Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-06-18

WV VI AAlbouf lIoAu 0t. LDulht
arrived at New Orleans to-day.
The officers Of the local packets
report the crops in the bends as doing
The Batesvlle returned last even
ing to st. Francis river with an excel
lent trip.
The Golden City, en- route from New
Orleans to Cincinnati, passed Cairo
yesterday afternoon.
The Cons Millar, for Memphis, and
Mary Houston, for New Orleans, leave
Cincinnati this evening.
The Alps, with her tow of ice
barges, got away yesterday for ST..
Louis.
The Marlin Speed is the regular
Saturday mail packet for Arkansas
river.
The Florence Meyer has entered the
Cincinnati and Wheeling trade in
place ofthe St. Lawrence.
Captain Stack Lee holds a tenth of
the ticket that drew the capital prize
in the Louisiana Lottery.
The james Howard leaves st. Louis
this evening for New Orleans, and
leaves here Saturday evening next.
The ]. W. Gaf, from Memphis,
arrived at Cincinnati to-day and leaves
there Saturday with a return trip.
The Vint Shinkle, Captain Sterling
Mcintyre, will arrive tosRorrow morn
ing from Cincinnati md leaves on
Saturday with a return trip.
The City of V~icksburg, from St..
Louis, arrived at Vicksburg yesterday
and leaves there to-day at noon with a
return trip.
Captain John B. Davis leaves St.
Louis tomorrow evening for Memphis
with the Mollie Moore, carrying cheap
freights.
The W. P. Halliday, from New Or.
leans, and City of Grecnville, from
V~icksburg, arrived at St. Louis yes
terday.
The Belle Memphis left on time for
st. Louis last evening with a good list
of people, 200 bbls new potatoes, and
10 or 10 tons Of miscellaneous freight.
The Milt Harry, Captain Pete Nc
Arthey in command, will arrive Fri
day from White river, and leave on
Saturday with a return trip in place
OF the Josie Harry.
Captain Ed Postal is having the old
reliable White river packet Hard
Cash handsomely painted and re-
furnished, and will bring her out the
9th of July.
The Illinois, Captain Mark Cheek,
will arrive in port tomorrow morning
from Arkansas City and leave in the
evening with a return trip, carrying
the mail.
Captain Lew Hates, with his fine
steamer, the Thomas Sherlock, will
pass up this afternoon for Cincinnati
landing at the Lee wharf boat.
The Il. o. Stanard will pass down
to-day for New Orleans. She took
freight at Cairo for New Orleans al
ten cents per hundred.
The Seaman Landing packet H.. p.
Rogers, Captain john Fritz, with
Lewis Fritz in the office, leaves the
foot Of Union street this evening at !
o'clock.
The Grand Tower, Captain Lenuox
of the Anchor Line, will arrive thi.
evening from Vicksburg and leaves to.
morrow morning at 10 o'clock for Cairo
and st. Louis.
The Golden Rule passed down yes
terday noon loaded fiat in the water
She had a lot of fat cars and materia.
to put off at Glendale for the Mobile
and Northwestern railroad.
The Future City and barges passed
up yesterday afternoon for st. LOU,
after dropping here Captain Postal
little steamer, the Trader, which she
tOwed from New Orleans, and added
empty barge No. IL.
The Centennial passed down thi,
morning for New Orleans loaded down
to the guards, She discharged here
1900 sacks corn, and added 1000 sacks
oil cake and ITO barrels oil.
Captain William Kountz, of the
steamer Belle of Ashland, while lying
at Ashland, Ohio, Friday night last
fell twenty feet through the Ashland
furnace incline, striking his side and
causing internal injuries from which
he is not likely to recover.
The Anchor Line gives through
tickets to st. Paul or any point on
the upper Mississippi. Tickets also
to Chicago and Kansas City can be
had over this line for $1,000, the rate
being SO from here to st. Louis by
the Anchor Line and fifty cents thence
by rail to Chicago or Kansas City.
Relatives are DESTROYS of obtaining
information concerning the where.
ab0uts OF Albert Conner. When las
heard from he was a deckhand ON tn,
steamer General Lyle. Any on,
knowing anything about the party
should address his wife, Mrs. Saral
Conner, care No. 2 Public Landing
Cincinnati.
The Wheeling Register says tn
steamboatmen have been quietly con
sulting among themselves and decided
to ask for an increase of wages. The
engineers have made out a paper de
handing five dollars a day, and in cas-
the boat is laid up away from home
or they are discharged, they mus
have their fare paid home. Abou.
100 of the engineers have signed tn,
paper. The deck hands have alsC
agreed to demand $40 a month.
The splendid sidewheel passenger
steamer Andy Baum, Captain IL. j
Vinton, le9yes this evening at 5 O'Clock
for Cairo, louisville and Cincinnati