Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-06-25


Diamond, New Orleans
Commonwealth, st Louis.
CITY Of Cairo. Vieksburg.
DEPARTED.
Steamer City of Cairo, st Louis
Commonwealth Vlcksburz
w P Halliday st Louis
" City Baton Rouge. New Orleans
Diamond, Ohio river
Thomas Sherlock, Cincinnati
IN PORT.
Coaholna, Dean Adams, Kate Adams,
Cons Millar, Mark Twain, Maeready
HIGH WATER MARK.
The high water level of the food of 1882
at the port of Memphis was reached on
March 9Th, when the exact reading of the
government guage at the foot of Jeffer-
son street was 30 feet 2 inches.
STAGES OF THE RIVER
Memphis-8O feet, rise of l inch dur
ing the past 4S hours, now feet inches
below high water mark.
Pittsburg-5 feet 6 inches, a decline of
2 feet inches 10
Cincinnati-2O feet, a decline of 6
inches. -o4
Louisyille-9 feet aud STATIONARY.
Eyansville--l6 feet 2 inches, decline
2 feet Of inches.
Cairo-S9 feet 8 inches, rise of I
inches, t.f. taf =
St. Louis-84 feet 8 inches, rise of 8
inches.
Vicksburg-89 feet 6 inches and sta
tionary.
Nashville-6 feet, decline of 10 inches.
Chattanooga feet, rise of inches.
Shreveport-l8 feet II inches, a rise of
inches
Little Rocks feet 2 inches, decline,
of ~ inches.
st. Francis river is rising, and White
river has a fine stage Of water its entire
length.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Pleasant to-day.
River rising slowly.
Fair business at the landing.
Cons Millar for Cincinnati to-mor.
row.
The prospects for an overflow are
rather slim.
The propeller Dyersburg came in
Saturday from Dyersburg.
The Golden Rule for New Orleans
and the Vint Shinkle for this port left
Cinl innati Saturday.
The U. P, Schenck is due up to
morrow ON her way to Cincinnati. h.
.. Lowe is agent.
The Thos Sherlock passed to the
Ohio river Saturday afternoon, and
added here 300 bales cotton.
Another cool pleasant shower &C
companied by thunder and lightning
occurred yesterday afternoon.
The Diamond, with tow of empty
coal boats, passed here yesterday at
noon bound for the Ohio river.
The Ooahoma is the Lee Line mail
packet leaving this evening for Hell.
ena, Friars Point and way landings.
The Will Kyle for Cincinnati, and
the City.ot st. Louis for st. Louis
lett New Orleans Saturday evening.
Regular semi-weekly excursions on
the steamer I. +. Eckert is being
talked OF. If managed right they will
pay. H#
The Tilda, with six barges of slaves
and in command of Captain Jake
Faux, left here Saturday for New Or
leans.
Shinkle's coal shoYeler removed
1000 bushels of coke in five hours,
Saturday from one coal barge to an
other.
The Anchor Line steamer John A.
Scudder is announcedto pass here to
morrow afternoon on her way to New
Orleans.
The wild" Will S. Hays and
"blooded" Charles Morgan are to leave
Cincinnati on Wednesday evening for
New Orleans.
The Dean Adams, tor Osceola,
Plum Point and way landings on the
upper coast, is the Lee Line packet
leaving this evening.
The Paris 9. Brown, from Cincin,
natl, and the Harry Brown, with tow
OF coal from Louisville, arrived at
New Orleans yesterday.
The Hard Cash will arrive to.mor,
row, and leaves on Wednesday even
ing for all points on White river
through to JacksOnpOrt.
The Commonwealth, for st. Louis,
passed up on time yesterday, after
adding 200 bbls oil, 100 bbls potatoes
and 2 big lot of way freight.
Wp. Long, of 'GFetpa, La, and a
we'll known steamboat mate, is sick ct
the Sheridan House in Cincinnati, and
under good medical treatment.
The City of Baton Rouge, loaded
hat, from st, Louis, passed to Vicks
burg Saturday afternoon, doing but
little OF interest here, and refusing
freight.
The W. ?. Halliday, on her fouth
day out from New Orleans, with 500
tons OF freight, passed up yesterday
t 6or St, topisoand discharged about
Mrs. Isaac Funk, the wife of a for
meE old TINE steamboat cabin builder,
died on Thursday evening last of
heart disease at her home in Colum-
bia, Ohio. plaF tatn
The Anchor Line steamer City Of
Cairo, from St. Louis, passed to
Vicksburg yesterday, discharging 1923
pkgs and adding about 30 tons Tor
points beloE. lul . 80
Freight rates from Cincinnati to
Evansville 5 cents per 100 pounds on
any Of the lines. The rates are also
nominal to New (lrleans M oents mar