Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-09-21

1891
Carols feet 9 inches, a rise o.
IL inches.
St, LOuis-s feet 8 inches, a decline
OF 4 inches.
Vicksburg-l3 feet 3 inches, a de.
slime of 3 inches.
Nashville feet 8 inches, T. de-
cline of IL inches.
Chattanooga "A feet 6 inches, a de.
cline Of 9 inches.
Shreveport-9 feet 3 inches, a
decline OF | inch.
Little ROck-ll inches, a decline Of
| inch.
White river is declining slowly,
with 3 feet in the channel between
Augusta and Jacksonport.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Cloudy and cool.
Business dull to-day.
The upper Ohio river is rising.
River rising half an inch an hour,
The levee got a washing yesterday;
The w. P. Halliday is due up on
her way to st. Louis.
-Four local packets left last evening.
all with fair trips.
The Will Kyle, for Cincinnati.
passed Evansville last evening.
The Annie P. Silver left New Or
leans last evening Tor St. Louis.
Dean Adams for Arkansaw City
Bpm.
An increase in cotton receipts by
steamers will be noted next week.
The Coahoma is to resume her trips
in the Osceola trade tomorrow even
ng.
The Ste. Genevieve, in command of
Captain George Carvelle, is the An
Choir Line mail packet leaving at 5
pm. to day for Cairo, St. Louis and
way mail landings. Rolla Porter is
her polite clerk.
The neat little steamer Jimmie
Baker, in command OF Captain j. W.
Emmick, leaves again this evening for
Bledsoe's and Peters Landings.
The City of Cairo arrived at Vicks.
burg yesterday and left there at noon
to day with a return trip for st, Louis.
The Golden Grown will be due up
to. morrow evening, bound for the
Ohio river. Captain AID Storm is her
agent.
The new Arkansaw river steamer
Ida Darragh left Cincinnati last
evening for this port, with a splendid
trip OF freight and a good list of
people, including the family Of Captain
John j. Darragh.
The Commonwealth arrived at St.
Louis yesterday, and leaves there this
evening with a return trip for Vicks.
burg.
The Josie Harry will arrive to-
morrow, and is the Saturday packet
leaving for White river.
The John B. Maude, for this port,
and the City of Baton Rouge, for
New Orleans, left st. Louis last even
ing
The U. P. SchenCk will be due
down to morrow on her way to New
Orleans. Captain AID Storm is her
agent.
The Rapid Transit is to be placed
on the Covington ways, and be con
verted from q propeller to a sterpWheel
boat.
The Rene Macready was to come off
the ways at Covington yesterday. She
will, after receiving the finishing
touches, load at Cincinnati for this
port, leaving there about the first of
October.
The committee on the steamboat or
naval exposition parade, at Cincinnati,
have decided to made the grand dis.
play on Wednesday next, the 9th
inst.
Captain james Good has purchased
the little steamer Reindeer for service
in the Mississippi River Commits
The U. s. Engineers are at present
surveying the lower st. Johns river,
with a view to deepening it under the
appropriation made at the last session
Of Congress.
The John A. Scudder was expected
to pass down this forenoon, on her way
to New Orleans.
The present rains have extended
along the Ohio valley, and will lead
to an Improvement of navigation in
hat stream.
The Port Eads and barges passed
down yesterday evening for New Or
The Ohio river steamer Dick
j Johnson has been sold to New Orleans
for $4,000, and will come south
at once.
The Centennial will be due up
Saturday evening, on her way to St.
Surgeon General Hamilton on Tues
day last was 10 Cairo and selected a
site for the Marine Hospital to be
erected at that point.
Six feet scant is reported in the
channel between Cairo and St. Louis.
Captain John W. Carroll freight
agent at st. Louis for the New Orleans
Anchor Line, was taken suddenly i'll
on Tuesday and had to be conveyed to
residence.
The lighthouse tender Ivy passed
up last night on her way to st. Louis. !
The government steamer Missls-
which took the members Of the
Mississippi River Commission to
Vicksburg, passed up at midnight for
st. Louis.
Mr.. John Haley, the popular second
Of the CoahOma, is sill confined
to hi0bed, but expects to be up in a
few days and by the persistent advice
Of his friends will go away for a short
while to reapthe benefits of a change
of climate.
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