Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-19


Sultry to-day.
River falling steadily.
Some indications of rain.
Business only moderate at the land
ing.
The Piasa is due from Chester with
a tow ofstone.
Not a single boat at the landing at
dark last evening.
No arrivals er departures at New
Orleans yesterday,
The Golden Crown, bound fer New
Orleans, passed Vicksburg last even.
ing.
The City ofProvidence, from Vicks-
burg, passed up this forenoon on her
way to st. Louis.
The Belle Shreveport is announced
to leave st. Louis tomorrow evening
for New Orleans.
The Katie Hooper departed last
evening with another good trip Of both
freight and people.
The viii Kyle, from New Orleans,
will be due up to morrow night on
her way to the Ohio.
The John B. Maude left last even
ing for st. Louis, taking a light trip
Of miscellaneous freight.
Sam Stickney is at Cairo looking
for a boot to transport his circus,
which is now at st. Louis.
Mrs. Ed Rowland and children re-
turned home yesterday, after several
weeks pleasant sojOurn at Hot Springs.
Insure steamboats, with G. B. Well.
ford 4 Co., general insurance agents,
No. B Madison street, Memphis, Tenn.
1897
The Gold Dust left Vicksburg at
noon yesterday, and will pass here
Sunday at 10 a m. on her way to st.
Louis.
Seven and a half feet of water at
Leland's below Greenville which is
considered the shoalest place south
of here.
Captain David H. Silver, of the
Annie 2. Silver, after quite stay at
Eureka Springs, has returned to St.
Louis much improved.
The Belle Memphis departed at
noon for Vicksburg, after discharging
1900 pkgs and adding 30 tons of mis-
cellaneous freight.
The Salvor No. 2 has finished the
work of wrecking of the Bedford, and
has taken hold of Barge Al, which lies
upside down near Grand Tower.
The Mike Davis arrived last night,
aud landed just below the Anchor
Line what boat. She leaves again on
Tuesday next for St. Francis river.
The Grand Tower for Vicksburg
and the Fred Blanks for New Orleans,
left st. Louis last evening. The
former will pass here Sunday at 10
am.
Colonel Jerry Matson, the popular
steward Of the Dean Adams, arrived
in the city yesterday, and is mingling
with his friends and renewing old
acquaintance.
The elegant Anchor Line steamer
Jonn A. Scudder, in command Of
Captain A. j. Carter, is announced to
pass down tomorrow evening en- route
to New Orleans.
Additional diving apparatus has
been sent to the Eckert, now at work
at the Laura Lee. Everything is
progressing favorably with fair pros
poets of her being raised.
Five and half feet of water is re-
ported in the channel between Cairo
and st. Louis, and seven feet between
Cairo AND this port, the worst places
being Centennial and hollybush.
The City of Providence, after work.
ing at the Paris @. Brown, succeeded
in getting her off. The little steamer
Mike Davis, previous to the arrival of
the Providence, was employed in
taking off freight.
A special committee for that pur-
pose appointed reported favorably on
the gravel road from Yicksburg to
Kleinston, which will be hailed as
good news to steamboatmen and the
travelling public generally,
Captain G. Wash Floyd, after
long season of arduqus labor, will take
q rest until the repairs to bis boat, the
Dean Adams, are finished. He has
not given out yet what springs he will
visit.
A river convention is to be held in
St. Louis, commencing October 26th
and continuing four days. Sixteen
gentlemen, representing the leading
Interests, have been appointed to ar
range al the preliminaries for the
meeting.
The elegant sidewheel steamer Rene
Macready, in command of Captain
Henry Cooper, is the Lee Line mail
packet leaving this evening for 0sceola
and all intermediate landings, giving
strict attention to all business entrust-
ed to her. John Haley and Hugh
Tbomlinson, a couple of clever young
men, are in charge of the office.
The James Lee, in command Of
Captain +. ?. Crider is the regular
mail packet leaving at 5 pm. to-day
for Helena, Friars Point and all inter
mediate landings, attending promptly
10 all c. O. D. and other business and
connecting at Glendale with the
Mobile and Northwestern railroad.
Captain Lloyd w. Whitlow presides
at the desk and is assisted BY Plat
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