Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-22
RIVER INTELLIGENCE.
A LEAVING TODAY.

RIVER INTELLIGENCE.
BOATS LEAVING TODAY.
For White river, Jno.S. Bransrord.. g m
st. Louis, John B. Maude..... y m
BOATS LEAVING TOMORROW.
For St. Louis, Gold Dust. ........lO a m
p" Vicksburg, City of Cairo .........1 loan
ARRIVED.
Steamer John s.. Bransford, White river.
John B. Maude, st. Louis.
Macready, st. Francis river.
DEPARTED.
Steamer James Lee, Friars Point.
Ooahoma, Osceola.
Vint Shinkle, Cincinnati.
IN PORT.
John s. Brsnsford, John b. Maude,
Rene Macready.
STAGES OF TUE RIVERS.
Memphis-23 feet 9 inches, a fall of
8 inches during the past "a hours.
Pittsburg-4 feet, a fall ola inches.
Uineinnati-11 feet 10 inches, a fall
OF l foot z inches.
Louisville--7 feet 6 inches in the
canal, a fall Of 4 inches.
Evansville Id feet 6 inches, a fall
of 10 inches.
Cairo-29 feet 4 inches, a fall of 6
inches.
St. Louis-24 feet, a fall of 2
inches.
Yicksburg-39 feet Il inches, a fall
of | inch.
Nashville feet 8 inches, a fall Of
8 inches.
Chattanooga feet 4inches, a rise
Of 4 inches.
ShrevepOrt-9 feet l inch, a fall
of 4 inches.
Little Rocks feet 8 inches, a rise
of 3 inches.
White and st. Francis rivers are
falling,
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Rene Macready leaves Tuesday
for st. Francis river.
The John S. Bransford is the only
local packet leaving this evening.
The Dean Adams leaves Monday
evening for Arkansaw City.
The Anchor Line packet Gold Dust
leaves here tomorrow morning ior
st Louis.
The City Of Baton Rouge was ex-
pected to pass down at moor to-day
for New Orleans.
The Andy Baum will arrive to-
morrow night from Cincinnati. She
returns Tuesday evening.
The Vint Shinkle left last night for
Cincinnati with 3l5 bales of cotton
and a fair list of passengers.
The Paris G. Brown, for New Or
leans, and the Cons Millar, for Mem.
phis, leave Cincinnati this evening.
The Annie P. Silver, en- route to
st. Louis, passed Vicksburg yester-
day. She will pass here tomorrow.
Fifteen lives were lost by the sink
ing Of the Charles Wilson in the
Atchafalaya river last Sunday night.
The City of Cairo, Captain George
Vickers, is the Anchor Line packet
leaving tomorrow morning for Vicks-
burg and the bends.
The City of Helena left st. Louis
yesterday for this port. She will
arrive to. morrow night and returns to
st. Louis Monday evening.
The James Lee for the lower and
Conhoma for the upper coasts had fair
trips out. They will be back to night
and leave again Monday evening.
The boat now being built at Madi.
son for the Memphis & Arkansaw
River Packet Company, will be named
Ida Darragh, after Captain John j.
Darragh's oldest daughter.
The John B. Msude, Captain Harry
Brolaski, arrived this morning from
st. Louis with a good trip. She leaves
again at 5 o'clock this evening for
Cairo, st. Louis and all way landings.
Messrs. Lem Carter and Al Simpson
are her clerks.
Cincinnati Commercial: Captain
William Windsor, who formerly com
manded the Henry Fitzhugh, Tycoon,
Izetta and Golden Eagle, in the Mem
phis and Arkansaw river trade, and
who retired from the river over six
teen years ago, is here visiting old
time friends.
A P~ittsburg telegram says: The
meeting of steamboa.men to-day de-
veloped unmistakably that river men
are very much opposed to the existing
law as to signals. Captain Michaels
said that the Scioto disaster was due
as much to the change of signals as to
any other cause.
The John s. Bransford, Captain
James Kinman, leaves from the foot
of Monroe street at 5 o'clock this
evening for Helena, Terrene, Indian
Bay, Devalls Bluff, Augusta, Jack
sonport and all way and plantation
landings on the Mississippi and White
rivers. She makes direct connections
with light draft packets for Pow
haitian, Pocahontas and way points on
upper White and Black rivers. Messrs.
Fred Jones and Hugh Smith are her
clerks.