Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-08-31

Little Rocks feet, and stationary.
White and st. Francis rivers con-
tinue at fair stage.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Clear and warm.
River fell two inches.
Moderate business at the landing.
Three packets leaving to-day.
No through boat advei tised to leave
Cincinnati to morrow evening.
The City Of Helena will be the
Sunday mOrning packet for Cairo and
st. Louis.
The Golden Rule passed Louisville
in good shape yesterday bound fol
Cincinnati.
Pilots Newt Pell and John Joyner
are in charge of the wheel of the Ella
Kimbrough.
One item of the W. P. Halliday't
cargo into st. Louis the other day was
5000 bdls cotton ties.
The City Of Cairo left st. Louis iasi
evening and passes here on Sunday
next bound for Vicksburg. T
The Kate Adams departed last
evening for Arkansaw City with q
good trip OF both freight and people
The Anchor Line steamer City O.
Providence was expected to pass
down at noon for to day for Vieks
burg.
Captain 0. X. Joplin and wife lef
last night for Rocky Mount, Va where
they will spend few weeks amenl
old friends.
A new transfer steamer for Cairo is
being built for the Towards, of Jeffer.
sonville, and will have the machinery
on board by October Is
The towbOats Piasa and Billy Ezell
also two barges, now at this port, ar.
to be taken out on the ways at Padu;
cab as soon as their turn arrives.
The James W. Gaff is all right
again and out OF trouble. She passed
Evansville yesterday afternoon and
will be here to leave on Monday next
for Cincinnati.
The Coahoma, in command of Cap
tain Stacker Lee, is the mail packet
leaving this evening for Helena and
Friars Point. Platt Rhodes is in
charge of the Office.
Repairs and improvements on the
Belle Shreveport are all completed
and she will probably leave St. Louis
next week for New Orleans under the
auspices Of the Anchor Line.
The Arkansas City came up from
Vicksburg last evening, cleaned out
boilers, took on.a lot of miscellaneous
freight and left at 10 o'clock thit
morning for Cairo and st. Louis.
The steamer Hotspur, when two
miles above Lockport, on the Ohio
river, evening before last, broke thu
waist Of her larboard engine, breaking
out the after cylinder head. She wen
back to Evansville on one engine,
The government steamer Patrol il
due up to-day on her way to St
Louis. She had no health paper
when she reached Vicksburg, so per
mission to land was refused. She vii
doubtless meet the same fate here.
The Dean Adams, in command o
Captain Henry Cooper, is the Lee
Line packet leaving this evening 70
0sceola and intermediate landings Oh
the upper coast Charles Bourne AM
John Rhodes are in charge of tn
Office.
The T. f. Eckert is to make tw
excursions to Horn Lake on Sunda
next, in order to give those who de
sire days fishing at that popular re
\ sort an opportunity. The boat vii
leave the foot of Monroe street at /
am. and 4 pm.
The. latest report of the condition
of the Ohio river is as follows: Tire
feet at Flint Island bar, 3 feet
inches at French's, feet at Scufle
town, 3 feet at Two Mile, 3 feet 6 q
Henderson and Caseyville, 3 feet q
Tradewater to Brown Point, 3 feet
at Sisters and Choppers and 4 feet q
Cottonwood.
What next. A rumor prevails a
Cairo that the Anchor Line wi
probably purchase the steamer Wi
S. Hays. She is lying up at Noun
City, having new wheels built, whic
are to be much stronger than be
former wheels, but will not have he
cabin guards cut of, the cotton carry
ing project having been given up,
The Anchor Line steamer John A
! Scudder, nearly 30 hours behind tim,
passed here yesterday afternoon, boun
for New Orleans. She had 1900 tor
} OF freight and was drawing nearly