Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-22

SKIS rye, 81 SKIS corn, 30 tcs hams, 470
pkgs lard, go bxs crackers, 2 bales
cotton, 1910 pkgs sundries.
Per James Lee, from Friars Point
.96 bales cotton, lo7 SKIS cotton seed,
il head cattle.
Per Katie Hooper, from Arkansaw
City-4l bales cotton, 2 bags seed
cotton, 81 SKIS cotton seed.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Clear and pleasant.
Business good to-day.
River falling 2 inches per day.
The packets report three feet Of
water over Puppy creek bar.
The Piasa is having considerable
trouble this trip but may be down toe
morrow.
The Gold Dust, from Vicksburg,
passed up ON time yesterday, doing
but little business here.
The Commonwealth, in command of
Captain j y. Crane, is due up this
evening, en- route to st. Louis.
Insure steamboats, with G. B, Well
ford & Co.. general insurance agents,
No. Madison street, Memphis, Tenn.
eA 1897
The wharfboats of Evansville are
full of freight for the lower Ohio and
Mississippi rivers.
Jim Kane, one Of the Oldest and
best known Mississippi river mates,
died at st. Louis on Friday last.
Six feet reported between Cairo and
st. Louis, with Eliza Point bar the
most troublesome.
The Memphis and Ohio packets
have laid up on account Of the very
low condition of the rivers.
The Port Eads and barges from st.
Louis passed down early yesterday
morning on her way to New Orleans.
The Will Kyle, from New Orleans,
passed up at noon yesterday with
about $50 tons of Ohio river freight.
The pile of mud on the new portion
of the levee below the Anchor Line
wharfboat should be removed at once.
The channel at Elk Island, or Eliza
Point. has changed and is now 100
yards higher than formerly, and it has
cut out to z feet
Captain Lew Hates went from
Vicksburg to st. Louis, and his boat,
the VIII Kyle, may probably take
day in the Anchor Line.
The U. S. Snagboat Jno. r. Meigs
arrived last evening from YazoO river
She will be turned over to Captain
Handbury, of Little Rock, who will
place her either in Arkanslw or
White river.
Resolutions have been passed by
the merchants of Vicksburg and for
warded to the Postmaster-General,
asking that mail facilities be restored
as soon as possible on the Yazoo and
Sunhower rivers.
Captain Thcs. P. Saxton, an old
time river man, but of late planter
at Idaho, about 40 miles above here,
died on Thursday last of congestion,
notice OF which appears in our local
columns.
Captain Samuel Rider, one of the
oldest and most widely known of
Western river men, died at Greggs-
vile, ILL.,, on Friday evening last, after
a lingering illness. He was genial
whole souled man, and held in high
esteem by all who knew him.
On account of the rapidly receding
river the Golden Rule did not leave
Cincinnati as announced, but reship-
ped her freight on tile light draught
steamer Ella and barge, A. P. Shinkle.
She will await rise in the Ohie.
The quantity of coal at Pittsburg
ready to come out on the first rise is
large and increasing. The price will
go up, nevertheless, as soon as cool
weather sets in.
The Grand Tower, for Vicksburg,
passed down yesterday forenoon after
putting off 22OO pkgs freight and add
ing 10 tons.
The John A. Scudder, from St.
Louis, passed down at noon yesterday
with a good trip. She put off nothing
here but added 1890 SKIS oats, 30
wagons, cotton gins and about II
tons sundries.
They are getting along finely with
the repairs of the ferry boat, John
Overton, and in few days she will be
ready for business, and as staunch as
the day she was built.
Arkansaw river is pretty low, but
the Plow Boy makes her regular trips
from the mouth of the river to Little
Rock.
The splendid Anchor Line steamer
Ste. Geneyieve. i'm command of Cant.