Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-05

: Providence arrived at VickSburg ysI
: terdsy, and left there at noon to-ds
! on her return 10 st. Louis.
r The Arkansas City from st. Loui
passed to V~icksburg this forenoon
, She discharged 300 bbls Of -four, s
bbls Of potatoes and added about 2
tons.
. Seessel. Ashner & Co., beef an,
, pork packers Nos. 5 and 6 Howard row
, are prepared to furnish steamboat
with all kinds Of fresh meats at loves
market prices. 1T
The Andy Baum is announced t,
leave here this evening for Cincinnati
and principal way landings on tn,
Ohio river. Captain G. Wash Thomp
son is her chief clerk.
The City OF Visksburg arrived dur.
ing the night, discharged lO7 bales o.
cotton, and went to the compress Il
take on 1000 bales Of eastern bound
cotton for reshipment at Cairo.
II the weather we are enjoying to.
day prevails at Pittsburg, the SHOWS
will be melted and a rise in the river
sufficient to let out the Kate Adams
and Will S. Hays will be the result.
Pat Murphy, the old reliable news
boy Of Louisville, and known to ell
steamboatmen. has been presented
with a handsome gold medal by Gov.
ernOr Blackburn for his many acts Of
charity.
The Edison Company. for electric
lighting, exhibited on Saturday night
last the i~ncandescent electric light on
the new Kate Adams, just completed
at P~ittsburg, and waiting for water to
come out on.
Captain bud Broadhurst, with bis
tug Night Hawk, arrived yesterday
from Lintdale with the saw mill boat
McAllister in tow, her machinery
having been disabled. She is to have
new engines put in.
The Anchor Line steamer City Of
G%reenville, in command of Captain
Jos. Bryan, is announced to pass here
at 10 IN. to morrow, bound for New
Orleans. Captain AID Storm, at I'll
elevator, is her agent.
The R. R. Springer, which grounded
at TiptOnville early Saturday morning,
was released yesterday morning by IT,
steamer Henry Tyler, and she was
expected to pass down this forenoon,
bound for New Orleans.
The PUBLIC LEDGER job printing
and blank book manufacturing estal-
lishwent, ID Madison street, Memphis,
Tenn is prepared to execute every
kind Of work in their line in superior
style and at low prices. +
The Hard Cash is due this evening
and leaves at 5 p m tomorrow on h r
return trip for all points on White
river through to J~acksonport and con-
meets with light draft steamers 70,
upper White and Black rivers.
The Annie P. Silver, five and a half
days out, with neal 1000 tons Of
freight, passed up this morning. for
St. Louis. She discharged here 92
hhds and s. bbls sugar, $50 bbls
mOlaSses, 10 bbls rice, 20 bales bags
and 600 pckgs sundries.
The river at Tiptonvills is in a bad
condition at present, almost every
boat meeting with trouble there. The
D. R. Powell, on Friday last, as sh,
passed up lost II hours and, the
steamer R. R. Springer grounded
there on Saturday morning last ana
remained until yesterday.
The Rene MaOready, in command
of Captain o. X. Joplin, leaves Thu
evening for Mariana, the Cut.Of
Wittsburg and way landings on Ian
guile and St, Francis rivers, going a.
high as the stage of water will permi
and connecting with the light draft
steamer Advance for the Sunk Lands
A. L. Banning is in charge of the
Office.
Captain Milt Harry has secured the
services Of George d. Marsh, as chief
clerk of the steamer John S. Brans.
ford. MI. Marsh is a young man Of
pleasing address, q good accountant
and will prove quite an acquisition to
the mail line. He will be remem-
bered as the late chief clerk of the
Centennial. ia the st. Louis and New
Orleans trade.
The City Engineer should take a
walk to the levee and view that por-
ton lying between Madison and
Union streets. The rains from the
bluffs run under the railroad tracks.
then soak through the sand under the
new levee, aud comes out again to
the surface, where the old levee
begins, thus causing the same to be
unfit for the handling of cotton dis
charged by steamboats,. If the proper
drainage is made at the foot of the
bluffs, this trouble will be avoided.
The John s. Fransford, Of the Milt
Harry Nail Line, arrived this morn
ing with 9S bales cotton and 272O SKIS
seed. She leaves again this
evening on her return trip to Devalls
Bluff, Augusta, Jaoksonport and
intermediate landings, giving prompt
attention to all business intrusted to
her, and connecting with light draft
steamers for upper White and Black
Captain W. H.. Holt CON
mands with GaorOa ID Marah IN Al