The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-05-19
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Sergeant Aignal aervice u. s.. A.
Tur WEATHER AND ErgINrss Getting |
unplrasnntly warm.
ii is getting fearfully duh on the
landing.
Get your fishing tackle ready. /
Straw hats are rs plentiful as black |
berries and almost rs cheap.
We have not anoti ~ pair III white
nnntg on the landing this season. II
looks us though some Of the boys hadn't
totel square with their washerwopen.
The sale Of the Martha has been post
poned to Saturday. the 9th inst.
The steamship Hudson wont To sen
Yesterday evening. through Eads' jet |
lies. drawing over fifteen feet.
The Toxas will br sold by the United
States Marshal at noon Saturday. the
9th inst.
There is no end to the dust on the
lrvnc.
Tur EAnr Anil This regular. felih
BID packet arrived Yesterday evening.
aud Is receiving ut the head Of Common
street to leave nj y. ~. tomorrow ipi
Grand Ecore. Alexnndla and all land
inge Intermediates.
Tur NArcurz. This fine steamer IS
receiving ut the hcnd Of Canal street. to
leave ut + y. m to morrow For Nicksbung
and all way lnndings. Capt Irathcts
Fon CANDIES. The lightning Willie.
Captain T.. u. Trinidad leaves Mt y. m.
Ia dny for Camden and MI way landings,
Tho 81 Mary. Fred Prolat master, is
the next line packet for Rcd River. she
II receiving to leave Saturday. goth inst.
| Mt : p. m
The w. j Poitevent. J u. sullivan
master, is receiving to leave this evening
Mt O'Clock for all landings on Bayou
Macon and Tensas.
Capt, q. T. Croolse has chartered tho
Josephine and will run her. in place of
the Stella Block. from this city to Hruf
River.
The enaiest way TO get To tho Hot
Springs Is win Shreveport. All neces
sary information can be obtained by
cnliing MT the office Of tho New Orleans
and Rod River Transportation Com
pnny, No. III Gravier street.
TUE Krvtn. For full particulars Of
the stage Of water in the Mississippi
aud its tributaries. we refer our readers
to the report from the United States
Signal Service Department, ut the head
OF this column.
For list OF arrivals see marine column.
Capt. Jesse r. Bell md the Hon, VIM.
Pagan were in St. Louis on the 18th.
EXPLOSION OF THE PAT cIEnunaE.
The following dispatch was received
last night by the Associated Press
C1NcrNNArI, May H. The Cincinnati
stoarner Pat Cleburne. Evansville
packet. exploded her boilers Mt shaw
neetown mt II last night. The following
nro lost Capt. Fowler. Richard Part
ridge, express messenger. Wounped
Chna Cotton, second mate. Walter Nc
Ehenry. engineer Sid. Uumphry, first
clerk Alex Porter. second clerk . Geo.
Smith, Waterman. Fourteen rouat-
nboutg are missing and one unknown
passenger killed. A large number OF
passengers are slightly injured
The Tcnaas, Eugene Quairevauy. mas
ter is receiving to leave for Opelou8as
Mt + T. IN. tomorrow.
We have postponed Our trip to the
Centennial until 1876. 1t will be u bet
ter show then, rs it will keep open on
sundays, and whisky and beer can be
bought on the ground
tEy Teegrarhl
Vtcganune. May ts,--To J. i. Woods
& 90, Agents. No i0l Common street
Steamer Belle Of Shreveport will arrive
Friday evening md leave for ST. Louis
Monday. 22d inst.
T. W REA. Master
DEPARTURES. The Mary Ida, for Up
per Const; Frank Pargoud, for the
Bends. and J. T. Frazer, for Lower
Consi, were the only departures yc8ter-
day.
FROM Our EXCHANGES.
The Indications are very fair for n de
ci,,ed decline in the big muddy In this
locality very soon If there are no more
rain rises TO hinder it. River men ex-
press the opinion that we have had the
highest water we shall have this season
The i,nmedinte tributaries are falling
Il, for ia mi mo-
ont a The swamp gradually, enabling
planters TO proceed with their planting
operations. Business on the landing
was only moderate. The City Of Helena
got away for st. Louis. with u splendid
passenger list, and the st. Genevievc
arrived about the same time with good
trip Of Western produce. The Big Sun
flower and Tallahatchie departed for
the tributaries on time with fair trips.
, [Vicksburg Herald, 18th:
The wrecking boat Travis Wright Is
still living alongside the wreck Of the
Mary Bell, and recovering cotton from
, the sunkcn hull.
The late rise in the Arkansas did moi
reach the bank tops at any point, there
, fore no harm resulted, aside from the
low region within fifty miles OF its
mouth, which Is submerged by back
t water. The White River rise also die
little or no damage MS far as known;
The City of Agusta broke one OF hel
shafts on her up trip, between Pipt
+ Bluff and Little Rock. She wen
; through on ono wheel and will come
back on one, shipping the crippled par
over by rail for repair
Y Capt. Frank Hicks, OF the late Mary
l Bell, goes up the Ohio on prospecting
: tour Memphis Avalanche, nth.
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The Washington correspondent OF tn
! Syracuse Courier writes that 1ilden Z
1 stock Is rising, while that OF his rivals
, is falling. He thinks the Republican
. gains in the Indiana local elections
have disposed OF Coy, Hendricks Sen
= ator Bavard is considered out Of thu