Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-06-26

The Hattie Nowland returne,
last evening to Arkansas river viii
a fair trip Of freight and people.
i, The Mark Twain left on time 70
| st. Francis river with a good tril
OF freight.
The Katie Hooper left Littl,
Rock yesterday for Memphis anC
Will arrive here Friday morning.
The Helping Hand Club gives an
excursion tomorrow night on the
/, j. w. Gait.
The Grand Tower left St Louis
last evening for Vioksburg, and
leaves here Friday morning at 10
O'Clock.
The Greyhound, with a tow O.
+, coal for Messrs. Brown & Jones.
was looked for this morning from
! the lower Ohio.
Harry Robinson, mate of the
Andy Baum, is quite sick at Gin
cinnati, suffering from an attack Of
malarial fever.
The Emma @. Elliott took into
st. Louis on Monday last S12s
sacks new wheat, which she picked
up between Grand Tower and that
point.
The Commonwealth passed down
yesterday afternoon for New Or
leans. She discharged at the ele-
yator so bbls -four, l76 sacks corn,
80 sacks bran, 10 sacks ship stuff,
and filed out with oil cake and
meal.
Steam was raised on the new
steamer j. M. White yesterday. In
consequence of the declining Of the
Ohio, she leaves Louisville tO-mor-
row morning for Paducah, where
she will be finished and ready to
start to New Orleans on the first Of
August.
The West Wind, Captain j. G..
Andrews, is the regular packet
leaving this evening for 0sceola
and all way points on the upper
coast, carrying the mail and doing
all way business. B. O. Michel
and Cyrus Fay are her clever and
accommodating clerks.
Captain Lee Cummins and the
owners of the Alf Stevens have
gained the suit in the United States
Court at Louisville against the tow
boat Dick Fulton No. 8, for COLI
sion with the ALI Stevens at the
mouth Of the canal several months
since, and have been given a iudg-
ment for $30,343.
The City Of Vicksburg left on
time for st. Louis with a good list
of people. Among her passengers
were Mrs. Locke and Mrs. Address,
the worthy mother and sister of.
Charley and Joe Locke, who are
bound for Deeater, Illinois, Mrs.
Address home. She added to her
freight list here liz bales of East
ern-bound cotton and a lot Of fruit.
The John A. Scudder, Captain
Jack Carter, is the Anchor Line
packet leaving the elevator this
evening at 5 o'clock for Cairo and
st. Louis, attending to business in
the bends and connecting with the
principal railroads for all points
East and West. Captain Garrett
Huls, an affable gentleman, con-
trolls the office.
The james D. Parker cleared last
evening for Cincinnati with COS
bars railroad iron, 239 car wheels,
81 tons scrap iron, $40 bales cotton,
$50 sacks seed meal, ~ bales rags
and sundries, and 45 cabin passen-
gers and 20 deckers. Among her
passengers we're Messrs. John Robb
and Frank Gray, of the Memphis
Theater, on an Eastern tour Of in
spection and sightseeing.
The Ruth, Captain Milt Harry,
will resume her regular trips in the
White river trade Saturday, July
18th, when the Hard Cash viii Law
up to be reprinted and put in com.
plete order for the fall season. Cap
tain Harry is well pleased with the
hull of his new boat, and says the
work on her is progressing we'll
and that she will be completed in
ample time and be ready for bust.
ness by the middle Of August.
The elegant sidewheel steamer
City Of Augusta, which is one of
the best adapted excursion boats on
the river, goes to Commerce next
Wednesday evening, and will leave
there the morning Of the 4th at 4
o'clock on a grand excursion trip
for Memphis, landing for passengers
at all way points, arriving here at
IL am. and returning at night af-
ter the fireworks display is over,
thus giving the people along the
lower coast an opportunity to wit
ness the grandest display Of fire.
works that has ever been beheld in
this country. 1t will be a sight
worth seeing.
The famous passenger steamer
j. W. Gaf, Captain Bob Wise, will
arrive tonight from the Ohio river
with a big trip of freight and leaves
Friday evening for Cincinnati,
ticketing passengers through to
New York and other Eastern points
cbeaner than bv any other route