Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-01-08
There Is a BE falling o. h .hip.

river last night with an excellent trip.
The Annie P. Silver and Mollie
Moore arrived at st. Louis yesterday.
LEDGER Job Printing office and
Book Bindery, 10 Madison street. t
The steamboats, are being furnished
with coal at New Orleans at SOC per
box.
The John Dippold and barges
passed up yesterday afternoon for st.
Louis.
The Geo. w. Cheek tomorrow
evening extends her trip to Hale's
Point.
The swift propeller steamer Sylvan
Dell left Louisville yesterday for New
Orleans.
At st. Louis the river is rising
rapidly with all the upper streams
swelling.
The hard rain this morning washed
considerable of the mud and filth off
of the leyee.
The Cons Miller, en- route from
Memphis to Cincinnati, passed Louis
vile to-day.
The Imperial leaves st. Louis to-
day for New Orleans with s barges of
grain in bulk.
The City of G~reenvillo and Iron
Mountain left Cairo yesterday morn
ing for st. Louis.
The James w. Calf for Memphis,
Will Kyle for New Orleans, passed
Louisville yesterday.
The James Howard and John Gill
more and barges left New Orleans
last evening for st. Louis.
The Virgie Lee, for Memphis, and
Golden Crown, for New Orleans, leave
Cincinnati this evening.
The Nellie Speer and Oakland, with
lows of coal from P~ittsburg, arrived
at New Orleans yesterday.
The James Lee returned to Friar's
Point last evening with another good
trip of freight and people,
The Imperial and barges, and Flu
ture City and barges, from New
Orleans, arrived at 81. Louis.
The Gaf for Memphis added at
Louisville $40 bbls potatoes and -four,
300 kegs nails and sundries.
The Belle ofShreveport, bound from
New Orleans to St. Louis, passed
Vicksburg yesterday at ? pm.
The Golden City, en- route from
New Orleans to Cincinnati, passed
Cairo last evening at 5 o'clock,
The draw in the bridge over Hatchie
river at Brownsville will be COM
pleted by the first Of February.
Rates from Cincinnati to New Or
leans now rule at % cents per barrel,
and l24al5 cents per hundred.
The boom in Arkansas river lets
out a large amount of cotton which
has been awaiting shipment to market.
The City of Vicksburg, Of the An
Choir line, left Vicksburg yesterday at
II I'm. for st. Louis and is due here
tomorrow.
The planters in the bends had bet
ter prepare for a big river if not an
overflow. The Ohio is rising rapidly
from Pittsburg to Cairo.
Last year Pittsburg turned out four
new towboats, five stern wheel passen-
ger boats, n tsternwheel freight
boat, and one sidewheeler.
The Golden Rule, en- route from
Cincinnati to New Orleans, passed
Evansville last night at five o'clock,
and is due here Saturday morning.
The LEDGER Job Printing Office
and Book Bindery, ID Madison, exe-
cutes everything in their line as neat
and cheap as any house in this city. I
The Commonwealth, and Ny
Choice, for New Orleans; st. Gen
%eyieve, for Memphis, and Grand
Tower, for V~icksburg, left St. Louis
yesterday.
The coal men at Pittsburg are now
crying for a freeze up. They have
too much water, and they are fearful
that the shipment of so much coal will
break down the river markets.
Several steamboat and railroad
agents we're fined yesterday by the
recorder for doing business without
license. They claim there should be
no license or tax exacted from them.
The Katie Hooper, Captain Ed.
Rowland, is the regular Saturday
mail packet for Arkansas river. She
will arrive in port tomorrow with a
good list of cotton and other freight.
The James D. Parker left last even
ing for Cincinnati with 1876 bales Of
cotton, $1,000 feet Of walnut lumber,
100 bbls oil and 200 pkgs of general
merchandise, and also had 20 cabin
passengers,
y. q. Dawson, watchman of the
James D. Parker, was arrested yester-
day on the charge of shooting a col
ored rOuster on the boat at Cairo.
Chief Athy will hold Dawson subject
to the order Of the proper authorities
at Cairo.
The blue ribbon White river mail
packet Josie Harry, Captain Milt
Harry, will arrive tomorrow from
White river with another good list of
cotton, and will leave on Saturday,
her regular day, with a return trip,
going through to Jacksonport.
Will Hays Toy boat, the j. b.
NJ. Kehior," came up this morning
from New Orleans, en- route to Gin
%cinnati, with her large cargo of sweet
ness. She will add here some com
pressed cotton and will get away to-
day on her voyage to the Plaster Paris
of America.
The City of Helena, Captain Nc
Kee. of the Anchor line having heen