Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-06

again, but the upper OHIO and uppeI
Mississippi rivers continue to decline
Captains Thormeean and Hickl
have purchased the stamer Laura Lei
and will put her in irst-clafs order
The City Of Greenville departed
this forenoon for V~icksburg, aft0
adding about % tons of way freight
All kinds of books used by steam.
boats kept in stock or made to order
at short notice in PUBLIC LEDGER
bindery. +
Quite a number Of produce and
trading boats are now on their way
out of the Ohio, destined to the lower
Mississippi.
The Coal City and John A. Wood
with tows Of coal, passed south yes
terday. The latter having twenty.
eight pieces.
Tie Andy Baum, for Memphis, and
Paris c. Brown, for New Orleans, are
announced to leave Cincinnati to-
morrow evening.
The City Of Helena departed last
%evevening for St. Louis, taking $50
bales Of Eastern bound cotton for
reshipment at Cairo.
Freight shipped from Cincinnati
and destined to points South, is
weighed as it goes over the New Or
leans and Memphis wharfboat.
The river at this point is falling
rapidly, and heavy deposit Of mud is
being LETT on the levee, which should
be washed away as the river recedes.
Mr.. George Seaman, late second
clerk Of the Charles P. Chouteau, has
been appointed second clerk Of the
new Anchor Line steamer City Of
Baton Rouge.
The Ohio river is rising at Pitts.
burg, and it is expected hal there
will be 6 to Z feet there before the
rise runs out, and if SO, several coal
tOws will start out.
THE Centennial, now at Madison,
Ind, will not be cut in two to be
heightened, but will receive a new
stern, modelled after the st. Louis and
St. Paul packet Gem City.
The Belle Shreveport, under the
auspices Of the Anchor Line, is an.
nouuced to pass down this evening en-
route to Vieksburg, New Orleans and
the bends. Captain Ad Storm, at the
wharfboat, is her agent.
The elegant Anchor Line steamer
CITY of Vicksburg, in command of
Captain r, K. Riley, is on berth to
leave promptly at 5 pm. for Cairo and
St Louis. w. G. Blonker and Glenn
Nolte are her polite clerks,
The Mike Davis, with Captain
John Deering on the roof, departed
last evening for Hatchie river with a
fair trip. Upon her return she will
lay up and the new steamer Fulton
built for the trade, will go out in her
place.
The Hard Cash will be in to night
and is the regular packet leaving to-
morrow evening with a return trip for
all points on White river through to
%Jacksonport, where she connects with
light draft packets for upper White
and Black rivers.
One Of the four iron boats which
the Iowa Iron Works Company con
tracted to build for the government
has been completed and launched.
The other three boats will be complet.
ed in a few days, when they all will be
taken to St. Louis.
Joe Cafrey, second mate of the
John B. Maude, stopped off the boat
Saturday to attend the trial of the
negro who shot him a few weeks ago.
Yesterday the same was postponed
until Monday next, and he left last
night by rail to rejoin his boat.
The L. W. Cole has been uuavoid-
ably detained, the repairs of her ma
chinery not being completed. The
steam drumhead was given out to be
turned, but our own mechanic had to
send it to Cincinnati to be done. Our
%foundries and machine shops should
be able to do all kinds of work needed
on steamboats,.
1t is pretty well understood that all
the coal boats able to do so, left Pitts
burg on the last rise, and that they
took with them all the coal they could
manage, therefore the silly story of
forming a coal ring to raise the price
Of coal is not given much credence TO
and boats are hurrying back to take
away the few million bushels awaiting
transportation.
The neat sidewheel steamer Rene
Macready in command of Captain O.
K. Joplin, is the regular packet leav-
ing at 8 pm. to-day for Mariana, the
Cut Of and all way landings on
L'Anguillo and St. Francis rivers
through to Wittsburg, and will give
prompt attention to all Q. o. D. and
other business entrusted to her. The
Banning brothers, BERTHE and Edward,
are in charge of the Office.
On arrival of the steamer City cf
New Orleans at New Orleans yester
day morning a salute of sixteen guns,
one for each letter of the name, was
fred from the boat, a large crowd
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