Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-02-28

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To our friends who needs skifs
down the river we would say send
your orders to @. W. Huntes, at shop,
at foot Of Market street. 4
The boats in port yesterday dis
played their colors az half-mast in
respect to the memory of the late
Captain James G. Andrews.
People down the river in the over
flowed country are appealing for food,
and should receive assistance at once
and not be put off by adjourned meet
ings.
The Hard Cash will be in this after
noon, and is the regular packet leav-
ing Tomorrow evening for all points
on White river through to Jackson
port.
Young people should remember the
events of the present high water so
at a time in the far future they can
refer back and talk of the food of
1882.
On Saturday night last James Biggs,
steamboat agent at Cairo, was shot
and killed by Nick Mayfeld, a bill
clerk Of the Mississippi Central rail.
road Office.
The citizens Of V~icksburg are work
ing hard to obtain an appropriation for
the digging Of a canal from the old
river front to the present low water
line below the city.
The City of Vicksburg, in command
Of Captain R. K. Riley, is the Anchor
Line packet leaving here this evening
for Cairo and st. Louis. W. G.
Blenker is her polite clerk.
The ]. H. Bigley and barges from
st. Louis passed down yesterday for
New Orleans. She dropped here
barge No. rs, containing $4,000 bush
els of corn and a thousand empty bar
rels.
The City of Greenville from St.
Louis passed down this forenoon, after
putting of 5000 pkgs ar adding
about 30 tons of miscellaneous freight
for V~icksburg and intermediate
points.
The river at this point lacks three
inches of the rise of 1867 and from
present appearances it will 60 an inch
or two beyond that, but not quite as
high as 1862, which was nine inches
higher than it is to day.
The Katie Hooper, in command of
Captain Ed Rowland, is the railroad
packet leaving at A pm. to day for
Madison, where direct c~ounecsion is
made with trains on the Memphis and
Little Rock railroad for points west.
Horace Graham, formerly engineer
OF the Rene Macresdy in the Mem
phis and Helena trade, was Yesterday
fined 500 by tn United States Court
for running without license. He is
still on trial 10 the same court for
hanging a weight on thesafety valve.
The steamer Fulton, which lett
here last week with a tow of slaves
for New Orleans, proceeded as far as
Vicksburg, where She turned her tow
over to the tug Tilda, and is now on
her way back to this port. She will
re enter the Hatchie river trade as
soon rs the water falls sufficiently.
Passengers and shippers should re
member the Lee Line packet Coahoma
will leave promptly at I'm. tomorrow
for Osceola and all way landings or
the upper COST. Captain Henry
Cooper commands, with Hugh Tom.
%linson, John Haley and Platt Rhodes
in charge of the office.
Mr.. j. W. Smithers, q very popular
river clerk, and who has been identi
fed with the Memphis packet trade
for many years, resigned his position
yesterday as chief clerk of the Goa
homa, and left last night for Evans
vile, Indiana, where he will engage il
business on shore. The LEDaET
wishes him success in whatever h,
may undertake.
Captain Randall chartered steame,
Tiger, in command of Captain VIM
Flowers, was receiving quite LIBERAL,
this forenoon and will leave this even
ing with a good trip for Helena, Ma
rianna, the Cut off, WiItsburg and al
way landings on L'Anguille and st
Francis rivers, making direct connec
ton with the light draft steamer Mix,
Davis for the Sunk Lands. Charli,
Stockley and Morris Cans are in charge
Of the Office.
Captain Randall's steamer Tiger
leaving every Tuesday evening fol
Mariana and Wittsburg, though mo-
a U. ), mail boat, carries considerable
mail Tin government stamped envel
opes Snly) from this port every trip
On her last trip there was over l6C
letters directed to the different mer.
chants and planters along the Ian.
guile and st. Francis rivers. All
these were delivered within forty.
eight hours from the time the boa
left here. Had they been put in the
Postofice they would have been sem
to Helena, and rested there six days
or until Monday evening, at which
time the little mail boat leaves Helena
Tor st. Francis river. The people o.
the st. Francis river are not at al
satisfied with their new mail facilities
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