Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-23
The Ben Franklin has laid up at

Cincinnati. After this week the
Ohio river packets viii resume their
former schedule, leaving here on
Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Captain VIM, Blake has resumed
command Of the John B. Maude,
and Captain Garrett Huls came out
this trip as clerk of the John A.
Scudder.
-Four million five hundred thous-
and bushels of grain in bulk have
been shipped from st, Louis to
New Orleans by river since the LIST
of September last.
Jefferson Monks, of Shawnee
town, H., we'll known to all Ohio
river boatmen, died there ON Tues.
day and was buried on Wednesday.
The swell in the river at this
point from the effects of swollen
streams above viii be three or four
feet. tf.s
The Avalanche of this morning
reports the A. O. Donnally as still
due from below, when she passed
here yesterday morning, bound for
Cincinnati. Read the LEDGER and
keep posted.
Rates on freightS from st. Louis
to New Orleans continue to rule at
10 cents per hundred and 20 cents
per Dbl on flour.
The James Howard passed up
last night for St. Louis with 700
hhds sugar, 500 bales jute, $50 bbls
molasses and sundries, and also had
a big list Of people. She put off at
the elevator several small lots of
freight.
The e. O. Stanard is due up, en-
route to st. Louis, with 100 hbds
and 900 boxes sugar, 2lOO sacks
salt and 900 tons Of miscellaneous
freight.
The Anchor Line to New Or
leans has proved so far a great sue.
cess, and Commodore John A.
Scudder expects that business will
justify dispatching three boats a
week after September.
The steamer Katie, after a hard
tug, assisted by the Resolute, as
cended the falls up the Indiana
Chute on Tuesday and landed at
Jacksonville, where sac will be
dismantled.
Yazoo City Herald: "The hull
of the steamboat now in course of
building atthis place was success
fully launched at 2 o'clock last
Monday in the presence Of quite a
crowd Of ladies and gentlemen, who
had assembled to witness the opera
ton"
Frank Linsey, a deck.hand on
the General Lytle, fell overheard at
Garralttoh Sunday night and was
drowned.
The ST. Genevieve is being thor
Oughly repaired and reprinted at
st. Louis. Some changes are also
being made in her cabin which will
add to her attractiveness and to the
comfort Of her guests in the future.
The Katie Hooper left Pine Bluff
yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock for
Memphis and will arrive here to-
morrow evening and return to Little
Rock Saturday evening.
jim Franklin, Captain R. w.
Lightburne's secretary, was pre-
sented last evening by his estimable
wife with a bouncing boy, weighing
II pounds and 5 ounces. Mother
and babe are doing well this morn
ing, and Jim is as happy as a lord.
Lewis Kean, of the Louisville
Hotel, presented Harry Stein, the
popular clerk Of the Charles Nor
gan, with a full antlered deer's
head, an elegant ornament, with
which Harry has adorned his Office.
Captain Oscar Postal has the lit
tie steamer Trader in good run
ming order, and is now making
regular trips in the Coche river
trade, connecting at Devall's Bluff
with the Ruth and Hard Cash and
the Little Rock railroad.
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A cutting scrape occurred on the
Grand Tower on Sunday last, just
before reaching Yicksburg, in which
Thomas McNellie (colored) used up
the porter (also colored) very badly
by cutting him with a knife severe
lly. McNellie was turned over to