Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-06-22

sundries. She returns this evening
at 5 o'clock to Mariana and al
points on st. Francis river, carry
ing the mail and doing all way
business. A. L. Banning, a genial
and clever gentleman, controls the
Office, and is assisted by Lee Cum
Minis, il.
] Captain A. j. Schenck has closed
a contract with Elias Ebler to build
a full length cabin on the steamer
U. p. Schenck. The work will be
commenced Immediately and com
pleted in sixty days. Captain j.
Lawrence Garter will command the
new steamer and Mr.. Richard
Burns will be her clerk. The new
cabin will be a very handsome one
and equal in every respect 10 any
boat Of her class in the New Or
leans trade.
The John B. Maude, Captain
William Blake, is the Anchor Line
packet leaving the elevator Sunday
morning at 10 o'clock for Vicks-
burg. She carries the mail, attends
to all bend business and connects
at Arkansas City with the Pine
Bluff railroad and at Vicksburg
with the New Orleans and Yazoo
river packets, giving through bills
of lading for freight and ticketing
passengers through. Mr.. Gabel
does the honors Of the office.
The splendid passenger steamer
Katie Hooper, Captain Ed Now
land in command, leaves this even
ing at sharp six o'clock for Little
Rock and all points on Arkansas
river, carrying the mail, attending
promptly to all way business and
making direct connection with the
train for the Hot Springs and a
light'draught steamer for Fort
and points on upper Arkan-
sas river. She is a safe carrier and
has frst-class passenger accommo.
dations. Captain james Thomp-
son, an affable gentleman, is her
chief clerk, and is seconded by
Billy Nucles.
The Little Rock Gazette of yes
contains the following: "rhe
river has fallen over one foot during
past twenty-four hours. All
of an overflow this month
is past now. The ferryboat T. N.
sunk at the lower end of the
wharf to-day. When the water
falls she will be left dry on the
landing, where she can be wrecked
without much trouble. 1t will be
remembered that the Miller was
employed as ferryboat before the
arrival Of the new ferryboat Ed Fus.
ter between this city and Argenta.
The j. G.. Fletcher, Captain II.
Hennegin, arrived on time last eve
ming from Fort Smith with a good
trip. In her freight list we notice
18 bales of cotton for New Orleans.
and 10 bales of cotton for Mem
The elegant passenger steamer
and reliable freight carrier A. ].
White came in on time from the
lower coast with 81 bales cotton, II
sacks seed and 80 sacks corn, 2 head
cattle and % packages sundries.
She had also a good trip of people
and did a heavy way business. She
returns this evening at 6 o'clock
to Arkansas City, connecting with
the Pine Bluff railroad and giving
strict attention to plantation and
way business. Captain N. S. Green,
an experienced and popular boat
man, commands, and by his good
management, aided by his worthy
chief clerk, John Gwathmey, has
succeeded in building up a lucra-
tive trade in the bends, thus bene-
the commerce of this port,
which had been neglected for some
The White has established
herself, and her business is steadily
Mr.. William Thomas,
an efficient clerk and a favorite in
the bends, seconds Mr.. Gwathmey.
Mr.. Gabe Booker is her popular
bill clerk.