Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-11-14

uAndOo SiooO aihOhS oV~OaulDOdtc.
We regret to learn of the serious
illness of Captain J.. D. Hegler's wife
at the family residence in Loveland.
The Future City and barges passed
down this morning for New Orleans.
The produce boats floating South
are thicker in the Mississippi than
geese.
Nearly all the boats on the upper
Missouri have gone into winter quar-
ters.
The new steamer Corona and the A.
G. Donnally will be due down to-mor-
row for New Orleans.
The Illinois starts out next Tues
day in the Vicksburg trade. Capt.
Darragh is fixing her up finer and bet
ter than ever.
The j. W. Gaf left Cincinnati last
evening for Memphis and will be fol-
lowed on Saturday by the james D.
Parker.
The Steamer ]. G. Fletcher has
finished her repairs at Little Rock and
enters the trade between there and
Pine Bluff.
There are only ten inches Of water in
the channel above Little Rock, which
suspends navigation in the Arkansas
above hat city.
The Silverthorn discharged 400 bales
of hay, 300 sacks oats, SO bbls -four,
266 bbls meal, PA bbls potatoes, IL
coops poultry and sundries, and re-
turns this afternoon to the Ohio river.
The Katie Hooper, Captain Ed.
Rowland, is due from Arkansas river
with a good list of cotton. She re-
(; turns this evening to Little Rock,
carrying the mail and doing all way
business.
The Annie P. Silver passed down
this morning for New Orleans well
laden. She discharged here 60 head
of hogs, 5 bales of cotton and a lot OF
sundries, and added 800 sacks of oil
\ \ cake and a list of cotton.
\ The p%alatial passenger steamer
Thompson Dean, Capt. James Pepper.
will be found in port tomorrow morn
ing receiving for New Orleans and the
bends, and leaves Saturday evening
r her regular day.
The improved U. P. Schenck ha.
had a cabin built on her at Cincin
natl during the past summer and mad,
into a passenger steamer as well a
freight carrier. She leaves Cincinnati
this evening for New Orleans. Capt
Lawrence Carter, one of the most pop
ular boatmen on the river, has com
mand of her.
v Travel on the river is better than i
o. has been for several years past. Al
down stream boats are general
IN crowded with passengers or have a
. they can accommodate. The rive
70 route is always the best and cheapes.
3. Captain j. p. Young, who died nea
N Cincinnati and was buried at st. LOU
At on Monday, had seyenty-fve thousan
q dollars insurance on his life, whic
i will place his family in comfortabl
q circumstances.
!. Captains. s. Lewallin, pilot of tn
< tug DeSoto, who remained here at hi
post during the epidemic, and prove
- himself to be a faithful and e%ficier
!. officer, leaves tomorrow for the Ea.
to enjoy a two weeks recreation, give
IL him by his employers, Messrs. Brow
al & Jones, for the valuable services
\ rendered them during the fever.
be The lighthouse tender steam,
+ Lilly has established the followir
new lights: One at Mound City, or
at Joppo, one At Golconda Island, III
nois side; one at Carrsyille, Kentuck
side one at the head of Walkers ba
v Illinois side, and one at Ford's Ferr
Illinois side.
ID The Hattie Rowland. Captain ia
Rees, arrived last night from ArkaI
sas river with 189 bales cotton, IA baj
seed cotton and p packages sundrie
She lays up until there is u rise in A
lis kansai river, there not being s%uficieI
i'll water in the channel at present for h,
to do business on.
To The new hull building for the Eag
of at Madison will be POO feet long, ;
feet beam and 6 feet hold, and wi
w. have three boilers, and the cylinde
RS out Of the Belle of Shreveport,
inches in diameter, 6 feet stroke. I'll
is. new Eagle will be ready in sixty day
m She belongs to the Eagle Packet Gar
m pany of St. Louis, and is designed f
g a trade having its terminus in Il
vicinity Of Cincinnati,
wv The Golden Grown passed down la
evening for New Orleans with IA
ito tons of freight, and a large passeng
list. She discharged here a few 10
40 of freight and some passengers, and r
of ceived 20 cabin passengers for Nc
Orleans. One item Of hcs aagsa v