The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-04-11

them was seen on the landing during
the day.
The w. +. Curtis got her boilers thorough
ly cleaned and started for the Upper Missis
sippi at noon, and the Glencoe came uI
three hours later, just three days and TWEEN
ty-One hours out from your city, with .
freight list of one box for Memphis, and not
over twenty-five tons for st. Louis and
points this side.
The John Kyle came down at 5 P. NJ. and
laid here until midnight to coal and dis
charge $50 sacks corn and 65 bales cotton
best les a lot of wagon stuff and miscellane-
GUS freight. She added 1900 sacks corn and
100 bales Gotten below Cairo, and 80 bales
cotton here, and has the following ''pro-
duce" items for New Orleans: 345 sacks
bran, 93 casks bacon and hams, 2073 sacks
corn, $50 bales cotton, "a pkgs. eggs, $3.50
barrels flour, 1l39 sacks oats - hhds. tObac-
co, 80 casks B. beer, 234 empty oil barrels,
Is head cattle, 81 coops chickens, 3 coops
turkeys, all Of which, with about 45O tons
way freight, loads her nearly to the guards.
The r. w. Dugan, after laying here since
Friday last to get IA trip for the Arkansas,
had but so toLs on board at dark, and con-
cluded to lay over until tomorrow, whSh
will compel the Boyd, now waiting here, to
lay over until Monday next.
The Ben Franklin arrived to night from
the Ohio, with between $50 and 300 tons,
aud reports Snuthern-bound freight very
scarce in the lower part of the stream she
came from. She says, however, that more
tobacco is coming to the bank than tor
month, aud that at Paducah alone there are
400 hhds, which the towboat Warner had
or was to secure for her barges to take to
New Orleans.
The Thompson Dean came up at O'Clock
last night only 3 days and hour out from
New Orleans, making eight landings on the
way, and coaling twice-beating the Belle
Lees time two hours and Kilgour's fourteen
hours. She put out here, at the elevator,
so packages, and took as passengers Com
mOdore John A. Scudder and family, who
at Cairo and go to st. Louis by
rail. Her freight list amounted to about
200 tons for points Oh the Ohio, and she had
1O5 passengers.
The rain prevented the Phil Allen from
getting either passengers or freight, and the
Andy Baum's cotton receipts didn't foot up
very large, while the May Boyd, billed to
leave for the Arkansas on Saturday, failed
even to roll single barrel or package over
her stage planks.
The extreme dullness in river circles gives
our marine ample opportunity to participate
in the many sports of the country, and all
cuION d lOA VI uctI CudSc do W I'll 80 tuCy uO
a pigeon shooting match. Yesterdays vt
traction in this line was a shooting match,
and the best shot was Capt. Dick Light
burne, who entered as challenger for .
silver pitcher, and proved himself the cham
pion Of the club by first bringing to grass
eight birds out Of ten at eighteen yards
rise and 100 yards boundary, "tieing" one
IF his competitors, and mex. in shooting off
got five out of six birds at twenty one yards,
which gave him the pitcher to hold as the
champion until some other chap comes along
md shoots more birds than he does.
night add that Dick is yet only an amateur,
md in the match yesterday "get away"
With several of the crack shots Of the club. |
The little sternwheeler Oil City, seized by |
he United States Marshal yesterday, was
bonded out" last night, and goes again
nto the lumber and raft towing business,
which, by the way, is opening up quite
lively this spring, and more logs have al!
eady been gotten out and brought here SO
ar, than during the same time for many
ears one tug alone has made some $500
Turing the past month, besides attendin. to
Ter regular coal business, and there are
hree Others here engaged besides the Oil
lily. The mills at the upper end of the
ity have now enough material to last them
month, and new arrivals are coming in
ally in the shape Of RATS, containing from
90 to 500 lOvs each