Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-16

ObLlO DlnQery ana lob
ONCE. Is Madison street.
The appropriation of $4,000 for the
Improvement of Allegheny river is
considered as being entirely too small.
Z The Vint Shinkle is announced to
leave Cincinnati tomorrow evening,
and will be here early Monday morn
ing,
The City of Helena departed last
evening for st. Louis, taking 500 bales
OF eastern bound cotton for reshipment
at Cairo.
Picnics supplied with all kinds Of
printing at the LEDGER job printing
Office.
The Emma Etheridge left Cairo
Sunday with eight pile drivers and a
lot Of coal for government use at
Plum Point.
The City Of Vicksburg arrived last
evening, discharged $50 packages,
added 20 tons and left this forenoon
for V~icksburg.
The Future City aud barges passed
down last night for New Orleans,
dropping here a barge of grain for
Speed & Graves.
At Cincinnati on Saturday last Cap.
tain John Cochnomer purchased the
coal landing and property of the late
A. Buchanan. at Sheriff s sale, for the
sum of 300.
The Sam Roberts with two or three
empty model barges passed down this
morning for Helena, where they will
be loaded with lumber and taken to
Rock Island, Illinois.
The City of Greenville. in command
Of Captain Joe Bryan, is the Anchor
Line packet leaving promptly at 5. D m.
to-day for Cairo and st. Louis. VIM.
Fitzgerald presides at the desk.
The packets arriving at Cincinnati
yesterday and to-day were crowded
with excursionists who go there to
attend the May festival and see the
sights of the Paris of America"
Mr.. VIM. Fitzgerald is attending to
the affairs Of the Office of the City of
Greenville, in place of Mr.. yobR II.
Messengale who remaine6 eith his
wife: who is reported quito i'll st st.
Louis,
The coal for use by the River
Improvement Commission will be
stored at Cairo. The j B. Williams
has dropped 10000 bushels there
already, and the Boaz takes a iull tow
of 100000 bushels.
Wharfmaster Kallaher yesterday
turned owe to the Taxing District
authorities $473 go, the amount of
wharfage collected during the past
week. The Anchor Line boats alone
paid 1867, which is over one-half the
entire receipts.
The Hooking rivera tributary of the
upper Ohio is out of her banks again
Ia consequence of a steady rain for
almost a week, Considerable damage
is being done to the wheat along the
river and a good deal OF land has been
washed and ruined.
The officers of the Anchor Line
steamer, City Of Vicksburg, presented
a very neat appearance yesterday
afternoon as the boat rounded to at
wharfboat. They we're all dressed in
their new uniforms, with the regula-
ton caps, and looked like navy officers
of the great blue sea-
The Andy Baum, in command Of
Captain H.. j. Vinton, leaves this
evening for Cincinnati, making close
connection with the different railroads
and giving through tickets to points
East at low rates. Captain N. NJ.
Deem and Ned Sherman are in charge
of the Office.
AT Louisville yesterday Captain w,
q. Hite, President of the Henderson
Packet Company, sold the ferryboat
Jas. Whathen to A.. Meir, Vice Presi.
dent Of the L. & st. l. Railway. at st.
Louis. She will be used as a transfer
and ferryboat at st. Louis in connec.
ton with the railroad.
The Hard Cash arrived from White
river with several bales cotton, 90
900 feet lumber and a good list sun
dries. She leaves tomorrow evening
for all points en- White river Though
to Jacksonport, making close con-
nection with light draft steamers for
upper White and Black rivers.
Captain o. K. Joplin's neat side
wheel steamer Rene Macready leaves
this evening for Helena, Mariana,
the Cutoff, Wittsburg and way land
ings on l'Anguille and St. Francis
rivers, making direct connection with
the light draft steamer Advance for
the Sunk Lands A. i. Banning
presides at the desk.
The Will Kyle met with a singular
accident while lying at Portland pre-
pairing to clean out boilers. The
engineer had let off the steam from
the boilers, as he thought, and opened
the mud head OF the mud drum. when
an immense volume OF steam poured
out, very seriously sealdiOg the eugin-
eer and terribly scalding a lot of cattle
on the deck.
The Plow Boy arrived last night
frem Arksnsaw river, and brought
around the machinery of the sunken
Marlin Speed. The Plow Boy will 90
to bank awhile, and the Katie Hooper
leaves tomorrow evening for Pine
Bluff and all way landings, making
direct connection with the regular
packets for Little Rock and points
above.
The rise in White river last week
was higher at Newport by 6 inches
than ever known, whole fields of cotton
and corn we're washed away. Jack
sonport was several feet under water
and at Batesville a large wooden mill
and Touring mill were entirely swept
away, involving a loss Ofseveral thou.