Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-09-23

Per James Lee, from Friars Point
-2l6 bales cotton, % bags seed cotton,
4l2 SKIS cotton seed.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Warm weather continues.
A moderate business doing to. day.
The Carrier, from New Orleans,
arrived at st. Louis yesterday.
The Grand Tower, from st. Louis.
arrived at Vieksburg last evening.
The Commonwealth should be up
tomorrow, on her way to st. Louis.
Captain Kneel Booker went out
Yesterday in charge of the office Of the
Tiger.
The Ste. G~enevicve departed last
evening for st. Louis with a very good
trip.
A forty-four inch rise reported at
Cincinnati, all from the Kanawha
river.
The coal feet Of G. b. Bryan & Co.
has been moved down below the foot
Of Beal street.
The water is gaining upon the
sunken ferry docks and the wreck Of
the Idlewild.
About 1000 900 bushels of coal, out
OF the Kanawha river was expected at
Cincinnati to-day.
Captain Oscar Postal, with a gang
Of men, is hard at work removing the
wreck of the Idlewild.
The Gold Dust left st. Louis last
evening, and passes here Sunday on
her way to Vicksburg.
Captain John G.. Crane, late of the
Commonwealth, is in charge of the
w~recking boat Salvor No. 2.
Owing to the rise in the upper river
the Anchor Line Company are placing
their fine boats on the track again.
The Memphis Anchor Line packets
hereafter will be the John B. Maude,
Ste. Geneyieye and the City Of Helena.
The Dean Adams departed last
evening for Arkansaw City, with a
very good trip of both freight and
people.
The old locks Of the Louisville and
Portland canal are now in working
order aud are 268 feet in length and
494 feet in width.
The Mike Davis departed yesterday
for Helena, and leaves there this even.
ing on her initial trip in the Helena
and ConcOrdia trade.
No freight will be received at the
Anchor Line wharfboat after 5 pm.
The same rule should be imperative
with the local packets.
Pilot Mart Hampton, of the Silver
thorn, brought the Marlin Speed from
Mound City and is around to-day
mingliDg with his friends.
The Lee Line packet Rene Ma
cready, leaving tomorrow for Helena,
will go around Council and Walnut
Bends, making all landings.
The Henry Frank leaves New Or
leans this evening on her initial trip
in the cotton trade. She will leave
here on Wednesday next with a return
trip.
The City of Providence, from St.
Louis, passed down this forenoon,
putting of a few pkgs here, and adding
about 90 tons for Vicksburg and the
bends.
A good rise on top of the ono just
passed 81. Louis is coming down the
upper Mississippi river, and if the
Ohio could rise a few feet good navi-
would be assured.
The work of removing the wreck of
the ldlewild was commenced yester-
day, but it is feared tooSlate to make
a good job. At the way they have
gone about it, it will take from 6 to s
weeks.
Captain 7. w. Wilcox, OF Terrcno,
Miss, has gone up the country to pur-
chase a small boat for Richardson &
Co of the Refuge Oil Works, who
wishes it for the transportation Of cot
ton seed for the mill.
The viii Kyle, towing the barge
RubicOn, passed down last evening
drawing 6 feet 6 inches and had 1900
tons on boat and barge. She dis
charged nothing here, but added 20
tons, mostly way freight.
Captain Elem Calvert's elegant
Anchor Line steamer City of Helena
will be here tomorrow morning and
leave in the evening with a return
trip Tor Cairo and st. Louis. Geo.
Walton presides at the desk.
Old Captain Jim Lee, now rustica-
ting at Hot Springs, draws large
crowds each evening to listen to his
yarns Of half a century ago.
After a free use ofthe thermal waters
he will return here, looking twenty
years younger, and again tread the
roof OF the elegant James Lee.
The neat little steamer Milt Harry
is the regular packet leaving to.mor-
row evening for DevalPs Bluff,
Augusta, J%acksonport, and all inter
mediate landings, making close con-
n%ection with boats on upper White
and Black rivers. John G. Wyckoff
is her chief clerk.
The Marcus Collins, in command of
Ben Carter, departed last
evening for Helena and will run regu-
larly from that port to Mariana and
all landings on ST. Francis river as far
as the Cut Of. She will also make
connection with the Rene Mac
which boat will take freight for
st. Francis river.
The red tiger" steamer Coahoma,
in command of Captain Henry Coop
err, is the Lee Line United States mail
leaving this evening for 0sce-
ola and all way landings on the upper
coast, attending promptly to all COD.
and other business entrusted to her.
Billy Smithcr, John Haley and Hugh
Tomlinson attend to the affairs of the
Office.
The Marlin Speed, just off the docks
at Mound City, arrived last night and
is receiving to leave at 5 pm. to-
morrow for Pine Bluff and all way
landings on Arkansaw river, carrying
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