Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-07-06


The Andes reshipped on the
CAT, at Cincinnati, 400 kegs nails
and 400 stoves, consigned to mer-
chants at this port.
The fine steamer Hard Cash, Capt.
tain Ed Postal, will pass iDevalPsl
Bluff en- time tomorrow morning
for Memphis with a fair trip, and
will arrive Monday night.
Rates of freight from st. Louis
to New Orleans rule at 10 cents per
hundred, and % cents per Dbl on
flour. To this port the rates are
12t cents per hundred, and 25cents
per Dbl on flour and meal.
The Cons Millar cleared for the
Ohio river with ESQ sacks oil meal,
500 bales cotton, 10 bales rags, 81
cattle and so tons of miscellaneous
freight. She had also 80 cabin pas
sengers and 10 deckers.
The new light-draught packet
building at Pittsburg for the Mem
phis and Pine Bluff Arkansas River
Packet Company will be completed
by the 18th inst, and will arrive
here by the latter part OF the month
ready for business.
The City of Helena passed down
last evening for Vicksburg. She
discharged at the Lee wharfboat
1850 barrels -four and meal, 400
sacks oats, 1877 sacks corn, 81 bales
hay and sundries and added 10 tons
for points below.
The Anchor Line packet John
A. Scudder, Captain A. j. Carter,
leaves the Lee wharfboat this even
ing at five O'Clock for New Orleans,
making all principal way landings.
Captain Garrett HulS, a genial and
clever gentleman, does the honorS
of the Office.
The Colorado, Captain McPhee-
tiers, is the Anchor Line packet
leaving the Lee wharfboat to-mor-
row evening at 5 o'clock for Cairo
and st. Louis, doing all bend bust
ness and making direct connection
with the principal railroads for all
noints East and West.
The James D. Parker, Captain
lC. B. Russell, will arrive Monday
morning from Cincinnati with a
fall cargo of Western products,
and leave on Tuesday with a return
trip, ticketing passengers through
to New York city and other East
ern points cheaper than by any
other route. Captain Wash Thomp-
son is her gentlemanly clerk.
Gronauer and Ralston, United
States local inspectors for this dis
trict, report the following business
transacted during the quarter end
ing June 80, 1879: Licensed, AZ
masters, 5 mates, So engineers, 1C
pilots. Total fees received fol
licenses, $500. Steam vessels in.
spected, 10; aggregate tonnage.
2702.65. Total fees received for In
spection, $3.50.
The Anchor Line packet John
B. Maude, Captain William Blake
leaves the Lee wharfboat tomorrow
morning at 10 o'clock for Vicks
burg and the bends, carrying thu
. mail, attending to all way business
and making direct connection a
Arkansas City with the Pine Bluff
: railroad and at Vicksburg with TIN
New Orleans and Yazoo rive.
( packets, giving through bills Of la
ding, and ticketing passenger
through. William Gobel, a cleve.
: gentleman, presides at the desk.
The safe of the elevator, which
was recovered from the river, wa
5 opened yesterday and the books an,
r papers, though damp, were foun,
\ to be in good shape, with nothin.
1 o~bliterated. The books were il
perfect order, not a column @
figures being out Of balance, an
o the business Of the elevator entere
r up to the date Of the fire, whicI
speaks well for the management
and good style in which Superin
tendent AID Storm and his clerk
" kept their books and conducted tn
affairs Of the office.
.e Bill Hays got off the following 0
Commodore ROllingpin, the we
g ender of the st. Louis Times: Gro
lindore Comminpin, of st. LouiI
lie has been off on a recreatiye jaun
and is able to 'eat his oats
s. usual. He amt much on 'dl
ID food, but give him chopped grut
G. plenty OF 1T, and you tickle h
t. stomach until his face looks like
ID was in an eclipse, and somebot
had secreted q hornets nest in fu
operation in the seat Of his overall
ID He's a good, pious old ma
though"
n The splendid passenger steam
Katie Hooper, Capt. Eugene Smii
in command, leaves this evening +
ne Little Rock and all points on Il
lis Arkansas river, carrying the ma
giving strict attention to all W
business, and making direct co
III nection at the Rock with a Zig
draft steamer for Fort Smith az
"a, upper Arkansas river, and the ira