Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-02
MISCELLANE0U
Clear and very warm.


burg.
River fell ten inches during the pas
twenty-four hours.
All the rivers above are falling anC
the low water season has set in,
The James Lee departed last even.
ing for Friar's Point with 4 fair trip
Mate John Higgins has been placed
in charge of the wreck of the 0sceola
Belle.
The Mike Davis, for St. Francis
river, is the only local packet leaving
this evening.
! No arrivals or departures reported
at either Cincinnati or New Orleans
for yesterday.
The City Of Vicksburg arrived last
evening from Vicksburg and left this
forenoon for st. Louis.
The Anchor Line packet, w. P.
Halliday, will be due up tomorrow
evening on her way to st. Louis.
A red light is to be placed on the
wreck of the Idlewild at night to
warn steamers landing at our wharf.
The Katie Hooper departed last
evening for Arkansaw City with a
good trip of both freight and people.
Quite a number of hands are engaged
in clearing away the small bluff to the
west Of the railroad below Union
street.
The Sam Roberts and barges, from
New Orleans, came in before daylight,
aad lay here this forenoon cleaning
out boilers.
The'Ste. Genevieve left last even
ing for st. Louis, with a light trip.
She took out the mail of the i'll fated
steamer Osceola Belle.
Insure steamboats, with G. B. Well
ford u Co., general insurance agents,
No. D Madison street, Memphis, Tenn.
1897
Jim Franklin, Levee Discharginp
Clerk Of the Memphis and Ohio River
Packet Line, is enjoying vacation at
luka, Miss, where his family is spend
ing the summer.
The City of Greenville with a fair
trip Offrelght, came in during the nigh
and proceeded to Vicksburg at 10 a.
M, after adding about twenty tons of
miscellaneous freight.
Major John D. Adams and Captain
James Lee, owners of the steamers
ldlewild and Oseeola Belle, are using
every effort to have other boats here
by the end Of the week.
The National Board of Health sta.
ton at Vicksburg is to be re estab-
lished to-day, and DR.. Dunlap, of the
Presidents Island station, it is said.
will be placed in charge.
Steamboatmen will hereafter keen
the greater portion of their wardrobe
up town. There is no excuse for men
with families residing here having lost
their overcoats and winter clothing.
Though the De Smet would be very
suitable to take the place of the Osce
ola Belle in the upper coast trade, it
is thought that that $4,000 is too
high figure to be placed upon her.
The burning of the steamers Idle
wild and Osceola Belle is still the
topic of conversation among the ma
riners who congregate daily about the
corner of Madison and Front streets.
The Commonwealth, five and half
days out from New Orleans, passed
up this morning for st. Louis. She
was detained on her up trip repairing
wheels. She had on board about forty
people.
The river is now so low in front of
the town of Lake Providence, the
bar having formed so rapidly and in so
close proximity to the Mississippi
shore as to preclude the possibility Of
boats delivering the mails at Ben
Lomond.
Captain Jophn's neat little steamer,
Nike DAVIS, is resolving to leave at
5 pm. to-day for Mariana, the Cut
Of and all intermediate landings on
L'Anguille and st. Francis rivers. A,
L. Banning rresides at the desk and
is assisted by his brother Edward.
The Katie Hooper will continue to
make her regular trips to Arkansaw
City, leaving here every Monday and
Thursday at 8 p m, and the sidewheel
steamer Rene MaOready has been en- i.
gagged to make one trip in the same
line, leaving here every Saturday, at
B pm.
On her way up the lighthouse ten
der Joseph Henry made the following
changes of lights between this port
and Cairo: Dixie Field light was
moved to the foot Of the field, Reilleys
light was moved uR 100 yards, and
Bass6eld's light was removed to near
the foot Of the field.
The s,eGapt steamer Fred Blanks,
running under the aqspicias Of the
Anchor Line, is announced to pass
down this evening on her way to
Vicksburg and New Orleans. Captain
j. w. Blanks commands, and the
Office is in charge Of A. McYaY assist
ed by Henry Seaman.
Freights for points on Arkansaw
river as far as Little Rock will be
taken by the Katie Hooper Thursday
evening and resbipped on the Pillow
Boy at TerFene, the latter boat con
Meeting at Little Rock with other