Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-04-28

135 bbls oil.
The Commonwealth, in command of
Captain j. I. McCord, will be up tor
night and leave at 10 am. tomorrow
for Cairo and St. Louis. Henry Diet
rich is her polite clerk.
Captain Logan, of Friars Point, has
purchased the Grandview wharf boat
to take the place of the one recently
sunk, and it is being brought down
by the Bette Gilbert.
Engineer James johnson, late of
the Central City, is spending a few
days il the city with his friends be-
fore leaving for st. Paul. where he
will spend the summer.
Captain Edgar Shinn, of Dardanelle,
Ark, has contracted with Flesher &
Skillinger, of MurrayvilIe. W. Va,
for ferryboat 12O feet long, 81 feet
beam, and 81 feet depth of hold.
Rates of freight from the south
have been placed by the Southern
Transportation Company and the
Anchor Line at l21c per 100 lbs to
New Orleans and 171c to all way
points,
The City of Cairo, in command of
Captain G. w. Vickers, will be the
Anchor Line packet leaving at 10 am.
Tomorrow for Vicksburg and way
landings. Thomas White is in charge
Of the Office.
The steamer D. C.Vogle and barges
after spending the winter up Yazoo
river and its tributaries, passed here
yesterday afternoon, bound for Bur-
lington, Iowa. Mart. Hampton went
from here as one of her pilots.
Captains, mates, pilots and engi-
neers, had better watch their licenses
little more closely. A failure to re-
new at the proper time involves pen
atty Of 500, and quite a number are
being reported in consequence.
The COahoma, in frst>class order,
having just come off the docks, where
she received thorough overhauling
and repainting, will leave on Monday
evening next in place of the James
Ice in the Friar's Point trade
The Lee will be taken to Paducah and
thoroughly overhauled.
The Cons Millar will be due Mon.
day merning, and leaves again on
Tuesday evening for all points on
the Ohio river through to Cincinnati,
giving through tickets and cheap
rates to the principal cities of the
East. Captain R. W. Lightburne is
her agent.
The fears of another food in the
Mississippi valley are dispelled for the
present, as the rivers above are falling
aud it is hardly probable that the
water which passed Cairo during the
past few days, will put the river at
this point any higher than it was a
week ago.
The new towboat R. S. Hays, which
lett New Orleans on Tuesday last for
st, Louis with tow of barges, broke
her piston head and follower Wednes'
day night when a few miles above
Baton Rouge. She returned to New
Orleans yesterday for repairs, leaving
her tow at the scene of accident.
The Rene Macready came in this
morning from st. Francis river with
147 bales cotton, 453 SKIS cotton seed
and 81 SKIS corn. She is the mail
packet leaving again on Tuesday next
for all points on L'Anguille and St.
Francis rivers through to Mark Tree
the crossing of the Memphis aad
Kansas City railroad.
Billy Johnson, the we'll known sec'
end clerk, formerly of the Josie
Harry and other Memphis packets
but more recently of the lower river
steamer J. w. Blanks, is in the city
mingling with his friends, and leaves
to,night for st. Louis. He is a No, ]
clerk and it will be but a short time
before he is again at work.
A new transfer boat is being built
at BarmOre's ship yard for the Mem
phis and Kansas City railroad cross
ing at this port. She will be com
pleted and ready for business by the
LIST of June. She will be a twelve
car boat, lit up throughout with thu
electric light and provided with al
the modern improvements.
The Josie Harry, in command o
Captain James Kinman, is the Mil
Harry mail line packet leaving thi
evening for Devall's Bluff, Augusta
Newport and way landings, givinI
prompt attention to all business tina
offers, including the principle Missis
sippi river landings as far as Terrone
and connecting at her destination wit
the regular light draft steamers 70
upper White aud Black rivers. Anse
Banksmith presides in the Office, as
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