Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-20

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being the regular Monday mail packet.
The Katie Hooper, Captain Ed.
Rowland, leaves this evening at FIVE
o'clock for Arkansas river. Jimmy
Thompson and Amos Day are her
clerks.
The City of V~icksburg, of the
Anchor line, arrived at Vicksburg
yesterday at 6 pm, and leaves there
to-day at noon with a return trip for
st. Louis.
The Shields, Captain Ed Crowell,
leaves D%yersburg to-day for Memphis,
and will arrive Monday and leave
Tuesday next, with a return trip for
Dyersburg.
The Katie P. Kouptz takes from
Hopefeld to Evansville 1000 bales of
compressed cotton for Mr.. Hooper the
agent of the Evansville and eastern
fast freights.
The Anchor line boats, bound up,
will lay up on their arrival at Cairo.
The Anchor line will operate from
that point and send South one or two
boats per week.
Congressman Hooker has introduced
a bill in congress for the cleaning out
of Pearl river. and the opening up of
its mouth and to make it navigable as
far as Jackson.
Captain Aaron Pennington is criti-
cally i'll with Bright's disease, at the
residence of his brother-in-la law, DR..
Henry Chenoweth, near Gillmau's
Point, near Louisville.
Miss Jessie Leathers, the elegant
daughter O. Captain Thomas P. Leath-
ers, Of the Natchez, will be married to
a gentleman named Bienvenue, in
New Orleans, this afternoon.
The Vint shinkle, enroute from Gin
cinnati to Memphis, passed Evansville
yesterday, and will arrive here Sunday
evening, and leaves Wednesday next
with a return trip for Cincinnati.
lin attempting to back down, Tues
day night, at Evansville, the Golden
City struck the Sunbeam on her for
ward quarter, tearing off her guards
from her bowsprit to her gangway.
The City of Alton, from St. Louis.
and the Golden Crown, from Cincin-
natl, arrived at New Orleans yester-
day. The latter steamer leaves there
this evening with areturn trip for the
Ohio river.
The j. B. NJ, Kehlor, with a full
cargo of sugar and molassess for Gin
c%innati, and the new steamer Will Kyle,
also with a large cargo of sugar and
molasses for the Ohio river left New
orleans last evening.
The Henry Frank left this morning
for New Orleans, with 300 bales cot
ton, 1O1 bbls oil, 300 SKIS oil meal, $50
empty oil barrels and 10 pkgs of sun
dries, and added at Hopefeld a lot Of
cotton and oil cake.
The Bostona and Scioto collided at
Franklin landing on the upper Ohio
Thursday morning, MASKING the Scio-
to's larboard wheel and doing other
damages, which will necessitate her
going on the docks.
Mr.. Hooper, the agent here of the
Evansville and Eastern Fast Freight,
has engaged 1000 bales of compressed
cotton for the j. W. Garrett and
barges, for Evansville. The Garrett
is due here Tuesday evening from
New Orleans.
The Mollie Moore passed up this
morning for Cairo, well laden. She
discharged here 100 seeks salt, 2 tons
rock salt, 125 bbls and 10 kegs mo-
%lasses, 2 bbls pecans, 40 hhds sugar,
800 bbls cement, % bbls plaster, 2
casks wine and l pkg brandy.
A special telegram to the LEDGER
from Devall's Bluff, in reference to the
Josie Harry, will be found amongst
the kilograms on the first page, owing
to her mishap. She will not arrive
until Monday morning, and leaves the
same evening with a return trip.
A pair Of experimental iron barges
are to be constructed at Pittsburg for
the transportation of coal. These
barges will be respectively, 100 and
$50 feet in length by % feet beam and
u feet hold. The plates will be / or
5-l6ths thick, and the patent covers
the use of wood to a limited extent.
The new steamer Jessie X. Bell
will pass down this evening for New
Orleans. The Jesse is an elegant
steamer, just built and completed for
the Towards, and is worth seeing.
She will remain in port a few hours.
She has attracted considerable atten-
ton at all points along the Ohio river.
The Golden City passed down last
night for New Orleans with a splendid
trip Of freight and people. She dis
charged here 1853 bbls and 48 kegs
whisky, 125 bbls -four, 46 trunks, POP
plows, 973 pillow points, 3O7 bdls paper