Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-01-23

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the KehlOr, will leave Pittsburg to
day for New Orleans.
The coal feet is obstructing th,
wharf at Louisville and filling NJ
the canal.
Captain John W. Tobin and Cap
tain N. M. Jones, of Memphis, hav,
gone to New York.
The Cheek for Friars Point wa
well represented.
The Colorado arrived at Vioks
burg yesterday at l pm. from st
Louis and leaves to-day with a re.
turn trip for st. Louis.
The Thompson Dean and james
Howard from Memphis arrived al
New Orleans yesterday and leave
there this evening en- a return trip
to Memphis.
The Robert Mitchell for New
Orleans and Mary Elizabeth for
Arkansas river left Cincinnati last
evening.
The Golden City for Cincinnati,
the Commonwealth for st. Louis,
and the J. W. Garrett and barges
for the Ohio river, left New Orleans
last evening.
The Mark Twain is being treated
to a new pair of smoke-stackS.
The Ruth is due tomorrow night
from White river with a good list
of cotton and returns to Jackson
port on Friday.
The Hattie Rowland is the next
Arkansas river packet. She will
arrive Friday and return to Little
Rock on Saturday.
The Batesville, Captain Mat
Tremmel, will leave on time this
evening for Scanlan's Landing.
Captain Henry Cooper is her pur-
ser.
The John B. Maude cleared last
evening for st. Louis with a fair
up stream trip. She added here
400 bales Of Eastern-bound cotton
and a big lot of miscellaneous
freight, and picked up a fair num-
Der of people,
The Cons Millar will leave Gin.
cinnati this evening for Memphis.
Rates on freights from Cincinnati
to New Orleans rule at 20 to rs cts.
per hundred and so to rs cents per
bbl. on whisky and pork.
Captain j. ]. Darragh is spend
ing a few days in Cincinnati.
John Rimp is the real original
name of the man who won celebrity
as a Mississippi steamboat mate
named Bill Patterson.
The efficient wharf master had a
large force of laborers busily at
work on the levee this morning
clearing off the mud and filth.
The business men of Kansas City
are endeavoring to get up a joint
stock company for the purpose of
establishing a barge line on. the
Missouri river, to ply between that
and st. Louis.
The ]. W. Gaff is ticketing pas
sengers through to Chicago via
Cincinnati by river, and thence by
rail, at lower rates than any other
route. Captain Wise has several
passengers already engaged to take
this route on the Gaf.
The E. 0. Stanard passed up last
for st. Louis after discharg-
ing here "a barrels m~olasses, 136
sacks seed and 70 packages sun
Passenger travel is returning to
the river, and this season steam
boats have carried more passengers
than railroads, and met with fewer
and loss of life.
The towboat John Gilmore, re-
sold to the NJ. V. r. Co., for
s24, 500 cash, deliverable at Cairo,
is one of the best boats of her
power aAoat. She will be Z years
old in February, has 25-inch cylin-
s foot stroke, 6 boilers. She
Was built at Pittsburg.
New Orleans freights at st. Louis
yesterday to 20 cents per
100 and 40 cents per barrel on -four.
The decline was caused by the load
ing of the Golddust Independent of
The poOl-line.
My Choice and barges are due
up, bound for st. Louis.
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