Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-12-28
TIE Alice Brown passed up this

morning.
Business in river circles viii i'm
prove after the first Of January.
Cotton receipts by river for the week
show a big falling of from last week.
The cold weather Is causing the
river to drop rapidly.
The Hopefeld sand bar shows up
again and is fringed with ice.
The Ruth cleared last evening for
the upper coast with a moderate trip.
She goes as high as Point Pleasant.
The Coahoma returned to Friar's
Point with a fair trip Of freight and
people.
The j. B. N. Kehlor, several weeks
out from st. Louis, arrived at New
Orleans yesterday.
Ice at New Orleans yesterday.
The river at Little Rock is partially
frozen over.
The Iron Mountain and John Dip
pold and barges, from New Orleans,
arrived at Cairo yesterday.
The Ohio river at Cairo is full Of
heavy running ice with navigation
above that point still suspended.
NThe Henry Frank leaves New Or
leans to-day for Memphis.
The Anchor Line packet Belle of
Shreveport leaves Cairo to-day for
New Orleans.
The towboats Charlie Mcdonald
and Grafton, lashed together, passed
up this morning with empties.
The Thomas Sherlock is between
Louisville and Evansville with a big
trip, working her way South.
Wabash river is closed with ice.
The DeSmet lies high and dry ten
miles below Chester.
Twenty-eight steamers and tugs and
forty-eight barges are laid up at st.
Louis.
Captain Thomas Darragh and his
bride passed through the city yester-
day en- route to New Orleans on their
bridal tour.
Mr.. NJ. Singleton, the we'll known
steamboat carpenter and contractor
was married Christmas evening tC
Mrs. Matte Farrell, of Cofeville
Miss, an interesting and worthy lady
| Moses B. Gray, a we'll known Ohio
and Mississippi river pilot. died at st
, Louis on Wednesday last. The de.
ceased was a brother of Captain EC
#, Gray, of the steamer St. Genevieve.
The Anchor Line packet City o
, Vicksburg, Captain Bob Riley. leaves
|, the Anchor Line wharf boat this even
ing at 5o'clock for V~icksburg and tn,
; bends, attending to all way business
The Red Wing, Captain John B
Davis, passed Devslls Bluff on time
4, and will arrive Monday from Whit
river and leave Tuesday next with
= return trip.
The Batesville, Captain D. B
Abrahams, came in this morning fror
n the St. Francis river, with 206 bales @
cotton and Is pkgS sundries. She vii
leave on Tuesday next with a retur
g trip.
!. The excellent light-draught steame
!: Mark Twain, Captain j. A. Maumu.
d is the mail packet leaving this ever
ing for st. Francis river and all point
l. through to Wittsburg. William Co
r veil, a clever gentleman, is her purse
I. The boats leaving on Monday are
4 follows: 0uachita Belle for Arkansi
City, Illinois for Riverton, Coahon
for Friar's Point, and 0sceola Bel
10 10 and Ruth for the upper coast.
r The blockading of the Ohio riv
by ice has enhanced the price Of gra.
and produce, and the Madrid Ber
e folks have now an opportunity to res
$ a rich harvest off of their corn Gro
b as prices are steadily advancing.
K, Captain John B. Davis, of the RI
Wing, telegraphed his agent, CAPITA
a j. I. Washington, that he would a
rive Monday morning at Memph
bl with a big trip of cotton and 9th
"a freights, and will leave on Tuesdi
with a return trip.
,,r The Golden City came in this NOR
or ing from the Ohio river we'll lad,
with Ohio river freights. She fl
III out here with cotton and will getawi
this afternoon. Billy Mcintyre, o.
of the cleyerest gentlemen on Il
g. river, is her purser.
p. The regular independent Viii
ID river packet Hard Cash, Captain
Postal, the veteran who with his pac
e. ct carried supplies to the White riv
folks in summer as well as winter,
as. hard times as well as flush, will arri
Monday from White river with a go
ar trip of cotton, and leave Tuesd
evening on time, going through
le Jacksonport.
The splendid freight and passeng
Mo steamer Hattie Rowland, CAPITA
James II. Ress in command, leay
AZ, this evening for Arkansas river, carl
All ing the mail and attending to all "
ne and plantation business, and goi
through to Little Rock, W. B. N
Enulty, a gentleman with whom it