Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-01-15

at Little Rock, with 4 feet on the
guage. Whiteriver is receding, with a
fair stage Of water from Jacksonport
to the mouth.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Clouding up.
Cotton is stiff.
Unreasonable weather.
Bend business slackens up.
Very little doing on the leyee.
Pat, fix that walk for ricketts,.
Shipments for all points are falling
off.
The drift this morning was very
heavy.
Several tons of coal, from the Ohio,
are due down to-day.
The Josie Harry is the Saturday
mail packet for White river.
The Coahoma leaves Vicksburg to-
morrow at noon for Memphis.
The City of Alton left New Orleans
last evening bound for St. Louis.
The John Dippold and barges left
Cairo last evening for New Orleans.
LEDGER Job Printing Office and
Book Bindery, l3 Madison street.
The new steamer Florida was to
leave Pittsburg to-day for New Or
leans.
The James Lee had another good
trip of freight and people out last
evening.
The Osceola Belle had a good trip
out last night for 0sceola and the
upper coast.
The Paris G. Brown picked up GOO
sacks Of corn for New Orleans in
Madrid bends.
The Charles Morgan and Bedford,
from New Orleans, arrived at Cincin-
natl yesterday.
The Paris G. Brown, bound for New
Orleans, put off here l43 sacks pota-
toes and So plows.
The Cherokee leaves New Orleans
to-day for Cincinnati with a cargo Of
sugar and molasses.
The Hard Cash returned to White
river last night with a good tip Of
freight and people.
The James Howard, bound from
New Orleans to st. Louis, passed Cairo
yesterday at 3 pm.
The Thomas Sherlock, bound from
Cincinnati to New Orleans passed
Louisville yesterday.
Captain G. W. Fisher, steamboat
local inspector at Cincinnati, died in
that city on Sunday last.
The Joe Williams, with a large tow
of empties, passed up yesterday after
noon for the Ohio river.
There is a large amount of corn on
the banks in Madrid bends awaiting
shipment to New Orleans.
The Poitevent has succeeded in
getting through the bridge over
Hatchie, near Brownsville.
Will Hays says the fog on the Ohio
recently has been so thick that it could
be chopped out in blocks.
The Commonwealth bound from
st. Louis to New Orleans, passed
Vicksburg yesterday at 8 am.
The Andy Baum left Cincinnati
last evening for Memphis, and is due
here to leave on Monday next.
The Thompson Dean, in command
OF Captain james Pepper, leaves New
Orleans this evening for Cincinnati.
The Golden Rule, from Cincinnati,
and Port Eads and barges, from St..
Louis, arrived at New Orleans yester.
day.
The Gold Dust from St. Louis, arriv-
ed at Vicksburg yesterday at II am,
and leaves there to-day with a return
trip.
Tom Strain, injured by the ex-
plosion, on the Idlewild, died in the
hospital at Evansville, yesterday
morning.
The James D. Parker from Mem.
phis arrived at Cincinnati, and leaves
there Saturday with a return trip for
Memphis,
The Belle Memphis for Memphis.
and Centennial and Imperial and
barges for New Orleans, left st. Louis
yesterday.
Major John Hardin, Superintendent
Of the Memphis and Pine Bluff mail
line, returned home this morning from
Little Rock.
The U. S. beacon light steamer,
Lilly is on her mission down the river
paying off lighthouse keepers and ar
ranging lights.
The steamer Trout, which was re-
GENTLY purchased at Cincinnati, to
do mail service in Red river, passed
down yesterday,
Phe Guiding Star, bound from New
Orleans to Cincinnati, passed Vicks-
burg yesterday at 10 am. and is due
here tomorrow.
The new mail boat for Major John
Adams, which has been contracted for
at Pittsburg, will be 1870 feet long, 30
feet beam, and a six foot hold.
The Yint Shinkle, from Memphis,
and j. 3. NJ. Kehlor, from New Or
leans bound for Cincinnati, passed
Evansville yesterday afternoon.
Brooks and Engineer Meriwether
have met, and it is all arranged for
their trip to the river by the way of