Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-07-05


day and leaves there to-day at noon
for ST. Louis
The John B. Maude left st. Louis
last evening for Vicksburg, leaving
here ut 10 o'clock Sunday morn
ing next. 4AiBs Al.
The Robert Mitchell for Cincin-
matt and Commonwealth for st.
Louis left New Orleans Wednesday
evening. l1iA
We regret to hear that Captain
Eugene Bowers, city treasurer of
Newport, KY, is confined to his
home with cholera morbus
The John Dippold and barges
passed up this morning for st.
Louis. The principal item of her
cargo was GOO hogsheads sugar.
The James D. Parker left Gin
cinnati with 800 tons for this port,
the principal items being bagging
and meat.
Captain J.. d. Burdeau has con-
tracted with James Mack and Alex.
Perry fol the hull and cabin Of \
new ferryboat for New Orleans, to
be completed in sixty days.
Captain John Armstrong, an old
time steamboatman, we'll known on
the river between Louisville and
Cincinnati, is lying da.. gerously i'll
at his residence above Madison.
Buch Wasson and Charley Fox
piloted the tug Ida from New Or
leans to this port, and returned last
evening to the Crescent City by
rail.
The City of Augusta brought up
an excursion from Commerce and
along the coast and returned last
night with her excursionists after
the display of fireworks was over.
Captain Perry Thalp will imme-
diately commence setting up the
frame of Captain W. B. Miller's
new steamer for the Cincinnati and
New Orleans trade.
The Golden Rule passed down at
noon for New Orleans well laden.
She put off here several small lots
of freight, and added a lot of stuff
and some people.
A man named w. II. johnson,
engaged in the millinery business
in Marietta, Ohio, jumped over
board from the steamer Graham,
below Wheeling, and was drowned.
A st. Louis telegram says the
Anchor Line Packet Company will
not rebuild the elevator at this
point, which was burned down on
Tuesday morning last.
Colonel G. K. Peck has secured
the contract for transferring the
Indian supplies on the upper Mis-
souri,. There are about 5000 tons
to be moved.
The remains Of the old gentle
man, MI. Ewing, who was burned
on the Capitol City, accompanied
by his wife, were sent North on the
James Howard Wednesday evening
bv Sunerintendent AID Storm.
The tug Ida came up yesterday
morning from New Orleans and
left this morning with the Little
Condor's tow for that port, which
comprised two stave boats and four
shell boats of coal.
Captain II. II. Drown, formerly
Of the Golden Crown, and late OF
the Ben Franklin, has been COM
missioned as commander of the
United States snagboat E. A. Wood.
ruff.
VIM. Dunn, a deck passenger on
the Fannie Tatum, destined from
Pittsburg for st. Louis, fell over
board Wednesday morning, when
the boat was above Richmond, and
was drowned.
Ten Brock, the king Of the turf
got away with the queen, Molli(
Mccarthy, and we know of several
marines who had their all on the
king that will be benefited by the
result.
: The new ]. NJ. White will not bC
ready to leave Paducah for the
South for about four weeks. /.
the river falls much lower she will
proceed to Cairo and be finished
there.
Captain W. B. Miller celebrated
the Fourth of July at Cincinnati
by getting Captain Perry Tharp t.
lay the first timbers of his new boa
for the Cincinnati and New Or
leans trade.
: The Anchor Line packet City o
Helena, Capt. Mckee, leaves tn
Lee wharfboat this afternoon 70.
Vicksburg and the bends. She ha.
over 1000 packages of miscellane
GUS freight for this port.
The City of Augusta, transfe
boat, and the tugs with barges, al
! beautifully Illuminated, anchore,
:. out in the river last night, will
large numbers of invited guests Of
board, to view the display of fire
works from the river.
The Anchor Line packet John A
3 Scudder, Captain A. j. Garter
. leaves the Lee wharfboat to-morro,
evening at 8 o'clock for New On