Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-06-01


very light trips, bu, carrying cat
pretty good loads.
The Future City and John A.
Scudder, from New Orleans, arrived
at st. louis yesterday.
The Guiding Star, for Cincinnati,
and the City of Alton, for st. Louis,
left New Orleans last evening.
The John B. Maude left st. Louis
last evening for this port. She will
be here early Saturday morning.
The Katie Hooper, for Arkansaw
river, and the Hard Cash, for White
river, had good trips out yesterday.
The river at this point will be rising
by tomorrow, but will not amount to
much, as a decline will soon set in
again.
. Captain W. W. O'Neil, the Pitts
burg coal king, was in the city yester.
day, aud left in the evening for New
Orleans.
The City of New Orleans left St,
Louis last evening, and passes here
Saturday forenoon on her way to the
Crescent City.
The City of Ironton, lust purchased
at Cincinnati for the Vicksburg and
Greenville trade, is to have her name
changed to 'lssaquena."
The City Of Greenville was only
twenty three hours going from this
bort to Cairo, and the City of Baton
Rouge was twenty one hours.
The recent sale OF the j. L. Rhodes
leaves but two boats in the Pittsburg
and st, Louis trade, but it is said that
the Granite State will be added to the
list.
The Anchor Line packets leaving
Tomorrow will be the City Of Provi
dence at 10 am. for Vicksburg, ana
the Belle Memphis at 5 pm. for Cairo
and st. Louis. Both are new and
elegant steamers.
Merchants at river towns trading
with Memphis will find it to their
interest to order their Job printing and
blank books from the PUBLIC LEDGER
job printing Office and blank book
mandatory, ID Madison street.
The remains of Captain NJ. f. Mep-
ham were buried Sunday in the pres
ence of a large concourse of steamboat
friends. Captain Mepham was loved
and respected by all who knew him,
and his loss will be felt by the com
munity in which he lived.
Letter heads, bill heads, bills of
lading, envelopes, hand bills aud every
other kind ofjob printing executed in
the best style and ut the lowest prices
at the PUBLIC LEDGER job printing
Office and blank book mandatory. IL
Madison street. /
A dispatch from Pittsburg states
that Captain Jim Rees, the builder, il
very much elated over the great run
OF James Ice. The Lee and the Dean
Adams were both built by the Ree'
firm at Pittsburg, and are very fast
and staunch They are made OF good
metal.
The Ste. Genevieye is missed from
the landing to day, she having beer
ordered to take the place of theEmms
lC, Elliott in the st. Louis and Crane
Tower trade, for a short while. The
City of Providence, due here thii
afternoon, is bringing the trip of tn,
Genevieve.
!, The fastest steamer that ever raj
on Western waters in her day was tn
famous j.. M. White, built at Pitts
I, burg in 1874. Her length was %
feet, beam 30 feet and hold s feet
She had engines 30 inches diameter O
! cylinders and 10 feet stroke. She hat
boilers each d. inches in diamete
l3O feet long, wheel 30 feet in diamete
with 10 feet length of bucket. Sh
was a successful boat and lived he
, time out.
The Cons Millar arrived at midnigh
with 300 tons of freight, comprisin
! 900 bbls -four, Is bbls meal, 800 Dbl
/ salt. 100 bbls pork, 67 bbls molassef
/ 16 bbls whisky, 100 kegs nails, 100 SIX
corn, $500 empty barrels, and 102 pkg
sundries. She will have the same a
out by evening, and leave at 5 pm. to
morrow with a return trip for al
points on the Ohio through to Cincin
natl, giving through ticketsao point
east at low rates.
The swift and elegant steamer Dear
Adams, in command of Captain Mar
R Cheek, is the mail packet leavin
this evening for Helena, TerrenC
Arkansaw City and way landings
attending promptly to all bushes
that offers and making close connec
ton at Arkansaw City with trains OF
the Little Rock, Mississippi River 4
Texas railroad. Captain A. l.. Cum
minis presides at the desk, and i
assisted by Walker Outlaw and LIE.
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