Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-03-28

a good trip, and viii leave here on
Wednesday next on her return to
Cincinnati.
In Colombia, South America, on
the 18th of last month, the mer-
chants of Cartagena subscribed
$4,000 for a steamboat navigation
company at the canal which con-
meets the city Of Cartagena with
the Magdalena river. Captain
Summers iron steamer Tamaulipas
No. 9, cleared from New Orleans, is
now at the M~agdalena, and several
other steamboats, are being built
for that lively place.
The Mollie Moore, Captain L. J..
Allen, came in last night at IL
o'clock from st. Louis. She dis
charges at Glenn's wharfboat $40
barrels and $50 half barrels flour,
so barrels meal, CAB sacks corn, 396
sacks oats, 80 casks bacon, 422
pieces bulk meat, 40 tierces and 650
buckets lard, and Sundries, and adds
corn, cotton and oil cake. She will
leave Glenn's wharf boat to-day at
4 o'clock for New Orleans.
The Golddust, Captain E. W.
Gould, came in this morning with
a full cargo of grain and produce,
and will leave the elevator this
evening at 5 o'clock, sharp, with a
return trip for Cairo and st. Louis,
doing all bend business, and max
ing close connection with the prin-
cipal railroads for all points East
and West. Mr.. E. Gould does the
honOrs Of the Office.
The James D. Parker, Captain
%. B. Russell, will arrive to-day
from the Ohio river with 450 tons
of miscellaneous freight. She will
return TO Cincinnati Saturday we
ming, ticketing passengers through
to all Eastern cities at the lowest
possible rates. Mr.. Wash Thomp-
son is the efficient clerk of this
steamer.
The George W. Cheek, Captain
Mark Cheek, is the regular mail
packet leaving this evening for
Friar's Point, giving special atten-
ton to all way business. Walker
Outlaw, an urbane gentleman, is
her chief clerk, assisted by Platt
Rhodes and Thomas Hughes.
The palatial passenger steamer
Thompson Dean, in command of
the ever popular boatman, Captain
James Pepper, leaves this evening
at 6 o'clock for New Orleans, max
ing all principal way landings. Her
passenger accommodations are un-
surpassed in fact, she is a perfect
floating palace. She is a safe and
reliable carrier, and is in charge Of
competent and careful boatmen.
Captain Frank Beck, a gentleman
who has endeared himself to the
shipping and travelling public by
his integrity and strict attention to
business and uniform courtesy to
all with whom he comes in contact,
has charge of the Office, and has
associated with him Adam Wayland
and Val Entrekin, two clever and
accommodating clerks. This is the
last trip Of the Dean, the cotton
season being virtually at an end,
and she will probably lay up at
New Orleans for the summer and
be put in thorough trim for next
fall. She has been very successful
during the last season, and under
the good management Of her Off
GERS has built up an enyiable repu-
tation and established herself in
the trade, though she had to con-
tend with heavy opposition. She
will re-enter the Memphis trade
next season, commencing her trips
in October.
Cincinnati Commercial, ~: Mr..
James Hill, a wealthy citizen of
Brookburg, came up with the Vir-
gle Lee, and returned home yester-
day. Among other passengers of
the Lee was a Mr.. Steele, who got on
at Madison, and who has lived to
the remarkable age Of 100 years.
He was accompanied by his son-in-
law, a Mr.. Short, who is 80 years