Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-07-23
MISCELLANEOUS.
Business quiet.


Cloudy and cool,
Pilots report 81 to 4 feet between
Louisy ie and Cairo.
The Annie P. Silver leaves St.Louis
to-day for New Orleans.
The Ste. Genevieve, for Memphis,
left st. Louis yesterday.
Boats in port received a good shak-
ing up yesterday afternoon.
Colonel Fred Jones and wife have
returned from their bridal tour.
Jim Franklin, the levee discharg-
ing clerk, is back from Iuka Springs.
The Paris G. Brown, on her way to
New Orleans, was looked for this fore
noon.
The lighthouse tender Joseph
Henry, left New Orleans yesterday
for st. Louis.
The Piasa arrived yesterday from
Chester. She returned last night
with empties.
The Mike Davis, Captain o. K. Jop-
lin, is the Tuesday packet for St.
Francis river.
The Katie Hooper, Captain Ed
Rowland will arrive tomorrow and
leave Monday.
Captain John Woodburn, an old
time steamboatmsn, died at Sewickley,
Pa, Wednesday.
The Fred A. Blanks, coming up,
passed Vicksburg yesterday, and is
due here tomorrow morning.
The steamer City of Winnipeg was
burned to the waters edge at Duluth,
Tuesday. Four lives were lost.
Arthur Brown, bill clerk of the
James Lee, returned yesterday from a
trip through Indiana and Illinois.
The W. P. Halliday, Captain S.
jolly in command, leaves this evening
for New Orleans and way points. She
is an Anchor Liner.
Alex. Burns, an old steamboat
agent, died at Louisville, Wednesday,
from injuries received by being
thrown from a buggy.
Colonel P. P. Manion, the st. Louis
blacksmith, has purchased the Rob
Roy and Minneapolis, and will wreck
the former and repair the latter. The
cabin and hull of the Rob Roy are for
sale.
The Gold Dust, Captain McCord,
passes up at 10 o'clock to -morrow
morning for st. Louis, and the Grand
Tower, Captain COrvell, passes down
at the same hour for Vicksburg. Both
are Anchor Liners.
The new City Of Vicksburg's shafts
were made by the Delaney Forge and
Iron Co., Of Buffalo, N. Y. Most Of
the heavy shafts on'both the Ohio and
Mississippi were made by these works
including those Of the j. M. White
and r. Il. Lee.
The railway transfer steamer Gene.
raj Pierson, is to leave here four weeks
hence to 60 to Mound City, above Cal
70. to be csulked, overhauled and thor
ougly renovated, A transfer boat i
to come down from Cairo to do servic,
in her place while the work of repai
is under way.
Captain Bob Wise's elegant Jane
| W. GAtf leaves this evening for Cairo
Louisville, Cincinnati and all inter
mediate landings. She offers specia
| inducements to those going to th
North or East by giving through tick
cts at very low rates. The Gatf S &C
commodations are unexcelled by an
in the line. Captain w. II. Croppe
is chief clerk, and is assisted by Gu
Young.
The steamer James w. Gaff came i
this forenoon with 600 tons of miscel
laneous freight. The cargo include,
ll75 bbls -four to sundry merchants
125 bbls meal to John X. Speed, So
: SKIS corn divided to Buchanan & u
! 400 SKIS, Mrs. Wilcox 40 do, Nc
Dougal & Co. 1877; 161 SKIS oats t
Buchanan & Co., 237 SKIS of bran t
Busby & Co. and John Reid; also 40
bhls -four to the latter. The Ga
will unload by this evening and is t
leave for the Ohio at an early hour to
morrow morning
The new tug Tilda, built exclu
sively on the banks of Wolf rive
near the upper part of the city, b
Charles Hunter, was out on a tria
trip yesterday, and worked SMOOTH
> aud in every way satisfactory. TIL
Tilda is owned here, and was con
, structed for harbor job work and
tow staveboats from here to New Or
r leans. Her keel was laid some sevel
weeks ago, and she is out and out
Memphis production-hull, machiner
and all complete. She is handsom
craft, and in every sense a creditabl
J specimen of marine architecture.