The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-01-23

y. w. Miller. Paducah.
Florence Lee, Evansville.
RIVER, WEATHER AND BUSINESS.
There Is no improvement in business.
The weather was damp yesterday. A
heavy rain Tell on Friday night.
| GENERAL ITEMS.
Arrivals and departures at the wharf
were few yesterday.
The Commonwealth, Captain Thomp.
son, aud L. r. Schenck, Captain Carter,
for Cincinnati, and the Belle Of Shreye.
port, Captain Rea Jean Mountain and
barges, Captain Gray, aud Andy John;
son, Captain Asbury, were all booked to
leave New Orleans on Thursday.
The City of Chester from Memphis.
arrived early yesterday morning, put oil
81 bales Of cotton for the East via Lbs.
cairo aLu ...cuncs riiiiiU4d; and went
on to st. Louis. after getting small
amount Of freight.
The Glencoe and Louisville both re.
fused offerings OF corn at Madrid bends
| and the adjacent bends.
The Andy Baum arrived after dark
Friday night from Memphis, loaded to
the guards and with fifty people In the
cabin. Among her items of cargo was
52s bales Of cotton, 400 barrels Of mo.
lasses, from the Mary Miller, and 600 ba r.
rsls Of oil.
The j. w. Mills came in from and re-.
turned to Paducah on time yesterday.
The Jim Fisk will be ready to take her
old place in the Cairo and Paducah trade
in about two weeks.
The bottoms along the Arkansas
river are inundated. The streams are
higher than ever known. A private tel.
egram from Little Rock states that the
entire country is flooded.
The remains Of X-postlnaster Casey,
Of Vicksburg, were on board the Robert
Mitchell yesterday. They are being
taken to Kentucky for interment.
The Florence Lee came into port
from Evansville in the place Of the Pat
Cleburne yesterday, with good trip,
and had an excursion party Of ladies and
gentlemen from Metropolis, and the most
prominent individual among them was
Captain Dick Fowler.
The Sam Brown and tow left for Pitts.
burg at O'Clock yesterday Afternoon.
Angelo and Stephen Mcbride, having
brought the sam Brown back from st.
Louis, turned her oyer to her regular
pilots yesterday. and are now open for
engagement.
The Charles Morgan is coming with
800 tons Of freight aud big trip Of pas
| sengers.
II has taken the Commonwealth long
time TO mako up her mind to leave New
Orleans, but she was.
From the following paragraph, taken
from the New Orleans Times, 1t seems
that the rumor which was prevalent In
Memphis day or two ago. and which
we published yesterday morning, in re-
gard to an alliance having been formed
by the John Il. Maude and Mary Belle.
for the purpose OF making a big fight
against the Dean in the Memphis and
New Orleans trade, has turned out to be
fact. The Times says: "The John Il.
Maudc, leaving last evening, will only
90 as far rs Chlcot City this trip, and will
return In time to leave on Friday, the
18th, for Memphis. Helena aud the bends,
AMI wiz thereafter run In connection
with the great steamer Mary Bell. which
boat leaves on Friday the 2lst." 1t il
said that since this state OF affairs have
been brought Obout, the owncrs of the
Dean have determined to carry the war
'dlrecty into Africa by placing their
steamer on the same day an the Mary
Bell. This will make things awful hot
down there.
The James ID. Parker is to take q big
excursion praty from Cincinnati sad
Louisville to Memphis on her carnival
trip.
The following particulars in regard to
the stranding of the st. Francis Belle,
was given the Memphis Appeal man by
Capt. J. Z. Abbot:
"On Sunday evening, January II. 1876,
when near Island GS, Il became very
foggy, and thought best to lay the boat
up, which did, and through the night
was aware that the timber was cavinx
In, so that IL was dangerous for passen-
gers. boat and cargo; but 1t being so
very dark and fOsgy, l could not see
where could go to better my condition;
so next morning, about eight O'Clock, l
attempted to move, aud In so doing got
the boat from the shore. The next thing
We found ourselves aground Oh the OPP
pOsitc side OF the river. Every attempt
was made to get her of, but failed.
Then | saw the sand was washing so
from under her head, l thought 1t best
to throw the cotton oil, to save the boat,
which did. She Is now lying very well,
not much hurt nor damaged"