Point with an excellent trip.
The Hard Cash cleared for Whit
river with an excellent trip o.
freight and people.
Mr.. Ernest Walworth, u White
aud Arkasas river steamboat clerk.
arrived in the city yesterday from
HotSprings and will remain here {
few days.
The Coahoma will be the Friday
packet for Friar's Point.
The Golden City passed up last
evening for Cincinnati With 20 PEG,
pie and 500 tons of freight. She
put off here 6 sacks coffee.
The Coal Hill gave bond yester-
day and left for the Ohio with hel
empty barges.
The Robert Mitchell came in on
Tuesday night en- route TO New
Orleans with nearly a full cargo,
and remained here until noon to-
day patching her boilers.
The Thomas Sherlock leaves
Cincinnati to-day for New Orleans
Captain Charley Thorn's new
Red River packet, building at Gin
cinnati, will be launched in three
weeks, and ready for business by
the 18th Of September.
During June 1894 bbls. salt were
received at Cincinnati by river in
barges.
Pilot Yves Owens is employing
bis spare time in soliciting orders
for the Metropolitan Picture Copy
ing Company Of st, Louis, and is
meeting with considerable success.
Captain Warman, the veteran
pilot, returned home this morning
on the Charles Morgan.
Captain j. H. Rees writes that
he will leave Pittsburg with his
new boat for the Arkansas river
about the 18th inst.
The Osceola Belle will have her
repairs completed this week and
resume her regular trips in the
upper coast trade next week.
Captain r. G. McAllister, for
merly a prominent steamboat owner
of st. Louis, has been missing for
several days, and it is feared he has
committed suicide. lie has been
in bad health for several years.
The body of Mr., Ed ward Wainey,
late steward of the Red Wing, was
found three miles below Dallas,
Illinois. 1t was placed in a metal
lie case and forwarded to his late
home in Galena for burial.
The Charles Morgan passed down
this morning for New Orleans
loaded flat in the water. She put
of here 1876 boxes soap, AZ boxes
bottles, % boxes starch and several
packages of sundries, and added a
few lots Of freight and several pas
sengers.
Mr.. Walker Outlaw, the we'll
known and popular Arkansas river
steamboat clerk, returned from Hot
Springs yesterday much improved
IN health. He now looks as fresh
as a tuberose and is in trim for the
fall season business.
The Louisville and Henderson
Mail Line Company have contract
ed with the HGwards at Jefferson
vile for a new sidewheel boat to
take the place of the Tarascon.
She will be 24O feet long, 80 feet
beam, 8 feet hold, with new ma
chinery, 20 inch cylinders, z feet
stroke,
Captain Jack w. Blanks writes
his new Ouachita packet, building
at Jacksonville, will be completed
by the 18th of August. She will be
quite light for a boat of her size,
and will not draw over eighteen
inches in the deepest place. She
will carry and store near 1900 bale;
Of cotton.
The Aggie, Captain Andrews