Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-06


Twelve inches Of snow at Shreve-
port and freezing weather.
The ice this morning is very heavy
and extends from shore to shore.
The COahoms is the only boat lying
at the landing, the rest Of the packets
having gone into winter quarters.
Memphis, for the present, has ceased
to be the head of navigation, the
frozen liquid having put an embargo
on navigation.
The Arkansas river mail packet
Marlin Speed has gone into winter
quarters at Helena.
The White river packet Hard Cash
is at Newport, Arkansas, in a safe
harbOr, closed in by ice.
The upper coast packets, Oscsola
Belle and Ruth, are ice-bouDd be-
tween here and Osceola.
The Illinois, from Riverton, arrived
at Helena yesterday morning and laid
up there on account of the heavy ice.
S%teambOatmen predict an ice-gorge
to-day or tomorrow at Columbus and
Randolph, which will tend to thin out
thu ice hare
Adam WaylaRd, late bill clerk of
the Charles Morgan, went out Satur-
day evening from here as bill clerk on
the Thompson Dean.
The A. c. Donnally left New
Orleans OF Wednesday last for Gin
cinaAti, and is working her way up
the river.
Captain W. P. Halliday of Cairo,
commenced life as a printer.
Mrs, Carter, wife of Captain A. J.
Carter of the John A. Scudder, died
in st. Louis last week of consump-
ton.
The arctic wave has extended to
New Orleans, ice having formed there
yesterday in the cutters.
The Sam Roberts and barges. from
the Ohio river, arrived at New Or
leans yesterday,
The Ohio river is gorgsd with ice
above Paducah.
The ice at Cairo was still very heavy
yesterday, with no serious damage to
water craft from ice as yet.
The river at Cincinnati is still frozen
over.
The Memphis and Little Rock rail-
road transfer boat, General Pierson,
continues to make her regular trips,
The Arctic wave, which struck us
several days since, remains solid with
no immediate prospect of a breaking
up.
The Florence Meyer is en- route
from New Orleans to Dardanelle,
Ark, in search of a load of cotton.
The Ohio river packets U. P.
Schenck and Mary Houston are laid
up at New Orleans awaiting the re-
sumption of navigation.
The st. Francis river packets Mark
Twain and B~atesville have laid up on
account of the ice in the mouth of the
st. Francis.
Major John D. Adams is in Louis
vile for the purpose of contracting for
two elegant sidewheel steamers for
the Memphis and Yicksburg trade.
The ice in the river is from six to
eight inches thick, and steamboatmen
report it as too heavy for steamboats,
to tackle.
Commodore Rollingpin, the wet
ender of the St. Louis Times, saws
Milt Harry continues to run his line
of steamers on the White river, having
cleaned out all opposition.
The Annie P. Silver left yesterday
for New Orleans. She added at Hope
field a large list o cotton, oil-cake and
meal.
The barge Of coal sunk at Plum
Point by the Alice Brown contained
bushels. 1t was for this mar
ket, and was owned by Messrs. Brown
q Jones.
The Thompson Dean cleared Satur.
day evening for New Orleans, with
1900 bales cotton, 100 tons of freight
and 60 cabin passengers, and has en-
gagements in the bends sufficient to
fill her out.
The Belle Texas cleared yesterday
morning for St. Johns river with 800
bales of cotton for New Orleans, and
a lot of sundries. Ed Crowell went
out as chief clerk of her.
Captain Nat Pickett, an old Red
river steamboatman, died a few days
since at New Orleans. He was on the
Robinson and w. NJ. Levy in
the olden times.
In the matter Of the steamboat Cot
ton Valley disaster, Captain Kouns, of
the Cotton Valley, has appealed from
the finding of the board of local in
spectOrs to the supervising inspector.
Captain W. s. Jones, a Memphian
who has been connected for several