Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-18

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S5@S7c; French calf, $4,000 per dozen;
domestic calf, $4,000 per dozen.
TOBACCO Per ID 42H@60c.
SALT.-Per Dbl, 81 rs per a or dray
load; orders 81 IS sacks 81 300l 60 for
course and fine. Rock salt &c per pound.
BAGGING-k arket quiet; on orders,
fax, 9Nc per yard; jute, 10X@l1c; ties;
" 1908 per bundles Irvine, l2c per
pound
RIVER INTELLIGENCE.
BOATS LEAVING THIS DAY.
For st. Francis river, B~atesyille. .....5 m
=" st. Louis, Grand Tower..........5 p m
New Orleans, Guiding Star.....8 p IN
New Orleans, Chas. P,Chonteau 5 pm
ARRIVED.
Steamer Mary Houston, Cincinnati.
Grand Tower, Vieksburg.
Batesville, st. Francis river.
Hard Cash, White river.
City of Greenville, st. Louis.
Golden City, New Orleans.
Centennial, New Orleans.
Nlrgie Lee, Cincinnati.
l. DEPARTED.
Steamer james Lee, Friar's Point.
=" 0sceola Belle, Osceola.
James w. Gaff, Cincinnati.
0uachita Belle, Greenville'
Mary Houston, New Orleans.
Oityo Of Greenville, Vicksburg.
Golden City, Cincinnati.
Belle Memphis, st. Louis.
" Centennial, st. Louis.
III IN PORT. aL
Grand Tower, Hard Cash, B~atesville,
Mark Twain, Virgie Lee,
CONDITION OF THE RIVERS.
For the "a hours ending at
noon to-day the river at this point
has declined II inches, and is now
2Ofeet2 inches above low water mark.
The Ohio at Pittsburg declined
/ inch, with | foot II inches on the
gauge. At Cincinnati it declined 5
inches, with 10 feet 6 inches on the
gauge. At Louisville it fell
2 inches, with 6 feet 9 inches
in the canal. At Cairo a
decline of 10 inches is report
ed, with % feet 6 inches on the
gauge. The Mississippi at St. Louis
fell 2 Inches, with 10 feet II inches on
the gauge. The CumberlandatN Nash
vile fell | inch, with 4 feet 8 inches on
the shoals. The Tennessee at Chat
tanooga declined A inches, with 4 feet
10 inches on the gauge. Arkansas
river is rising, with 20 inches on the
gauge at Little Rock. White river
continues to decline.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Warm and dusty.
A shOwer is badly Leeded.
Cool enough in the shade.
The Colorado, for Memphis, left St.
Louis last evening.
The Andy Baum leaves Cincinnati
this evening for Memphis.
The Chas. Morgan from Cincinnati,
arrived at New Orleans yesterday.
Capt. r. 2. Glenn returned home
last night, looking hale and hearty.
The Will Kyle, from New Orleans,
arrived at Cincinnati this forenoon.
Tine City Of Fioksburg from Vicks-
burg, arrived at st. Louis yesterday.
The Mary Ann, with a tow of en-
ties for the Ohio, passed up last even
ing.
The Ph@ton and D%iurnal, two upper
Ohio river boats, will soon make a
race for a stake ofSlO0O.
The Dyersburg has completed her
repairs, and left last night for 0bion
and Forked Deer rivers.
The John A.. SeuddeP from st.
Louis, passed Vicksburg yesterday at
noon.
The barge Mary Ann. which was
taken south by the Grand Lake, con-
tanned $500 SKIS oil cake.
Shipments Of grain from St. Louis
last week amounted to two hundred
aud ffty-on thousand bushels.
The r. r. Springer, Capt. Fl. U.
Hart, is due up before daylight to.
morrow morning, enroute to the Ohio.
The pilot house of the Robert
Mitchell caught Ere Saturday at Gin
c%inpati and was damaged to the extent
Of $500 q .strg6G 8Ias
Ed. Gay went out yesterday second
clerk ofthe james Lee, Arthur Brown
having gone to Hot Springs to re-
cuperate.
The Guiding Star, Captain W. B.
Miller, will pass down this evening en-
route to New Orleans. Captain John
s. Jones is her pHrser.
The house Of representatives yes
terday after a short debate suspended
the rules and passed the river and
harbor appropriation bill.
The lake excursion steamer, Ruby,
well known by many here, was burned
at Chicago on Sunday while lying at
nerth pier. Loss, $4,000.
The Centennial, from New Orleans,
passed up at 9 am, putting off here
Ia bales cotton. She had about 500
tons of freight and was full Of people.
The Grand Tower, Captain CarEelI
in command, is tho Anchor line packet
leaving this evening for Cairo and St.
Louis, Tom White presides at the
desk.
The Mary Houston, for New Or.
leans, passed down yesterday after
noon, putting off here about $50 pkgs
and adding 40 bbls oil. She refused
to take more.
The John A, Wood and Tom. Rees,
lgith toys from louisville, and the