Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-06-21
MseuhS, daughter Of Captain joba B.
MoCune a well known river hilot.

MeCuhbj daughter 81 Captain Jobh 3,
McCune, d well known river pilot.
The james W. Gaff departed last
night for Cincinnati with sos bales of
cotton, 70 bales Of rags, 800 SKIS cotton
seed meal, $50 bars railroad iron,
10000 feet lumber and 40 cabin pas
sengers.
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 harbor tugs DeSoto and James
O'Connor are pretty well matched,
judging from the squirt made yester-
day in front of the city. 1t is like the
Chickasaw Guards and Porter Rifles,
either will do to bet on, but only one
can win.
Letter heads, bill heads, bills of
lading, envelopes, hand bills and every
other kind ofjob printing executed in
the best style and at the lowest prices
at the PUBLIC LEDGER job printing
office and blank book mandatory, IL
Madison street. i
The Coahoma, in command of Cap
tain Henry Cooper, is the Lee Line
mail packet leaving at 5 pm. to. day
for Osceola and way landings on the
upper coast, giving close attention to
all business entrusted to her. Hugh
Tomlinson and John Haley are in
charge Of the Office.
Mr.. Charles Conway, of Aurora,
Ind, cub or apprentice pilot on the
steamer james w. Gaff, stopped off or
got left, on the last down trip of his
boat, and it was limited that he ex-
pected to wed a handsome Bromelo,
KY, belle, hoping to spend the honey
moon in the vicinity Of Hagan's Lake,
KY.
The Hard Cash, in command of
Captain Il. G. Postal, is the regular
packet leaving this evening for Devalls
Bluff, Augusta, Jacksonport and way
landings, making direct connection
with the light draft steamers for upper
White and Black rivers. Charles
and Joseph Postal are in charge of the
Office.
Captain Ed Nowland's splendid
steamer Katie Hooper is the mail
packet leaving this evening for Pine
Bluff end way landings on Arkansaw
river, making direct connection with
the regular light draft steamers for
Little Rock and points above. Capt
j. N. Thompson and Will Darragh
are in charge Of the Office.
( The United States snagboat Wood
ruff, while lying at Cincinnati yester-
day, exploded her niger boiler, tear
ing the boiler deck and the cabin
above tho roller into splinters. Clay
Jones, the fireman, was blown in the
air and terribly scalded, and is NOR
tally wsunded but still alive. The
damage 10 the boat will amount to
$1,000.
The feet and elegant steamerJ ames
Lee, in command of Captain Stacker
Lee, is the mail packet leaving this
evening for Helena, Friars Point and
way landings, giving strict attention
to all business entrusted to her and
making close connection at Glendale
with trains on the Mobile & North
western railroad. Captain Lloyd w.
| Whitlow presides at the desk and is
assisted by Platt Rhodes and Arthur
Browne.
On Saturday last, while the Andy
Baum was ascending the Louisville
, falls, she got stuck on the dam and
laid there for an hour, while the pas
sengers were running to and fro
thinking she was sinking, as the boat
blew signals of distress, which were
responded to by couple of volunteer
life savers, who were sent to Jeffor-
sonville after the harbor boat Wash
Gray, which boat assisted the Baum
out Of her trouble.
The Anchor Line steamer City of
Baton Rouge, with a fair trip OF
freight and full Of people, passed up
last evening for st. Louis, and was
only three days and one hour out to
this port, which includes about six
hours lost at Helena cleaning boilers
and some few minutes at the quaran-
tine station, foot Of Presidents Island.
Her time from Helena to this port
! was 5 hours and 46 minutes, which is
81 minutes ahead of any other Anchor
Liner, and IL minutes behind the
James Lee.
An outrageous act of vandalism
was perpetrated on the steamer Will
Kyle Sunday morning when leaving
the town of Rome, Ind. She had
llnded passengers and the boat was
leaving the shore, when volley was
fred into the boat, evidently from
guns in the hands of parties on shore,
one ball passing through the state
room of Mrs. McKeon, lady passen-
ger from Vicksburg, barely missing
her head and SCATTERING a mirror in
the room. No cause is assigned for
this wanton outrage.
kilograms received here yesterday
announced that the name OF Captain
S s. Garrett, local inspector of hullsa at
this port, had been sent to the Senate
by the President, for the Office of
Supervising Inspector, and tie nomin-
alton would undoubtedly be confirmed.
This, we believe, is the first instance
of promotion in the service, and the
gentleman nominated is capable of
filling the position to the satisfaction
of steamboatmen OF this district and
all others concerned. He is a man in
the prime of life, fine lawyer and one
whose rulings will prove satisfactory
to the majority of steamboatmen.