Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-05-03
Business dull.
River still falling.

Business dull.
River still falling.
The river will rise again next
The packets leaving last evening had
fair trips out.
There are no prospects Of an over
flow at present.
The Belle Shreveport left New Or
leans yesterday for st. Louis.
NThe r. r. Springer is due up to-
night bound for Cincinnati.
The Alice Brown is coming south
with the largest tow OF the season.
The James D. Parker, for this port,
passed Evansville yesterday at noon.
The Annie P. Silver is due down
this evening bound for New Orleans.
Len Highly, secretary of the New
Orleans elevator company died yester-
day.
The Thomas Sherlock will be due
down tomorrow, en- route to New Or
leans.
The Ste. Genevieve returned to 81.
Louis last evening, after adding 552
bales cotton.
The James Lee and 0sceola Belle
are the coast packets leaving to. NOR
row evening.
The Paris G. Brown is announced
to leave Cincinnati this evening for
New Orleans.
The Grand Like left Louisville
night before last with a tow of coal
for New Orleans.
Tie river is still rising at st Louie,
and a general inundation of East st.
Louis is imminent.
The Cbas. Morgan is making the
fastest trip of the season from New
Orleans to Cincinnati.
Captain Lew Hates stopped off his
boat yesterday and left in the evening
by rail for Hot Springs.
Captain Ed. Muhlemau, late of the
Andes, has leased the Neil house at
Columbus, Ohio, and will himself pre-
side.
The Baltic will arrive tomorrow
with several barges OF railroad iron
for the Memphis and Charleston rail-
road.
The fast Anchor line packet City of
Alton, is announced to pass up to-
morrow afternoon for Cairo and St.
Louis.
The Golden City, from Cincinnati,
and the Future City and barges, from
st. Louis, arrived at New Orleans yes
terday.
The John B. Maude left St. Louis
last evening for this port, and is the
regular Thursday packet leaving with
a return trip,
James Hamilton, who accidentally
shot himself at Pittsburg a few days
since, died Sunday night FROM the ef-
fects of the wound.
Among the passengers of the Ben
Franklin, are Misses AIollie Merchant
and Clara Whittemore who are max
ing the round trip.
Messrs. Huse and Loomis' new tow
boat Jack Frost is due from st. Louis,
with a tow comprising 5000 tons Of ice
and 800 tons of produce.
The Golden Rule, in command Of
Captain 0 p. Shinkle, is due up this
evening, en- route to the Ohio. Albert
Shinkle is her polite clerk.
The Missouri river is now four miles
wide at Atchison, Kansas, and the
farms for miles around East AtchisOr
are completely submerged.
The little steamboat Octave, bull
at Memphis for the Duck river trade
made her first trip out last week.
cincinnati Commercial. What is til
The City of Providence made the
run from Cairo to this port in fifteen
hours, and attended to her regular
business. She left here at 10 am fol
V~icksburg.
Commodore Coulson has purchased
the Key West, and she will leave New
Orleans shortly for St. Louis, to run
in the upper river. Captain Mart
Coulson will command.
The R. R. Springer, Orphan Boy"
made the run from New Orleans to
Natchez in 249 hours, including 90
minutes lost in the fog. This is the
fastest time ever made by an "0.'
liner.
The City of Providence, on her last
trip, made the run from Columbus to
Cairo in one hour and thirty-fve min.
utes, and the boat beating that time
will find a nice pair of horns at the
Halliday Bros. wharf boat to which
they will be welcome.
The Marlin Speed will be found il
port this afternoon, and is the mai
packet leaving tomorrow evening fol
Pine Bluff, Little Rock and all inter.
mediate landings, making direct con
n%ection with light draught packets fol
Fort Smith and all points on uppei
Arkansaw river.
In the United States court at Louis
vile, the case of Fisher, a ooloret
roustabout, for damages against tn,