Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-10
Steady snow At Pitsburg yesterday.

Inc feager, silent and alone, oceu-
pies the levee. % 0sI f4W
The Henry Frank leaves New Or
leans to-day for Memphis,
Tie G. P. Chouteau will come
through to Memphis, ice admitting.
and load for New Orleans.
Several coal fats moored at the foot
Of Beal street have been caught by
the rapid decline; of the river and ice.
The Ruth goes to the Tombigbee
river as 0 as navigation is opened.
Captain R. w. Lightburne is in Gin
cinnati sleighing, and otherwise hav-
ing a good time.
Captain Bob Wise keeps open house
at Cairo, and entertains his friends
with a royalty becoming his position.
The ice is very heavy and is from
4 to 10 inches thick.
The ice-blockade is ruinous to river
business.
Wagons and pedestrians are cross
ing Kentucky river on the ice.
The Thompson Dean from Mem
phis arrived at New Orleans vester.
day. ad
There is no use asking when the
boats will run.
The Arctic wave has already ruined
and bankrupted several steamboatmen
Captain ]. Fl. Fowler is ill at his
residence in Psducah.
Captain james Lee will send out the
Coahoma or George W. Check as soon
as the ice will admit.
Lots O pretty girls and gallant
beauK attended the soiree at Steam
boat Town last night.
The A. @. Donnally. and R. s. Sem
pie have been added to the directory
Of the Southern Transportation Com
pany.
The powerful towboat Alice Brown
was hard at work this morning cutting
ice from the coal feet, and making
efforts to free the harbor of a gorge.
The shore ice and the decline of
the river is crowding out on the shore
fatboats and other water crafts, and
leaving them in a perilous position.
What would be most acceptable now
is moderating weather, the breaking
up of the ice and the early resumption
of navigation.
Captain James Darraga, n of the
best and most celebrated engineers OF
the river, is doing the sights of Mem.
phis. a3 s-C .v
Captain Joe Elliott will bring the
Cityof Augusta to the wharf as soon
as the ice permits and viii load her
with cotton for New Orleans.
Steamboatmen are disheartened on
account of the heavy losses incurred
by them during the present season
first by Yellow Jack and now by ice.
There was a gala time at Steamboat
iowa last night. Entertainments and
soirees were given on the Josie Harry
and several other steamers of the
feet,
Inc Ice In the harbor here has so
far done very little damage to the
water craft, with the exception of the
shore ice and rapid decline of the
river crowdiug and leaving produce
and other barges out on the banks.
Joe Fithian, a we'll known river
clerk, arrived here yesterday by rail
from New Orleans, with the remains
of his beloved wife for interrment
here, who died near New Orleans
during the epidemic.
Two deck hands tried to make the
trip on foot from Columbus to Cairo
the other day, and now they are laid
up in the hospital at the latter place
with frozen feet.
The powerful towboat Alice Brown
did good work this morning in break
ing up the ice in the harbor and re-
lleving the coal feet and other crafts
from extreme danger by the ice. Mr..
n. NJ. Jones in person superintendent
the good work.
The Kountz Line steamer j. B. M.
Kehlor, which left New Orleans the
first of the year for St. Louis, is ice
bound below here, and will probably
reach st. Louis next spring. This is
her second voyage for this season. She
Is a remarkable steamer of the craw-
fish pattern.
The Guy Mannering, now at the
wharf at New Orleans, is one of the
largest steamships ever arrived at that
port. Her length is 1896 feet, width 36
feet gross tonnage 1850 tons. She is
a -four master" and cost $500, 600.
She will take a cargo of cotton to Liv-
erpoOl in 1876 she carried 1900
bales.
The following boats are laid up at
New Orleans; Trenton, Alvin, St.
NJ N.Y.