Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-06


Bayou GsyoGo rosa sefsfal Inches
last night.
The Fulton departed yesterday for
Hatchie river.
Providence again did good sanitary
work on the levee.
The John A. Scudder is due up to-
day, bound for st. Louis.
The Marlin Speed had a good trip
out Saturday for Arkansaw river.
The Gold Dust from Vicksburg
passed up on time yesterday for St.
Louis.
The =. P. Schenck is due up to day
bound for the Ohio river. Ad Storm
is her agent.
The Hard Cash will be in to-mor.
row morning and leaves Wednesday
evening for White river.
Hereafter the Memphis and Ohio
river packets will leave this port on
Tuesdays and Fridays.
The City e~fEGreenville Twill be up
tonight, and leaves at B pm. to-mor-
row for Cairo and st. Louis.
More government rations arrived
this morning for the overflow sui.
terers OF Mississippi and Arkansaw.
The Thomas Sherlock, in command
OF Captain james Nichols, will be due
down o-morrow morning bound for
New Orleans.
The elegant Anchor Line steamer.
". 2. Halliday, is announced to pass
down at 10 a I'm, tomorrow bound for
New Orleans.
Those who are watching the river
should move their pegs two inches
higher than they had it last week.
This is the highest water on record.
The Commonwealth from st. Louis
passed down yesterday forenoon for
Vicksburg. She put off a lot of -four
and added 80 tons of miscellaneous
freight.
The City Of Vicksburg, in command
OF Captain L. K. Riley. is the Anchor
Line packet leaving here at 10 am.
tomorrow for V~icksburg. w. q.
Blenker is in charge Of the Office.
A private dispatch states that the
James d. Parker, bound from Cincin
natl to this port, met with an accident
last evening on the Louisville falls,
Further particulars in local columns.
The City Of Helena, from St.ILouis
brought here for distribution among
the sufferers from the overflow 3OI
bbls flour, 407 bbls meal, 235 boxes
meat, % bbls hominy, and 20 bbls rice
Hugh Smith, steward of the Josie
Harry and treasurer of the Milt Harry
Line, has taken out Captains paper:
and will assume command of the Josie
when "Milt" makes his European
trip.
-Four and a quarter inches of rain
fell here yesterday and last night
Rains are reported all along the Ohio
Missouri and Mississippi valleys clear
to the Gulf, and the side streams are
swelling.
The Josie Harry departed SATURDAY
night for White river, taking a goot
lot of freight and quite a number O.
:. people for the railroad. She also tool
a lot of supplies (free) for the sufferers
by the overflow.
The Katie Hooper, in command o
Captain Ed Nowland d, is the railroad
. packet leaving this evening from tn
foot of Poplar street to connect will
trains on the Memphis & Little Rocl
railroad for points West.
The City of New Orleans arrive,
y at Cairo Saturday at 10 pm, havin
5 made the run from New Orleans i
three days, seventeen hours and four
. teen minutes, which included eigh
hours laying at this port to clean GU
boilers.
7 The Plow Boy, in command O
+ Captain X. b Smith, is announced t
leave here on Wednesday evening 70
Pine Bluff and all way landings, max
ing direct connection with the regula
packets for Little Rock and point
l above.
. The Jos. B. Williams, and Smok
|, City from the Ohio river with heay
I tows of coal passed down this mornin
for New Orleans, after being detaine
around the point just above the cit
/, for 80 hours on account of fog and ba
weather.
The heavy rains of yesterday an.
q last night caused the side streams an
Bayou Gayoso to swell, causing tn
. river to rise two inches at this point
I As the upper streams are all fallin
we may expect a decline to set i
! again by tonight.
The Cons Millar is due this after
noon and leaves at 5 p m. to morroy
i, with a return trip for Cincinnati an,
. principal way landings on the Obi
river, giving through tickets to al
9 points east at very low rates. Captain
> r. w. Lightburne is her agent.
The Tiger will be back to. night
and leaves at 5 pm to morrow TO
Mariana, the Cut. OFF, Wittsburg anC
I all way landings on L'Anguille anC
st. Francis rivers, making direct con
n%ection with the light dlaught steamer
, Mike Davis for the Sunk Lands.
The swift and elegant steamer Dear
Adams, in command of Captain MARI
R. Cheek, is the mail packet leaving
, this evening for Helena, Terrene
Arkansaw City and all way landings
!, giving strict attention to all bushes:
> that offers. Captain A. L. Cummini
presides at the desk, aud is assisted By
! Walker Outlaw and Lee Cummins, jr.
| The reliable Lee Line steamer Goa
homa, in command of Captain Henry
Cooper, will leave at 5 pm. to. day fol
7, Helena, Friars Point and all way
landings, carrying the mail and at
tending promptly to all business en-.