Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-10-22

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1893 SKIS cotton seed.
Per Osceola Belle, from Osceola
Us ba es cotton, | bag seed cotton
81 SKIS cotton seed, 3 head cattle, 40
head hogs.
Per James Lee, from Friar's Point
252 bales cotton, 6 bags seed cotton
l47 SKIS cotton seed.
Per City Of Helena, from Vicks.
burg, 36 bales cotton, 23l SKIS cotton
seed.
Per Commonwealth, from St. Lsuis
100 bbls meal, rs bbls apples, 100 skf
bran, $50 pals lard.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Cold rain.
Muddy at the landing.
Business only moderate.
n, arrivals or departures at New
Orleans yesterday.
Captain X. w. Wise left last night
by. rail for Cincinnati.
The Cumberland and Tennessee
rivers are rising slowly.
The Coahoma and John T. Moore,
for Helena, had light trips out.
Isaac Valdez, an oldriver engineer,
died at Cairo yesterday evening.
The j. B. NJ. Kehlor is due down
this evening enroute to New Orleans.
The Guiding Star, from New Or.
leans, arrived at st. Louis last even
ing.
Joe Barton and Charlie Parish are
pilots OF the Silverthorn in the upper
trade.
The Rene Mscready is the Helena
and st. Francis river packet leaving
at live pm. tomorrow.
The 0uachita Belle, for Arkansas
City, departed last evening with a good
trip Of both freight and people.
The new sidewheel steamer, Belle
Of the Coast, passed down last even
ing doing nothing OF interest here.
The Maumelle is due tonight from
Arkansas river and if she arrives in
time will leave tomorrow evening
with a return trip.
The Colorado, Captain Sam Nc
Pheeters in command, is the Anchor
line packet leaving tomorrow evening
for Cairo and st. Louis.
The John b. Maude, from St. Louis,
clme in several hours behind time
with 1919 pkgs offreieht and left last
night with a return trip.
G. B. Bryan & Co. yesterday sent o
barge down to the Golden Rule to
lighter her off Norfolk bar. She sue
ceeded in getting off before daylight,
and no doubt proceeded on her jour
ney by noon to day.
The City Of Helena, from Vicks-
burg, passed up this forenoon bound
for ST. Louis. She put off some cotton
and seed and added a small lot Of
freight for points above.
The Commonwealth. with a good
trip Of freight, passed down at 10 am.
cnrOute to Yicksburg and the bend..
She added about % tons,
Captain James Nichols, late of the
lost Florence Meyer, is at Cincinnati
prospecting for a large steamer for the
Cincinnati and New Orleans trade.
The Will Kyle will leave Louis
vile Sunday morning for New o.
leans.
The City of Providence, which ar
rived at st. Louis Wednesday, repor's
the Fannie Tatlm as looking like she
had been pumped out, but still fast on
the obstruction that sunk her.
A telegram TO Captain AID. Storm,
states that the Golden Crown will
pass down tomorrow at 10 am.
The Minneapolis, belonging to the
Keokuk northern line, struck an OBJ
struction on Wednesday last ten miles
above Louisiana and sunk 10 six feet
of water. She lies straight and will
be raised. She was not insured.
The Wyoming, for Helena, the City
Of Providence, for Vicksburg, and the
Belle Of Shreveport, for New Orleans.
all left St, Louis last evening.
John Higgins, who has been indis
posed for the past week or so, will re-
sumo his position as mate Of the
Osceola Belle on Monday next.
Captain b. 0. Michel returned yes
terday, having laid the Mark Twain
up until there is more water in the
0hiou aud Forked Deer rivers.
The Aunie P. Silver, Captain d. II.
Silver ia command, is the Anchor line
packet passing down at 10 am. to
morrow, bound for New Orleans,
The barge Little Gold Dust, which
the w. p. Halliday had yesterday il
tow, contained 600 bales of compress
cd cotton, shipped from st. Louis to
New Orleans.
The Silyerthorn came in yesterday
from Hales Point, with a big lot Of
cotton and seed. She leaves again to.
morrow evening with a return trip for
the upper coast.
Captain N. NJ. Jones, trustee for
the owner and creditors, Yesterday
closed the sale of the Bertha Lee to
Messrs. Yost, Bigelow d Co., of Me-
tropolis, Ills, for the sum of $1,000
cash. This sum will just about pay
her debts.
The W. p, Halliday, drawing u
feet and towing tho barge Little God
Dust, passed down last evening for
New Orleans. She pnt off a lot of
lard and added 100 barrels of cement,
30 head of stock, and about 40 tons Of
way freight.
The reliable steamer w. j. Polite
vent, Captain w. j. Ashford in com
mand, is the daily packet leaving this
evening for Commerce and all way
landings, connecting with The Katie
Ann Rr al landings in Council Bend.
Kneel Booker is her polite clerk, and
is ass ted by Charley Pierce
Among the freight brought this
morning by the 0sceola Belle was a
box of axes which Captain COwdon
recovered from the wreck Of the
South Bend, sunk 20 years ago. This
box was taken of the lower deck. The
whisky is the hold and he expects ia
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