Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-02-11

and signing through for freight. She
is a safe and reliable carrier, and has
superb passenger accommodations.
Captain Lee Cummins is her purser,
and has associated with him in the
Office Messrs. Neil Booker and Lee
Cummins, jr., two clever young GEN
tlemen.
The Hard Cash, CAPTAIN Ed Postal.
came in this morning from White
river with 374 bales cotton, 33l sacks
seed and GO pkgs sundries, and re-
shipped at the mouth 1874 bales cotton:
total out Of the river SIS. She is re-
ceiving at Glenn's wharfboat for a
return trip and leaves tomorrow even
ing, going through to Jacksonport
and making direct connection with
i~ght-draught steamers for the upper
White and Black rivers. Charley
Postal, a prince of good fellows, is her
chief clerk, and is seconded by j. G.
Whyckoff.
The Yicksburg Herald, of Sunday,
says "The Red Wing carried a big
passenger list into Memphis, and the
passengers were so well pleased with
their trip and with the treatment they
received on the boat that they drew
up a series of resolutions expressive of
thanks to Captain Malone. Clerk II. r
Thomas and Steward G. Walter-pub-
lished them in the Avalanche. We
are not surprised. The Red Wing is
one Of the incest packets that ever
ran between this port and Memphis,
and they don't make better men than
Captain Malone and Ed Thomas. As
for Mr.. Walter you have just got to
take a meal with him to appreciate
his good qualities and his accomplish
ments as a caterer. The Red Wing is
a whole team"
The New Orleans Picayune. in an
editorial on the life of Mr.. Higgins.
late river editor of that journal. saws :
We record To-day a sad event in the
demise Of Mr.. Pat Higgins, late river
reporter of the Picayune. Worthy
of all esteem, he will be universally
regretted, and by none more deeply
than by our river men, to whom he
was bound in friendship by many
years faithful service in their behalf.
lie entered newspaper life at an early
age, and was at various times connect
ed with the True Delta, the Times
and the Pieayune. On this paper he
served the latest, and up to the time
he was taken sick. He had grown to
be almost a feature of the levee, and
indeed it seemed hardly a day there,
unless the genial countenance of Pat
Higgins could be seen among the
boatmen. BY his death the commu-
nity loses a good citizen, and journal
ism a faithful, honorable worker, who
won his way worthily and well. He
had resided in this city over thirty
years. He was a native of county
Galway, Ireland, and was at the time
of his demise forty-three years of age. -
The popular passenger steamer
James D. Parker, Captain c. B. Rus
sell in command, came in yesterday
afternoon from the Ohio river with
1860 bbls potatoes, 365 bbls meal. 81
bbls onions, Il, 900 shingles, 116 pkgs
furniture, 81 pkgs hardware, $40 bun
dies spokes and hubs, 100 empty bbls,
1853 boxes and Z casks glassware. 30
kegs lead, 81 head of stock, Is pkgs
machinery, 1856 bbls whisky, 200 bbls
cement, 318 bbls salt, % boxes eggs. II
coops poultry, 5 bales cotton, IT'S tubs
butter, 80 bbls apple, $50 casks and
bbls meat, 50 dressed hogs, 50 Dbl,
-four, 220 bales hay, 175 boxes candles
8l5 SKIS corn, 81 SKIS oats, 40 bbls beans
and 697 packages of miscellaneous
freight. She registered on the down
trip 81 cabin and 10 deck passengers.
made Y landings, did a heavy way
business and discharged 200 tons Of
freight in the lower Ohio. She had
one of the best trips of the season.
She leaves tomorrow evening with a
return trip for Cincinnati, doing all
way business and making direct con
n%ection with the principal railroads
for all points East and West. Colonel
Bob Mccoy does the honors of the
Office, with Harry Millar, the best fell
low in the world, as supercargo.