Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-07-20
Cncinnatl-FallIns


Moderate business on the levee.
The upper Ohio is falling steadi-
".
Josie Harry for White river to.
morrow.
The Vint shinkle is to leave Gin
cinnati tomorrow evening for this
port.
The Win Kyle was expected ia
pass down at noon for New Or
leans.
The W. P. Halliday is to leave St.
LOUIS tomorrow evening for New
Orleans.
The Dean Adams brought in 1873
SKIS cotton seed, and returns to 0sce.
ola this evening.
The John A. Wood, with 200 empty
coal barges, passed up this morning
for the Ohio river.
The steamers leaving st. Louis for
st. Paul are carrying all the passen-
gers they can accommodate.
The Kate Adams departed on time
last evening for Arkansaw City with a
nice trip OF both freight and people.
AMajor John ID, Adams, after spend
ing a couple OF days in the city, re-
turned by rail last night to Little
Rock.
1t is reported that the government
steamer Ii. IL. Benner will be offered
Ter sale soon after her arrival at New
Orleans. =. -.
Rees & Thorn, of Pittsburg, have
closed contracts for new battery OF
boilers eaoh for the towboats, John L.
Walton and Joseph Cook.
The ,Ooahoma brought in 60 bales
cotton, 234 SKIS cotton seed, l5U SKIS
corn, besides a lot of fruit. She re.
turns to Friars Point this evening.
The Arkansas City came up yester
day afternoon from Vicksburg, added
about 10 tons of miscellaneous freight
and lett on time this forenoon for st.
Louis.
Two excursions, afternoon and
night, will be given the steamer T, +.
Eckert Sunday. With good weather
a pleasant time is promised all who
attend.
The Will s. Hays, 4 days and lG
hours out from New Orleans, passed
Evansville yesterday and will be at
Cincinnati to night or early to morrow
mOrning.l
The Paris @. Brown, owing to light
offerings Of New Orleans freight, did
not leave Cincinnati Wednesday, but
deferred her departure until to.mor.
row evening.
The pilots of the Dexter report q
log in the channel at Uelina Point, on
the Ohio river, as long as a wagon
track" 1t is on line with the gov
eminent light at the head of the hill
below Saline.
Owing to the telegraph operators
strike our river report is INCOMPLETE
to-day, but enough is known to say
that the upper Ohio and Mississippi
rivers are falling, rs is also the Cum,
berland and Tennessee rivers.
The elegant Anchor Line steamer
City OF New Orleans is announced Ia
pass here at 10 o'clock tomorrow
morning on her way to the Crescent
City. Captain AID Storm, at the
elevator, is her agent.
The Andy Baum, in command Of
Captain H. j. Vinton, leaves this
evening for all points on the Ohio
river through to Cincinnati, giving
through tickets and cheap rates to
prominent points east. Robert Nc
10Y presides in the Office, assisted by
Charlie Vinton.
On the steamer Josie Harry will be
shipped tomorrow three fine full
blooded, short horn Durham heifers,
which arrived here yesterday on the
Anay Baum. They were purchased
az Henderson, KY, by Captain z. Q.
Eman OF Clarendon, Ark, and are
very valuable animals.
The City of Providence, from St.
Louis, passed to Vicksburg this fore.
noon. She discharged 1484 pkgs. in.
Guiding 387 bbls -four, 275 bbls meal
6O bbls pork, 20 tierces hams, 259 rolls
bagging, l28 SKIS corn, and 48 SKIS bran.
also added about fifteen tons of mis-
cellaneous freight for points below.
The propeller Central City was still
aground at last accounts. There is
said to be change in the channel at
Booths Point about 125 miles above
here where she is aground, and the
same was unknown to her pilot. She
has no sparing apparatus to help her
of, but as the river is rising she will
probably be able to float off the bar
very shortly. Since the above was in
type the Central City arrived here in
good shape.
The pretty Josie Harry, one of the
finest sternwheel steamers ahoat, re-
sumes her trips Tomorrow, leaving at
8 o'clock in the evening and going
through to Jsoksonport, where con-
nection is made with light draft steam
ers for upper White and Black rivers.
AS there is no other packet leaving
here tomorrow evening. she will take
freight or passengers for the principal
landings on the Mississippi river as far
as Terrene. SeRd down your freight
early, SO that she can get away on
time.
The new transfer steamer Charles
Merriam, built for the Kansas City
and Memphis railroad, was out on a
trial trip yesterday afternoon. The
footing Of whistles and firing of can
non brought out quite number Of
people to the bluffs to witness her
movements, all of whom not only ad.
mired her speed, but her beauty. She