Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-11-01

down this forenoon, bound from IL.
Ohio river to New Orleans.
The elegant Anchor Line steame
City of Baton Rouge was expected I,
pass down at noon to-day for New
Orleans.
The John B. Maude will be in 10
morrow morning and leave in tn
evening with a return trip for Cairt
and st. Louis.
The Tiger, in command Of Captain
). Basket, leaves this evening fol
Bledsoe's, DR.. Peters and all wa!
landings. Wade Hampton and vii
Darby are her clerks.
The Cons Millar will arrive tonight
and leave at 8 D m. TO morrow for al
points on the Ohio river, through tC
Cincinnati and tickets passengers
through to points East at low rates.
The G. N. Davis, sunk in the Ohio
river, has been raised and will be re
paired at Paducah.
Clerk John Haley who has been
quite i'll during the past summer is all
right again, looking as well as eveI
and will be at work again in a few
days.
Captain w. @. Tichenor is at Pitts
burg, looking after the finishing
touches Of his new boat, the Will s
Hays.
Arkansaw river is rising with a fair
stage Of water through to Fort Smith
The Bright Light now at New
Orleans will enter the Red river trade.
Plenty OF snags are reported in the
river below here and during low water
It is more than one boat can do ia
keep the channel clear.
Four feet at Falling River and
three and a half feet at Flint Island i:
reported in the Ohio river.
The Niobrara, with d barge in tow,
left st. Louis Monday evening for
Ouachita river with 450 tons Of
freight. Captain John GOnsolis and
William Phillips are her pilots.
The Centennial is loading at st.
Louis and expects TO leave there to-
morrow evening for New Orleans.
A diamond ring is reported to have
been found yesterday by one of the
men employed in digging a trench il
the new levee near the foot of Jefer-
son street. Who is the owner?
The Ida Darragh departed last
evening for Arkansaw river with .
fair trip.
The snag boat j. N. Macomb wal
here yesterday afternoon and left at Z
o'clock this morning for above t
operate a little more among the snags
and other distractions.
AT Louisville the U. S. authorize:
are at work at the channel end of the
wing dam head of the falls, erecting {
Golfer dam, and drawing off the water
preparatory to putting down an ad-
Unstable dam similar to the dam heac
Of middle chute.
The Arkansas City did not gel
away for st Louis until late in The
afternoon. She added $50 barrels Of
oil and l345 bales of compressed cotton
for reshipment east at Cairo, and had
near 1000 sacks of cotton seed and l0(
barrels of oil for st. Louis.
The new s. H.. Parisot, on her frs
trip, was met above Carrolltons.b
the tug N. M. Jones on Monday even.
iUg, with a number of friends Of Cap
tains Beck and McVay and a band OF
board. On Der arrival a detachment
Of the Washington Artillery fred
salute on the levee, and the boat anC
Ler officers enjoyed a big reception.
The popular upper coast Lee Lin.
Steamer Coahoma is the regula
packet leaving this evening for Osceol
and way landings on the upper coas
carrying the mail and attendinI
promptly to all business intrusted t
her. Captain Henry Cooper com
mands, with the Office in charge Q
Hugh Tomlinsop, Chas. Bourne an
John Rhodes.
Fred Steiner, for nearly thirty veal
wharfboat proprietor at Tell City, wa
found dead in his bed on the whsr
boat Sunday evening. Re transacte
business in apparently good healt
until an hour before he was fount
He weighed over 300 pounds an
apoplexy is supposed to have cause
his death. He was long known as ii
F.. father of Tell City.
The Hard Cash, in command
Captain Il. @. Postal, is the regul,
packet leaving this evening for D.
| walls Bluff, Augusta, Jacksonport an
way landings, giving strict a%tteRtiC
. to all business that Offers and makir
direct connection with the reguli
light draft steamers for upper Viii
and Black rivers. Charles and JOSEF
. Postal are in charge Of the office.
The fast and elegant Lee Lin
/ lower coast steamer James Lee, is I'll
mail packet leaving this evening f
G Helena, Glendale. Friars Point'and a
way landings, making close cOnnectiC
: with trains on the Mobile and NOrtl
western, the Helena and Iron Moul
e tain, and Arkansaw Midland railroad
Captain Stacker Lee commands, vii
the office in charge OF Lloyd W. Viii