The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-04-27

H. Inc river mas risen about two
inches since last report and if any one will
tell US where the rise is coming from they
will do us great favor. If the Paducah
editors, who are daily reporting the Ten
nessee and Cumberland rivers falling
steadily, are allowing those streams to rise
upon them while they slumber and sleep,
they deserve 10 be put some place where
they would have nothing stronger than
water 20 drink the rest of their lives
pay-A light rain fell yesterday morning
greatly reviving vegetation. During the
day the weather was cloudy, with a very
light sprinkle occasionally. From indi-
cations at this writing, we Judge the storm
is not yet over.
pD-The Mississippi is rising inches
per day at st. Louis. The upper Missis-
sippi is stationary and The Illinois falling.
pN-The Ohio is rising at Louisville,
with 9 feet inches in the chute, but is
falling still at Pittsburg with 2 feet II
inches in the channel, and IL feet at Gin
oinnat.
er5 The Jas. Fisk, Jr., is the regular
Paducah packet daily Except Sundays)
leaving Cairo on arrival of the train.
ED~The Tyrone is the Nashville pack
ct this evening, upon arrival of the train.
rD-The Idlewild will depart for Ev-
ansville this evening being the regular
Thursday evening packet.
BARON the 25th the james Howard
Continental for st. Louis; st. Marys and
Ebert for Cincinnati left New Orleans.
E1-The town Of st. Aubert, OH the
Missouri, has been shut of by bar, so.
that boats cannot land there, but deposit
freight on the opposite shore. Bad thila
for st. Aubert.-MisSouri Democrat.
pD~The p. w. Strader turned her
freight over to the Indiana and ties up at
Louisville for the present.
b6-The Bell Lee, Henry Ames Mary
Alice and barges fo- New Orleans, Argo.
maui for Tennessee river, Altoona for
Pittsburg, Grand Tower for Memphis. are
due to-day.
Berthe Quickstep brought 8 hhds to-
bacco 10 bales sacks for st. Louis; 100
bbls whisky; 200 SKIS corn for reshipment
South and a few pkgs for Cairo.
ptn. The Potomac is travelling on one
foot, having cracked shaft.
rsA- An Evansville dispatch says boats
are ranching bottom at French Island.
DeS- On her last trip the iron steamer
John S. Moore, made the run from New
Orleans to Shreveport in two days, II
hours, the quickest time on record She
is said TO have made the round trip in less
than one week.
sfA- The Cairo Silver Cornet Band has
been hired % the people of Paducah for
the May-day celebration and the JAS.
Fisk, Jr., transports them. She will leave
Cairo at 10 clock Sunday evening and
Paducah, at 4 o'clock Monday evening
The Fisk will carry all who may wish to
attend tho celebration ut half fare rates
meals extra, so cents each.
Rs1- The james Fisk brought 500 SKIS
corn bxs handles for the South, 80 butts,
hhds tobacco for st. Louis, and the fol-
loving for the city; c. Il. Woodward, l
bale felloes, Halliday Bros. so SKIS wheat
Eay- The body of VIM. Williams, who
fell of the Pink Varble week or SO ago
was recovered within one hundred yards |
from where he was drowned, early yester-
day morning. He was painter, and a
resident Of Cairo; he was married man
but we understand that his wife is absent
from the city.
snS-Capt. q. ID. Williamson received
per Jas. Fisk, Jr, yesterday from the farm
of Mr.. j. Y. Clewson, at Caledonia, a box
of strawberries, the first of the season.
pIMr. Peter Saup returned home by
the Fisk yesterday, and was the bearer of
a magnificent bouquet Of huge proper
tions--a present to the Cairo Silver Cor
NJ ~ Rand from, NaNt G,,allay