Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-09-07
CONDITION OF THE RIVERS.

gauge. AT Louisville it fell 2 inches,
with 2 feet 4 inches in the canal. At
Evansville it fell l inch, with 10 inches
on the gauge. At Cairo it tell 2 inches,
with 5 feet 6inches on the gauge. The
Mississippi, at st. Louis, is stationary,
with 8 feet 8 inches on the gauge. The
Cumberland at Nashville fell | inch,
with 6 inches on the gauge. The Ten
nessee at Chattanooga fell 3 inches,
with 8 inches on the gauge Arkan-
saw river fell inch at Little Rock,
with IL inches on the gauge. White
river is falling slowly, aud becoming
quite troublesome to the packets.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Weather clear but very warm.
River falling at the rate Of one or
two feet day.
Business moderate to day but con-
fined to local packets.
Sixteen inches reported at Puppy
Greek on the Ohio river.
The Plow Boy will be here to leave
Friday evening for Arkansaw river.
The Mike Davis departed last even
ing for st. Francis river with a good
trip.
The Dean Adams is the mail packet
leaving to morrow evening for Arksn-
saw City.
The Annie p. Silver is announced
to leave st Louis this evening for
New Orleans.
The sand bar near the opposite
shore presents an inviting appearance
for a base ball club.
The bottom of the river is showing
up at many points on the upper Ohio,
and a good rain is needed.
The City of Providence, for Vicks-
burg, left st. Louis last evening and
passes here Friday at 10 am.
The II. j. Dicky departed;last night
for St. Louis, but will stop about
Fulton to take On a lot of lumber.
Mr.. John A. Conn, who for twenty
years has been Hull Surveyor for the
Custom House at Cincinnati, has been
displaced.
The lighthouse tender, Joseph
Henry, is due down to day and is re.
arranging lights between Cairo and
Vicksburg
The James Lee loys up for a few
days to be reprinted and repair her
rudder, which she broke last night by
backing on a log.
The Ste. Genevieve will be here to-
morrow morning and is the Anchor
Line packet leaving in the evening for
Cairo and st. Louis.
Captain Horace Bixby's fast and
elegant steamer City OF Alton is au-
nounced to passed up this evening
for Cairo and st. Louis.
Captain Dick De Prioste being away
Colonel Will Brooks is responsible
FIR the wit and poetry found daily in
the Appeal river column.
Colonel Albert Beer, manager of
the defeated Reds, walked into town
this forenoon twenty four hours be-
hind his club of base ballists.
The Paris G.. Brown, in command
of Captain A NJ. Halliday, is ex-
peoted down this evening on her way
to New Orleans. Chris Young is her
polite clerk.
Again there is talk of a barge line
being organized to run between this
port and New Orleans. The Bluff
and Crescent City Transportation
Company would be a good name for
the organization.
The towboat John Gilmore had to
triple trip" it over Centennial with
her barges. She brought part of her
tow here evening before last, another
part yesterday forenoon and the bal
ance this morning at daylight, when
she put the whole tow together again
and proceeded on her voyage to New
Orleans.
The Rene Macready, in command of
Captain Henry Cooper, is the Lee
Line United States mail packet leav-
ing at 5 pm to day for Osceola and
all way landings, giving strict atten-
ton to all business entrusted to her.
Billy Smither is her chief clerk, and
is assisted by John Haley and Hugh
Tomlinson.
Speers' cotton gin, located on Vance
street, Nos. 70 to IS inclusive, is the
largest and most complete ginning
establishment in the country. The
proprietor furnishes sacks to parties
who desire to ship seed cotton to the
gin aud guarantees a good yield and
sample. He also insures cotton cot
ton consigned to him while on boats
or in the ginnouse.
The Carrier, which passed South
yesterday at sunrise, grounded at
Norfolk Crossing about twenty miles
below here, where she remained until
9 o'clock last night, when the Hard
Cash came along and lightenod her of,
the task consuming three hours. The
Carrier was drawing 81 feet, but was
a little out Of the way. The officers Of
the Hard Cash report 7 feet there.
The Hard Cash, in command Of
Captain e. G. Postal, came in before
daylight, having brought out Of White
river 20 bales cotton, 3 of which she
r%eshipped at Terrene for New Orleans.
She leaves again this evening with a
return trip for Devall's Bluff, Augusta,
Ja%cksonport and all way landings,
making close connection with small