Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-31

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The Annie P. Silver, from st.
Louis, arrived at New Orleans yester-
day.
There is not enough water at Pitts
burg to allow the boats to make ex-
cursions.
From present appearances the
packets leaving this evening will have
good trips.
The John Dippold and barges, for
New Orleans, passed down early yes
terday morning.
Four feet scant v e Portland bar.
with the channel shifting. Boats have
to tighten to pass there.
The Maumelle will arrive to-mor-
row and is the regular packet leaving
Wednesday for Arkansas river.
Taylor Wells, pilot of the Pittsburg.
has been suspended by the Evansville
local inspectors for thirty days.
Six feet large on Portland bar. 5
feet on Flint island and the river
rising, was the report last night.
The Andy Baum passed Louisville
yesterday and expects to finish her
trip without additional trouble.
The Cons Millar, for Memphis, and
the X. r. Springer, for New Orleans,
left Cincinnati Saturday evening.
The City of Greenville, Captain r.
*. Riley, is the Anchor line packet
passing down to morrow at 10 am.
The Batesville will be found in port
this evening receiving to leave to-
morrow evening for st. Francis river.
The City of Greenville, for Vicks.
burg, and the w. P. Halliday, for
New Orleans, left St. Louis Saturday.
The Belle Memphis has 5000 pckgs
freight for this port. She returns to
St. Louis, leaving here at 8 pm. to-
day.
Receiving clerks find it more com
Portable to remain on the boat and
receive freight during the heat of the
day.
The Robert Mitchell, for Cincin-
natl, and the Future City and tow, for
st. Louis, left New Orleans Saturday
evening.
The st. Louis and New Orleans
transportation company are having ri
barges built. Some of these will have
a capacity for 10000 bushels.
The Hard Cash will arrive tonight
and leaves again Wednesday with a
return trip for landings on White,
Black and Little Red rivers.
The Gold Dust. for Vicksburg,
passed down yesterday with a big trip.
She discharged 30 sacks corn and
added a few tons for the bends.
The John B. Maude, for st. Louis.
passed up yesterday forenoon, putting
off a few packages and adding Al head
Of cattle and $4,000 feet lumber.
OF the Cincinnati and New Or
leans transportation line, the Morgan
expects to leave tomorrow evening,
the Schenck, Thursday, and the Hous-
ton, Saturday.
The James Howard, from st. Louis,
passed down yesterday before daylight
with a big trip. She added here 26
bales cotton and about 10 tons of mis-
%cellaneous freight.
Arkansas City, situated about 24O
miles below here, is but three years
old, supports a weekly newspaper. and
has shipped $4,000 bales cotton dur
ing the past season.
Captain Wash Thompson's favorite
packet. Virgie Lee, will arrive to
morrow and is the regular packet
leaving Wednesday for Cairo, Louis.
vile and Cincinnati.
The Mississippi above Cairo, also
the Ohio for its entire length, is ris-
ing, and in a few days we will have
better water, thus enabling boats to
come through on time,
The Grand Tower will arrive this
evening from Vicksburg, and lay
here until tomorrow evening when
she will leave from the Anchor Line
wharfbOat for Cairo and st. Louis.
Captain Albert Stein, of the Charles
Morgan, has recovered $500 in a suit
for damages against the H. G. Yaeger.
and has received the amount awarded
him by the United States court in
New Orleans.
The little sidewheel steamer Star of
the West, Captain w. Brown in COM
mand, to-day enters the lower coast
trade as a daily packet, leaving at 5
pm. from the foot Of Jefferson street.
Charley Dudley is her purser.
The Guiding Star, from New Or
leans, passed up before daylight with
a fair upstream trip. She refused
both freight and people here, as she
intends to lay up at Cairo. On her
way up, when just above Natchez, she
broke a piston and run through a
cylinder head and is completing her
trip on one wheel,
While the uat was lying at Hick-
man, yesterday morning, n of her
deck crew, named Levi Collier, a col
ored man, fell overheard and was
drowned. There being IN under
current there, he never rose after
falling overheard, His home, to which
he was going, is said to be in Nash
vile, where he has a wife and five
children.
The 0sceola Belle, Captain Henry
Cooper in command, arrived from tie
upper coast with II bales cotton, s
sacks seed cotton, 80 sacks corn, and
1Sl sacks cotton seed. She is the
regular packet leaving this evening
for 0sceola and all way landings,
carrying the mail and paying strict
attention to all business entrusted to
her. John Haley, assisted by Hugh