Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-20

hhN 6WAANs w AAAO AANNA 10
swelling from Jacksonport to the
mouth. st. Francis river is also
flush.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Clear and cool.
Another Arctic wave.
Very little business doing on the
levee for Monday.
The Robert Mitchell, en- route from
Cincinnati to New Orleans, passed
Louisville yesterday.
The Golden Rule, from New
Orleans, arrived at Cincinnati yester-
day.
The j. W Calf left Cairo Saturday
for New Orleans.
At Wheeling, Va, the ice on Satur-
day vas still firm.
The ice is thinning out, though still
quite heavy.
Several coal barges and fats passed
Evansville yesterday in the ice.
No arrivals or departures at New
Orleans yesterday.
The ice in the Kanawha river in the
gorge was piled up thirty feet high.
The Kate Dickinson has gone to
YazOo river.
The Maumelle is due up to-day from
the Arkansas river with a good list of
cotton.
The new Memphis and New Orleans
packet Ed Richardson will leave
Louisville tomorrow for New Or
leans.
Captain Gould's new Anchor Line
packet, the w. P. Halliday, leaves
Louisville to-day for New Orleans.
The James Howard is loading at
Cairo for New Orleans and announced
to leave there tomorrow.
The Illinois goes through this trip
to Arkansas City, and will continue
to run regular in the Memphis and
Arkansas City trade.
The Andy Baum, which has been
ice-bound in the Kentucky river, ar
rived at Cincinnati yesterday.
The Vint Shinkle for Memphis and
Charles Morgan for New Orleans left
Cincinnati yesterday.
The damages caused by the ice to
the Guiding Star have been repaired
and she will leave Cincinnati to-mor-
row for New Orleans.
The Belle of Shreveport passed up
Yesterday morning for Cairo after adj
ding here 1000 bales Eastern bound
cotton.
The Relief, A. c. Donnally and
City oil Alton from New Orleans ar
rived at Cairo yesterday. The Relief
and Donnally passed on to the Ohio
river.
The ice at Cairo yesterday cut down
3 barges of coal belonging to Messrs
Brown & Jones, a salt barge and one
section of the dry docks.
The new Mary Houston for Cincin-
natl, and Alexander Kendall for St
Louis, left New Orleans Saturday
evening.
The Ruth cleared Saturday for New
Orleans with 600 bales of cotton.
The towboat Porter, with a tow Of
empty barges,. passed up yesterday
afternoon for the Ohio river.
The Golden Grown got away yester.
day for Cincinnati. She added here
800 bales Of Eastern-bound cotton.
The ice in the Monogahela anC
Allegheny rivers are broken up, anC
at Plttsburg yesterday it commenced
moving,
Navigation is fully resumed in tn,
lower Mississippi and the lower Ohio
though there is very little bushes.
doing.
The City of Augusta cleared Satur
day night, for New Orleans, with 80C
bales cotton, 100 bbls apples, so Dbl
onions and alarge lot of way freight
The Josie Harry, for White river
Marlin Speed, for Arkansas river, anC
Osceola Belle, for the upper coast
had good trips out Saturday evening
Captain T. G. Sweeney has sold
half interest in the Corona at the rat,
of $4,000 for the whole boat, and h,
contemplates building another boa
this spring.
The receipts of cotton for severa
+ days will be light, owing to the ina
bility of the planters to have it hauleC
out to the landings.
1t was the ringbolts on the leve,
and not the parting of the head line
of the r. r. Lee wharfboat causini
her to let go on Friday and the city i
liable for all damage incurred.
The Anchor Line packet Gold Dus
passed down last evening for New Or
leans fully laden, She discharged her,
a few lots of freight and added som,
cotton, oil cake and meal.
The wharfboats and steamboats,. anC
in fact all the water crafts at Cair,
were taken out of the Ohio into tn,
Mississippi river for security Oh
Saturday last.
: Captain Alf Grissom, chief clerk o
the Henry Frank, arrived Saturda,
afternoon by rail from New Orleans
He came here ahead of his packet t,
/ represent her interests.
J The new steamer Gasthell, for New
Orleans, was the only steamer whicl
left Cincinnati Saturday evening. Tn,
Yint Shinkle, for Memphis, deferre,
her departure until the ice thaws out
Captain 0. p, Joplin, formerly chic
clerk of the 0sceola Belle, but latel,
a prosperous merchant in Kentucky
arrived in the city Saturday Afternoon
on q brief visit to his numerou