Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-03-05

a full cargo Of Western products. and
leaves Saturday evening with a return
trip.
The John NJ. Chambers is due To-.
morrow, bound for St. Louis.
The Cons Millar leaves Cincinnati
this evening for Memphis.
The Centennial passed down this
morning for New Orleans fully laden.
Old steamboatmen and weather
prophets predict no overflow this
spring.
The John Means and barges leaves
81. Louis this evening for New Or
leans.
The Dyersburg returned last wen.
ing to Dyersburg with a fair list of
freight.
Charley Dix, formerly of the John
A. Scudder, is in Leadville, Col.
The new Mary Houston left Cincin-
natl last evening for New Orleans.
We regret to learn that our old
friend Silverthorn, of the Evansville
Journal, is seriously i'll.
Mr.. Alexander Banks has succeeded
Captain Tbad J.. Conant as river
editor OF the Evansville Tribune.
The Cumberland Towboat Companv
purchased at Pittsburg on Monday
the towboat Baltic.
The U. P. Schenck will be due
down tomorrow night for New Or
leans.
The Annie P. Silver will have her
repairs completed and leave st. Louis
tomorrow for New Orleans.
The new steamer w. P. Halliday
left Louisville last evening for New
Orleans.
Mr.. Harvey McCree has succeeded
Mr.. O,Neil as steward Of the Ed
Richardson.
The G. P. Chouteau took into New
Orleans this trip a cargo equal to 1000
bales of cotton.
The Greyhound came in yesterday
from the Ohio river with a tow of coal
for Messrs. Brown & Jones.
Hatchie river is to be open to navi-
cation, and next season there will be
q line Of packets in the trade plying
between here and Bolivar.
The Fannie Lewis returned to st..
Louis last evening with a list of East
ern-bound cotton and several lots of
miscellaneous freight.
Captain Joe Spears left last evening
on the Ouachita Belle for Friar's
Point on a prospecting tour.
The City of Alton and Thomson
Dean, bound for New Orleans, passed
V%icksburg last night.
The Robert Mitchell, en- route from
New Orleans to Cincinnati, passed
V~icksburg yesterday morning at /
o'clock and is due here tonight.
The Golden Rule, from Cincinnati
and G.. P. Chouteau, from Memphis.
arrived at New Orleans Yesterday.
The Guiding Star, for Cincinnati.
and Joe Kinney and John Dippeld
and barges, for st. Louis, left New
Orleans last evening,
The Marlin Speed cleared last even
ing for Arkansas river with a good
trip of freight and a fair list of
people.
The Katie Hooper is the regular
Saturday mail packet for Arkansas
river. She is due tomorrow night.
The tow boat Charlie Mcdonald
was libeled at New Orleans Monday
by the owners of the steamship Il. B.
Ward, jr., for $1,000 damages.
The Adams Mail Line packet Red
Wing, Captain Geo. Malone, will ar
rive tomorrow from Vicksburg. and
leave on Friday with a return trip.
The Colorado arrived at Vicksburp
last evening from st. Louis and leaves
there to-day at noon with a return
trip.
The Golden Grown passed down
last night for New Orleans loaded fat
in the water, and had 30 cabin passcn-
gers. She is getting to be one of the
most popular boats Of the Ohio river
line.
Rates on freight at st. Louis rule as
follows To New Orleans, flour 40 cts
per Dbl, and 10 cts per hundred for
pound freights; to way points the
figures are p cts per hundred and 80
cts per Dbl on -four.
Mr.. Neil Booker, the efficient and
popular second clerk of the 0uachita
Belle, remained ashore this trip TO
take a little recreation and attend to
some private business. Col. Tommy
Husc went out in his place.
The B~atesville cleared last night for
1t. Francis river with one of the best
trips OF the season. She vas loaded
nat IN the water and had about all the
freight she could handle.
The new White river mail packet
Josie Harry will arrive tomorrow
night and leave on Saturday, her regu-
lar day, with a return trip for White
river, going through to J~acksonport.
Colonel Sam F. Hilzheim, the able
representative at Pine Bluff of the
Memphis and Arkansas River Mail
Line, appeared in the role of King
Menus at the Little Rock Mardi-
Gras, and rode a white mule in the
procession.
The Quachita Belle cleared last