Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-06-13

LnC uldIl hOuotOu XVI III tllC
freight she wanted at Evansville to
come out of the Ohio on the stage
of water.
The A. @. Donnally for Cincin-
natl and Commonwealth for st.
Louis left New Orleans last even
ing. -
The John A. Scudder left St
Louis last evening for New Or
leans and will arrive here Saturday
afternoon.
Captain Campbell, the wreoker at
st. Louis, purchased the wreck OF
the burned steamer Exchange for
$1,000.
The Batesville is undergoing re-
pairs and will be thoroughly over
hauled and put in complete run
ming order.
The Katie Hooper left Pine Bluff
on time yesterday for Memphis
with a fair trip and will arrive to-
morrow.
Captain Milt. Harry's new White
river steamer will be let into the
water to-day at Belle Vernon, near
Pittsburg.
The Schenck will lay up on her
arrival at Cincinnati to have a new
cabin put on her, and to be other
wise improved.
Lewis Ware, a colored man about
is years old, was lost overheard
from the Belle of Shreveport near
Vioksburg yesterday a week ago.
The George w. Cheek left yester-
day for Mound City, Illinois, where
she will be docked and thoroughly
repaired for the fall season.
Freight rates from Cincinnati to
New Orleans are firm at 20 cents
per hundred; from st. Louis to
New Orleans the rate is 10 to II
cents per hundred.
The Katie Hooper will arrive to-
morrow from Arkansas river and
leave on Saturday with a return
trip to Little Rock. She is the
regular mail packet.
The Robert Mitchell passed up
yesterday afternoon for Cincinnati
with 800 tons of freight and was
full of people. She put off here
several packages of freight, and
added some potatoes and other
stuff.
The rapid decline in the lower
Ohio is causing the large class of
boats much trouble. The big fell
lows will soon have to haul off and
give way to the sternwheelers on ac-
count of low water.
Why is the Ohio river like a
drunken man? Because it takes
too much Monongahela at Pitts
burg, runs past Wheeling, gets a
Licking opposite Cincinnati and
at Louisville.
Captain Lew Hates, of the Tom
pulled the John w. Can
non off at Three Mile island, where
she was aground, and didn't charge
a cent. That's the kind of a man
Lew Hates is.
The Sam Roberts barge Nellie
struck some hidden obstruction at
ScufletoWn, and was run ashore
and sunk at Three Mile. The
contained $4,000 bushels of
isalt and 1850 barrels of salt.
About $50 barrels were saved.
A letter from st. Charles SAYS 4:
"Joseph W. Bowman, aged twenty
one years, Waterman on the steam
Fannie Lewis, while lighting a
torch, accidentally dropped a re.
volver from his pocket, which went
of, the ball penetrating the heart,
him instantly.
The hull for the new Arkansas
river packet building at Pittsburg
for the Memphis, Pine Bluff and
Arkansas river packet company,
was launched yesterday. The new
boat will be completed in thirty
days and be ready to leave Pitts
burg by the middle of next month.
The City of Helena, Captain
Mckee, is the Anchor Line packet
leaN ing the elevator tomorrow
evening for Cairo and st. Louis,
carrying the mail, doing all way
business and connecting with the
railroads for points East
and West. Geo. Walton presides
at the desk.
The Coahoma returned to Friar's
with a good freight trip and
a big list of people. Prominent
among her passengers are Misses
and Nettie Thurman, two
interesting young ladies of Austin,
Miss. They are the guests Of
Captain Ed Thomas, who enter
tanned them with his usual dignity
and courtesy.
Major Bart Harrington. of fine
firm of Harrington & Crowley,
Point, died at Bailey Springs
night, where he had gone
a few days ago in hopes of recover
ing his health. He was well and
known here and along
the river, where he had numerous
friends who will learn Of his death
with regret. Major Harrington
leaves a loving wife and two tender