Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-03-15

! eHN bAouA DOOh MANUFACTURING eSIaD
lishment, ID Madison street. Memphis
Tenn, is prepared to execute every
kind of work in their line in superior
style and at low prices. T
The John A. Wood, reported
aground day before yesterday on th,
bar at Greensboro, got Of YESTERDAY
and is on her way south. She lost twt
boats and one barge of coal which car
be recovered in low water.
The Anchor Line packets leavipI
here at 10 a. N. to morrow will be tn,
City of Providence, for Vicksburp
and the Arkansaw City for St. Louis
Both are new and elegant steamers
and in charge of experienced officers
Captain Ad Storm at the elevator il
agent.
The total decline of the river a
Cairo up to noon to day is l6 feet
inches, and here the water receded {
inches during the past "a hours, max,
log total decline of q inches. TIL,
banks above here are out Of water ,anC
from this time on the drain will b.
more rapid.
A dispatch received last evenint
stated that the barge of slaves sunk
by the tug Vanderburg belonged to f
BlaDco 4 Co., and that Pilot John
Morgan was SO i'll that it was not
thought he could live through the
night. The Vanderburg aud barges
are down at Halls landing, fifty miles
above Vicksburg; waiting for Captain
W. H, Longnecker, who was tele,
graphed for.
The swift and elegant steamer Kate
Adams, in command of Captain Marx
R. Cheek, is the Adams Line U. s
mail packet leaving this evening fol
Helena, Terrene, Arkansaw City anC
way landings, attending promptly tt
business and connecting with trains or
the Little Rock, Mississippi Rive
and Texas railroad. j. W. OUTLAW
presides in the Office, assisted by Will
Darragh and John @. Wyckof.
Yesterday afternoon, when number
Of persons were standing on the bur
ricane deck of the James Lee, smok,
was seen at the foot of the island ant
several doubted it to be that of tn,
Kate Adams, when a couple of lab
de.dah young men asked a we'll know
pilot if he could tell the namt
Of boat at that distanc,
by the smoke issuing from her chin
neys, the pilot upon the honor of
steamboatman" answered of course h,
could, and not only that, but by TIM
color of her steam, as it came from thu
'scspe pipes. The boys were satisfied
For the past two or three weeks i
was being whispered around that tn,
steamer Kate Adams was waiting io
a favorable opportunity to test he
speed by running against the tim,
made by the steamer James Lee, be
tween Helena and this port las
spring. She left here on Monda,
evening, made quick trip TO Arkan
saw City, and was back to Helena yes
tcrday morning, having attended t,
all her business. Arriving there anC
finding the elements favorable for til,
ran, she started cut at 1896 a. m
her agents tolegraphing from Helena
The first few miles was
little behind the Lee'
time, but she soon got ahead and con
tinued so until she was compelled t.
stop in the chute few miles below
the city on account Of the breaking O.
a couple Of guides to her doctor
engine, which supplies water to the
boiler, temporary repairs were made
she losing q minutes in doing so after
which she continued her trip, passing
the foot OF Beal street at 4..225, which
was 5 hours and 40 minutes from
port to port, or sixteen minutes
more than the time made by the James
Lee. "Ii" the u minutes lost by the
breaking of her doctor" is deducted,
then she beat the Lee i minutes; but,
as ifs and misfortunes count for
nothing in a race Of this kind, she
lost, and will have to make another
triai,or allow the Jim Lee to hold the
horns so we'll earned. The Lee beat
the Adams time from the point 10
the foot Of Beal street by two minutes,
the former boat having crossed over
towards the Arkansaw shore
where the water was slack, while the
Adams came straight up the Tennes.
see skore against the current. Several
thousand people witnessed the run
from the point to the landing, having
been attracted by the shooting of the
little democrat" and the footing"
of the whistles Of boats in port.
Though the Adams failed to beat the
time OF the Lee. it shows that there is
snaad In the Kate. The medals nfhnth