Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-03-15

to Little Rock. Jimmy Thompson
and Billy Nucles do the honors of
the Office.
The st. Genevieve, Captain Sam
McPheeters, is the Anchor Line
packet, leaving the elevator to-mor-
row evening at sharp five for Cairo
and st. Louis, doing all bends bust
ness and making direct connection
with the principal railroads for all
points East and West
Steamboatmen and parties living
adjacent to the river are respect
fully solicited to keep a lookout
for the body of Johnnie Kirnan,
who was lost on the City of Chester.
A reward of $500 will be given for
the recovery of the same.
The splendid steamer Golden
Rule, Captain 0. P. Shinkle, will
leave Glenn's wharfboat tomorrow
morning at 10 o'clock for Cairo,
Louisville and Cincinnati, going
through with dispatch. Captain
Glenn will receive freight for her.
Mr.. Shaw, an affable gentleman,
presides at the desk.
The good steamer Ruth, Captain
Milt Harry in command, will arrive
this evening from White river with
500 bales Of cotton, a lot of bulk
meat and other freight. She will
return to White river tomorrow
evening, going through to jackson
port, carrying the mail and making
direct connection with the steamers
Alberta and Milt Harry for upper
White and Black rivers. Mr.. Ed
Crowell is her purser.
Captain Augustus R. Jacobs and
pilot John W. Plat, who run of
with tho steamer Washington at
st. Louis a month ago while the
boat was under a cloud, laid in Jail
up to the time of the hearing of
their case, being unable to obtain
bail. They were before court Mon
day, and entered a plea Of guilty,
throwing themselves on the Glenn
ency of the court. Sentence has
not yet been passed.
The superb passenger steamer
Thomas Sherlock, Captain Lew
Hates in command, will leave the
Lee whsrfboat tomorrow evening
at 4 o'clock, making all principal
way landing. Captain John Jones
is her clever purSer. Captain j. r.
Washington will make engagements
and receive freight for her at the
Lee wharfboat.
Captain ]. R. Wherry, of the
snagboat Macomb, has his new in.
vention, an electric annunciator,
in complete working order, and
put up for practical use on his boat
1t is connected with every bulkhead
in the beat, to give the alarm if q
leak is sprung, and designate tc
the engineer the bulkhead in which
the leak is. 1t is a valuable inven.
ton for iron boats. The captain
has also invented, and tried salts.
f%actorily, an apparatus for wooding
a high bank. A frame holding q
half cord is run out on a wire cable
When loaded, gravitation takes il
down the cable to the deck of the
boat, where it unloads automati.
cally.
The celebrated and fayorite Ohio
river passenger steamer j. W. Calf
in command Of the ever popular
boatman, Captain Bob Wise, came
in this morning from the Ohio
with a full cargo Of freight. Hel
salute from her cannon announcing
her arrival attracted large number
of pedestrians to the bluffs. The
principal items Of her cargo are
1102 bbls potatoes, 81 pkgs furni.
ture, $50 bbls -four, IS bbls whisky
$40 bbls meal, 326 sacks corn, SO
sacks bran, 475 boxes starch, 1OC
bbls pork, 514 plowS, 925 bales hay,
1861 pkgs Sundries, and registered
on the down trip S8 cabin and 4C
deck passengers. She leaves to.
morrow evening with a return trip
for Cairo, Louisville and Cincin-
natl, ticketing passengers through
to New York city for twenty dollars
meals and state.rooms included ,and
passengers and baggage transferred