Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-14


attention to all way business and
making direct connection at Ar
kansas City with the Pine Bluff
railroad, and at Vicksburg with the
New Orleans and YazOo river pack
cts, giving through bills OF lading
and ticketing passengers through.
Captain Lee Cummins, an efficient
boatman, is her chief clerk, and
has associated with him in the Office
Marlin Jones and Will Darragh.
The City of Vicksburg, Captain
Bob Riley, arrived last evening
from Vicksburg with a fair list of
people but a moderate freight list.
She discharged here IL bales cotton
and 259 sacks seed and adds a good
list Of Eastern-bound cotton, and
leaves the elevator at sharp 5 this
evening for Cairo and st. Louis, at
tending promptly to all way bust
ness and making close connection
with the principal railroads for all
points East and West. Chris SHARP,
an affable gentleman, presides at
the desk.
The reliable steamer Hard Cash,
Captain Ed Postal, came in this
morning at 8 O'Clock from White
river with 14S bales of cotton, Csc
sacks seed, 2 horses, l wagon, and
LOG packages of sundries, and re-
shipped at the mouth Is bales of
cotton. She returns to White river
tomorrow evening, going through
to Jacksonport, giving special at
tention to all way business and con-
Meeting with light draught steamers
for upper White and Black rivers.
All business entrusted to her will
meet with proper care and atten-
ton. Charley Postal, a thorough.
going business man, clever aud po-
lite, is her chief clerk, seconded by
Count Chsmberlin.
The elegant sidewheel steamer
Ben Franklin, Capt, II. H, Drown,
in last evening from the Ohio
with 545 SKIS corn, 445 bbls
meal, As bbls flour, 200 pkgs furni-
365 pcs sewer pipe, 20 stoves,
70 bxs soap, 500 pkgs sundries and
a fair list of people, including sew
eral ladies making the round trip.
Among them is Mrs. VIM. Colbert,
the estimable and accomplished
wife of the second clerk of that
name. The Franklin will leave to-
morrow evening for Cairo, Louis
vile and Cincinnati, ticketing pas
sengers though to New York for
$27, and to all other Eastern points
at correspondingly low rates, trans
ferring passengers and baggage free
of charge. Captain Sterling Nc
Intyre, a genial and clever gentle
man, controls the Office, assisted by
viii Colbert.
The cackling Of geese saved
Rome, and the barking Of a dog
saved a steamboat, which the same
Buz thusly explains
The Grand Chain in the Ohio
river, near Cairo, is a dangerous
place for steamboats, when they are
drawing all the water in the chan
mel. The hidden rocks which OBJ.
struct navigation at this point have
made watery graves for several
fine steamers. Among these are
numbered the Suwanee, Northern.
er and Probasco. One dark night
the James johnson running under
a slow bell and feeling her way, so
to speak, was cautiously coming up
over the Chain, with Captain Jesse
johnson on the roof, and his favor
lite pilot, George S. Kinney, at the
wheel; the old man looking out for
breaks, and George performing a
great deal Of circular work. Sud-
denly, far out on the shere, the
barking of a dog was heard.
"There," sang out the watchful
pilot, Frightening up and giving
his wheel two or three spokes, Pm
all right now. For five years, when
running this Chain at night, l have
steered by the barking Of hat dog,
and during all that time he has
never once gone back on me-"
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