Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-03-26
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River checking up little.
Business fair at the landing.
Packets all brought in good trips.
The declining river is leaving mud
deposit on the levee.
The Paris e. Brown is the next o
Liue boat due from the Ohio river,
The Annie p. Silver is due down
tomorrow bound for New Orleans.
Mate Phinn Starr has taken charge
Of the lower deck of the Kate Adams.
The Golden Crown was expected to
pass up at noon to day for the Ohio
river.
The river boys who happen to be in
port will take in the mask ball to-
night.
The ferryboat John Overton leaves
for Mound City daily at 8 and IL am.
aud and 5 pm.
The shipments of coal from Pitts
burg on the last two freshets foot up
about 100000 bushels.
The Ida Lee and Marx Twain came
in yesterday with cotton from 0bion
aud Forked Deer rivers.
The Mary Houston, for New Or
leans, and the Andy Baum for Mem.
phis, left Cincinnati Saturday.
The Henry Lourey and barges,
from st. Louis, passed here yesterday
afternoon bound for New Orleans.
The dredgeboat to be used in dredg-
ing Vicksburg harbor will arrive there
next Wednesday in tow OF two tugs.
The jessie Harry departed Satur-
day evening for White river with a
good trip OF both freight and people.
The Hard Cash will be due to.mor>
row morning and is the regular We'd
nesday packet leaving for White river.
The Central City, which went to
the lower coast with a cargo of cotton
seed meal, returned yesterday morn
ing.
The City of Cairo, from Vicksburg,
passed up yesterday forenoon for ST.
Louis, doing but little of interest
here.
The City of New Orleans for St.
Louis, and the Guiding Star for Gin
cinnau, left New Orleans Saturday
evening.
The Raymond Horner and W. W.
y We'll, with empty coal boats, passed
up early yesterday morning for the
Ohio river.
The John s. Bransford will be the
regular packet leaving to morrow at 5
pm. Tor all points on st. Francis river
through to Wittsburg,
The Sam Roberts, from Cairo
passed here yesterday morning bound
for Helena, and will bring up a
couple OF barges of timber.
The little steamer Headlight. is to
be sold by the United States Marshal
at Vicksburg, on April 9th. She has
capacity for 500 bales cotton.
Three of the finest and fastest boats
that ever piled from this port, leaves
this evening. They were built at
Pittsburg by james Rees d Sons.
The Katie Hooper will arrive to-
morrow afternoon and leave on Wed>
nesday at the usual hour for Pine
Bluff and way landings on Arkansaw
river.
The lighthouse tender Joseph
Henry passed down last night for New
Orleans. She is looking after and
making some changes in government
lights.
The repairs OF the Rene Macready
are expected to be completed to
morrow when she will resume her
trips in the railroad trade between
here and Madison.
The steamer Tributary went from
Vicksburg to Lake Washington a few
days ago, where the Herald says "a
steamboat has never been for over
sixty years if ever"
The Commonwealth from St. Louis,
passed down last evening several hours
behind time She put off about $50
tons of freight and added 300 bales of
hay and about 70 tons miscellaneous
freight.
The AnchorLine packets leaving at
loan tO-morrow will be the City of
| pieksburg for Vicksburg, and the
Belle Memphis for Cairo and St.
Louis. Ad Storm, at the elevator, is
tLeir agent
Eugene Dye, lately in charge of the
bar of the steamer Jessie Harry resigns
ed his position on Friday last, and LETT
on the Nint Shinkle with Pilot Carroll
who will in a short time make him a
trst'class pilot.
The ida Darrlgh, in command Of
Captain Ed Rowland, is the railroad
packet leaving this evening for Madi,
son, where connection is made with
trains on the Memphis and Little
Rock railroad for points in the South.
west.
On Wednesday last wedding took
place on board the steamer John w.
Cannon while the boat was on her
way up the river. The contracting
parties were Mr. Gus Levy, of Gin
cippati. and Miss Carrie Well. of
Bayou Sara.
Captain james B. Eads has sent 10
his resignation as member of the
Mississippi River Commission, and
recommends the appointment of Col
Henry Fladd, of St. Louis, one of the
ablest hydraulic engineers, in his
opinion, in the country.
Pilots of Anchor Line boats have
been ordered to bring their boats to a
full stop when meeting any boat com
ing in an opposite direction, until
they thoroughly understand the signal
of the other koat This ia tn avoid