Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-10-26

The Annie P. Silver leaves st
Louis this evening for New Orleans
She will pass here Saturday.
Lula Wood is the name selected foi
the new towboat BUILDING at Pitts
burg for John A. Wood Il Son.
The Belle Memphis left st. Louii
last evening, and will be here to leavt
on Friday at 10 am. for Vicksburg.
Music books, magazines, illustrated
papers, etc, bound at the PUBLIC
LEDGER bindery, ID Madison street
The Annie P. Silver. from New
Orleans, and the City Of Helena, from
this port, arrived at st. Louis yester-
day.
The City of Providence left Vicks-
burg at noon yesterday, and is the
Friday packet leaving for Cairo and
st. Louis.
The Dean Adams will arrive to
morrow morning, and is the mail
packet leaving tomorrow evening for
Arkansas City.
Ben Frame, a former we'll known
mate, is in the city, having just re-
turned from the West. He is open
for an engagement.
Captain r. p. Glenn has the con
tract this season for skidding and
covering cotton seed consigned to the
Memphis Cotton Seed Association,
The present swell in the Ohio will
probably enable the Golden Crown to
resume her trip to Cincinnati. She is
lied up three miles below Evansville.
Phinn Starr left yesterday to meet
the Dean Adams, with the expecta
ton Of taking charge of her lower
deck during the indisposition of Mr.
Joe Caffrey.
Joe Caffrey, who was shot in the leg
on Monday night last, is at the Green
Tree House resting quietly. His
wound is a little painful but he is
cheerful and will sooG be out.
Local Inspectors Ralston and Gar
rett departed last evening for Helena,
where they will to-day inspect the
Henry Frank, after which they will
prooede to ArkaDsaw City to make an
inspection of another boat.
The many friends of Captain NJ. /.
Verdeu will be glad to learn that he
has been appointed to take charge OF
the entire business of the Grand Lake
Coal Company, at Bayou Sara, La.
He will visit this city on his way
south.
Five-eighths of the New Orleans
wharfboat at Cincinnati has changed
hands, and is now controlled by own
ers in the New Orleans line Of
steamers, the Memphis Packet Com.
pany owning the remaining three.
eighths.
Captain John G. Crane after spend.
ing a few days here in the interest o.
Captain Z. ". Dugan left yesterday
on the City Of Vicksburg for st. Lou.
is. He will shortly come out in com.
mand of one of the Anchor Line
packets.
The prospects of a good stage o
waterin the Ohio are still gloomy, and
the larger boats will hardly be able
to resume business before the middle
Of next month. Continued rain is
what is needed to raise the Ohio at
headquarters.
The commodious Anchor Line
steamer John A. Scudder, in com.
mand of Captain A. j. Carter, will
leave from the foot o fUnion street to-
morrow morning for Cairo, st. Louis
and all principal way landings. George
Baker is her polite clerk.
Lem Carter, chief clerk of the
Anchor Line steamer John B. Maude
came down on the City of Greenville
to look after the discharging of her
freight, He is also giving his atten.
tion to a well known Memphis belle,
who, if rumors be true, will soon
embark with him on his voyage down
Lilies stream.
The Coahoma, in command of Cap
tain Henry Cooper, is the Lee Line
U. s. mail packet leaving this evening
for Osceola and all intermediate land
ings, giving strict attention to all
business entrusted to her. Billy
Smither presides at the desk and is
assisted by John Haley and Hugh
TOmlinson.
The Belle Shreveport, With 1906
tons OF freight, passed down this
forenoon for New Orleans. She dis.
charged nothing here, but added &C
bdls sacks, 80 bbls lime, IL bales cot
ton and a lot of sundlies. She also
added at New Madrid 800 SKIS corn.
and at Fulton she got 100 bales cotton
and 300 SKIS cotton seed.
The administration at Washington
has acknowledged the receipt of the
resolutions recently adopted by the
Cincinnati, Louisville and New Or,
leans Pilots, Association urging the
appointment of Captain G.. Wash
Thompson to the position of Super
vising Inspector Of Steamboats,.
The steamer Trader, now on the
docks at Fort Pickering, is being
transformed into a new boat. Exten.
sive repairs are being made, and in
about two weeks she will be ready fol
business. She is the property O
Captain j. Q. Oates, who is well anC
favorably known up Hatchie river. il
which trade she will be placed as soOT
as the stage of the water will admit.
The splendid light draft steamer
Marlin Speed, in command of Captain
John j. Darragh, will leave thi
evening for Pine Bluff and all inter
mediate landings on Arksnsaw river
earring the mail, giving strict atten
ton to business entrusted to her ant
making direct connection with tn.
regular light draft steamers for Littl
Rock and points above. Captail
Charles Musselman presides at tn
desk and is assisted by George Gun
ningham.
The Lee line mail steamer, Jane
Lee, in command ofCaptain Stacke
Lee, will sail at 5 pm. for Helena
Friars Point and all intermediat
landings, attending promptly to all {
o. d. and other business entrusted
her, and making close connection q
Glendale with trains on the Mobil
and Northwestern railroad. Captai