Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-18

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leave Cincinnati this evening.
John Shearer, one of the Oldest
ship-carpenters, died in Cincinnati on
Wednesday last of pneumonia.
The Maumelle is due here to-mor-
row night or Monday morning from
Little Rock.
The George w. Cheek will resume
her regular trips in the Friar's Point.
trade next week,
+ The Gold Dust for New Orleans
and City of Vicksburg for Natchez are
announced to leave Cairo this evening.
The Grand Tower, en- route for
Natchez, added over 100 tons Of freight
in the bends, and was we'll laden.
The Batesville will come in We'd
nesday and resume her regular trips
in the st. Francis river trade, leaving
on Tuesday next.
The elegant sidewheel steamer
Morning Star comes here to enter tho
Adams Mail Line, and will ply be-
tween here and Vicksburg.
The A. @. DOnnally passed up last
evening for Cincinnati with 600 tons
Of freight, principally sugar and mo-
lasses.
The Avalanche Dew" drop has
been interviewing Captain George
Malone about dampness and freezing
liquids.
Captain Milt Harry, who went to
see Brother Rutherford, will arrive
home this evening. The recognition
was not mutual.
Jimmie Thomas, second clerk of
the Coahoma, returned yesterday from
Evansville, and went out on his pack
ct last night.
The Coahoma, Notwithstanding the
bad weather yesterday, had a good trip
out last night for Friar's Point and
the bends.
The John B. Maude passed up for
Cairo, after discharging here 200 bales
Of cotton, and adding a good list Of
Eastern bound cotton.
The U. P. Schenck is coming up the
river fully laden, and don't want any
business. So says the Vicksburg
Herald.
The levee is so bad, and the passage
way to travel so narrow hal it re-
quires a person perambulating that
territory to employ an extra steers
man.
The steamboat owners here, like
their brethren at New Orleans, will
form an association for their mutual
protection.
The popular river clerk Ed Crowell,
who went to New Orleans as chief
clerk of the Belle of Texas, returned
yesterday afternoon by rail.
The Jas. D. Parker, Captain G. B.
Russell, leaves Tuesday evening next
for Cincinnati and points on the Ohio
river.
The Illinois, owing to the very bad
weather and ice in the river, has de-
ferred her departure to Riverton and
the bends until Monday next.
The 0uachita Belle, Captain Mark
Cheek, will arrive here tomorrow and
resume her regular trips in the
Arkansas City trade, leaving on Mon
day next.
The Commonwealth passed down
last evening for New Orleans, well
laden. She added here 300 tons Of
oil cake and meal, which gave her
about all she wanted.
The Henry Frank, Captain Hicks
mammoth steamer, will arrive here
Monday morning from New Orleans,
and leave on the following Wednes-
day with a return trip.
The thaw and bad weather has
placed the roads in the bends to the
river landings in almost an impossible
condition, and in consequence there is
very little business for our local pack
cts.
Captain Eugene Moore, the wet
nurse of the Appeal, has gone off rail
reading and deserted the river. 1t is
a pity that so much brilliancy and in
telligence should be lost 10 the creek
department.
The elegant steamer Golden Crown,
Captain Walker, is receiving at the
levee for Cincinnati and all points on
the Ohio, and leaves this evening.
Eugene Shinkle, an affable gentleman
presides at the desk.
The City of Augusta, Captain Joe
Elliott, leaves this evening for New
Orleans, making all principal way
landings. Messrs. Rather and SAILS
bury do the honOrs of the office, which
is a sure guarantee of all business be-
ing properly attended to.
The excellent light draught steamer
Marlin Speed, of the Memphis and
Arkansas river mail line, Captain
Eugene Smith in command, leaves
this evening for Arkansas river, going
through to Fort Smith. Wash Floyd,
0neaof the clevorest and most popular
clerks on the river, has charge Of the
Office, and has as aid johnny
Briggs.
The Cairo Bulletin, Of Thursday,
says 1t is rumorod among steamboat.
men that the owners of the Henry
Frank, Thompson Dean, C, P. Chou
teau, Robert 4. Lee and Ed Richard
son are about to form a line between
Cairo and New Orleans, and that all
of these great ones will enter this line
as soon as the cotton season is over,
Should such a thing turn up, steam
boat matters in this neck Of woods
will likely be very lively.
The 0sceola Belle, Captain j. G..
Andrews, is the regular mail packet
leaving this evening for 0soeola and
all way points on the upper coast, car
rying tho mail and giving special at
tention to all way and plantation bust.