Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-09-20

Ohattanooga-Nothing on the gauge
shrevcport-2 feet 8 inches, decline of
2 inches a
Little Rocks feet 8 inches, and sta
%tionary.
White and St. Francis rivers are low
and falling. aa 1
MISCELLANEOUS.
Weather mixed.
River about stationary.
Cloudy early this morning.
Light busiLess at the landing.
Rene Macready for Arkansaw City
Bpm.
The City of Cairo arrived at Vieks-
burg yesterday from st. Louis.
Only three feet Of water is reported
on the Grand Chain in the lower Ohio
river. a1
The Centennial, with all the freight
she wanted, left St. Louis last evening
for New Orleans. ad paor
The Hard Cash for White river and
the Ida Darragh for Arkansaw river
had good trips out,
Cotton is coming in more freely, and
in a couple Of weeks the packet BUSH
ness will be booming.
THE small government towbOat VII
dalia, from St. Louis. passed to Will
sons Point yesterday.
The Key West, just off the ways at
Paducah, passed down during the
night for New Orleans.
Plenty Of freight on the wharf boat
at Louisville awaiting shipment to
lower Ohio river points.
The DeSmet is loading ut st. Louis
in the Anchor Line and leaves there
this evening for Yicksburgg I
The Anchor Line steamer John A.
Scudder was expected to pass down
this forenoon for New Orleans. gr
The ferryboat Martha left here yes
terday for Arkansaw river with Pilots
McNett and Brinkley at the wheel.
The COahoma brought in 116 bales
cotton and 16l SKIS cotton seed. She
returns to Friars Point this evening,
The City Of Helena from Vicksburg
and the City of New Orleans from
New Orleans arrived at st. Louis yes
terday.
The towbOat Annie L.. with a barge
went up to Island IS yesterday to
tighten her grounded wharfbOat, which
is some distance out Of the channel.
The new steamer Mabel Comeaux,
with a barge in tow passed to New
Orleans early this morning with a
good list Of freight and put off a few
pkgs here.
The Billy Ezell, with three bArges
Of coal in tow, left this forenoon for
Terrcne in charge Of Captain William
Hodges, the well known pilot Of the
Kate Adams. alH
More sandbars can be seen at pres
ent in front Of the city than water.
The channel is close over to this side,
but deep enough for the heaviest boat
that wei ran the river. r..a
A new boat store, under the firm
name of G., Y. Zg.ssi 6 Co., will open
in a few days on Front street, and
several Of the packet lines, including
the Lees and Major Adams, are in.
terested.
A white decker named John
Schwartz, a German, who took passage
at Plum Point, on the steamer City Of
New Orleans, for St. Louis, died on
board the boat, and was buried at
Paducah. al-aa rrfr9 #.
The bank at Tiptonville is said to
be caving badly and the channel is
thrown a long way from its bed. Only
six feet is reported in the channel at
that point, and boats have to go slow
in making the passage. i.a
The Anchor Line steamer City Of
Providence is due up this evening,
and is the 10 o'clock packet to NOR
row for Cairo and St. Louis. Captain
George Lenox commands, with Frank
Perkins in charge Of the Office.
The hull Of the new Arkahsaw
river steamer Joe Peters, being built
at Pittsburg, is still above Lock No.
3 waiting to get through the lock,
which, it is expected, will be re-
opened for business in a few days.
The elegant Anchor Line steamer
Arkansas City, 10 command of Capt
Harry Brolaski, will be due here in
the morning, and leaves at 10 O'Clock
for Vicksburg and way landings.
Charles Quesnel is her polite clerk,
The Josie Harry will be in TO NOR.
row and is the regular packet leaving
on Saturday evening at 5 o'clock fol
all points on White river through Il
Newport, where connection is made
with the regular light draft steamers
for upper White and Black rivers.
The MinnetOnka, built by Barmore.
the machinery by the Sweeneys, hal
made her trial trip. She is fast and
well built. The steamer will be used
as a toWbOat by the government. Hel
officers say the machinery iS the besI
they have ever seen, and works easier
on a trial trip than machinery is OK.
pected to-.
Low water steamboating has beer
very Improbable this season. Somt
Of the light craft which held off fol
good charter money aud went in OF
their own hook, wish they hadn't now
Too many points accessible by rail nov
to make low water navigation pay Tx
it used to. 81
! Mr., II. H. Aydlett, a former wei
known river clerk, and who durin
the past summer Olerkcd in the ofic
Of the Iuka Syringe Hotel, has Doe