Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-11-24

The Hard Cash will arrive 10. mor
row morning from White river bu
will probably not leave again unit
next week.
The City Of Providence added 100
bales Of compressed cotton for reship
ment East at Cairo, aud passed upthi
forenoon for st. Louis.
The Clinton will be found in Dor
tomorrow morning and leaves from
the elevator building at 5 pm. to
morrow for Cairo and St. Louis.
Seessel, Ashner & Co., beef ant
pork packers Nos. 5 and 6 Howard row
are prepared to furnish steamboat
with all kinds Of fresh meats at loves
market prices. 1T
The Paris c. Brown, with but little
less than a fall load, passed down this
morning for New Orleans. She dis
charged a few packages here, but
added nothing.
The Cherokee, from White river,
passed V~icksburg on Wednesday, with
$500 bales of cotton for New Orleans,
$500 bales Of which she brought out
of White river.
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The Belle Memphis, from St. Louis,
passed down this forenoon for Vicks.
burg after discharging 100 bbls -four,
90 bbls apples, 40 bbls onions and 200
rolls bagging. She added 80 tons Of
miscellaneous freight.
The Tiger, in command Of CAPTAIN
5. Basket, leaves again this evening
for Peters, Bledsoe's and way land
ings in Council and Walnut Bends.
Wade Hampton and Press Byrnes are
in charge Of the Office.
Tho Vint Shinkle will be found in
port this afternoon, and will leave at
3 pm. tomorrow for all points on
the Ohio river, through to Cincinnati,
and will ticket passengers through to
points East, at low rates.
The Ida Darragh will arrive to. day,
and leave with a return trip at 5 pm.
tomorrow, for Pine Bluff aud inter
mediate landings on Arkansas river,
connecting with light draft steamers
for Little Rock and points above.
The Rene Macready departed last
evening for Helena. She will be back
to leave again to morrow evening for
Helena and St. Francis river, going to
Mariana and as high as the Cut OF
if the stage of the river will permit.
The W. P. Halliday, with about
1900 tons of freight, passed down yes
terday afternoon for New Orleans.
She discharged 252 SKIS corr and added
80 bbls lime, 60 bbls soap stock, $40
empty bbls and 100 pkgs of miscel-
laneous freight.
The Golden Rule, from New Or
leans, is due up to-day, bound for the
Ohio. She has elegant accommoda.
tons, sets a fine table aud is in charge
of clever and experienced officers.
Captain 0. P. Shinkle commands
with Albert Shinkle in the Office.
Captain Frank Cayton, of the snag
boat John S. McComo, succeeded on
Friday last in raising the tug Eva,
recently sunk at Helena and belonging
to a lumber company at that point.
River men speak in high terms of the
good work being done by the Nc
Comb.
The josie Harry is receiving, 10
leave at 5 p. IN. to. morrow for Devall's
Bluff, Augusta, J~acksonport and all
way landings, making close connection
at her destination with the regular
packets for upper White and Black
rivers. She is now on her regular
day and will try and keep on time
throughout the season.
"The Memphis and Ohio River
Packet Company, it is said, will put in
a line offrst class sideWheel steamers"
We have heard that before, but it
looks as though they will hold on to
the stem winders until an opposition
line forces them to do 50. With a
line of fast boats there business would
increase wonderfully.
Captain 7. @. Bond, of the Refuge
Oil Mills, at Vicksburg, has contract.
ed with Sam Coffin, Of the Coviugton
ways, for the construction of four
barges IS feet long, IS feet beam and
8 feet hold, to be completed in thirty
days, They will be used for trans
porting cotton seed on the Yazoo
river.
The case of Captain Q. F. Adams
and other owners of the steamer,
Alice, against the Orient Insurance
Company ofNew York, was decided at
Pittsburg on Wednesday in favor of
the plaintiffs for the full amount So
545. The company resisted the pay-
ment on the ground that the loss oil
the Alice was caused by the negli-
gence of the Captain,
The p%unctual and popular upper
coast steamer Ooahoma, in command
Of Captain Henry Cooper, brought
10 232 bales of cotton and 1852 SKIS of
cotton seed. She is che Lee Line
mail packet leaving this evening for
0sceola and intermediate landings
aud will give strict attention to all
business intrusted to her. Hugh
Tomlinson, Obas. Bourne and John
Rhodes are in charge of the Office.
Captain j. T. Washington, we'll and
fayorably known to all steamboatmen,
has been appointed agent of Coulson's
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