Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-07-07
RIVER INTELLIGENCE.

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BOATS LEAVING THIS DAY.
For Cat Island Star of the West. s pm
I" Friar's Point, james Lee........5 pm
!" Osceola, Osceola Belle.........5 pm
" Arkansas river, Maumelle.. .......5 I'm
" White river, Hard Cash..,.........5 I'M
=" Cincinnati, Andy Baum $500. 5 pm
ST. Louis, John A. Scudder. -...5 pm
ARRIVED.
Steamer James Lee, Friar's Point.
" Osceola Belle, Osceola.
" Hard Cash, White river.
" Maumelle, Arkansas river
II. II. Benner Plttsburg.
Port Eads, New Orleans.
DEPARTED.
Steamer Port Eads, st. Louis.
Batesville, st Francis river.
j. r. Meigs, st. Louis.
q. q. Wagner, st. Louis.
IN PORT.
James Lee, 0sceola Belle, Maumelle,
Hard Cash, II. IL. Benner, Charlie Nc
Donald.
CONDITION OF THE RIVERS.
The current of the river is swift and
covered with drift and foam which
indicates a heavy pouring out of the
side streams above. A rise of l6 inches
has taken place at this point since
noon yesterday and the gauge now in
dicates % feet 3 inches above low wa
ter mark. The Ohio, at Pittsburgh,
,ose Ii inches with 5 feet on the
gauge. At Cincinnati it rose 5 inches
with IL feet on the gauge. At Louis
vile it fell 2 inches with 6 feet 10
inches in the canal. At Cairo it rose
Il inches with 20 feet 5 inches on the
gauge. The Mississippi at st. Louis
rose 6 inches with % feet | inch on
the gauge. The Cumberland, at Nash.
vile, fell 2 feet 6 inches with 20 feet
s inches on the shoals. The Tennes-
see at Chattanooga, fell 13 inches with
6 feet 8 inches on the gauge. The
Arkansas river, at Little Rock, rose 5
inches with B feet on the gauge.
White river is in good boatable stage.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Very warm.
Clear and bright.
Business lively to-day.
Rain over for the present.
Packets leaving to-day for every
direction.
The Batesville departed last even
ing with a good trip.
The Port EadS and batges for st.
Louis passed up last night.
The City of Helena, for Vicksburg,
left st. Louis last evening.
The snagboats Meigs and Wagner
got off this forenoon for st. Louis.
The U. p. Schenek, for Cincinnati,
passed Evansville last evening,
The Golden Rule lays uD at Gin
cinnati to receive . new shaft.
The Belle Shreveport Leaves New
Orleans this evening for st. Louis.
Billy Willis, clerk Of the Benner,
was around among his friends last
evening.
Wolf river is rising rapidly on ac-
count ofthe heavy rains, and It's cur
rent is very swift.
William Maxwell will he steward of
the new City of Providence. His place
on the Cityof Vicksburg is filed by
William husSel,
The John A. Wood and JOS B.
Williams, with their big tows of coal,
arrived safely at New Orleans yester.
day.
The Kountz line steamer, u. O..
Standard, is due down to morrow
morning. She has freight for this
port.
The James D. Parker, for Mem
phis, aud the Paris G.. Brown, for
New Orleans, leaves Cincinnati this
evening.
The james w. CAT, from Memphis,
arrived at Cincinnati yesterday. She
leaves there Saturday with a return
trip for this port.
! Capt. Caleb Harvey, an old-time
steamboatman, died at Monongahela
City on Saturday last in the eighty
fourth year Of his age.
The machinery Of the G. w. Check
is being o~verhauled. She will be
brushed and painted up preparatory
TO entering the fall trade.