Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
| Warm and close.
Rain needed badly.
Dust pretty thick on the levee.
| No local packets leaving to-day.
Arkansaw river is rising slowly.
No business doing at the landing
| to-day.
The upper Ohio is stationary at
Pittsburg.
The James Lee and Rene Macready
departed last evening with fair trips
The Mike Davis is the st. Francis
river packet leaving on Tuesday next.
Business at New Orleans is dull.
| No arrivals or departures there yes
terday.
The Fred Blanks left st. Louis
drawing 6 feet and had to refuse
freight.
An open winter is predicted by
several kcc%ing ones of the marine
fraternity.
Only 30 inches reported at Puppy
| Greek, which is the shortest point
along the lower Ohio.
The Will Kyle, in command of
Captain Lew Hates, is due up this
evening on the way to the Ohio river.
Insure steamboats, with G. B. Well
tord Il Co., general insurance ageHts,
No. . Madison street, Memphis, Tenn.
1897
The channel of the river is said to
be improving at Eliza Point. Boats
cOntine to stop at the bar neverthe-
less.
Captain o. X, Joplin, of the Mike
Davis, is expected to be home by
Monday, and will take command on
Tuesday.
The John A. Scudder, passing down
to-day, will add $50 tons of freight
left here by the w. P. Halliday a day
or two ago.
Will Hays is writing a new song
dedicated to G. Wash Thompson. It
is entitled Way down yonder in de
eern field"
The j. S. Bransford has been char
tered to the Henderson Packet Com
pany to ply between Rockport and
Evansville.
The Katie Hooper will arrive to-
morrow and is the regular mail packet
leaving Monday for Arkansas City
and all way landings.
An electric light is being put upon
the Hard Cash. Now it is rumored
that the Dean Adams and Josie Harry
are to use them this season.
! A portion of the new levee below
the Anchor Line wharfboat is covered
with mud and dirt to the thickness OF
two feet. Why is this thus?
Several marines are anxious to
know what was done with Mate Phin
Starr, who shot hotel runner in the
upper country short time ago.
The James w. Calf on her way ia
| Cincinnati passed Louisville last even
ing. She is making good time, con.
slderlng the extreme low stage of the
| Ohio river.
| The fine Anchor Line steamer John
| A. Scudder, in command of Captain
A. j. Carter, is announced to pass
down at 8 pm. to. day for Vicksburg
and New Orleans. George Baker
Ipresides at the desk.
The Grand Tower, in command Of
Captain George Oarvell, is the Anchor
Line packet leaving at 10 am. to.
morrow for Vicksburg and all princi.
pal way landings. Colonel Tom White
is her polite clerk.
Captain Milt Harry and family re.
turned home last evening. His boat
the J oslo Harry will be prettier than
ever when she starts out again on
September Bird. Jimmy Degnan, the
steamboat painter is doing prize
job.
Captain j. G. McCords splendid
Anchor Line packet Gold Dust will
be up tonight, and leaves from the
, cOmpany's wharlboat, foot of Union
street, at 10 am. to morrow, for Cairo
and st. Louis, Henry Dietrich is her
chief clerk.
If the insurance companies have
done or will abandon the wreck of the
Idlewild then the Taxing District
, authorities should have it removed al
once. Diver Moore, who is a resident
of this city, can make short work Of
+; her it allowed to do so.
Those who have the good fortune tC
) 60 with the Macaronian party to
morrow on the steamer Mike Davis
TO Post 299, will have very pleasant
: time, as all arrangements are made
I for the comfort and pleasure of the
r Macks and their invited friends.
c The consolidation of st. Louis anc
New Orleans and st. Louis and Mis-
), sissippi barge lines has been effected
: the capital being $3,000,000. Goult
|, has five out of nine directors and the
+ general manager of the company. The
: consolidation is understood to defeat
the scheme of rival interests.
1t is stated that parties here are
negoti ting for the Louisville packet
!. Grey Eagle, to be placed in the Mem
phis and Vicksburg trade. She i,
t, just of the docks and thorough,
: oyerhauled and good for six years yet
4 She or the Jesse X. Bell, of New
= Orleans, would make good packet
!, for Major Adams mail line.
d Three wagon scales are being placed
y on the Jones x Mccoy wharfboat Al
o Cincinnati, and in future all freigh
received and discharged over that in
stitution will be weighed. The weigh
ing Of all river freights is plan steam
boats should have adopted long ago
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