Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-10
CONDITIONS.

continue at low tide, with fair pros
poets Of a slight rise in Arkansas river
at Little Rock and points below
there.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Cloudy.
Moderate weather.
Rain storm last night.
Active on the landing.
A mild winter is anticipated.
Heavy rains through Arkansas yes
terday.
The rain this morning laid the dust
on the levee.
Prospects are now favorable for a
rise in the Ohio river.
The Maumelle is due here to-mor-
row from White river.
The John B. Maude is due down
tomorrow for V~icksburg.
The lighthouse steamer Alice
passed up to-day, after coaling here.
The Bertha Lee has laid up at
Vanceburg, on the upper Ohio.
'Possums are fat and persimmons
are ripe and our colored brothers are
happy.
The Centennial left Cairo for New
Orleans at 5 o'clock yesterday, and is
due down this evening.
The receipts of cotton by river from
Saturday evening up to noon to-day
foot up 1000 bales.
The Grand Tower put off here %
bales cotton and 100 packages sun
dries.
The Hard Cash cleared for White
river Saturday evening with an excel
lent trip of freight.
The John Howard has gone up
White river to load with cotton for
New Orleans.
Mr.. Ed Mccullough comes down
this trip clerk on the Fannie Tatum.
James Pell will pilot the William
Pagan from Cincinnati south.
The Henry Frank is due from New
Orleans. She resumes her regular
trips in the trade.
The storms experienced here last
evening extended along the water
courses Of the lower Ohio valley.
The General Rucker, with the
Katie Kountz in tow, passed Cairo
yesterday, bound for St. Louis.
The Kehlor and Golden Rule from
st. Louis, arrived at New Orleans
Saturday morning.
The c. p. Chouteau left New Or
leans Saturday evening for Memphis.
The Cherokee, en- route from St.
Louis to New Orleans, passed Yicks-
burg Saturday evening.
Capt. John Caterer, who is quite a
popular lower river steamboatman,
has returned home and is open for an
engagement.
The Josie Harry left Cairo last
evening at Z o'clock for this port and
White river, and is due here to-mor-
row morning.
Captain Press Montgomery, formerly
Of the Seminole, has gone to Dyers-
burg prospecting.for a boat to put in
the Memphis aud Hatchie river trade.
The Tidal Wave is due Tomorrow
from New Orleans, bound for St.
Louis. She has & large lot of salt
and other merchandise for this port.
The INSURANCE value of the late
banner trip Of the Chas. 2. Chouteau,
8sii bales, was not less than $3.50, 900,
and its value to New Orleans 500. 900.
So says the New Orleans Democrat.
The Paducah News says. "The
James Fisk. IT,, has made 24l5 trips
in the Paducah and Cairo trade, in
doing which she has travelled 22i $500
miles, a distance about equal to ten
times around the world"
Captain Charley Russell, after a
pleasant time spent here With his nu-
merous friends, returns home to Gin
cinnali this evening by rail,
Captain j, p. Glenn's wife, who has
been summering at GAINESVILLE, Tenn,
presented him last week with a bounc-
ing boy weighing twelve pounds.
The Josie Harry is due tomorrow
from st, Louis, with a large list off
merchandise for this port and White
river, and has $50 passengers, return
ing refugees,
When a steamboat captain now
stands on the lower deck and sees the
fremen shovel coal into the furnace it
makes his heart ache and his hair
stand on his head, asst is like burning
money.