Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-07-14

dOt, Dut nealthy.
But little breeze stirring.
The air is dry, pure aud fresh.
A fair amount of business is being
transacted at the wharf.
Work on the lower portion of the
levee progresses favorably,
Iron Duke is to be the name Of
Captain Gray's new towboat.
The II. H. Benner left Vicksburg
Monday evening for New Orleans.
Major John D. Adams left last
evening for his home in Little Rock.
Captain James Reese, jr., is at Hot
Springs having his boiler iron-lined,
The Annie P. Silver, and Future
City and barges left New Orleans last
evening.
The Charlie Mcdonald, with empty
stone barges, will probably get away
about Saturday.
The receipts of wheat by river at
st. Louis on Monday last ammounted
to $4,000 sacks.
The Batesville, for st. Francis
river, departed last evening with a
good trip Of freight.
Captain Milt Harry has received
the contract for carrying the mail be.
tween Jacksonport and Augusta.
Bids are wanted by the wharfmas-
ter for saving off the piles, and grad
ing the site Of the burned elevator.
The Charles Morgan, flying light,
passed up at 3 I'm. with about $50
passengers. She added a few here.
The City of Vicksburg left St.
Louis last evening for Vicksburg.
She passes here at 10 am. Friday.
The Andy Baum, FROM Memphis,
and the r. r. Springer, from New
Orleans, arrived at Cincinnati yester-
day.
The L. 0. Stanard, from St. Louis.
and the U. p. Schenck, from Cincin-
natl, arrived at New Orleans yester
day.
The Vint Sbinkle, for Memphis,
and the Viii Kyle and Golden City for
New Orleans, will leave Cincinnati
this evening.
The Virgie Lee goes on the docks
at Cincinnati, to be o~verhauled and
thoroughly repaired and reftted.
Captain S. II. Whitehead, late of
the steamer Silverthorn, with his fam.
lily, arrived this morning on the James
Lee from Helena.
Quite a number of steamboatmen
are rusticating at the different springs
throughout the country. Last season
was prosperous.
William Hunt, pilot of the tug Two
Brothers, has been arrested, charged
with the crime of committing rape
upon a little colored girl.
The Coahoma carried quite a crowd
of colored folks down to Nonconnah
yesterday and last night, where a pic
mic was in progress.
The numerous friends of the genial
Ward Robinson will be glad to learn
that he has resumed control of the
CINCINNATI Times. Star,
The City Of Helena left Vicksburg
yesterday at noon, end will arrive to-
morrow night, and leave Friday at 10
am. for Cairo and st. Louis.
The new Anchor line steamer, City
of Providence, left Jacksonville yes
terday for 81. Louis, where she will
load Immediately for Ficksburg.
Pilot Maratta, of the Dean Adams,
passed through the city yesterday, en-
route to Hot Springs, where he ex-
poets to regain his failing health.
Phin Starr, after knocking about the
levee ct st. Louis, for a few days, loft
there on Saturday last for his farm in
Iowa, from there he goes to Colorado,
but is likely to be baOkiu a sh9rttime.
The tug, Ariadne, belonging to che
Halliday Bros, has succeeded in rails
ing tho steam launch, Picket, recently
sunk in the Ohio river, by the IL. H.,
Benner. She has been taken to Cairo.
The Resolute left this morning for
the Ohio river with the Arkansas
river packet Katie Hooper in tow,
which she leaves at Mound City to.
be docked and overhauled.
Messrs. Rand and Williams, Of
Fort Madison, Iowa, have purchased
the steamer Laura l.. Davis of captain
j. V. Reynolds for $4,000. She will
be reftted and hereafter ply in the
upper Mississippi.
Among the freight brought by the
0sceola Belle was a couple of poles,o one
70 feet 4 inches and the other Sc feet
long. They are to be spliced and
erected for the presidential campaign.