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

80 LAVH a0aaN ANlL lAlAN
morning for New Orleans with a tow
of stave boats and a lumber barge.
Cliff Walker was married at Au-
gusta, KY, last Wednesday night.
Captain Paul Boyton is going to
swim the Connecticut river from
Hartford to Saybrook.
The Belle Memphis laid up at st.
Louis this week, and did not leave
Wednesday evening for Memphis as
reported yesterday.
Mr.. John Foster, steward of the
Maggie Smith, died Of consumption
at his residence in Evansville on Sun
day last.
Captain George A. Vandigrift has
sworn allegiance, and has been duly
Installed as commander of the beacon
light steamer Lilly.
The City of Helena, for Vicksburg.
put off here 1866 pkgs of general
mdse, and added 80 tons for points
below, and cleared at half-past four
last evening.
The H. P. Rogers, Captain John
Fritz, leaves the foot of Union street
this evening at five o'clock for Scan
lan's Landing and the bends. Lewis
Fritz is her purser.
The Anchor Line steamer John A.
Scudder leaves here Sunday at 10 am.
for New Orleans and all principal wav
landings.
Commodore Milt Harry returned
from New Orleans yesterday afternoon.
He will build at Pittsburg a side
wheel steamer for the New Orleans
and White river trade, and will have
her ready for business by the 18th Of
September.
The steamer Natchez, in ten years,
paid into the treasury at New Orleans
$4,000 wharfage dues. City corpora
tions tax river commerce and vote
millions for railroads all because
Legislators get some of the chicken
pie"
The Thomas Sherlock, Captain Lew
Hates, leaves Glenn's wharfboat, foot
of Jefferson street, this evening at
five o'clock for New Orleans, making
all principal way landings. Captain
virden presides at the desk. Captain
Glenn will make engagements and
receive freight for her at his ware
house, near the foot of Jefferson
street, or on the wharfboat.
Captain r. w. Lightburne, super
intendent of the Memphis and Ohio
River Packet Company, is now pre-
pared to ticket passengers over his
line to all points East at a lower rate
than by any other route.
John L. Winston, first engineer,
and John w. Maxwell, second engi-
neer, of the steamer Brilliant, that
was blown up opposite G~allipOlis, o.,
last August, have both been indicted
by the grand jury Of the United States
District Court, i'll session at Charles
son, last week, for mauslaughter.
Pilots of the st. Louis packets re-
port a change in the channel of the
Mississippi at Horse Tail. The chan
mel is lower down and very crooked.
with the best water up and down
the dyke or east of Carrolls Island.
Major Hardin, superintendent of
the Memphis and Arkansas River
Packet Company, arrived home last
evening from an extended trip East,
and appeared in his Office this morn.
ing on Front Row full of business.
The Osceola Belle, Captain ]. G.
Andrews, is the regular mail packet
leaving this evening at six O'Clock,
sharp, for Osceola and all way land
ings on the upper coast. Captain B.
o. Michel, a prince of good fellows,
is her chief clerk, and has associated
with him in the Office Messrs, Cyrus
Fay and AL Speeres.
Burnett & Turner, late wharfboat
p%roprietors at Helena, Ark, have sold
cut and retired. Several steamers are
minus their collections from this
wharf boat, amounting in the aggre-
gate to $l600-of which the Golden
Rule is loser $l60, Robert Mitchell
$3.50, and John B. Maude $500.
The City of Greenville, of the An
Choir Line, Captain Jack Carter in
command, will leave the company's
wharf boat tomorrow morning at 10
O'Clock for V~icksburg and the bends,
carrying the mail, giving special
attention to all way business and max
ing direct connection at Vicksburg
with the New Orleans and Yazoo
river packets, giving through tickets
and signing through bills Of lading.
The Belle Memphis, Captain John
G. Crane, will arrive in the morning
from st. Louis with a full cargo of
grain and produce, and will leave in
the evening ats o'clock with a return
trip for Cairo and St. Louis, attend
ing to all bend business and making
direct connection with the principal
railroads for all points East and
West.
The hot sun or extra dry affected
Prices brain (?) yesterday to an ex-
tent that is really alarming. Poor
Price Not satisfied with pouring
maledictions on our head he exhibits
his ~prehensile lineage by pitching into
the press agent at New Orleans for
using the prefix grand in connec-
ton with the Golden Crown. Try
again, Carl.
The red tiger packet Coahoma
came in this morning with 30 bales of
cotton, 230 SKIS seed, and sundries, and
also a good list of people. She leaves
at 6 pm. with a return trip for Eriar's
Point and way landings, carrying the
mail and connecting with the Mobile
and Northwestern railroad at Glen
dale. She is commanded by Captain
Stacker Lee, an experienced and care
full boatman. Mr.. John GWathmey is