Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-06-13


Arkansas City with the Pine Bluff
railroad and at Vioksburg with the
New Orleans and Yazoo river pack
cts, and gives through bills Of lad.
ing, as we'll as ticketing passengers
through. Tom White is her affa-
bic purser.
Captain r. w. L~ightburne, the
agent and superintendent at this
end of the line Of the Memphis
and Cincinnati packets, will ticket
passengers through to all Eastern
points by his line cheaper than ever,
He has the fayorite and popular
passenger steamer j. w. Gatf, leav-
ing tomorrow evening for Oincin-
natl, and he has fifteen or twenty
Eastern tourists for her, going over
this fayorite route.
The j. w. Gaff, being detained by
bad weather, fog and heavy way
business in the lower Ohio, will not
arrive here until this evening. She
has $50 tons for here, which she
will discharge with dispatch and
leave positively tomorrow evening
with a return trip for Cincinnati,
making all principal way landings
and ticketing passengers through to
New York City and other points at
a lower rate than by any other
route, transferring passengers and
baggage free of charge. She has
unsurpassed passenger a~ccommoda-
tions and is a good boat to travel
ON. Captain Bob Wise, who is one
of the most popular boatmen on the
river, commands, with Captain j.
Moore, a genial and clever gem
tleman, in charge Of the office.
ELEVATOR, June 13.-The Jas.
Howard arrived yesterday and put
off here so bxs lemons, Is SKIS cof-
fee, 10 bales bagging and 10 bxs
and added 60 bbls apples
and potatoes. She cleaned out her
boilers and cleared for st. Louis at
s pm. with 750 tons of freight and
60 cabin passengers.
The City of Helena will be up
tonight from Vicksburg and leave
for Cairo and st. Louis tomorrow
at 5 pm.
The Grand Tower is the Friday
Vicksburg packet, leaving at 10
am.
The John A. Scudder will be the
next boat for New Orleans, leaving
here Saturday evening at G o'clock.
JIMMY.
BISMARCK, June 10.-There is a
steamboat race on the upper Mis-
souri,, of 1000 miles, between the
and Red Cloud, with the
former forty hours ahead. Ten
thousand dollars are staked at Fort
Benton on the Helena. 1t is now
a sure beat, according to the last
down.
Pittsburg dispatches state: "The
coal run, although not large, has
been all that could be expected.
footing up 1910, 900 bushels, and it
will no doubt be increased during
the next day or two if the water
on. Of the total Cincinnati
gets 1850, 900 bushels; Louisville,
Ashland, $4,000; St.
$4,000. For Cincinnati
Joe Walton, Nellie Walton, Coal
VIM. Stone, Ark, Onward,
Josh Cook, j. W. Gould, Samson
No. 2, Hornet, j. A. Blackmore,
Roberts, Veteran, Mary
Alexander Swift, Sam Brown,
John Penney and Charley Brown,
With 2,429,OOO bushels of coal and
$4,000 bushels Of coke. For
= Bengal Tiger, James
fillmore, Diamond, Baltic, Fred
Wilson, Enterprise, ]. G. Fisher,
md Lioness, with 100000 bushels
coal and $4,000 bushels of coke.
The James Gilmore has also 65, 900
bushels of coke for st. Louis and
5000 bushels coke for Ashland,
Ky. Several other tows will leave
IN this water. Among them are
he James Nixon, Grand Lake,
Clark, and probably the
Oakland, but the amount of the
.ows cannot now be given"