Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-11

gusts to the mouth. St. Francis river
is also at low tide.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Moist.
Sultry.
Cloudy.
Indications Of more rain. .
No improvement in navigation.
Fair business doing on the levee.
No immediate prospects of a rise at
Pittsburg.
Cold weather is anticipated this
afternoon.
No arrivals or departures at New
Orleans yesterday.
The j. W. Gaff leaves St. Louis
Saturday for Memphis.
The John Dippold and barges passed
up last evening for St. Louis.
There is a large amount of seed IN
the bends awaiting transportation.
The Clinton and the City of Yazoo
leave st. Louis to day for V|icksburg.
The City of Alton leaves st. Louis
tomorrow for New Orleans.
Colonel Chin, the weather prophet,
predicts snow in the next "A hours.
The Coahoma had a splendid trip
Out for Friar's Point and the bends.
The E. 0. Stanard, for New Or
leans, added here 1000 bales of cotton.
The Ouachita Belle, for Arkansas
City, was well represented with freight
and people.
The Scudderwent into New Orleans
with 4Sl5 bales cotton, 1000 sacks seed,
and sundries.
The Belle St. Louis left Cairo last
night at 8 o'clock for Memphis, and is
due here tonight.
The officers of the lower coast pack
cts report only eight feet of water in
the channel below here.
VIM. Turpin succeeds Charley Will
liams as pilot in the Louisville mail
line.
Messrs. John Shearer & Co. have
been reappointed agents of the Pitts
burg line at Cincinnati.
The new Cincinnati and New Or
leans steamer Will Kyle will raise
steam next Saturday.
The Montana passed up neal noon
for St. Louis with a fair trip. She
added here 16S bales Of Eastern bound
cotton.
The Maumelle passed Devall's Bluff
yesterday for Memphis, with 200
bales Of cotton, and is duehere to-
morrow morning.
The John Howard passed Yicksburg
IRON White river last Saturday with
1900 bales of cotton, 2474 sacks seed
cotton, and other freight.
The John A. Scudder, which left
here the latter part of last week for
New Orleans with a big trip of cot
ton, arrived at New Orleans to-day.
Bradloy's is getting to be the worst
place above here. At that point the
channel is very narrow and crooked,
and pilots have to be very careful in
running it.
The Annie P. Silver, for New Or
leans, added at Hope6eld 200 bales of
cotton and 500 sacks oil cake and took
on here 30 bales cotton and 10 tons Of
sundries.
The Mollie Moore passed up this
morning for St. Louis with a fair list
of freight She put off here 26O sacks
salt, 3O4 sacks seed, and few packages
sundries.
The Henry Frank, en- route from
Helena to New Orleans with S full
load of cotton, passed Vicksburg yes
terday at II am, and is due at
New Orleans to-day.
The splendid Anchor Line packet,
Centennial, Captain Davidson in com
mapd. will leave the company's wharf
boat, foot Of Monroe street, this even
ing at five O'Clock tQF New Orleans,
making all principal waylandings,
The Colorado, of the Anchor Line,
Captaia McPheters, will leave the
companys whartbeab foot Of Court
street, this evening at sharp : O'Clock
for Cairo and St. Louis, carrying the
mail and attending to all way bust
ness.
Charley Quesnel succeeds Charley
Sharpe as chief clerk on the City of
Yicksburg. The Anchor Line could
not have made D better selection, as
Charley is n Of tho most popular
clerks they have in the line.
Mrs. JAS. Mccullough writes Pilot
J.. w. Schrang, from Rrockpcrt, Ind,
that her husband (Jas. Mccullough
has recovered the use Of his limbs,