Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-11

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The Illinois viii arrive to.mor
row evening from Vicksburg.
The Sharp Mcdonald and Mar,
Ann, with tovs of coal for New
Orleans, are due here.
Captain John Mossop will have
charge Of the office of the new
steamer John W. Cannon.
Captain Thomas Darragh, Of thu
steamer Maumelle, has gone to thu
Hot Springs to recuperate.
Pilot William B. Carter was
elected councilman at Jefferson
vile.
The A. G. Donnally is due down
tomorrow afternoon for New Or
leans. She added 1000 bags Of
corn in the lower Ohio.
The John Means and barges left
st. Louis yesterday for New Or
leans. Her cargo consists of 2OOC
bales hay, ITO, 900 bushels of grain
in bulk, and 1000 sacks grain.
The general council deferred the
bids of the new work on the levee,
which was an unwise piece Of legis,
lation.
The steamer Laura L. Davis has
an excursion party from Florence.
Alabama, for the musical festival
at Cincinnati.
Engineer Mike Ketchum, who
has been laid up for the past four
months at the Cincinnati hospital,
is out and able to navigate again
with the aid Of a lighter.
The general council instructed
the wharfmaster to locate one
wharfboat at the head of the leyee
and one at the lower end, in order
to give more levee room to the pack
cts.
The Grand Tower left on time
for st. Louis. She added here 200
bales of Eastern -bound cotton, a
lot Of miscellaneous freight
and a good list of people.
The big James Howard came in
at noon from st. Louis and landed
at Hopefeld to take on oil cake and
She viii be found at the
wharf this afternoon.
The Gilmore and barges are due
to-day.
The st. Louis and New Orleans
Anchor Line packet Golddust is
due up tomorrow for st. Louis.
The E. o. Stanard will arrive to-
day from st. Louis en- route to New
Orleans. She has 800 tons of mis-
c%ellaneous freight for here, and
adds at Glenn's wharfboat 1000
sacks oil cake.
Captain John Hardin, superin-
of the line, will charter a
steamer and send her out this even
to Little Rock in place of the
Katie Hooper.
We are glad to learn that Sid
Dare, who was charged with rape,
was honorably acquitted by the
grand jury and discharged.
Archie Woods, brother of J. B.
and A. A. Woods, and formerly Of
Woods, Mathews & Co., merchants
of New Orleans, and an old steam
boat clerk in the days of the Ed
ward Walsh, has taken charge Of
the Office Of the Anchor Line
steamer james Howard.
Mate Barney Cassidy, of the
Warner, who was transferred from
the hospital here to the marine
hospital at Cairo, is in a critical
condition, being weak and deliriou:
and badly used up, Should he re.
cover he will probably be disfgured
duu HIS ItlJ drul Oe SUN.
Cook Thompson, a colored roust.
about on the @. w. Anderson, was
struck on the head a few days since
and admitted into the marine hos.
pital at Cairo. He will probably
die.
The Golden Crnwn passed down
last night for New Orleans full,
laden. She had about all the freight
she wanted. She discharged al
Glenn's wharf boat so bags seed, il
burial cases and 1G packages sun.
dries.
The Mollie Moore passed up al
daylight for st. Louis with COZ
tons, principally sugar and mo.
lasses. She discharged at Glenn
wharfboat 6 bales cotton and 8 Dbl
mOlasses.