Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-16
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The Louisville and Evansville Mail
Packet Company closed a contract OH
Monday with the Towards for ono of
the finest and fastest packets that has
ever been built. The dimensions of
the hull are 265 feet long, 40 feet beam
and 8 feet depth. The engines will be
Y inches, by q foot stroke, with 4
steel boilers. She will have a fine.
new style cabin, similar to the City Of
Greenville.
The Little Rock Gazette of Tues
day says q" Pilots on the steamer j.
u. Fletcher, report two feet of water
between Little Rock and Fort Smith.
There is three feet below. The Lit
tie Rock and Fort Smith railroad
transfer boat Munson, at Van Buren,.
Is doing a good business, making regu-
lar trips, which is a great accommoda-
ton to the travelling public.
The John A. Scudder, of the An
Choir Line, Captain Jack Carter in
command, will leave the company's
wharfboa foot of Monroe street, this
evening at 5 o'clock, sharp. for Cairo
and st. Louis, attending to all bend
business and making close connection
with the principal railroads for all
points East and West. Captain Gar
rett Huls, a clever gentleman. presides
at the desk.
The Anchor Line packet Grand
Tower, Captain Lennox. will leave
the company's wharf boat tomorrow
morning at 10 o'clock for Vicksburg,
carrying the mail, doing all way bust
ness, and making direct connection at
vicksburg with the regular packets
for lazoo river and New Orleans.
giving through bills of lading and
ticketing passengers through. Tom
White is her purser.
The red tiger packet Coahoma of
the Lee Mail line, Captain Henry
Cooper in command, brought in a fair
trip Of cotton and other freights this
morning and leaves again this evening
at 6 o'clock sharp, with a return trip
Tor Friar's Point, carrying the mail,
giving special attention to all way
business and connecting at Glendale
with the Mobile and Northwestern
railroad. Billy Smither is her worthy
chief clerk and has associated with
him in the Office Billy Huston, late
chief clerk of the Cheek, and the
efficient freight clerk, Platt Rhodes.
This has been an exceedingly short
season for steamboatmen and very
few Of them have made any n
Fly time has come earlier than usual
and a large number of boatmen have
been thrown out of employment. At
New Orleans there are near thirty
boats laid up here there are several.
and at st. Louis quite a number. and
the business along the Ohio river is
falling on and boats are going to the
banks. The outlook for boatmen is
doleful as they have a long dull season
before them.
The old reliable independent White
river packet Hard Cash, Captain Ed
Postal leaves this evening at 6 o'clock.
sharp, for White river, going through
to Jacksonport and making direct
connection with light-draught steam
ers for upper White and Black rivers.
She is a safe and reliable carrier. She
will also attend to all Mississippi river
business this side of Terrene. Charley
Postal has charge Of the office, which
IS a sure guarantee that all business
will be properly attended to, and is
ably assisted by j. G. Wyckoff, one of
the best and most accommodating
second clerks on the river.