Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-09-07

be completed By the close Of the week
Her new cylinders are % inches by Z
feet stroke, 2 inches more in diameter
than her former cylinders.
! Captain Alex. Halliday and bride
are enjoying their honeymoon, taking
in the many places of interest in and
around Cincinnati, including the great
Industrial Exposition.
The Belle Memphis, in command of
Captain /. H. Mckee, will be here to.
night, and leave at 10 am. tomorrow
tor Cairo and st. Louis. Henry Cor
bin is in charge Of the Office.
Wanted four good marines" with
a cash capital Of FIVE dollars each, to
join with US in getting up some kind of
a marriage or natal association. Policies
to be issued to steamboatmen only.
jenkins & Sass agency are loading
the Centennial at st. Louis for New
Orleans. She is to leave there this
evening as an independent packet, with
Captain Thomas Davidson in COM
mand.
Miss Sue Thompson, sister of Capt.
y. Wash Thomsan, of the Vint Shin
kle, was married recently in Pitts
burg. Captain Thompson, together
with his brothers Steve and j. B.
Thompson, were present at the happy
occasion.
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The City of Providence, in COM
mand of Captain George Lenox, is
the Anchor Line packet leaving here
at 10 am. to morrow for Vicksburg
aud principal way landings. Frank
Perkins is her chief clerk.
The Ste Genevieve, in command of
Captain George Carvelle, is the
Anchor Line packet leaving this
evening for Cairo, st. Louis and way
mail landings. Rolla Porter and Pell
Thomas are in charge Of Office affairs.
The name of the Inflated Scioto is
to be changed. She is at present laid
up, repairing, and will receive a
general o%verhauling. Captain Thad.
Thomas has been exonerated from all
blame, and will again assume com
mand.
The Andy Baum is the packetlea
ing tomorrow evening for all points
on the Ohio, through to Cincinnati.
Excursionists taken at low rates; also
tickets given to points East. The
Baum is a splendid sidewheel boat,
with cabin accommodations.
The Vicksburg river guage, kept by
the United States Engineer, which
was formerly located at the lower
landing has been removed to a point
on the Louisiana side, 1000 yards above
the Delta wharfboat, on which the
V~icksburg readings will be recorded
as heretofore.
It is said that the new steamer s.
II. Parisot, being built by the How
ards, of Jacksonville, for Captains
Beck and McVeigh, will be one of the
best furnished and best built steamers
10 the lower Mississippi river trade.
She will be launched in a few DAYS.
and be completed in time for the heavy
fall business.
An order las been issued at the
War Department, relieving Major
Godfrey Weitzel Ofthe charge of the
work Of Improvement of the Louisville
canal and placing the same under the
charge OF Colonel VIM. Z. Merrill, Of
Cincinnati. 1t was the original inten-
ton to place this work in charge of
Major Farquhar, but for certain res-
sons the War Department has seen fit
to appoint Colonel Merrill instead.
The large packets of the Vicksburg
and New Orleans trade usually resume
their trips about the first OF Septem-
Der, but the present crop being almost
four weeks behind that of last season,
they will not resume much before the
first OF October. There was some
talk OF placing a packet in the NatcLez
and New Orleans trade, but it now
looks as it the projectors have given
up the idea.
Mr.I William Quinn, of this city,
has offered a reward of S25 for the
recovery Of the body Of John Dooly,
late Waterman Of the steamer Katie
Hooper, who was drowned from that
boat about two weeks ago, at Helena,
Ark. The deceased was 5 feet 10
inches high, light complexion, and had
on dark coat and pants at time of
accident. On his little finger was
two plain gold rim g, with the initials
j. d., and his name, j. Dooly, on his
arm.
The Memphis and Arkansaw City
mail packet, Dean Adams, arrived
before daylight with a light freight,
but a good list of people, and leaves
again this evening with a return trip
for Helena, Terrene, Arkansaw City
and way landings, attending promptly
to all business hat offers, and making
connection with trains on the Little
Rock, Mississippi River and Texas
railroad. Captain Mark r. Cheek
commands, with the office in charge of
Captain A. l.. Cummins, assisted by
Walker Outlaw and Lee Cummins, jr.