Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-09-20
Clear and pleasant Yea ther preyaiIs

UO-uay.
Steamers in port arc displaying their
flags at half mast.
Seven feet reported in the channel
over shoal places below here.
Lew Branham went out yesterday
as bill clerk ofthe Dean Adams.
The Montana, for New Orleans,
passed Vicksburg at noon yesterday.
The Marcus Collins will leave the
latter part Of the week for st. Francis
river.
The Belle Shreveport is announced
to leave st. Louis this evening for
New Orleans.
The Port Eads and barges from st.
Louis passed down this forenoon for
New Orleans.
Rates from St. Louis to Memphis
have been reduced to 40c per Dbl and
Zoe per hundred.
The Pillow Boy departed yesterday
evening for ArkaLsaw river with a
good trip Of freight.
Steamers in port were tolling their
bells last night announcing the death
Of President Garfield.
Ed Gay, a former river clerk, is now
travelling in the interest of a Front
street wholesale house.
The rivers above Cincinnati are re-
ported rising, from the mountain
streams of West Virginia.
The Hard Cash will be in tonight
and leaves to- morrow evening with a
return trip for White river.
The packet business is looking up,
and soon the levee will be covered
with cotton and seed its entire length.
The City Of Providence arrived at
st. Louis last evening and the st.
Geneyieve left there last night for this
port.
The leyee was quite lively last even
ing, but after the departure of the
packets everything became quiet
again.
The Dean Adams departed last
night for Arkansaw City with a
splendid trip OF both freight and
people.
Wharfmaster Kallaher paid a visit
to the wreck of the Idlewild, and will
have it removed if he has to fight
about it.
Il. Q. Jameson, collector for the
Memphis and Ohio River Packet
Company, is home again and ready for
business.
The Annie ?. Silver arrived at New
Orleans Sunday night and will leave
there this evening with a return trip
for st. Louis.
The Joe Kinney from Vicksburg
up on time, putting off a lot Of
and seed and adding about ten
tons Of miscellaneous freight.
Judge G. A.. Adams is now in com
mand Of Captain Gus Ooleman's new
harbor tug Tilda, and will attend
promptly to all business that offers.
The James Lee, for Friars Point,
and the Coahoma, Tor Oscecla, de-
last evening with good trips.
They will be back to leave again to-
evening.
The City of Vicksburg, from st.
passed down on time with a
big trip. She discharged here $50
pkgs and added about 40 tons for
Vicksburg and the bends.
The National Board of Health
steamer H. H.. Benner. was busy yes
bringing up the quarantine
hospital boat and its effects from the
foot of Presidents Island.
1t is currently reported that Cap.
tain Wash Floyd and Frank Ellison
will put a suitable boat in the Vicks-
burg and Greenville trade, supplying
the place heretofore filled by the Dean
Adams.
Amos Day, formerly of the Mem
phis and Arkansaw river packets, has
accepted a position in the railway
ser iicc at Arkansaw City and left on
tho Dear Adams for his future field
of labor.
Captain R. W. Lightburne, agent for
the Memphis aud Ohio river packets,
is home again, and reports the boats of
his line heing thoroughly overhauled.
They will have all they can do as soon
as there is sufficient water for them to
out.
The Mike Davis arrived yesterday
from the mouth Of st. Francis river
with the machinery of the sunken
Bltesville. She will return to Helena
and run semi-weekly between that
port and Concordia, where Captain
Joplin is satisfied he can do well.
At Louisville the locks of the new
or enlarged canal are closed for re-
pairs. New posts Of iron are being
placed in positions for the gate hog
chains. The old locks continue in
good working order, and the superin.
tendent of the canal will keep them in
use during the time the new locks are
closed.
captain Th0rWegan's great iron
steamer Chas. p. Choutcau is an
nounced to leave from the Anchor
Line wharfboat at s pm. to. day for
Vicksburg, New Orleans and the
bends, and will after the present trip
enter the cotton trade between this
port and New Orleans, continuing in
the same throughout the season.
Captain George Miltenberger presides
at the desk and is assisted by Peter
Wirtz.
The splendid sidewheel steamer
Rene Macready, in command of Cap
tain L. p. Crider, to day enters the
trade between this port and Helena as a
.tri-weekly packet leaving here prompt
lyat,5 pm, stopping at every landing
and giving stlict attention to all bust.
ness entrusted to her. Planters and
shippers can rely on her remaining in
the trade throughout the business
season. A. L. Banning will be found
in tho nnica