Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-18

packages of freight and added Rs
tons for points below.
The Mary Houston, bound for
New Orleans, passed Evansville
yesterday morning aud is due here
tomorrow night.
The Anchor Line packet City of
Vicksburg leaves st. Louis this
evening for Vicksburg, and leaves
here Tuesday morning at 1Oo'clock.
The Florence Meyer, en- route
from Fort Smith to Cincinnati,
arrived at Little Rock yesterday
and leaves there to-day for Cincin-
natl.
The veteran Captain Alex zeig-
Ter has retired from the river for
the present and gone to his farm,
sisuated twenty-seyen miles below
st, Louis.
Mr.. R. W. Lightburne, jr., who.
has been to Cincinnati attending
the musical festival, returned home
this morning on the Andy Baum,
well pleased with his trip.
Captain. W. II. Blake, who has
been visiting relatives in Ohio, re-
turned to St. Louis Thursday and
resumes command of his favorite
packet, the John B. Maude, on his
arrival at st. Louis.
Mr.. James Darragh, engineer Of
the tug Frank Jones, which does
service at Terrene, leaves for that
point to-day with a pump for the
tug, which has been laid up ten
days awaiting the same.
Captain Elisha Evans, with his
wonderful negro dwarf, left last
evening for Cincinnati on the J.. w.
Gaf, at which city he will exhibit
the dwarf and then 60 on the road
with John Robinson's circus.
The government snag-boat De
RuSsey was at the mouth of st.
Francis river yesterday, working
her way up the river, doing yalu-
abe service in removing snags and
Instructions from the channel.
The J. W. Gaf cleared last even
ing for Cincinnati with 600 bales of
cotton, $50 bars old railroad iron
and a lot of scrap iron and rags, and
so cabin passengers, among them
Captain ]. Harvey Mathes, wife and
The Future City, with a tow of
loaded with grain and pro-
duce, en- route from st. Louis to
New Orleans, sunk a barge at
Brunswick Point yesterday morn
ing, which was caused by the deck
giving way.
Captain Claren ce Hall has
donned the red ribbon, and is earn
estly working amongst his friends,
soliciting them to take the pledge.
The cause is a worthy one, and
Captain Hall will makean honored
and worthy member.
The good steamer Hard Cash,
Captain Ed Postal, passes Deyall's
Bluff tomorrow for Memphis, with
a fair list of cotton and other
freights, and will arrive early on
Tuesday morning and returns to
White river Wednesday evening.
The Anchor Line packet John
B. Maude, Captain William Blake,
leaves the elevator tomorrow at 5
pm. for Cairo and st. Louis, at
tending to all bend business and
with the principal rail
roads for all points East and West.
Mr.. Gobel presides at the desk.
Commodore Kountz proposes to
contest the right some papers as
to misrepresent his steamers.
He will take in the st. Louis
press, then skip over to Louisville
and interview the namesake Of the
President regarding the spelling
bee and catfish stories the CD. has
published.
The Andy Baum, Captain Vim
ton, arrived this morning from the
Ohio river, with a good trip of
freight and people and leave Mon
day evening with a return trip for
Cincinnati, ticketing passengers
through to all Eastern cities at ex-
ceedingly low rates. Captain
an aiTable gentleman, is her
chief clerk.
The Colorado, Captain Sam Nc
Pheeters, is the Anchor Line pack