Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-24

tow of coal, left Louisville yesterday
for New Orleans.
The Marlin Speed is making her
regular daily trips in the Little Rock
and Pine Bluff trade.
The Memphis and Ohio River Pack
ct Company purchased at Cincinnati
yesterday the Virgie Lee.
The j. S. Neal dropped two barges
Of Pittsburg coal here yesterday for
Messrs. @. B. Bryan & Co.
The Colorado, of the Anchor line,
leaves Cairo to-day for Vicksburg, and
will leave here Friday morning.
The City Of Vicksburg passed up for
Cairo after adding here 1900 bales of
compressed cotton for the east.
First-class printing at low rates at
the LEDGER Job Printing office and
Book Bindery, No. 10 Madison. +
The levee is not a desirable place for
pedestrians. The mud and filth are
holding high carnival at the landing.
The Annie ?. Silver passed up this
morning for Cairo with a good up
stream trip. She discharged here a
lot of sugar and molasses.
The Thomas Sherlock, for Cincin-
nati, Commonwealth, for st. Louis
and Ed. Richardson, for Memphis,
leaves New Orleans to-day.
The Gold Dust, of the Anchor line,
left V~icksburg yesterday at 4 pm,
and will arrive here Friday morning
and leave in the evening for Cairo.
Captain 0. K. Joplin will have the
repairs completed to the Batesville to-
day and will probably get away this
evening for st. Francis river.
The LEDGER Job Printing office
and Book Bindery. 13 Madison. exc.
cutes everything in their line as neat
and cheap as any house in this city +
Stacker Lee is our Chris Kringle
He brought us in a load ofgood things.
but we failed to get transportation fol
them from the levee up to the LEDGER
office.
The Will Kyle, bound from New
Orleans to Cincinnati with LOO tons
of sugar and molasses, passed Vicks.
burg yesterday, and is due here OF
Friday.
The Katie Hooper left Pine Bluff
this morning at day light for Mem.
phis. She will arrive Friday morning
and leave Saturday evening with ;
return trip.
The new steamer Reuben R.Spring
er passed down this morning at ter
o'clock for New Orleans, laden dowr
to the guards. She put off here severa
hundred packages of freight.
The Josie Harry, Milt Harry's blu,
ribbon boat, beingdetained by engage
ments and some light repairs to he
guards, will not get away for Whit
river until this afternoon. She vii
drop back on her regular day next trir
~
The big james Howard, Captai,
James 0'Neal, is receiving at the foo
Of Monroe street for New Orleans, an.
leaves this evening at 5 o'clock, max
ing all principal landings. Capital
Wood, an affable gentleman, hold
forth in the Office.
The steamer Ed Richardson wen
into New Orleans with 5,03S bales {
cotton, 5000 SKIS oil cake, 1850 bbI
! oil, and 11,00O SKIS of seed, yet mad
| nothing for her owners, owing to heav
expenses Of fuel and high rates
) wages.
? Mr.. Thomas Homer, we'll known !
; river circles, will have a compliment
airy benefit at RObinson's ~operahousc
Cincinnati, on New Years eve, o
which occasion he will p~ersonate tn
+ character of Damon" in Damon an
Pythias. Mr.. Homer was on tn
stage over thirty years ago.
The splendid passenger steame
Vint Shinkle, Captain Sterling McTn
tyre, leaves this evening at 8 o'cloc
for Cairo, Louisville and Cincinnati
attending to all bend business an
ticketing passengers through to a
points east at reduced rates. Capital
j. A. Lindsay, a gentleman who
noted for his integrity, promptness j
business and universal courtesy, is he
chief clerk and he makes it agreeabl
and comfortable for all who travel o
the Yint Shinkle.
r The Ouachita Belle of the Adam
mail line, Captain Mark Cheek i
= command, came in this morning fror
Greenville with 66 bales cotton, l
= bags seed cotton, aud 80 sacks seec
and sundries. She had a big list G
t people who came up to purchase holi
day goods. She leaves to-mOrro,
evening with a'return trip for Green
vile, carrying the mail and attendin
t promptly to all way business. He
light trip Of cotton was occasioned b
$ the continued rains,th h planters bein
unable to get their cotton out to tn
q landings for shipment. Captain Gun