Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-04

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and cotton. She has engagement. in
the bends for all she wants.
The Joe Kinney, Captain Brolaski.
of the Anchor line, will leave the
company's wharlboat this evening at
8 o'clock sharp, for Vicksburg, carry
ing the mail, doing all way business
and making close connection at Vicks-
burg with the regular packets for New
Orleans and Yazoo river.
The Adams mail line packet Qua
chita Belle, Captain Mark Cheek, is
the regular packet leaving this even
ing for Arkansas City, carrying the
mail and doing all way business.
Captain Lee Cummins is her chief
clerk, assisted by Messrs. William
Thomas and Lee Cummins, ir.
The Anchor line packet John b.
Maude, Captain VIM. Blake, will
leave the compaDys w~harfboGt, foot Of
Court street, this evening at 5 clock
sharp, for Cairo and St. Louis. carry.
ing the mail, attending to all bend
business and making direct connection
with the principal railroads for all
points East and West.
The Yint Shinkle, Capt. Sterling
Mcintyre, will arrive tomorrow morn
ing from Cincinnati with a full cargo
Of western products and leaves Satur-
day evening with a return trip. Capt.
A. j. Lindsay does the honors Of the
Office. She will ticket passengers
through to all points East. Capt. R.
W. Lightburne is making engagements
for her.
The neat and staunch little steamer
Shields came in yesterday afternoon
from New Albany, with 4 bales of cot
ton and 36 bags of seed cotton. Cap
tain Ed. CrOwell came down a pas
senger on her. She has been pur-
chased by Captain Ed. Crowell and
Ralph Hicks for the Hatchie river
trade. The sale and trapsfer of the
boat will be completed to-day.
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evening from Cincinnati, and leaves
this evening at 6 o'clock with his swift
and elegant packet, the Rapid Transit,
for Commerce. She will pay strict
attention to all way and plantation
business. The repairs to her ma
chinery are fully completed and she
will hereafter run regular, making
daily trips, Sundays excepted. Mr..
Frank Ellison, a genial and clever
gentleman, is her chief clerk seconded
by Charley Leftwich.
The great old favorite mail packet.
Coahoma, of the Lee-line, Captain i.
0. Banks in command, will be found
at the foot of Monroe street, receiving
and leaves this evening for Friar.
Point, carrying the mail, making al
way landings, and connecting at Glen,
dale with the Mobile and Northwes.
tern railroad. Billy Smither, Z O.
the cleyerest fellows in the world
controls the office, and has associated
With MIN, Messrs. John Haley anc
Tom Hoke, two accommodating clerk,
and clever gentlemen.
The Fawn, Captain j. V. Vaughn
was delayed on account Of the rain
yesterday and heavy fog this morning
but will leave promptly this evening
at three o'clock for Cairo and Evans.
vile. She will attend to all way bust.
ness in the bends and along the lower
Ohio, and tickets passengers through
to Louisville, Cincinnati and all
points East, connecting at Evansville
with the Louisville and Cincinnati
mail packets. The Fawn is a good
carrier and has comfortable passenger
accommodations and will remain per
m%anently in the trade, She gets near
1000 bales of cotton here and at
Hopefeld, which goes East from
Evansville. Mr.. Robert Moffat, an
accommodating and clever gentleman,
presides at the desk.
The planters along Sunhower river
and the river men who run in that
stream speak in terms Of most enthu-
siastic praise Of the work done by the
steamers Deer Creek and Little p, in
cleaning the logs and snags out of that
river, and deepening the channel.
The work is being done by the Govern
ment under the immediate supervision
of Mr.. James NJ. Searles, engineer,
and Captain George W. lookout, and
it is being done thoroughly. By the
time they are through cleaning out
and improving the river there will be
good navigation there all the year
round, and the Importance of the
work can, therefore, be appreciated
This comes of having men in charge
of Government work who are person
ally interested in seeing that the work
is done as speedily and thoroughly as
possible, and that the appropriation
goes as far as it can be made to go.
The handsome steamer. Josie Harry