Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-07-26
327O pcs bagging, 258 SKIS corn, 277 do
oats, 25 bbls eopperas, l13 pkgs sun
drina


Business moderate.
The Katie Hooper had fair trip
for Arkansaw City.
The Quarantine Station at Vicks-
burg has been discontinued.
The U. P. Schenck leaves New Or
leans this evening for Cincinnati.
The City IF Providence from Vicks-
burg arrived at st. Louis yesterday.
The Oakland and barges from st.
Louis arrived at New Orleans yester-
day.
The City of Greenville passed up
this morning, doing nothing of inter-
est here.
The James Lee for the lower and
0sceola Belle for the upper coasts had
good trips.
The II. j. Dickey arrived this
morning from St. Louis with GIGS
packages of freight.
The stern wheel steamer Bedford is
reported to be loading at st. Louis for
this port at cut rates.
The w. p. Halliday and Paris G.
Blown, both going down, passed
VlCksburg yesterday.
Willie Harrell, of the James Lee,
lett for home yesterday, and John B.
Rhodes took his place.
The City of Vicksburg passed down
this forenoon, discharging 800 pkgs
and adding 20 tons for way points.
Captain Pat Kallaher, the efficient
wharfmaster, left this morning for
Waukesha, Wisconsin, for a few
weeks rest.
The Hard Cash. Captain Ed Postal,
is the packet to morrow evening for
White river. Charles and Joe Postal
are her clerks.
The Annie P. Silver, Captain Green
Shields, leaves the wharfboat at 8
o'clock this evening for Vicksburg
and New Orleans.
The kilograms from Pittsburg an
nounce the departure south from that
port of IA boats and 40 barges of coal
the total being over 100000 bushels,
The National Quarantine Inspec-
ton Station below Vicksburg has
been abolished, much to the relief OF
boat folks and to the detriment of
nobody, except, perhaps, few who
want to hold office.
Prospects are favorable to raise the
sunken steamer Marlin Speed. At
last accounts a bulkhead had been
built which covered the break in her
hull and divers have gone from st.
Louis to assist at the work.
The Mike Davis, Captain 0. X.
Joplin, is receiving at the foot Of
Court street, and leaves this evening
for all points on st. Francis and
LAnguille rivers, connecting with the
| light draught packet Advance for the
Sunk Lands. A. l.. and Ed. Banning
are her clerks.
The barge Richmond-the hull o.
the former low pressure steamer o.
that name--is under may from Flick
man, KY, to Moline, ILL.,, on the upper
Mississippi with 100000 feet of ash
lumber for the pillow factory at tina
point. The same works have contracts
for million and half feet OF the same
lumber to be supplied at Helena anC
Hickman.
A special to the Cincinnati Com
mercial from Pittsburg. says: 0wini
to the great trouble in get
ting through the lock at the Davis Is
land Dam, the coal run will be small
| 1t looks as if not more than dozen o
lows would get out. The B. d. Woo
went through the lock in question thi
morning, with 5 barges, but she ex
perienced a good deal of trouble, anc
came near loosing one, and thereafte
boats did not attempt to take more
than three barges at time, notwith
standing there is good barge water
Many of our coal firms have given VI
getting out any coal at all, and no re
liable report Of the run can be giyel
before tomorrow, as the boats will al
have to make two or three trips to thu
dam, and make up their lows below
that point.
| The new Anchor Line steamer Git
Of Vicksburg arrived yesterday after
noon on her initial trip south. Sh,
was met above the city by the tug
| Creole and Frank Jones and escorted
to the Anchor Line wharfboat annie
the booming of cannon and blowing
of whistles. The dimensions of thu
| Vicksburg are: Length Of hull, 28(
feet; depth Of hold 81 feet, with Al
feet beam. The guards are II fee
wide, giving her an extreme width o
70 feet aud carrying capacity of l60C
tons. The machinery is high pressure
cylinders 26 inches in diameter will
| 8 feet stroke; working water wheels 3
feet in diameter and 10 feet length
of buckets, She has five steel boilers
each 80 feet in length and "A inches il
diameter with four return hues il
each. The main saloon or cabin i
100 feet in length, 16 feet wide, an,
49, in height. The state rooms ar
large and elegantly furnished. TIL
| Yicksburg is a duplicate Of the City o
Providence except that she has lar
ger capacity and she is provide
with every possible device in her out
fit, that can possibly contribute to tn
comfort and safety Of passengers. He
officers are Captain, Robert x. Riley
William r. Blenker, Glenn NOlte an
Louis Price, clerks. DhaTles Aeigle
and Ben Berry pilets. Williar
Macatlin. mate. William Brunswiel