Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-12


The Cons Mlllar being behind time
the Granite State has been chartered
to make a trip In her place. and leaves
Cincinnati to morrow evening for this
psrk
The Hsnfy Frank will be doe here
tomorrow morning end Is announced
TO leave ia the evening for New Or.
leans. Captain Ut. Washington is her
agent.
A shipment of Wheeling Stogies
will be received 10 a few days by II,
Esch, cigar dealer, corner Main and
Adams streets, under the Worsham
House. 87t
The little steamer Gypsy, from
C~ovington, KY, with a party of hunt
ers on board, is here, and will leave
Tomorrow for White river, where the
party will spend several weeks.
Captaini John WOODBURY., a former
well known Arkansaw river steam.
boatman, is coming down a passenger
on the new steamer Warren, which
left Cincinnati on Saturday last.
Colonel Jimmy McMeen, one Of the
clerks Of the Anchor Line steamer
City of Providence, is taking in" the
town and renewing old aequaintances
while his boat is lying up just above
the city.
Captain Mike Larkin is doing good
and efficient work repairing aud ex.
tending the leYees and the government
is sinking mattresses at the foot of
Court street.
The Belle Memphis, from St. Louis
arrived at ViCksburg yesterday and
left there at boon to-day but will 20
no further than Arkansaw City, on
account of the ice blockade at St.
Louis.
The harbor tug Frank Jones, be-
longing to Messrs. Brown & Jones,
the coal dealers, sprung a leak and
sunk at the foot of Poplar street. She
lies in thirty feet of water and can be
raise /.
The Golden 2.is. 10 command of
Captain 0. P. Shinkle, is announced
to leave from the Elevator Building
at 10 I'm. Tomorrow for Vicksburg,
New Orleans aud the bsnds. Captain
Ad Storm isher agent.
The PUBLIC LEDGER Job printing
and blank book manufacturing estab-
lishDent, ID Madison street, Memphis
Tenn is prepared to execute every
kind Of work in their line in superior
style and at low prices. +
The Golden Grown, for New Or.
leans, will pass down this afternoon.
She has splendid passenger Accommo-
datiOns and is in charge of clever
officers, Captain Shinkle commands,
with Chant Shinkle in the Office.
The largest load Of cotton ever cai-
ried into New Orleans was 1926 bales,
taken by the Henry Frank, and the
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largest ever taken out of New Orleans
was lO,36l bales, being the cargo Of
the Carmona, which cleared from that
port on Thursday last for Liverpool.
Heavy ice was still running pass st.
Louis last night, but it was thought
the Underwriters embargo on ship
ments south would be raised to day.
The government steamer Mississippi
and the tOwbOat Norton left there for
Cairo.
The Ohio river steamer, Queen
City, in command Of Captain John s.
Jones, had her smoke stacks knocked
down and the top Of her pilot house
torn off by coming in contact with the
railroad drawbridge over the Louis.
vile canal.
The new Kate Adams, from Pitts.
burg, got out to Cincinnati yesterday
where she is having her chimney tops
put on. AS there is plenty of water
from there out she will come through
without detention and be ready to
take the place of the Dean Adams in
the Arkansaw City trade on Monday
next.
Tho John s. Bransford, of the Milt
Harry mail line, is the packet this
evening for Devalls Bluff, Augusta,
Jacksonport and intermediate land.
ings, making direct connection with
light draft steamers for upper White
and Black rivers. Captain W. H.
Holt commands with George D. Marsh
10 charge of the Office.
Capt. Darragh and Neare are at New
Orleans making arrangements to bring
up the steamer 7. +. Eckert, recently
purchased by the Memphis Wrecking
Company. Her FIRST work will be at
the wreck Of the Plow Boy, sunk in
the Cut OF, near the mouth of White
river, then she will come to this port
to work on the barge sunk at the foot
OF Jefferson street.
The Rene Macready, from St. Fran.
els river, brought in 26 bales of cot.
ton, 5 bags of seed cotton and 1884
sacks of cotton seed. She is the mail
packet leaving this evening for Mari
anna, the Cut OF and way landings on
L'Anguille and St. Francis rivers,
taking freight for Wittsburg and the
Sunk Lands, and connecting with the
light draft steamer Advance. Captain
0. X. Joplin commands, with Charles
Stockley and JEFF Davis Block in
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