Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-08-17
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
Clear and warm.
River fell seven inches.
Good business on the levee to day,
Josie Harry for White river to NOR.
row.
Local packet business is holding out
pretty we'll for the dull season.
The Golden Grown, from the Ohio
river, arrived at New Orleans yester-
day.
The City Of Cairo left st. Louis last
evening for Vicksburg, and passes
here Sunday forenoon.
The Kate Adams departed yester
day evening as usual, with good trip
Of both freight and people.
The Anchor Line steamer City Of
Providence for Vicksburg was sx.
pected to pass down at noon.
The City Of Helena left Vicksburg
yesterday at noon and passes here
Sunday morning on her way to St.
Louis. -h''.
Captain VIM. @. Smith, an old time
Iteamboatman, and engaged in the
Bayou s.Teche trade since l849, is
dead.
The U. P. Schenck is overdue from
the Ohio river, but on account Of low
water had not got out to Cairo at last
accounts.
The Andy Baum will be placed on
the ways at Madison to be overhauled
and put in fine condition for the fall
business.
Pilot Billy Hodge went out last
night at the wheel of the Kate Adams,
having not yet decided to resign that
position.
The government towboat MissiSs-
sippi, with the Charlie DePauw in
tow, passed up this morning for the
Ohio river.
Navigation at Pittsburg is virtually
suspended, and boat owners generally
would like to see it remain SO for q
month or more. I.rt'
The steamer Susie B., from New
Orleans, arrived at Vicksburg yester
day to take the State engineers on q
levee inspection tour.
The Dean Adams, from Osceola,
brcght in 100 SKIS cotton seed, 3 bbls
apples and 100 melons. She is the
mail packet leaving again this evening
for 0sceola.
The elegant Anchor Line steamer
City of St. Louis, in command Of
Captain Dan Able, is announced tC
pass here at 10 O'clock Sunday morn.
ing for New Orleans.
The Arkansas City, from Vicks'
burg, came up last evening and pro
ceeded at 10 o'clock this morning to
St. Louis, adding few tons Of mis-.
cellaneous freight.
Captain Jerry johnson, the well
known levee Waterman, accompanied
by his family, left this morning on the
steamer Golden Rule for Cincinnati
to spend a few weeks,
J 1t is reported that the Mississippi
Valley Transportation Company have
an eye on the towboat Sam Clark
which is to be sold at Pittsburg on The
18th inst by the u. S. Marshal.
The James W. Calf is "makinl
haste" very slowly in the Ohio river
and though over due here was at las
accounts fighting the bars in the Ohio
in the vicinity of Flint Island.
The railroads are going to have thu
best of the passenger travel to the
Louisville Exposition, as the water il
the Ohio is getting so low that il
wouldn't do to place too much de-
pendence on boats.
The Coahoma, from the lowel
coast, brought in 20 bales cotton, II
bags seed cotton, 20 SKIS cotton seed
4S bbls apples aud So boxes peaches
She returns again this evening t.
Helena aud Friars Point.
The Golden Rule, on her sixth day
out iron New Orleans, passed up thil
morning for the Ohio river, but viii
find considerable trouble in gettinl
through to Cincinnati. She dis
charged here about so tons aud addeC
q few people,