Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-06-16

viii MAKE close connection 9th al
trains North and East. Get thfodpl
tickets on board the boat. Choice Q
routes. Cincinnati has attraction
TOR a few days for sight seers.
Cook Hoyle, who left here evenip,
before last at the wheel of the Piass
had to leave his boat at Centennia
Island on account of sickness and re
turned to the city in a skiff at nool
yesterday. George Madison went nj
on the Dean Adams last night to TAX
bis place.
The report that Captain Thompson
has purchased the Chesapeake from
the Maddy Bros, Of Pomeroy. Ohio
has turned out to be correct. Fl,
purchased her for the Wheeling anC
Marietta trade, paying $500 for tn,
boat except the whistle, which goel
on the new boat.
Captain George w. Shields, a well
known engineer, was married in Louis,
vile on Tuesday last to Miss Della
Hacket, and returned home Wednes-
day evening Captain Shields is in
charge OF the tug Billy Kilby and ID
liking up tow OF slaves to leave for
New Orleans next week.
The popular steamer Will S. HAYS,
but little over three days out from
New Orleans, passed up last night for
Cincinnati with 800 tons of freight and
hundred passengers, dozen or so
Of whom took passage from this port.
The Hays discharged Is hhds sugar.
~ SKIS cotton seed and lot of mis-.
cellaneous freight.
The Florence, Evansville and Nash
vile Steam Packet Company have
filed at Evansville articles of incorpo.
ration. The capital stock being $50
600 in shares of 800 each. 1t Is SUP
posed that these boats will run in both
Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, and
form regular line of packets from
Evansville to both Florence on the
Tennessee and Nashville on the Cum.
berland.
The towboatPort Eads encountered
heavy storm on Tuesday night last,
at point about ten miles below Ma
poleon, during which her barges were
blown against the bank. Her fuel
boat sprung leak and sunk. Henry
Hays, a deckhand, who resided at
st. Louis, in attempting to cut the
lines, became entangled in the same.
fell over and was drowned. The Port
Eads cleaned out boilers here and left
for st. Louis last evening.
LITTLE Rock, June 14.-The river
is still rising here tonight at the rate
of inch per hour, being rise Of 10
inches since O'Clock this afternoon.
and 2 feet 2 inches for the twenty
four hours. 1t is now almost up to
the danger line, and still rising. Great
alarm prevails, for unless it begins
decline before morning many valuable
plantations will go under and the
growing crops be ruined 1t is rising
again tonight at Fort Smith, after a
fall of l foot. That decline between
the rise now there and the one here
now may save the lower country.
if is does not rain here. The weather,
however, is threatening, The bank
opposite Little Rock is caving badly,
destroying valuable real estate. Two
miles below the city long distance of
the county road has washed into the
raging waters The plantations of Zeb
Ward, Floy Davidson and Field Bros.
above the city, are threatened already,
and several hundred men from the
farms of the neighborhood are working
there all day building levees. If the
river overfows now, as it threatens,
the loss will be in the hundreds Of
thousands, and many farmers will be
irretrievsbly ruined. [ Arkansaw river
commenced falling at Little Rock
yesterday, and the danger spoken Of
above will probas!y be averted.