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

The Laura Davis enroulei from Hell
ena to New Orleans, passed Yicks.
burg yesterday at Sam.
The Vint ohinkle. enroute from
Memphis to Cincinnati, passed Evans
vile yesterday at II am.
The Mark Twain, Captain George
Malone, is the regular packet leaving
this evening for Council Bend.
The Guiding Star, for Cincinnati.
Silver City and Dacota for St. Louis
left New Orleans last evening.
The Thomas Sherlock, for New
Orleans, and Cons Millar, for Mem.
phis, passed Louisville yesterday.
The leyee presents an animated APP
pearance, with a good list of packets
in port receiving and discharging.
First-class printing at low rates at
the LEDGER Job Printing Office and
Book Bindery, No. 10 Madison. +
The Andy Baum, for Memphis, and
the Golden City, for New Orleans.
leaves Cincinnati tomorrow evening.
The Colorado returned to st. Louis
last evening with 473 bales Eastern
bound cotton and 10 tons of way
freight.
The Maumelle passed Helena this
morning at four O'Clock for Memphis
with 600 bales cotton, and will arrive
tonight.
The United States river-oommis-
sion transport General Bernard passed
this morning from New Orleans, en-
route to st. Louis.
The circus has gone and it has quit
raining and the weather has become
more settled. A circus on the bluff
generally produces rain.
The Keokuk Northern Line has
withdrawn their boats, and navigation
in the upper Mississippi and Missouri
is virtually closed.
The Robert Mitchell from Cincin-
natl, arrived at New Orleans yester-
day, and leaves there tomorrow even
ing with a return trip for Cincinnati.
The LEDGER Job Printing Office
and Book Bindery, - Madison, exc
cutes everything in their line as neat
and cheap as any house ia this city I
The fine steamer Ed Richardson,
Captain John W.CanEon in command,
will arrive Sunday from New Orleans,
and will leave Monday evening with a
return trip.
The Anchor Line packet, City of
Helena, which is due up, to-day, from
Vicksburg bound for st. Louis adds
here, 98S bales of compressed cotton
for the East.
The principal items Of the cargo OF
the Mary Houston, due up tomorrow
morning from New Orleans, bound fol
Cincinnati, are 400 hhds sugar anC
1000 bbls molasses.
The John A. Scudder passed uT
this morning for St, Louis with a COCO
up. stream trip. She discharged here
III hhds sugar, All bbls molasses, 25(
pkgs surdries and l bale cotton.
Three million two hundred anC
sixty-two thousand three hundred
bushels of coal have been shipped
from Pittsburg during the presenr
month-all for Cincinnati except 722,.
600 bushels.
The Alice,en route from Pittsbure
to st. Louis, in Attempting to descend
the falls at Louisville yesterday after
noon grounded on the left hand rec.
opposite the site of the oil mill. The
Andy Fulton went to her assistance.
The Belle Memphis, Captain Johr
C. Crane, of the Anchor line, viii
arrive tomorrow morning from St.
Louis with a full cargo of grain and
produce, and will leave in the evening
with return trip for Cairo and st.
Louis.
The Josie Harry, Captain Milt Har-
ry, will arrive to-day from White
river with 1900 bales cotton, the
biggest blue ribbon trip of the
season. She returns tomorrow even
log to White river, going through to
Jacksonport.
Steam canal boats will beintroduced
next spring on the Pennsylvania
canals, The first one now being built
will be So feet long, 10 feet Z inches
in breadth, and will have a carrying
capacity of 105 tons of coal when
drawing 8 feet of water.
The Bedford, Captain A. Williams,
laid over for engagements of cotton
and oil cake that Captain Glenn, her
agent, engaged for her. She gets
away this evening for New Orleans.
She added here near 800 bales cotton
and a large lot Of oil cake.
The staunch and neat little steamer
Shields, Captain Ed, Crowell, will ar
rive tomorrow morning. from the
upper coast with a cargoof corr, cotton
and cotton seed, and will leave in the
evening with a return trip for Upton
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