Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-07-16

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cinnati tomorrow evening for
Memphis.
The towboat Charlie Mcdonald
with a tow of empties passed up
this morning for the Ohio river. u
The Belle of Shreveport, from
st. Louis, arrived at New Orleans
yesterday, and the John Gilmore
and barges left there for st. Louis.
The City Of Helena is the An
.chor Line packet leaving st. Louis
to-day for Nieksburg and leaves
here Friday morning at 10 o'clock.
If the present weather should
continue for a few weeks we Will
have the largest cotton crop raised
since 1856.
The Paris @. Brown is advertised
to leave Cincinnati to-day for New
Orleans and will be followed to-
morrow by the Cherokee.
The Resolute will tow the new
steamer Edward ]. Gay from Gin
cinnati to Cairo, leaving there to-
day.
Mfr. W. B. McEnulty, the efficient
and popular second clerk of the
Hattie Rowland, goes out second
clerk on the Maumelle.
The popular lower coast packet
A.. j. White, Captain N. S. Green,
will arrive this evening from Ar
kansas City, and leaves tomorrow
evening with a return trip.
The Coahoma, Captain Stacker
Lee, is the regular Wednesday mail
packet for Friar's Point and the
bends. She will arrive in port to-
night,
The Vint Shinkle, bound for
Memphis, passed Evansville last
night at s o'clock. She will arrive
here tomorrow evening and leave
Friday with a return trip for Gin
cinnati.
The Hattie Rowland and Belle
of Texas will leave tomorrow for
Mound City, ILL.,, at which point
they will be locked and put in first
class running order for the fall sea-
sons business.
Engineers VIM. Short and Mr..
Hicks leave to-day for Pittsburg to
bring out the new Arkansas river
low water packet Marlin Speed,
which leaves there the latter part
Of this week for Arkansas river
direct.
The Anchor Line packet the
Commonwealth, Captain 7. w,
Shields, will leave the Lee wharf
boat this evening at 5 O'Clock fol
New Orleans, making all the prin.
oipal way landings. Owen Gates
does the honors of the Office.
, John Langford, pilot of the Sill
verthorn, took careful soundings o.
the bars between Rockport an(
+ Evansville, and has furnished tht
following report: Puppy creek, |
! feet; French Island, feet; Scufie
; town, Z feet; Three mile, 6 feet.
/; The tug Ida, which left here sew
: eral days since for New 0rlean
/ with the Little Condor's tow of tvs
stsye boats and four coal barges
sunk a barge of coal on the ba
lust belw Grand Gulf. The barg
contained $500 bushels Of coal.
Among the passengers on tn
. Golden Rule are Mr.. John Wayne
: son Of Captain G. G. Wayne, VIII
goes to Cincinnati to spend tn
balance OF the summer, and Capt
P. G. Montgomery and family, ais
destined for the West.
The Golden Rule, en- route froI
Orleans to Cincinnati with nea
400 tons Of freight and so cabi
passengers. came in this morning {
:. 80 O'clock. She discharged bel
$50 sacks salt and a few packag,
sundries and cleaned out and lie
during the afternoon.
The City of Yicksburg passt
es down on time for Vicksburg with
N excellent trip. She discharged he
es at the Lee wharf boat $50 barre
70 -four and meal, 500 pieces baggin
s, 2Sj sacks corn and bran, 153 pac.
ages Of miscellaneous freight,
mules and 5 head sheep, and add'
s. several lots Of freight for points |
.et low.
n Mr.. Thomas Howard, brother
81 Captain John Howard, has be
is commissioned first clerk of t
in new steamer John w. Cannon. n
m Howard is an old clerk in the N
e. Orleans, Vicksburg and ben
at trade, having been first clerk on t
he Quitman, first r. L. Lee, PargoJ
ng Katie, and various Red river boa
he He is No. l clerk and a courtec
and affsble gentleman.
om Captain w. g. Gray was ov
come by the heat on the II
Mountain, at Carondelet, on Sat
day last, and came near losing
the life. He was discovered by Ca
J. II. Dunlap, sitting on the boi
st. deck, in an unconscious conditi
ns. who applied ice water to his h,
ere and face, when he soon revived.
the The good little steamer Nj
muunA &c. A. II L.