Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-26

The new james Lee was delayed in
the lower Ohio by awaiting to come
out with the rise.
The Belle Memphis, for Memphis,
and G. P. Keck, for New Orleans, left
st. Louis yesterday.
The c. P. Chouteau passed Vicks-
burg yesterday at 3 pm, and is due
here Friday morning.
The Geo. w. Cheek was delayed on
account Of repairing one of her boilers,
but will get out to-day.
Captain Fred. A. Blanks new Qua
chita river packet is receiving her
machinery at Cincinnati.
The u. P. Schenck, enroute from
Cincinnati to New Orleans, passed
Evansville yesterday at Ppm.
The Future City, bound for St.
Louis, passed Yicksburg late Monday
night, aud is due here Friday.
The Maumelle cleared last evening
for Arkansas river with a good trip Of
freight and was full Of people.
The Cons Millar for Memphis, and
the Mary Houston for New Orleans,
will be down the latter part of the
week.
The Batesville cleared last evening
for St. Francis river, loaded down to
the guards, and also had a good list of
people.
The Golden City, with a barge in
tow, passed Vicksburg last evening at
5 o'clock, and is due here Friday
morning.
The Guiding Star leaves Cincinnati
tomorrow for New Orleans, and will
be followed on Saturday by the Robert
Mitchell.
The Gen. Barnard, with the com
mission to look at the river, has left
Cairo. The commission goes through
to New Orleans.
Mr.. Chant Shinkle, clerk of the
Golden Crown, was married yesterday
at Coyington, KY, to Miss Leona Per-
cival of that city.
Pittsburg coal advanced to 10 cents
a bushel, by the barge, at Cincinnati
on Tuesday, with not verthirty barges
In the market unsold.
The Alice Brown left Louisville
yesterday with a tow of coal for Messrs.
Brown & Jones, the extensive coal
dealers of this market.
There is fair chances for the pres
ent lows of coal which haveleft Louis
vile of getting out of the Ohio, and
coming through all 0. K.
The Mark Twain, Captain George
Malone, for the past week brought in
lO64 bales cotton, 81 bags seed cotton
and 1910 sacks cotton seed.
The colored rousters laid over an
other packet last night by jumping the
boat when she was ready to leave
unless an increase of wages.
The James Howard, en- route from
Memphis to New Orleans, passed
Yicksburg yesterday at 10 IN. with a
full load Of cotton and other freights
Captain George w. Clark, a well
known Cincinnati and St. Louis pilot,
commands the Lioness. She will
probably tow between St. Louis and
Cairo this winter.
The DeRussey pulled about 500
snags between here and Cairo, aud one
was the stump that sunk the Belle St.
Louis. 1t vas Is feet long and had
been broken off by the storm.
The towboat Grafton left this morn
ing for Arkansas City with a tow of
coal for Messrs. O'Neal & Co. She
had three barges and boats containing
sixty thousand bushels of coal.
Capt. Fred. Foltz, New Orleans
pilot, received a dispatch at St. Louis
on Sunday, communicating the sad
intelligence hat his brother VIII had
been killed by the cars at Washington.
Ill.
The New Orleans Times says the j.
M. White made the run from New
Orleans to Baton Rouge, one hundred
and thirty-four miles, in seven hours
and thirty minutes. This is the fast
est time on record.
The w, P. Halliday passed up at
noon for St. Louis with a splendid up
stream trip, having a large amount of
sugar and molases, and near 1000 scks
coffee. She discharged here about
% tons of sundries.
Captain R. P. Glenn received a
telegram from Captain I'D. Hegler,
informing him hal he would arrive
here with his fine packet, the Golden
City, Friday morning and leave Fri
day evening for Cincinnati.
The Marlin Speed came in yesterday
afternoon from White river with S48
bales Of cotton and 7 pkgs sundries,
and reshipped llS bales at the mouth.
Total out of the river 966 bales. She
will be the next boat leaving for Ar
kansas river.
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