Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-10-01

Ed Banning, Of the Marcus Collins,
came up this morning on the Rene
Macready.
The Paris @. Brown is announced
to leave st. Louis this evening for
New Orleans.
The Mississippi is in a good boating
stage to st. Paul, but the Illinois and
Missouri are low.
The channel Of the river is leaving
Birds Bend again, and is coming back
to the Cairo Point.
The Dean Adams will arrive to-
morrow and is the mail packet leaving
Monday evening for Arkansaw City.
The work of clearing HatcIie river
OF obstructionsis progressing favorably
under the supervision Of Major W. H.
H. Benyaurd.
The City Of Alton, in command of
Captain ii. Bixby, is the Anchor Line
packet passing down this evening for
New Orleans. WIN. Mason presides
at the desk.
The John B. Maude left st. Louis
last evening, will arrive here Monday
morning and is the regular Monday
evening Anchor Line packet for Cairo
and st. Louis.
All interested should bear in mind
that the Lee Line packet Rene Ma
cready will go through to Friars Point
this trip, giving attention to the bust
ness of Council and Walnut Bends.
The James Lee, for Friars Point,
and the Coahoma, for Osceola,
departed last evenings with fair trips.
They will be back again to- morrog
and leave again Monday evening.
Captain james Good left St. Louis
on Wednesday last in charge Of the
government steamer r. j. Wheeler.
for Saltwater, The Wheeler will tow
a lot OF new government barges to st.
Louis.
The Grand Tower, in command of
Captain George Carvcl, is the Anchor
Line packet passing down at 10 am.
tomorrow for Vicksburg and all way
landings, Tom White is her polite
clerk.
The National Board of Health
quarantine stations at Vicksburp.
Cairo and Memphis have to-day been
discontinued for the season, there be-
ing do further use for the same until
next summer.
The canal being made around Mus
sci Shoals it is thought will be COM
pleted in two years. When this is
done the Tennessee river will be navi-
gable from Paducah to Knoxville, a
distance oil 500 miles.
Charles e. Harris, second engineer
OF the Golden Crown, was married on
Monday evening last, in Covington.
KY, to Miss Mary Estes, daughter of
the late Captain Wash Estes, a former
we'll known river pilot.
The Chas. p. Chouteau or Iron
Charlie, al the bends people prefer to
call her. will leave New Orleans this
evening for Memphis direct. She
will probably leave here on Thursday
uext with a return trip.
The Gold Dust is the Anchor Line
packet leaving here at 10 am to.
morrow Tor Cairo, St. Louis and all
principal way landings. Captain j.
!. McCord commonds and Henry
Dietrich prcsides at the desk.
Captain Billy Flowers upper coast
packet Tiger arrived last even
ing, and leaves with a return trip at
8 pm. to-day for Cottonwood Point
and intermediate landings, attending
PROMPTLY to all business that offers,
Neil Booker is her chief clerk.
Captain Henry NJ. Mccormick. of
the steamer Caddo Belle, borrowed a
pistol from the mate of his boat, went
to his stateroom and committed sui
eide by shooting himself through the
head, on Monday night last. He left
q wife and four children to mourn his
loss.
When Dam No. 3, belonging to the
Monongahela Navigation COMPANY.
broke the boats quit using the locks
and went through the gap to evade
paying toll. The company is now en-
gagged in bringing suits to collect tolls.
one boat alone saving $500 by using
the break.
The-splendid light draupht steamer
Marlin Speed, in command of Captain
Ed Rowland, is receiving 10 leave
this evening for Pine Bluff and all wav
landings on Arkansaw river, carrying
the mail and making close connection
with smaller packets for Little Rock
and points above. Captain j. w.
Thompson commands and is assisted
by VIII Darragh.
The beautiful Anchor Line paeket
City OF Helena, in command of Cap.
tain Elem Calvert, arrived on good
time with a fair trip, comprising 1904
packages Of freight. Sheis receiving
with a return trip for Cairo, St. Louis
and all way landings. She has ele-
CANT passenger accommodations and a
polite and courteous set of officers.
George Walton is her chief clerk.
The Lee Line packet Rene Macready,
In command Of Captain Il. p. Crider.
is the regular packet leaving this
evening for Helena, Friars Point and
all intermediate landings, attending
promptly to all business that offers and
making close connection with trains
on the Mobile & Northwestern rail-
road. The Macready will also 20
around Council and Walnut bends.
thus accommodating merchants and
shippers Of that section. Captain G..
Wash Floyd presides at the desk and
is assisted by BERTHE Banning.
Captain Pete MoArthur's nice little
steamer, Milt Harry, arrived yester-
day, having brought out of White
river 137 bales of cotton, 60 bales of
which she reshipped at Terrene for
New Orleans. The Harry is receiving
to leave again this evening with a
return trip for Devalls Bluff, Augusta.
/ 1ooEgnnaor II IL