Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-07-24

III LI"AAN ~
The Katie Hooper left Little
Rock yesterday for Memphis and
will arrive Friday morning.
Captain VIM. Hardwick is quite
i'll with malarial fever at his resi-
dence on Pontotoc street.
The Batesville is being put IN
splendid order for the fall seasons
business.
Pilot Mat King died at Madison,
Ind, Sunday night. He was well
known in river circles.
The Andy Baum has gone to the
bank at Cincinnati after a success
full season in the trade.
The Mary Miller is lying at the
bank at the foot of Puppy Greek
with a broken shaft.
The Centennial takes the place
of the james Howard while the
latter lays up for repairs.
There is not much business doing
on the streams above st. Louis with
low water near at hand.
Freights from st. Louis to New
Orleans rule at 10 cents per 100
and 20 cents per Dbl on flour.
The new bell of the j. NJ. White
was hung on Monday and sounded
for the first time.
The Paris @. Brown, en- route
from Cincinnati to New Orleans,
passed Evansville yesterday at 1C
am, and is due down tomorrow.
The officers of the A. j. White
report the crops in the bends as in
a houishing condition and the plan
tiers in good spirits.
The first bale Of new cotton
shipped from Texas was received
at St. Louis on Saturday and solo
at 81 cents per ID.
The Gold Dust passed down thii
morning at 10 o'clock for New Or.
leans loaded flat in the water. She
added here a few packages of to-
bacco and other stuff.
jeff Baldwin, one Of the pilot
Of the steamer Rose City, report.
that there ware only thirty inches o
water in the channel at Fort Smitl
on Saturday, the goth, and falling
slowly.
VIM. P. 0. Bannan, second clerl
on the Commonwealth, died of vel
low fever, Saturday, at st. Louis
1T is supposed he contracted tn
disease at New Orleans, while pay
ling a visit to a foreign ship.
Isaac Kinney, of the Charlie
Mcdonald, was admitted to tn
Marine Hospital at Cairo on Sun
day, suffering from an attack Q
malarial lever, and at last account
} was in a critical condition.
Captain Frank Hicks new cotto
steamer is being planked, and wi
be ready to launch in two week
; He has taken up his quarters nes
Mack's yard, in order to superin
S tend the completion of the ne
steamer.
! During the past season I'll
> Natchez made AZ trips in the Ne
Orleans and Vicksburg trade, du.
ing which period she carried I'M
New Orleans 500 bales Of cotto
aud 120,603 sacks of seed, besides
large amount of oil cake, oil, me
and sundries, to say nothing of tt
large up trips.
Captain Henry A. Jones, Il
veteran commander and steambo
owner, first went to Cincinnati {
a keel-boat in 1924. In 1928
wheeled stone for the Louisville al
Portland canal, and while the
pulled his first oar for himself as
I contractor, and laid the foundati,
for his present ample fortune.
Tobacco is being shipped Ea
via Paducah and Jacksonville, ov
the L. and N. railroad, to the ca!
ern seaboard at rs cents per II
eS The Silver Cloud gets 10 cen.
u The L. and N. railroad carries it
eS Louisville for nothing, and t
70 other roads divide. Cause, a fig
q between railroad lines.
rs The big James Howard, Captt
2 James 0'Neal, is the Anchor Ii
o.. packet this evening, leaving
Lee wharf boat at 5 o'clock
%. Cairo and st. Louis, doing all "
9 business and making direct conn
IL ton with the principal railrof
80 for all points East and West. Ca
Ie. Woods presides at the desk.
.2 The George W. Cheek, which
,er been partially rebuilt at Mou
81 City, will be brought here in a (
tie days to receive her fnishi
cd touches and be reprinted and
to furnished. When completed
will be almost a new boat. s
will re-enter the lower coast tri
in September.
ee. Drawing instead of driving
its the latest idea in steamboat nayi
ton. A Baltimore man.has appl
gn the screw (which, by the way,
continues to call the propeller)
st. the bow of the boat, and says t
ms. a higher rate Of speed is thus
Ks tainable than with the ordinary
Of the screw at the stern.