Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-17

George Langwell, pilot of the Paris
y. Brown, is sick. and Mike Kelly is
coming down in his place.
Three feet Of water is all that can
be found on Puppy Creek bar, and 81
feet at other shOal places.
No boat leaving here this week for
Cincinnati, and none announced to
leave Cincinnati for this port.
The Grand Lake and barges after
remaining here since Sunday morning
got away last night for st. Louis.
Insure steamboats, with G. B. Well.
ford Il Co., general insurance agents.
No. D Madison street, Memphis, Tenn,
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The City of Providence left Vicks-
burg at noon yesterday, and will leave
here at 10 am. Friday for Cairo and
st. Louis
The w. P. Halliday and Paris c..
Brown were both expected to pass
down at noon. The halliday is now
four days behind time.
The Grand Tower arrived at st.
Louis last evening, and the Belle
Memphis left there for Vicksburg.
She will pass here Friday at 10
am.
The City of Alton is the Anchor
Line packet leaving this evening for
Cairo and st. Louis. Captain Bixby
commands, and VIM. Mason is chief
clerk.
A dangerous hidden log is reported
right in the channel at Hoagland bar,
directly opposite the log cabin on the
Indiana side ard just above the gov
eminent light.
Captain Harry Brolaski's popular
Anchor Line packet John B. Maude
will arrive tomorrow morning with a
big trip Of freight for this port. She
leaves at pm. tomorrow with re-
turn trip.for st. Louis.
River packet rates of freight were
advanced Sc per 100 lbs at st. Louis
on Monday last. making the rates to
New Orleans 225c per 100 lbs on loose
meats and grain, and 25c on boxed
meats and bran, 30c on hay, 45c per
Dbl on flour, 674c on pork.
The pilots are seriously opposed to
the lighting of the wharves at New Or
leans with electric light. OF foggy
or smoky night they want no light in
making a landing, and the danger will
be increased four fold and more by
such an illumination.
The Katie Hooper will arrive to-
morrow morning and is the regular
mail packet leaving in the evening for
Arkansaw City, taking freight for all
points on Arkansaw river, reshipping
the same at Terrene on the light
draught boat Plow Boy.
The HardCash came in at midnight,
having brought out of White river 81
bales cotton, IS bales of which she
reshipped at Terrene for New Orleans.
She leaves again this evening for all
points on White river through to
Jacksonport. Captain Il. G. Postal
commands and Charles Postal is chief
clerk.
The James Lee, in command of
Captain E. P. Crider, sails at 5 pm.
to-day for Helena, Friar's Point, and
all intermediate landings, carrying the
mail, attending promptly to all COD.
and other business entrusted to her,
and making close connection at Glen
dale with trains on the Mobile and
Northwestern railroad. Lloyd w.
Whitlow preside at the desk and is
assisted by Platt and John Rhodes.
The Rene Macready arrived last
night, bringing in two bales more of
the new cotton crop. She is the mail
packet leaving this evening for Osceola
and all way landings on the upper
coast, attending promptly to all bust
ness entrusted to her. Captain
Henry Cooper commands, and John
Haley and Hugh Tomlinson are in
charge of the office.
In the Common Pleas Court at
Pittsburg a bill in equity has been
fled between the Commonwealth and
the Monongahela Bridge Company.
The court is asked to issue prelimi-
nary injunction and to make a decree
compelling the company to erect the
superstructure of the bridge at such
an elevation as will not interrupt the
navigation of the river. The afida-
Wit to the bill is made by W. w.
O'Neill in behalf the river men.
A colored roustabout who had been
working on the river for twenty years
or more, applied at New Orleans for
admission into the Marine Hospital
and was refused because his certif-
cate, signed by the captain Of the
John D. Scully, on which boat he had
been employed last, called for only
forty one days continuous service, in
stead Of sixty, as required by law.
Yet this same man has been PAYING
hospital dues ever since it became
law to do 50.