Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-04-14


Louis to New Orleans with several
baTges in tow.
The River Commission steamer
Mississippi passed down yesterday
with several pile drivers and barges
in tow for the government works al
Lake Providence.
The river now being sufficiently
high to admit of a boat going through
to Marion, Ark, the steamer John
Overton will make an excursion TO-
morrow afternoon.
The Jay Gould and barges passed to
New Orleans yesterday and the John
Dippold passed to st. Louis. The S.
L. Wood, with an immense tow Of
coal, passed to New Orleans.
The Thomas Sherlock, with about
500 tons OF freight, arrived from the
Ohio last night. She discharged here
250 pkgs and expected to add 1000
skis oil meal and several carloads of oil
cake.
Commodore KOuntz has been pros
ecuted by an Allegheny constable for
running street cars on Sunday. The
case was decided against the Commo-
dore by the Mayor, but he will carry
it to court.
It's estimated that $4,000 worth
of property came out of the Ksnawha
river on the rise of last Friday night,
including about l4,O0O slaves that
we're caught, aud for which the law
allows 40c per 100.
Captain Frank Ellison, late of the
steamer Tiger, has chartered the
John S. Bransford, and with her will
leave this afternoon for Madison on
st. Francis river, and make two trips
from there to Cairo with lumber.
The old wooden bridge that spans
the Monongahela river at Mononifa-
hela City was destroyed by fire on
Wednesday night. 1t was a serious
obstruction to navigation, and as it
did not pay, will not likely be re.
BOLT.
Captain Matthias Blake, in years
past a prominent and wealthy planta-
ton and steamboat owner on the
Ohio and Mississippi rivers, died at
Canton, Ohio. on Thursday last, aged
seventy years.
The Anchor Line packets leaving
at 10 am. tomorrow will be the City
of Cairo tor Vicksburg, the Common
wealth for st. Louis and the new City
Of St. Louis for New Orleans. They
ere all fne passenger packets and will
leave from the elevator.
Mr.. Jacob Neal, a resident of Ris,
ing Sun, Indiana, and pilot of the
steamer City of Algiers on the lower
Mississippi, went up few days ago
a passenger on the Will Kyle, was
taken with typhoid pneumonia and
died on Thursday morning. He lost
h 5 wife q year ago, and leaves large
amily Of small children.
A meeting of steamboatmen vas
held at the boat store of cassidy,
Collins & Co., of Cincinnati, on
Thursday, aud resolutions Of respect
we're passed in reference to the death
Of Captain A, Q. Donnally. A large
number Of steamboatmen went by
rail to Morrow, Ohio, sto attend the
funeral, which took place yesterday.
"a steamer in California keeps a
sheep that is trained to 60 out on the
gang plank when flock of sheep is to
be taken on, and show them the pas.
sage over is safe, when they will fol-
low him as their leader" 1t would
be we'll for the packets here to profit
by the above, and keep on board a
good trained mule, instead of having
to use about two dozen men in tying
up a mule and dragging him on board,
The splendid passenger steamer
Josie Harry, in command of Captain
Milt r, Harry, leaves promptly at 6
pm. for Devalls Bluff, Augusta, New
port and way landings, attending
promptly to all business that offers
aud connecting at her destination
with the regular light draft steamers
for upper White, Black and Little
Red rivers. Ansel Bauksmith pre-
sides ia the Office, and is assisted by
Hugh Smith.
A blank form for the use of Local
Inspectors of Steamers, to keep q
daily memorandum of their work for
each week, which is to be submitted
to the Supervising Inspector regu-
larly every Monday, has been for,
warded to each district by General
Dumont, with the suggestion that II
approved by Supervising Inspectors a