The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-03-24
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| FROM OH EXCHANGES.
| [Courier j ournal 2lst.l
| The Illinois river is on big high.
The Blue Wing few out yesterday.
The mother OF the late John A. Conner h,
brought suit against Capt James A. Paul fol
900 damages Young Conner was second
clerk of the Thompson Dean, and the particu.
lars OF his adventure in search of bucket
plank, the boats leaving HIM, his Journey
home, and final death, are vet fresh in the
minds of our readers
we thought our jack had the jim jams, yes
terday, from the way he was behaving him
sell Tor half an hour; but he felt ashamed OF
himself, went Of and hid when he discovered
that he had been whipping himself with the
pole OF his tail. He commenced it by trying
to wipe hornet off his back, and be began
to believe that some boy was licking him with
a lath, until his tail got tired and quit
The Thompson Dean, after spending nearly
half day and S4O0 or $500, tried to back
down into the canal yesterday to take or
board 1000 barres of cement besides being
assisted by the tug Ida, gave it up as a bad
JOB, and came up to the wharf again and took
on her New Orleans freight. 1t would have
paid Capt Paul to fatboat it up through the
| canal to her, or rolled it down to Portland
with the deck hands.
young lady, who ought to know better,
sends us postal card, upon one side Of which
she asks: (which side Of your jack has the
most hair on? " The outside. of course. We
trust she is now happy.
The Evansville Courier has a weil-conducted
river column. The '.wind-and- water man
knows his business, but his feet are too big
for ball room purposes. He trips the girls up
when the fiddler shouts Swing
Dugan let one Of his coal flats upset on the
outside OF the Morning Star yesterday, by
which accident he lost 400 bushels Of coal
Nobody drowned.
If some OF these little newspaper ours
about town don't quit barking at US, about
our river column, well catch EN- by the back
OF their necks ard shake their tails off
The Charles Bodmann leaves the city wharf
tor New Orleans at noon to-day.
The coal fleet is still arriving from above
We will publish a full report Of the arrivals
and departures of coal in a day or two.
cincinnati Commercial 2lst |
Business was lively along the levee yester-
day. with an unusual number of departures
The Nint. Shinkle departs for Memphis on
Tuesday, and the G. u. Church for New Or
leans on Wednesday.
Among the Chas. Bodmanns excursionists |
to New Orleans, who make the round trip, are |
Mrs. Jessie Wartman, Mrs. Ambrose, Mrs |
apt. Power, Miss Burns and Miss Thompson, |
Mrs George 4. Currie and children, Major |
Z. M. Bascom and wife, Il. $ LaHue, James |
Spur, August Gesler and Andy Chester.
The Chas. Bodmann, for New Orleans, de-
parted with 600 tons of freight and 40 cabin
passengers, drawing > feet large
ST. LOUIS, March 20-We are having good
solid winter weather There was hard
freeze last night, and the mercury ranged 20
to 30 above zero. The ice is getting quite
heavy IN the river, and the Grafton boat has
to lay over until there is change
a the temperature. Captain Hicks, of the
Belle Lee, left for Cairo last night He is
prospecting for a new hull for the Belle
to be of the same dimensions as
he James Howard, with six inches more
iepth OF hold. Aft Cutting came from Mound
ly to-day, and will put in bid for a job | !
japtaln Hambleton left for Memphis to look =,
tter his docks, and will soon have them taken {
Mound City. Col. John B. Maude and Al. w. {
lowe, returned from Cincinnati this morn t
az, highly pleased with their trip and the !
satisfactory manner in which they arranged l.
heir business, concerning the John b. d
laude's insurance. with the Board of Under t
riter5.
The $4,000 won by parties on the John
yle was divided yesterday in equal sums G
etween the ten who had subscribed We dol a 4
rs each for the lottery ticket, namely: The G
ip'aln, two clerks, two engineers steward Il
arkeeper, Waterman and two pilots +
ArrlTed-Lady Lee, Illinois River; Colo =, a
do, Nlcksburg; Katie z. Kountz, New Or d
ans; Petrol, Grand Tower; Savannah, Up L
n Mississippi; De Smet Grafton. Depart ,
'es-E. c. Elliott Grand Tower City of
lcksburg, Elcksburg; ST. Joseph, Memphis; bs
ady Lee, Naples; Nail City and Iron Noun hi
in, Ohio River. i