Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-04-26

The Golddust leaves st. Louis
tomorrow for New Orleans in COM
mand of Captain John McCord.
Captain James 0'Neil goes on the
James Howard.
The new Anchor Line packet
City of Alton, Captain Bixby,
leaves tomorrow evening at 6
o'clock for New Orleans, making
all principal way landings. Capt.
Washington will make engagements
for her.
The George W. Cheek, Captain
Mark Cheek, is the regular mail
packet leaving this evening for
Friar's Point, carrying the mail
and doing all way business. Walk
er Outlaw is the chief clerk, assisted
by Platt Rhodes and Thomas
Hughes.
The City of Helena passed down
this morning fully laden for Vicks-
burg and the bends. She discharged
here over 1000 pkgs miscellaneous
freight and added 20 tons for points
below.
The A. j. White, Captain Nat
Green in command, is receiving at
the foot of Monroe street for Ar
kansas City and the bends, and will
leave tomorrow evening. John
G%wathmey, Neil Booker and Billy
Thomas, a trio of clever and &C.
commodating gentlemen, have
charge of the Office.
The Golden Grown, in command
of Captain Walker, will leave
here tomorrow evening at six
o'clock sharp for Cairo, Louis
vile and Cincinnati, going through
with dispatch, attending to all bust
ness in the bends and along the
Ohio. Mr.. Eugene Smith is her
atfable purser.
The splendid and popular passen-
ger steamer Mary Houston, Capt.
Charley Miller, will leave the Lee
wharf boat tomorrow morning at 8
o'clock for New Orleans, making
all principal way landings. Elliott
Miller presideS at the desk. Capt.
Washington will make engagements
and receive freight for her at his
wharf boat at all hours.
The Katie Hooper, Capt. Eugene
Smith, will arrive to-day from Ar
kansas river with a good list of cot
ton and other freights, and returns
tomorrow evening to Little Rock,
carrying the mail and making direct
connection with the Maumelle for
upper Arkansas river. Jimmy
Thompson and Billy Nucles, two
clever gentleman, have charge of
the Office.
Mr.. Thad Ely, the river superin-
tendent and able representative of
MeSsrS. Bryan & Co., coal dealers,
went to Mound City last evening
to attend Dan Rice's circus, which
showed at that point, and scarcely
took in enough to pay his coal bill.
The rest Of TIE anxious ones were
furnished front seats.
The steamer Ruth, Captain Milt
Harry in command, will arrive to-
night from White river with a good
list Of cotton and other freights.
She will leave tomorrow evening
with a return trip, carrying the
mail, going through to Jacksonport
and making direct connection with
the light draught steamers Alberta
and Milt Harry for upper White
and Black rivers. Ed Crowell, one
of the most popular boatmen on the
river, is her purser.
The Grand Tower, Captain Len
nox, came in last evening from
V%icksburg with q moderate trip.
She discharges here "a bales Of cot.
ton, 633 sacks of seed and 100
packages Of sundries. She also
brought to this port a troop Of
show Indians which debarked here.
She leaves the elevator this evening
at five o'clock, sharp, for Cairo and
st. Louis, attending to all bend
business and making direct connec-
ton with the principal railroads
for all points East and West. Tom
White holds forth in the Office.
Captain Frank Hicks closed the
contract at Cincinnati on Wednes-
day with Mack & Perry for his new
sternwheel boat for the Memphis
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