Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-02-09
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Cloudy again.
River rose three inches.
Business brisk on the levee
Josi' Harry for Vicksburg 5 pm.
The upper Ohio is falling slowly at
Pittsburg.
The Piasa is due from theOhio river
with a tow Of stone.
The Andy Baum, from this port.
arrived at Cincinnati yesterday.
The Kate Adams departed last eve
ming for Arkansaw City with a fair
trip.
Navigation will probably be resumed
between Cairo and st, Louis within
the next ten days.
Only &C feet space was reported last
night under the bridge at Louisville
aud the river still rising.
Colonel Joseph Flynn, the we'll
known medicine mau. went out yes
terday steward Of the Kate Adams.
The Ohio at Cincinnati has reached
hight Of Go feet, and has been rising
3 iuches an hour since yesterday morn
Jag.
The Will Kyle, with her musical
whistle, was expected to pass down
this forenoon on her way to New Or.
leans.
1.-THE Golden Crown, with a thousand
tons OF freight and eight days out from
New Orleans, passed up last evening
Tor Cincinnati. She discharged about
300 pckgs,
Both the old and new canal locks at
Louisville are submerged and the
navigation Of the falls is considered
hazardous, there being sunken barge
OF coal in the channel,
Commodore james S. Wise, Super
intendent Of the Memphis and Ohio
River Packet Line, arrived yesterday
from Cincinnati to attend to business
connected with his line.
Captain Harry Stein was quite sick
yesterday when his boat, the Charles
Morgan, passed up. A physician
waited on him at Helena, and another
here. 1t was thought he was suffering
with pneumonia.
The PUBLIC LEDGER jeb printing
and blank book manufacturing estab-
lisbment, ID Madison street, Memphis
Tenn, is prepared to execute every
kind OF work in their line in superior
style and at low prices. +
The White Star Line of boats at
New Orleans, composed of the Wits
per, st Mary and Belle, which have
been running in the Bayou IIafourche
trade was sold yesterday to the Red
River and Coast Line. Terms private.
The great iron steamer Chas. p.
Ohouteau arrived this morning with
30 hhds sugar, 266 bbls molasses. l2O
dozen brooms, "a boxes soap and POI
SKIS cotton seed. She will remain a
few days and leave early next week on
her return trip to New Orleans.
The tug Night Hawk, on her way
from New Orleans, ran through her
self about thirty miles below here and
was towed here by the steamer Tiger
Her repairs will be made at once,
when she will make up another tow of
slaves for New Orleans.
The John s. Bransford is at the
landing receiving to leave at 5 pm.
tomorrow 10 place ofthe Josie Harry
for all points on White river through
to Newport, where connection will be
made with light draft steamers for
upper White and Black rivers
Captain John G. Holder will com.
mand.
The James W Gaff, in command Of
Captain Il. w. Wise, is announced to
leave here this evening for all points
on the Ohio river through to Cincin
natl, where connection is made with
the railroads centering at that point
and will ticket passengers through to
the principal cities of the East at low
rates. Captain James Surtees pre-
8 des in the office.
Second mate, Sam Holder, arrived
last night apassenger on the Golden
Grown, and was arrested and placed
in the statiOnhouse. The wound,
received from pistol in his own hand
during a scuiile with negro rousta.
bout (the latter being killed., is quite
painful but not serious. He is held
to await the authorities of Louisiana,
where the trouble occurred.
The S4lvor No. 9 arrived early this
morning from Atchaialaya river.
where she accomplished the task OF
raising locomotive and several cars
which had run off the incline into 80
feet of water The Salvor on her way
up stopped in Arkansaw river Cut OFF
and recovered four bales of cotton
and the machinery of the Plow Boy,
sunk there several months since.
Frank Golden, the night Waterman
at the elevator, is positive that at the
hour OF Il last night, he saw distinctly
a ghost in human form, with the ex-
ception OF the head, which was invisi.
BILE. 1t was standing directly under
the electric light on the second floor,
and before he could secure the aid Of
his partner 10 catching the object, it
disappeared. No packages we're miss
ing, and the Waterman feels all right
again.
The Katie Hooper arrived this
morning from Arkansaw river with rs
bales cotton, 6 bags seed cotton and
100 SKIS cottonseed. She reshipped
1873 bales at Terrene for New Orleans,
making total OF 2O5 bales out of the
river. The Hooper leaves again to-
morrow evening for Pine Bluff and
way landings, and connects at her des>
tination with the regular pool line
boats for Little Rock and all points
above.
The Coahoma, in command of Cap
tain Henry Cooper, brought in "a
bales cotton, 4 bags seed cotton and
474 SKIS cotton seed. She Is the Lee