Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-03-15

1879
CITY and the lower coast. she win be
in port tomorrow evening.
The military transportation Of the
Missouri and Yellowstone rivers has
been awarded to Captain CoulsOn.
The John Means with six barges
laden With grain and -four passed
down last evening for New Orleans.
Captain Robert Robinson, an old
and well-known steamboatman, has
opened a real estate Office in Ale
gheny City.
The E. o. Stanard passed up this
morning for St. Louis. She put off
here 46 bbls rice and 4 hhds cocoa
nuts.
The W. P. Halliday. from Louis
vile, aud Annie P. Silver, from st.
Louis, arrived at New Orleans yes
terday.
The Mary Houston for Cincinnati,
and Commonwealth and Keholor for
st. Louis, will leave New Orleans this
evening.
The Thomas Sherlock passed down
last night for New Orleans fully laden.
She discharged here 5 pkgs mdse, and
added some cotton.
VIM. Henderson, one of the Oldest
stewards on tho river, now on the
Clinton, contemplates retiring, at an
early day, to his farm in Illinois.
The Fannie Lewis and Belle ST.
Louis have retired from the Memphis
trade, and will resume thor regular
trade in the Missouri river.
The 0uaChita Belle left V~icksburc
yesterday at noon for Memphis, and
will arrive here tomorrow and leave
on Tuesday with a return trip fol
Vicksburg,
The Centennial and City of Vicks-
burg, Anchor Limo packets, left
Ficksburg yesterday at noon, and will
be due here tomorrow evening and
leave on Monday for St. Louis.
A boat and a man are quite different
in their tastes. A boat fancies water,
and runs through a great deal of it
but a man fancies something else, and
very little water runs through him.
The famous caterer Edward Brown,
80 long and favorably known as stew
ard Of the Thompson Dean, has been
commissioned as steward of the Guild
ing Star, and comes out on her this
trip.
The Dubuque Times says Report
has il that Diamond Joe will put on
a through lineof passenger and freight
packets from st, Louis to St. Paul.
River men look forward to an active
season.
The james D. Parker, Capt. Charley
Russell, will arrive Monday morning
from Cincinnati with a full cargo Of
Western products, and will leave on
Wednesday with a return trip for the
Ohio river.
The Batesville, Captain j. D. Ran
dali, will arrive tomorrow from the
st. Francis river, with a good trip Of
cotton and other freight, and will leave
Tuesday evening with a return trip.
Mr.. Nose Mckee, for thirty years a
steamboat pilot on the Arkansas and
Mississippi rivers, and late pilot on
the Rose City, has been stricken down
with paralysis, and is lying very i'll al
Little Rock and not expected to live.
The Hard Cash, Captain Ed Postal
in command, will pass Devall's Bluff
tomorrow morning for Memphis and
will arrive Tuesday, and leave on
Wednesday with a return trip fol
White river.
The John A. Scudder, of the An.
Choir Line, leaves their wharfboat
foot Of Monroe street, at 5 pm. fol
New Orleans and way landings. Capt
Jack Carter commands, with Garrett
Hulls, a clever gentleman, in charge
of the Office.
AT Colonel Farquhar's Office il
Rock Island, on Saturday, bids were
opened for building dams and riprap.
ping shores in the Mississippi river
near Slim Island, No. The lowest
bid was that of Fruin & Co., of ST
Louis, for 1880, and the highest
w 8. Grantzman, of Rochester.
$14S,408.
The staunch and good steamer
Shields, Capt. J. G.. Shields, came in
this morning from Madrid Bends with
a large list Of corn, cotton and cotton
seed. and other freights. She leaves
Monday evening with a return trip fol
New Madrid and all intermediate
landings. G. II. Reuter- is her clever
and accommodating clerk. Captain
Glenn will make engagements for her.
The fine steamer Golden Crown,
with the ever popular officer Captain
Eugene Shinkle in command, leaves
the wharfboat tomorrow morning AT
10 o'clock for Cairo, Louisville and
Cincinnati, going through with dis.
patch. She has most excellent pas.
sengor accommodations and is a SAFE
and reliable carrier. Mr.. C. V. Shin.
klc is her gontlomanly clerk.
The famous and renowned steamer
Charles Morgan, Captain Albert Steir
in command, left Evansville YESTERDAY
at 6 pm. for New Orleans, and leaves
hero Monday morning at 10 o'clock
The Morgan Rather runs on time
is a safe carrier and has SUMPTION.
passenger accommodations, and a crew
Of officers aud men ever vigilant anG
gentlemanly in their bearing. Harry
Stein, one Of the best Of clerks, pre-.
sides at the dosk, and ia untiring in
his efforts to mako tho guests of the
Morgan comfortable.
The Anchor Line packet John 3
Mande, Captain VIM. Blake, will leave
tho Anchor Line wharfboat, foot Of
Monroe street, this evening at
O'Clock, for Cairo aud st. Louis, at,