Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-04-12
THE Cons MiIlar left CiuOiunat


last evening for Memphis.
The John Dippold, with tow Of
stone for Eads' jetties, left Cairo
yesterday.
The Hard Cash returned to the
White river last night with a splen-
did trip. She goes through tC
B~atesville.
The Coahoma for Friar's Point
had a good showing of freight and
people.
The Alice Brown came in last
evening with a tow of Pittsburg
coal, including 10 barges, 427,50C
bushels in all, for MeSrs. Brown &
Jones. =
From present indications we will
have a big river, if not an overflow
The Ruth will be here on Friday
night from White river and return
to Jacksonport Saturday evening.
The Vint Shinkle cleared fol
Cincinnati with 24S bales of cot.
ton, 400 barrels of oil, "a bales c.
rags, a lot of stock and sundries.
The Florence Meyer goes to st.
Louis to load for the mountains.
Captain John B. Davis has char.
tered the Florence Meyer for the
Yellowstone river trade.
The City of Augusta is loading
in the upper Arkansas for New
Orleans.
Captain Woodburn'S new Ar
kansas river packet Fannie Moore
sunk yesterday in the Arkansas
within six miles of where the Ella
met her fate.
The Glencoe passed up this morn
ing for St. Louis. She put off rs
packages of sundries.
The Cherokee will be up to-day
for the Ohio.
Major Harpman, agent of the
Memphis, and Captain Moses, agent
of the New Orleans board of I'M
derwriters, leave this evening for
the wreck of the Fannie Moore.
Capt. Reese Dugan, who is at
present in the city, will send the
T. F. Eckert to the assistance of
the sunken steamer Fannie Moore.
The rain to-day interfered with
the handling Of freights.
The Bismarck leaves st. Louis
on Saturday for New Orleans.
The Coal City passed up to-day
with a tow of empty barges.
The A. G. Donnally leaves Gin
%cinnati to-day for New Orleans,
and the Thompson Dean on Satur-
day..
The Tennessee River Packet
Company sold at Evansville on
Tuesday the steamer Red Cloud, to
J. G. Baker & Co., of st. Louis for
s25, 1000, to be delivered next week
at st. Louis. She goes to Fort
Benton.
The City of Alton will be down
Saturday morningfo for New Orleans.
Myers Ketchum, chief engineer
Of the Bonanza, who had his leg
broken on that steamer, is lying in
a very critical condition at his home
ia New Richmond, and is receiving
the kind attention Of his family
and many friends.
The tug Ida came in from the
Tennessee with $4,000 bushels of
coal for the st. Bernard coal asso-
citation and 10000 slaves. She re-
turns to the st. Bernard mines this
evening for another tow.
The Belle of Texas, Captain Ed
Rowland, came in from the Arkan-
sas with 80 bales cotton, 215 sacks
seed, n bbls. oil and sundries and
the machinery of the Ella and
the Governor Garland. She will
return to the Arkansas Saturday
evening going through to Little
Rock. Captain Jimmy Thompson
is her purser.
The Grand Republic awaits her
turn at st. Louis to load in the
Pool Line, and will not leave until
th- 28th inst. After this trip she
will withdraw from the Pool Line
and run as an independent packet.
The City Of Chester, Capt. James
Yore, brought in from st. Louis a
full cargo'of grain and produce
and returns this evening to Cairo