Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-09

Captain ]. j. Browns new Bayou
Sara and New Orleans packet, build.
ing at Cincinnati, will be christened
the Edward j. Gay.
Robert Stoddard, mate of the
Josh Cook, fell overheard at Bel
laire, on the upper Ohio, Tuesday
night last and was drowned.
The Golden Grown, en- route
from Cincinnati to New Orleans,
gets over 5000 sacks corn in the
lower Ohio. She is due down to-
morrow. She is one of the best
passenges0 packets on the river.
The Kountz Lines Mollie Moore
is due up and the E. 0. Stanard is
due down.
Parties are in st. Louis negotiat-
ing for the purchase of the steamer
Lizzie Bayless for a Southern tribu-
tary trade.
The Anchor Line packet John
B. Maude leaves st. Louis to-day
for V~icksburg.
Railroads are making a desperate
effort to get control of the entire
business of the upper Mississippi.
The fight never was as desperate as
at the present time.
The John A.. Wood, Joe VIII
liams and Sharp Mcdonald, with
tows of coal for New Orleans,
passed Evansville yesterday.
New Orleans is receiving corn
fed cattle direct from Texas by the
way Of Red river.
The A. G. Donnally, for New
Orleans, passed Louisville ycSter-
day.
The Golden City, from New
Orleans, arrived at Cincinnati this
morning.
The Gilmore and barges passed
Vicksburg yesterday morning for
st. Louis.
The Colorado arrived at Vicks-
burg yesterday and leaves there at
noon to-day for st. Louis.
The Katie Hooper, Capt. Eugene
Smith, will arrive tomorrow from
Arkansas river and return to Little
Rock Saturday evening.
The st. Louis and New Orleans
Anchor Line packet Commonwealth
leaves st. Louis Saturday for New
Orleans.
A German deck passenger, for
merly a gardener in the employ Of
Captain Halliday, at Cairo, fell
overheard from the Jim Fisk, al
Paducah, Tuesday night and wa.
drowned.
The City Of Helena left st. Louis
for Vicksburg loaded flat in the
water, and full Of stock and people
Notwithstanding the dull season,
the Anchor Line packets continue
to do a good business both ways.
The estimable wife Of Mr.. Char.
ley Eberhart, an attache of Messrs
Bryan & Co.'s coal yard, presented
him yesterday afternoon with ;
bouncing boy-baby, weighing four.
teen pounds and five ounces, fol
which Charley feels very happy.
The Grand Tower, Captain Len
nox, is the Anchor Line packe.
leaving the elevator tomorrow
evening at 5 o'clock for Cairo ant
st. Louis, attending to all benz
business, and connecting with tn
principal railroads for all point
East and West. Tom White is he
purser.
The Alberta took the Ruth's triT
to Jacksonportan n meets her ther,
on her return in the morning. Tn.
Ruth will arrive here Saturdaymorn
ing by daylight and leave on he
usual time with a return trip 70
White river.
The Cons Millar cleared last eve
ming for Cincinnati with $50 bale
Of cotton, a lot Of oil meal, 100 ton
of railroad iron, old rags and othe
stuff and 40 cabin passengers, in
Guiding two bridal parties.
Captain George W. Neare, agen
Of the Cincinnati Board of Under
writer's, arrived in the city last eve
ming to look after insurance inter
ests Of the Warmers barges. He j
the guest of Major Harpham.
The G, P. Chouteau passed u.
yesterday afternoon for st. Loui
as e