Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-18

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ten o'clock for Vicksbufs, carrying
the mail, doing all way business and
connecting at Vicksburg with the reg
ular packets for New Orleans and
Yazoo river. She also connects at
Arkansas city with the Pine Bluff
railroad.
The Mark Twain, Captain George
Malone, is the regular packet leaving
this evening for Council bend. Char
ley Barton, a genial and clever gentle
man oficiates in the Office.
The Katie P. Kountz, Capt. Jas. T.
Leftridge, leaves this evening for Lit
tie Rock and all points on Arkansas
river. A. b. Clarke, jun, an afable
gentleman, presides at the desk.
Captain Glenn is improving his
warehouse and elevator at the foot of
Adams street, aud also building APP
proaches from his wharfboat leading
to the levee, and also to his ware
house.
Owing to the high price of labor
and fuel and falling off Of cotton ship
menss along the lower coast, the
Tompson Dean has Withdrawn from
the Greenville and New Orleans trade
and has laid up.
The Cons Millar got away this
morning for Cincinnati with 200 bales
cotton, 300 bols oil and sundries and
some machinery of the wreck of the
Belle st. Louis. She had also thirty
cabin passengers.
Captain George Fearn, Of Madison,
and NJ. J. NJ. Giltner, clerk of the
Maggie Harper, have chartered at
Cincinnati the Bertha Lee. for the
Helena and st. Francis river trade, in
charge of Captain w. r. Porter,
The Thomas Sherlock passed down
last night for New Orleans, well laden.
She put off here 153 bbls meal, 2l5
kegs of nails, So bbls potatoes, Ga
stoves, and 100 packages Of %snndries,
added a few lots of miscellaneous
freight.
The Henry Frank, Captain Frank
Hicks, will arrive to-day from New
Orleans, and will leave this evening
with a return trip, making all princi
pal way landings. Captain Alf Girls
some, a worthy gentleman, presides at
the desk.
The Rover, with a tow of barges
loaded with iron ore, bound from st.
Louis to the Ohio river, sunk the
model barge, Earnest Blain, at Ches-
ter, Illinois, on the Mississippi, on
Tuesday. The barge and cargo will
prove a total loss.
The heavy running ice at st. Loui.
has partially suspended navigation
None of the Anchor line boats vii
leave there until the weather mode
rates. The line will operate at Cair,
and send south from there from two tt
three boats per week.
The Avalanche, in referring to Capt
Jim Franklin's new departure, says
In the appointment of Capt. jim
Franklin as their agent here, the off
Gals of the Kountz line have show
good Judgment, for Jim is everybody
friend, and is just the boy to secur,
business for the line he represents.
Captain B. 0. Michel was takel
very sick yesterday with an attack o
pneumonia, and was compelled to stol
off of his boat last night andwas takel
to his room on Madison street 70
treatment. We are glad to learn tina
he was much better this morning an,
hope he will soon recover from hi
sickness.
The Katie Hooper, Captain Ed
Rowland, came in this morning from
Arkansas river with 73l bales cotton
"a bags seed cotton, 400 SEEKS seed and
sundries, and reshipped at the moutl
504 bales of cotton-total out of thC
river, 1,235 bales. She leaves Satur-
day evening with a return trip fol
Pine Bluff and all points on Arkansas
river. Captain Jimmy Thompson anC
Amos Day are clever and accommo-
dating clerks.
The Yicksburg Commercial, Of
Tuesday, contains the following
While the steamer Will Kyle was
trying to make a landing at the Delta
wharfboat Saturday night, the pilot
mistook the upper jetty feet for the
wharfboat and ran into it, badly in
iuring several barges and the harbor
boat Painter No. 2. Afterwards she
went down to the lower feet, which
the pilot thought was the wharfboat,
and ran into and sunk one of the
barges, doing damage to the amount
of about $500 or $4,000.
The new steamer Reuben R. Springer
left Cincinnati last evening for New
Orleans on her maiden trip. She got
a good send-of from Cincinnati, leav-
ing there with 700 tons of freight and
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