Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-07-17

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winter.
The Golden Grown added near
500 tons Of New Orleans freight at
Evansville.
The Commonwealth passed down
last evening for New Orleans loaded
Fat in the water. tAttA
The Paris @. Brown leaves Gin
cinnati this evening for New Or.
leans. }ti'it
The Vint Shinkle gives an Oxcur-
sion tomorrow night for the benefit
Of Mrs. Rose P. Thompson.
The towboat John Hanna will be
sold by the United States marshal
at Pittsburg on Saturday next.
The new Mary Houston for Gin
cinnati and Belle Of Shreveport for
st. Louis left New Orleans y%ester-
day. fgfrf
The Golden Grown for New Or
leans passed Evansville last even
ing and is due here tomorrow
morning.
The new steamer j, M. White
came out Of the Ohio to Cairo yes
terday, at which point she will
receive her finishing touches.
The City of Helena left ST. Louis
last evening for Vicksburg, and
leaves here Friday morning at 10
o'clock. u
The White river mail packet
Ruth, VIII arrive here Friday from
White river and leave on Saturday,
her regular day, with a return trip.
The Grand Lake and barges, en-
route from st. Louis to New Or
leans, has $4,000 bushels of grain
in bulk as one item of her cargo.
The Grand Tower left Vicksburg
yesterday afternoon for st. Louis
and will arrive here tomorrow
evening and leave on Friday even
ing.
The John L. Rhodes grounded
at the mouth Of the Ohio at noon
yesterday, and was being lighted
off in the afternoon by the towboat
Bernard. I
The Andy Baum cleared last
evening for Cincinnati with 300.
bales cotton, 700 SKIS meal, and sun
dries, and 40 cabin passengers and
20 deckers. 81
The hot weather is having quite
a damaging effect on business at
st. Louis, and in consequence the
southern shipments from that port
are falling Oft.
The officers of the A. j. White
report the crops in the bends as
doing finely, and the planters are
all cheerful and Sanguine of large
yields of the growing crop. NJ
The Ohio river is getting down
to its summer stage. The pilots Of
the packets report from 8 to 81 feet
in the channel from Louisville to
Cairo.
The West Wind, in command Of
Captain j. G. Andrews, is the mail
packet this evening for 0sceola and
the upper coast, leaving the foot Of
Monroe street at 5 o'clock. Cyrus
Fay is her purser.
The flags of the steamers in port
at st. Louis on Monday were dis
played at half-mast in respect to
the memory Of Mr.. John Borgess.,
who died very suddenly on Sunday
of sunstroke.
Captain j. J. Brown purchased,
on Monday, at Cincinnati, the
steamer Ashland from Captain
Kyle. She will be used as q tender
for Captain Browns new boat, the
Edward j. Gay.
James Wilson, chief clerk Of the
Cons. Millar, has gone to SterretSs
Landing, on the lower Ohio, to at
tend his wife, having received word
Of her serious illness, from which it
is not expected she will recover.
The A. @. Donnally has com
pleted the season in the New Or
leans trade, having made ten very
successful trips without a mishap.
She goes to Fulton to be laid up for
the summer.
The Hattie Nowland and Belle
Texas, dashed together, left to-day
for Mound City, Illinois, at which
point both steamers will be locked
and thoroughly repaired for the
fall business.
Captain David II. Silver is at
Cincinnati negotiating with the
boat-yards for the enlargement OF
the Susie Silver. She is to be
heightened 80 feet and deepened 2
feet, and, when completed, will be
one Of the finest boats in the New
Orleans Anchor Line.
Among the passengers on the
Belle Memphis last evening were
Mrs. l.. N. Dean and daughter
Miss Hattie, and Miss Lizzie Doug.
lass, daughter of Colonel Douglass,
bound for Keokuk, Iowa, at which
place they will spend the heated
term.
The Anchor Line packet John
A. Scudder leaves the Lee wharf.
boat this evening at 5 o'clock fol
Cairo and st. Louis, doing all way
business and connecting with thu
.InrinciDal railroads for oil oo;nt,