Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-11-10

luc JUN H. nuOuto is iOduluB AZ
st. Louis for P~ittsburg. and is an
nounced 10 leave there this evening.
M. P. Wright has been appointed
agent at Cairo Of the Cincinnati and
New Orleans Packet Company.
That foat is still floating about the
government gauge.
The sand bar on the opposite side Of
the river is nearly submerged.
Mr.. Williams Steward, Of the
Golden Rule, was quite sick when the
boat passed here yesterday.
A dispatch from St. Louis states
that thin ice formed in low places in
the vicinity of St. Louis night before
last.
The Hard Cash, for White river.
and the Marlin Speed, for Arkansaw
river, departed last evening with fair
trips.
Captain james T. Lowell is having
a boat built at Jacksonville, Ind, to
DO used in the upper Cumberland
trade.
The Grand Tower, frem Vicksburg,
arrived at St. Louis yesterday and
leaves there this evening with a re.
turn trip.
Captain Armstrong, formerly oftho
Dora Cabler, is to take command of
the L. P. Ewald in the Tennessee
river trade.
Captain Kendrick is having a small
towboat built at Chattanooga, to be
used in the iron ore business on Ten
nessee river.
On Tuesday last Joe H. Allison,
local Inspector at Nashville, was mar
ried at Huntsville, Ala, to Miss NJ.
Maria Mathews.
All kinds of books used By steam.
boats kept in stock or made to order
at short notice in PUBLIC LEDGER
book bindery.
The Charles P. Chouteau, from
Helena, arrived at New Orleans yes
terday, and leaves there tomorrow
with a return trip.
The Dean Adams passed the Rene
Macready at BENEFITS this morning
about one o'clock coming up on one
wheel.
Colonel John s. Readon has re-
signed the agency ofthe st. Louis, NJ.
v. T. Co., and is succeeded by John
w. King, late Superintendent Of
KountE Line.
The Anchor Line rates from Cairo
to points below Memphis have been
reduced to 221 cents and to New Or
leans to 30 cents per hundred.
Not a dozen persons could be seen
on the leyee at 8 o'clock this morning,
laborers preferring to remain gup ltown
during the inclement weather.
The Mary Houston, from Cinciu-
natl, arrived at Evansville yesterday
at noon. A dispatch states that she
will leave there Saturday.
The James Lee and Coahoma de-
parted last evening with fair trips.
They will be back to leave again to-
morrow evening for the upper and
lower coast.
The Gold Dust, from st. Louis, ar
rived at Vicksburg yesterday, and left
there at noon to day with a return
trip. She will be here to leave at 10
am. Sunday.
The regular cotton packets Ohas. P.
Chouteau and Henry Frank do not ex-
tead their trips to this port because
they would not get enough freight to
pay their expenses.
The crew and passengers of the
sunken Will Kyle we're taken to
Evansville by the John S. Hopkins,
where they were forwarded to their
destination by the Rainbow.
Captain w. j. Ashford, Of the snag-
boat John r. Meigs, has returned
home, having laid up his boat at
Newport. Captain Ashford has done
efficient work in both Arkansaw and
! White rivers.
The Chamber of Commerce Of
Cairo and st. Louis have both in
dorsed the memorial prepared al
Pittsburg, asking for additional APP
preparations for the completion Of
Davis Island dam.
The City Of Providence will be here
tomorrow morning, and will leave
promptly at 5 pm. for Cairo 81.
Louis and all principal way landings.
The Anchor Line have carried over
1900 bales of cotton from here in the
last five weeks. The Annie P. Silver
leaving here this evening takes over
1900 bales.
The Annie P. Silver arrived at
midnight discharged $50 packages
at the wharf boat and went up to the
compress to take on 1913 bales of cot
ton. She will leave this evening for
st. Louis.
The Belle Memphis, in command of
Captain L. H. Mckee, is the Anchor
Line packet leaving here at 10 am.
tomorrow for Vicksburg and all way
landings. Henry Corbyn presides at
the desk.
The Ste. Genevieve, in command Of
Captain G. W. Nickers, is the regular
Anchor Line packet leaving at 5 IN.
to-day for Cairo, St. Louis and all way
mail landings. John e. Messengale
is her polite clerk. p
The Josie Harry will be in to-mor-
row and is the regular packet leaving
Saturday evening for White river,
making direct connection at Newport
with light draft steamers for upper
White and Black rivers.
The Katie Hooper will be in TO-
night and is the mail packet leaving
Saturday for Pine Bluff and all way
landings on Arkansaw river, making
direct connection with regular packets
for Little Rock and points above.
&Msjor John D. Adams is about tC
close the contracts for the building o.
a fine steamer to ply in the mail trade
between Memphis and Arkansaw CITY
and to take the place of the Dean Ad
ans now running in the line.
Many estimates have been made a.
to the amount of damage done by the
flood on the upper Mississippi river
the most accurate being a total o.
$2,94O,OOO, The full extent Of tbs