Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-02-01
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MISCELLANEOUS.
Clear aud pleasant.
River rose two inches.
Heavy frost last night.
Parker for Cincinnati at 5 pm.
The Guiding Star is the next so,
Line steamer due down.
Business not brisk enough for the
number Of packets in port.
The Chas. Morgan leaves Cincinnati
this evening for New Orleans.
The Dean Adams is the mail packet
leaving tomorrow for Arkansaw City.
A carpet of hay covers the levee in
front Of steamers doing business at
the landing.
The Mike Davis departed for st.
Francis river With all the freight she
could handle.
The railroad steamer Rene Macready
arrived at midnight, only II hours
from Madison.
The City of New Orleans was ex.
pected to pass down this forenoon
bound for New Orleans.
The Golden Rule arrived at Gin
cinnati yesterday morning few hours
after the Golden Crown.
The Ste Genevieve arrived at st.
Louis yesterday, and the Belle Mem
phis lett there last evening for Vicks-
burg.
The City Of Providence left Vicks.
burg yesterday at noon, and will be
here to leave Friday evening for St.
Louis.
The John A. Scudder from St.
Louis passed down this morning for
New Orleans, doing nothing of inter
est here.
The tug Night Hawk, in charge Of
Captain bud BToadhurst, will, in a
few days, leave with tow of slaves
for New Orleans.
Captain Henry Marineaux is now
in command of the steamer Kate
Dickson, running in the Vicksburg
and bends trade.
The Anchor Line steamer Annie P.
Silver, in command of Captain Geo.
Keith, will pass up this evening for
Cairo and st. Louis.
The City of Greenville for Vicks~
burg passed down last night after dis
charging 2289 pkgs and adding 100
tons for points below.
The New Mary Houston is an.
nounced to pass here to- morrow at
am, on her way to the Ohio. Captain
Ad Storm at the wharfboat is her
agent,
The r. r. Springer leaves New
Orleans this evening for the Ohio, and
will probably make a big run, as she
will want to make Mardi. Gras trim
to New Orleans.
A note to this office from Mr.. James
Round of the gas works, says that the
river at noon yesterday was Al inches
above the rise of 1867, as compared
with his mark for that year.
The steamer St. Jacobs Oil. with
Captain Paul Boyton on board, left
Yicksburg on Monday last for Yazoc
| City Captain Boynton expects to bt
in New Orleans during Mardi Grai
week.
The Anchor Line boats have beer
instructed not to take any chances il
running at night OF in fog High
water is even worse than low watel
for a boat in the fog now might 20
mile across cotton field before it il
known.
| The cause of the explosion of tn,
steam pipe of the Paris G. Brown il
to be investigated by Local Inspector
Ralston and Garrett. They com
menced yesterday by taking the depo
sitions Of the officers and crew OF tn,
boat while she lay at the landing few
hours yesterday.
The Cumberland river continues t,
decline, and navigation is fully re
sumed both above and below Nash
vile. The Tennessee river fell 4 inche
at Jacksonville yesterday, and it !
thought it will begin to fall in earnes
by tonight, notwithstanding th
heavy rise at Chattanooga.
The sidewheel steamer Rene Mac
ready, in command Of Captain 0. X
| Joplin, is the Memphis and Littl,
Rock railroad packet leaving prompt
ly at pm. fer Madison, where sh,
makLs connection with trains for Lit
tie Rock and points west. A. L
Banning presides at the desk.
Captain Henry Cooper's reliabl,
upper coast Lee Line packet Coahom,
takes her departure at pm. fol
0sceOla and all way landings, carrying
the mail and attending promptly to al
| Q. 0. D. and other business entrusted
to her. j. W. Smither presidos al
the desk and is assisted by John HALEY
and Hugh Tomlinson.
The james Lee, in command o.
Captain Stacker Lee, is the mai
| packetleaving this evening for Helena
Friars Point and all way landings
paying prompt attention to all business
entrusted to her and making close
connection with trains of the Mobile
& Northwestern railroad. Captain
| Lloyd W. Whitlow presides at the
| desk and is assisted by Platt Rhode:
and Arthur Browne.
| The Hard Cash arrived yesterday
having brought out of White river
263 bales cotton, l05 bales of which
| she reshipped at .Terrene for New Or.
leans. She is receiving to leave with
a return trip this evening for Devalls
Bluff, Augusta, Jacksonport, and all
way landings, making direct connection
i with linht drnnnht hnnAn g.