Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-11

with 13 inches on the shoals. The
Tennessee at Chattanooga rose | inch,
with IL Dches on the gauge. Arkan-
saw river is rising, with 3 feet 8 inches
on the gauge at Little Rock. White
river continues to decline.
u RECEIPTS PER STEAMERS.
Per Commonwealth, from st. Louis
-l50 bbls flour.
Per John A. Scudder, from New
Orlean-7 bales cotton.
Per Katie Hooper, from Arkansaw
City--2b bales cotton, A SKIS cotton
seed, 2 head cattle, SO bales hides.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Red hot again.
Business dull to-day.
Katie Hooper for Arkansaw City at
5 pm.
The leyee to-day is just next to
hades.
No improvement in the rivers
above.
Four and half feet of water re-
ported over Portland bar.
Arkansaw river is rising at Little
Rock but will not last long.
The Gold Dust from Vicksburg ar
rived at st. Louis yesterday.
The Fred A. Blanks for st. Louis
left New Orleans last evening.
The VIII Kyle on her way to New
Orleans passed Vicksburg last even
ing,
The Anchor Line packet w. 2.
Halliday now carries the electric
light.
The Hard Cash, for White river,
departed last evening with good trip
of freight.
The w. P. Halliday left st. Louis
last evening for New Orleans and will
pass here Saturday.
The John Gilmore and barges, from
st. Louis, passed down during the
night for New Orleans.
The John A. Scudder, from New
Orleans, passed up at daylight, and
discharged here a few bales Of cotton.
Jerry johnson, the efficient levee
Waterman, has gone to cooler climes
to rusticate for a month or SO.
Insure steamboats, with G. B. Well
ford & Co., general insurance agents,
No. 5 Madison street, Memphis, Tenn.
The James Lee, for Friar's Point,
and the Rene Macready, for 0sceola,
departed last evening. Both had good
trips.
Major John D. Adams went from
Cincinnati to st. Louis, to look for q
fast boat to take the place OF the Idle.
wild.
The channel of the river is cutting
out at -Four Mile and Rising Sur
bars, and pilots are having less
trouble.
Will Darragh, one of the clerks Of
the Dean Adams, came up this morn
ing on the Katie Hooper for a short
season Of rest.
The T, +. Eckert worked all day a
the sunken barge, foot Of Jefferson
street. She recovered one Dbl Of OF
in good condition.
| Another first bale arrived on tn,
| Anchor Line steamer John A. Scud
der, and was shipped from Friar'
Point to Hill, Fontaine & Co.
| Ed Hunter, well-known ship car
penter, was stricken with congestion
at 5 pm. yesterday from which h
died in a couple Of hours afterward
The Commonwealth, with bi
trip, passed down at daylight. Sh
discharged here $50 pkgS of freigh
and added 6 cotton gins and about 1
tons.
The attorney general at Pittsbur
has notified the Smithfeld Stree
Bridge Company that they will hav
to adhere to the original plan 70
building the same in regard to height
{ The beautiful Anchor Line steame
City of Providence, in command o
Captain G. w. Lennox, will be her
to leave at 10 am. tomorrow 70
Vicksburg and all way mail landings
Frank Perkins is her polite clerk.
The Towboat J. S. Mercer, belong
ing TO tho Grand Lake coal company
sunk at Pittsburg, in pool No. l, da
before yesterday. The sinking is sal
10 have been caused by the swells of
r couple Of towboats that were racing
The fast and elegant Anchor Lin
steamer Belle Memphis, in comman
Of Captain |. H. Mckee, will be u
this evening and will leave here at /
, am. Tomorrow for Cairo, St, LoHi
and all way mail landings, Henri
: Oorbyn presides at the desk.
The James w. Calf will be due her
: to-morrow and is announced to leav
: at 8 2. m, Saturday for CINCINNATI an
c all principal way landings on the Obi
river. Captain R. w. Lightburnt
) her agent, will give all desired in
: formation and furnish through ticket
!. to any point East at very low rates.
The Anchor Line steamer Emm
@. Elliott struck an obstruction nigh
= before last at Perrgs toWheaa, aboT
thirty.ave miles below st. Louis, an
: sunk in about six feet OF waite
a Captain Dugan was telegraphed IL
and left here last night by rail for s.
! Louie. He will take the Salvor No.
) to the scene # the accident. and it
i. safe to say, will succeed ia raising ii
3 Elliott.
L The many friends here and all alon
= the western rivers heartily indprse th
the application of Captain G. Was
| r. Il