Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-14

The Marlin Speed, Captain Eugene
smith, came in Saturday night from
Arkansas river with III bales and 2
bags cotton and % SKIS seed and re-
shipped at the mouth 81 bales cotton.
She lays up for the present.
Billy Wheeler, the efficient levee
discharging clerk of the Memphis and
Cincinnati Packet Company. left yes
terday morning by rail for Cincinnati,
and gets married at Newport, Ky, on
Wednesday next, to a charming young
lady.
The 0sceola Belle, Captain j. G..
Andrews, came in on time from the
upper coast with "a bales cotton and
All SKIS seed and sundries. She re-
turns to OsceOala at sharp 6 o'clock
this evening. Messrs. B. o. Michel,
Cyrus Fay and Al Speeres are her
clerks.
The Anchor Line packet City of
Vicksburg, Captain Bob Riley, leaves
the company's wharfboat this evening
at five o'clock, sharp, for Cairo and st.
Louis, attending to all bend business
and making close connection with the
principal railroads for all points East
and West.
The D~yersburg, Captain Berry,
came in from Dyersburg with another
good trip, and leaves tomorrow even
ing with a return trip for Dyersburg
aud all points on the Forked Deer
river. Il. B. Pendleton, a courteous
gentleman and accommodating clerk,
has charge of the office.
Mr.. ID. B. Abrahams. who has so
creditably filled the position during
the past season as chief clerk of the
Batesyille, %retires this trip and will
engage in mercantile business at
Mariana. Birdie Banning, who has
served so faithfully as his second,
succeeds him.
Captain Dick Sinnett, of New Or
leans, has contracted with the How
ards at Jacksonville for a fine side
wheel passenger steamer, something
after the style of the new City of
Greenville. She is to be 225 feet long,
40 feet beam, Z feet depth of hold, q
inches cylinder and s feet stroke. She
will run in the Red river trade.
Captain Will Kyle reports his safe
arrival at the Guadaloupe river, where
he has cast his tent. There has been
no rain in that country the past three
months, and Captain VIII is enjoying
himself fishing and hunting, and liy-
ing out Of doors, and receiving the
fullest benefit Of the pure and dry at
mosphere.
The Lee Mail Line packet CoahOma,
Captain Henry Cooper, came in yes
terday from Friar's Point with 74bales
and 10 bags of cotton, 167 sacks seed
and sundries. She returns this even
ing at g o'clock, sharp, to Friar's
Point, carrying the mail and doing all
way business. Billy Smither is her
chief clerk, assisted by Platt Rhodes
and Frank Ellison.
Mr.. w. j. Lemp, a St. Louis
brewer, has made arrangements to
place a refrigerator on each of the
Nicksburg Anchor Line packets, ca
pable of containing l25 kegs of beer.
This arrangement will enable the
Anchor Line boats to compete with
refrigerator cars in the transportation
of this class of freight, ard at the
same time allow the people along the
lower river to receive their beer ice
cold three times a week.
Major John D. Adams, of the Ad-
ans Mail Line Packet Company, re-
turned yesterday from Pittsburg.
where he closed a contract with Jas.
Rees for a sidewheel steamer for the
Memphis and Yicksburg Line. Her
dimensions are as follows: Length 225
feet, beam "a feet, engines p inches,
Z feet stroke; 4 steel boilers, 44inches
in diameter, % feet long. She is to
have a full length cabin and texas, to
be furnished in ~irst-class style, and to
be completed by August LIST.
The 0uachita Belle, of the Adams
Mail Line, Captain Mark Cheek in
command, came in last night from
Vieksburg with l64 bales and Is bags
of cotton, 537 SKIS seed and 40 pkgs
sundries. She had also a good list of
people. She will leave tomorrow
evening with a return trip for Vicks-
burg, carrying the mail and making
close connection with the packets for
Yazoo river and New Orleans. Capt.
Lee CumminS controls the office and
has on his staff Messrs. Neil Booker,
Lee Cummins, jr,, and Tommy Huse.
The trim and reliable little packet
Shields came in Saturday evening
from the upper coast with 20 bales
and 6 bags Of cotton, S2S sacks corn,
q bales hay, 1856 sacks cotton seed, 81
head live hogs, 5 head cattle, 7 coops
poultry and Is pkgs sundries, She
had also a good list of people. She
leaves this evening with a return trip
for New Madrid, and will give prompt
attention to all way business. Capt.
j. G. Shields, an efficient and worthy
boatman, commands, with Charles II.
RQter, a clever gentleman and ac-
co%mmodating clerk, in charge Of the
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