Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-06

was bOO bids Havana sugar, con-
signed to st. Louis.
The Silverthorn for the upper and
the Osceola Belle for the lower coast,
departed with fair trips.
The Ohio river has declined suf-
ticiently to allow boats to pass through
the canal at Louisville.
The Commonwealth and Il. O..
Stanard from st. Louis, arrived at
New Orleans yesterday.
Evansville viii be the name of the
new steamer being built at Cincinnati
for the Green river trade.
The Greyhound left Yesterday for
Ohio with a tow of empties, and the
steamer Sallie Carney in tow.
Our wharfmaster can go a peg high
err in the estimation of steamboatmen
fhe will have the leyeo sprinkled.
The Hard Cash for White and the
Hattie Rowland for Aarkansas rivers,
departed last evening with good trips.
The ferryboat steamer Bob Lee
passed down last evening, en- route to
Helena, where she viii do service be-
tween Helena and Glendale.
Captain Aaron Pennington died
yesterday morning at Louisville. He
was an old time pilot, and a promi-
nent politician of Kentucky.
John z. Wyckoff, second clerk Of
the Hard Cash, stopped off this trip
to attend to rome business. Billy
Watson went out in his place.
The Golden Crown, with almost a
full load, passed down thisr forenoon,
adding here 100 bales cotton, 300 bbls
oil, 1000 SKIS oil cake and 40 bbls lime.
The Katie Hooper will arrive to.
night, and is the mail packet leaving
Saturday evening for all points on
Arkansas river through to Little
Rock.
Mr., VIM. Wheeler, late levee clerk
for the Cincinnati and Memphis
packet company, left last evening on
the rteamer Virgie Lee, accompanied
by his wife.
The Charles Morgan will leave Gin
%cinnati on Saturday for New Orleans.
She was bonded at Louisville, being
appraised at $500, and released on
$4,000 bond.
The John A. Scudder arrived last
evening from New Orleans, put off 80
bbls potatoes, and lay here until this
morning cleaning out boilers. She
added nothing.
The Josie Harry will arrive this
afternoon, and is the mail packet
leaving Saturday evening for all points
on White, Black and Little Red
rivers, through to J~acksonport.
The Virgie Lee departed last even
ing for the Ohio with 100 bales cotton,
IA bales paper stock ,2S6 bales batting,
80 bbls oil, 10 hhds iron, Al 5000 feet
lumber and a fair list of people.
Jim Franklin, levee clerk for the
Cincinnati and Memphis packet com
pany is prepared for the heat of the
summer. He attends to business
under the SHADE Of an awning.
Owing to competition between the
Southern transportation line and the
Cincinnati aud Memphis line, ireights
have been reduced to ten cents per
hundred from Cincinnati to Memphis.
This benefits the merchant but notthe
consumer.
1890.
Pilot Henry Wilbur informs US that
on Tuesday evening last there was o
collision between the transfer steamer
General Pierson and the little steamer
Star Of the West, which came near
proving disastrous.
The government steamer 0etayia is
coming south, having on board the
congressional committee sent out to
examine the Mississippi from St.
Louis to the gulf. The 0ctavia will
so through to the j%etties.
The work OF recovering the Can
mons shaft has been abandoned. it
being deemed dangerous for a diver to
undertake to descend and make it
fast so that it could be raised. Capt.
Cannon telegraphed to Buffalo N. Y,
after another shaft.
The Batesville will be found in
port this afternoon, receiving to leave
tomorrow evening for all landings on
LAnguille and st. Francis rivers,
connecting with light draught boats
for Wittsburg and the sunk lands.
A telegram received from Evans
vile last evening, by Billy Smither.
contained a summons for his return to
the bedside of his wife who is lying
very i'll. He left on last nights train.
and we hope, upon his reaching Ev-
ansyille, he will find her improving
and entirely out of danger.
The Grafton, which passed up yes
terday for the Ohio with a tow of
empties, when about 80 miles above
here run her fuel barge against a snag,
sinking it clear out Of sight. The
barge contained about 5000 bushels of
coal. The Grafton returned early
THIS morning to replenish her fuel.
The Guiding Star, 4 days out, with
about $50 tons freight, and full of
people, arrived last evening. She dis
charged here 80 bbls potatoes, and
lay here until 6 o'clock this morning
cleaning out boilers. She and the
Scudder left New Orleans together,
and have been running pretty close.
AS some of the planters in the bends
are getting very anxions in regard to
the rising river, lest it should again
set them back with their work, we
would inform them that the rivers
above are declining. At Cairo the
Ohio will be on a stand by night, and