Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-02-05
RIVER IaTELLIaENCE.

Arkansaw City, Kate Adams.5 p m
BOATS LEAVING TOMORROW.
For White river, j. S. BrRnsford..... s p m
" Arkansaw river, Ida Darragh.5 p IN
st. Francis river, Macready. 4. 8 D m
Cincinnati, Nint Shinkle "".....6p p m
ARRIVED.
Steamer James Lee, Friars Point.
Coahoma. Osceola-
Tiger, Walnut Bend.
Kate Adams, ArkanSaw City.
J.S. Bransford, White river.
Macready, 81. Francis river.
Storm No. 8, Padueah.
DEPARTKD.
Steamer Katie Hooper, Arkanssw river.
Josie Harry, White river,
Cons Millar. Cincinnati.
Storm No. 3, New Orleans.
N PORT.
James Leo, Coahoma, Kate Adams,
Tiger, Rene Macroady, j. s. Bransford.
STAGES OF THE RIVERS.
M~emphis-2l feet 6 inches, a de-
cline Of 3 inches during the past 4S
hours,
Pittsburg-l7 feet 10 inches, a rise
Of IL feet7 inches.
Cincinnati-32 feet, a rise Of 4 feet
6 inches.
Louisville-lS feet 2 inches, a rise
Of teet.
EvanSvillo-24 feet 6 inches, a rise
Off inches.
Cairo-29 fcet..3 inches, a decline of
2 inches.
st. LOuiS-7 feet 8 inches a rise
Of 8 inches.
Vicksburg-3O feet 2 inches, a rise
Of 3 feet.
Nashville-14 feet, a decline Of 3
feet 2 inches.
Chattanooga feet 3 inches, a de.
cline Of Is inches.
ShrevepOrt--l9 feet 2 inches, a rise
Of 2 feet 4 inches.
Little Rock-6 feet, a decline Of
IA inches.
Whitel river is falling, with a good
stage of water from J~acksonport.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Slippery to-day.
River falling steadily,
Vint Shinkle for Cincinnati.
Business confined to loca packets.
The Carrier leaves Pittsburg this
evening for St. Louis.
The Golden Rule should pass up to-
day bound for the Ohio.
The Thomas Sherlock went into
New Orleans with 100 passengers.
The Charles p. Chouteau will DO
due here Wednesday from New Or.
leans.
The james w. Calf, for this port,
aud the viii Kyle. for New Orleans,
left Cincinnati Saturday.
Diver Burris has recovered 2O3
bales cotton and 80 bbls oil from the
wreck of the Kate Kinney.
The Storm No. 3, with a tow Of
slaves from the Tennessee river, passed
down this morning for New Orleans,
The Josie Harry for White river,
and the Katie Hooper for Arkausaw
river, had good trips out on Satur
day.
The Charles Morgan left New Or
leans on Saturday and will be due
here Wednesday morning on her wa,
to the Ohio river.
Captain james Hambleton has made
satisfactory arrangements for the con
tinuance Of the boat building bust
ness at Mound City.
The Hard Cash will arrive to
morrow and is the Wednesday packe
leaving for all points on White river
through to Jscksouport.
The towboat Grand Lake No.
with one barge, arrived at st. Loui
Saturday, having been detained a
Chester since the first Of January.
The Cons Millar departed Saturda
for Cincinnati With 100 bales cotton
10 hhds sugar, 1879 bbls molasses,
good lot Of miscellaneous freight an
a fair trip O~fpeople.
J George @. Oyphes, an old tim
, steamboatman, suicided BY an ovel
dose of morphine on the LIST iost. in
small boat in the lake, near Wick,
! burg. He was from LASalle count,
Illinois.
. The Ida Darragh will arrive tn
afternoon, and leave at q p m. tp.mo
row for Pine Bluff and way landing
on Arkansaw river, and connect vii
: boats of the pool lines for Little Roc
/ and points above.
: Captain John A. Stevenson has r,
! signed the position OF agent of the S
5 Louis aud Mississippi Valley Tran
p%ortation Company, which he h
a held for many years, and is succeed,
by VIM, r. Frisbie.
AT q meeting Of the St, Loui
Memphis, Vicksburg and New Orlear
Pilots Society, held at St, Louis {
Saturday last, they sustained Il
: River Commission as far as the wol
:. of improving the Mississippi has pr
crossed.
: John Dougherty, mate Of the Silv
ic City, shot and wounded twice a pegl
; deck hand named Robert Oarty ne
New Orleans, because the latter W
n about to leave The boat along with
number of other negroes who b,
been hired aud found worthless.