Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-08-06

running the steamer Pargoud be-
tween New Orleans and Greenville,
Notwithstanding quarantine.
Memphis is being put in better
sanitary condition than it has been
for years and is in a comparatively
healthy state.
Mr.. Henry Chassaing, formerly
chief clerk of the James Howard,
is now cashier Of the Lindell Hotel,
St Louis. gre
The Cons Millar will arrive
Thursday morning from Cincinnati
and leave on Friday with a return
trip.
The John A. Scudder, due up to-
morrow for st. Louis, has 255 hhds
and 80 bxs sugar, 1000 SKIS salt and
40 cabin passengers.
The Paris G. Brown, due up for
the Ohio, has 80 cabin passengers,
1000 bbls resin, so bales moss, and
sundries.
The D~yersburg and Hale's Point
packet, Dyersburg, came in this
morning from Dyresburg with a
cargo of 1000 bushels of ear corn.
The James d. Parker, for Mem.
phis, and Golden Grown, for New
Orleans, are announced to leave
Cincinnati tomorrow evening.
The John A. Scudder, for st.
Louis, and Paris @. Brown, for Gin
cinnati, passed Vicksburg yesterday
morning at Z am., and are due
here tomorrow.
The Gold Dust passed up y~ester-
day afternoon for st. Louis. The
tug tsok her mail out to her. All
on board were we'll and her officers
reported no sickness on the trip.
Hereafter no boats from Vicks-
burg or New Orleans will be per-
mitted to land at Hopefeld. The
governor of Arkansas has ordered
a quarantine at that point.
Captain r. W. L~ightburne will
give the Katie Hooper a good send
of to-day in the way of freights, She
will also have a big passenger list
on leaving here.
The City of Vicksburg passed up
last night at II o'clock for st.
Louis. The tug took her mail out
to her, and she proceeded on up
the river.
The Anchor Line packet Belle
Memphis will pass down this after
noon for Vicksburg, She dis
charges here at the Lee wharfboat
near 1000 pkgS Of freight.
Captain james Romans is in
command of the John A. Scudder
this trip, with Glenn Nolte in charge
Of the Office, Captain Jack Carter
aud Captain Garrett Huls having
stopped off.
The slight swell coming down
the upper will not improve naviga-
ton much in the lower Ohio river.
The packets report 3 feet large at
Caseyville bar, which is the shoal-
est place between Cairo and Louis
vile.
The popular lower coast packet
A. j. White, Captain N. S. Green,
will arrive this evening from Ark
ansas City and leave tomorrow
evening with a return trip, giving
special attention oall way business.
John Gwathmey is her efficient and
worthy purser.
A lady passenger died on the
Golden Grown, of yellow fever,
Sunday evening, at Caledonia, ILL.,,
sixteen miles above Cairo, and was
buried there. The Golden Grown
left one case of yellow fever here,
which was taken down to quaran-
tine.
The State engineers of Louisiana
have finished their leyee survey and
staked out about forty levees. The
survey is reported to have been very
thorough, and extended from the
Arkansas line to about thirty miles
below New Orleans.
The hull of the Capitol City,
which is being converted, at St.
Louis, into a wharfboat, to be used
at this port by the Anchor Line,
will be completed in a few weeks
and brought here by the first of the
month and be ready for business.
The neat little steamer Mark
Twain, Captain J.. D.. Randall in
command, leaves this evening fol
st. Francis river, carrying the mail
doing all way business and going
through to Wittsburg. She hal
comfortable passenger accommoda
tons and is a safe and reliable car.
rier. A. L. Banning, a %courteou.
young gentleman, controls the Of
fee.
The Marlin Speed arrived at Lit
tie Rock to-day and leaves ther.
this afternoon with a return trip 70
Memphis. She was given a grant
ovation at Pine Bluff last evening
and at Little Rock this morning
Sbs was pronounced by the Littl
Rock folks to be the most oomplet
and best low water boat ever bull
for the Arkansas river trade.
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