The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-01-07
RIVER. WEATHER AND BUSINESS.

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day, notwithstanding the pred;c,ion ,,.,
aoo"' all the water had come that was r
come.
business on the wharf waa fair yester.
day.
The weather yesterday was lovely.
though little cooler.
The Carrie V. Kountz arrived at
New Orleans Wednesday at noon.
j. Lawrence Carter Is the captain of
the new steamer u. z. Schenck.
The City of Chester, from Memphis
for St Louis, Is due this evening.
Captain Weaver, formerly Of the
steamer Ella. wac n passenger on the
James ID. Parker yesterday.
The II. 5. Turner began receiving
Tor her return trip Immediately upon ar.
riying at New Orleans on last Monday.
The Julia, from vicksburg, arrived
at midnight Wednesday, and departed
for st. Louis at 3 o'clock yesterday morn.
ing.
The 81. Joseph, from st. Louis. ar
rived with good trip for Memphis yes-
terday added some freight here, and left
last night.
The jim Fisk came and went az
usual. She will make her last trip, for q
time, at least. Tomorrow. She goes on
the docks for repairs.
The James ID. Parker arrived from
below yesterday with 81 people in the
cabin. $50 bales of cotton, q lot of oil
and sundries.
The A. j. Baker got up steam yes.
terday, went to Mound City and got
barge oflogs, which she lows to st Loui.
for Liebkc. Schrage & Co. ofthat city
The Colorado, from st. Louis for
NicksburS, came into port with good
trip yesterday. She added some freight
here and went OIL to Vicksburg.
The City of Quincy, Captain Abe
Hutchinson, went into New Orleans with
a fine trip from st. Louis. and began re.
ccivins at once, to leave on yesterday
evening.
The Commonwealth did not leave
New Orleans as it was aunouced she
would, but in consideration of the excess
OF tonnage in that port for st. Louis, has
layed over for several days.
The new iron steamboat Carondelet,
Captain w. Dick Love, Clerk @. w.
Purdy, was booked to leave New Or
} leans yesterday for Cairo, Evansville,
/ Louisville and Cincinnati.
The New Orleans Times of Tuesday
says Joe Anderson, one of the engineers
: OF the steamer Robert Semple, died on
c New Years day at the hotel Dieu, ani
was buried on Sunday.
The Memphis Araloaehe of wednes.
: day says the remains of Capt. Lon 3.
Greenlee were taken on board of the
D steamer John l.. Rhoads, at the mouth
OF Red river, on her present up trip, and
are to be conveyed to his native place
Pittsburg, for final intcrnIent.
The fight between me two flyers
: the Illinois of the Cheek Line, and tn,
Idlewild OF the Lee Line--in the Mem
pins and Chcot City trade gets warmer
with the coming of each day, and it ID
probable that the battle will DO brought
to focus by 4 big race, for u big pile. A
Memphis exchange of Tuesday says
thousands of the anxious assembled OIL
the bluffs yesterday to see the Illinoi:
aud ldlewild take tilt down the river
but the two clippers are evidently wait
| n m nil 81 "a
when the public will perhaps be treated
to an exciting race"
Tho No,nn,;, Amman. %
INV" p." .. EDr,W Vi iuesda!
.horh'hS gives us the iohowing interest
ing items Of gossip, which are thrown "a
the breezes about the wharf of that city
ohout steamhoa,. and s,o.nhoa.. WY
"oo~' ''N'"'I 90 ""N s'e"'n'oA'i'eh
y on can near All sorts OF rumors down
III the iesec ABOUT the prospective move
mehls oi Doats, ETC., nowadays. hi:
chronicier lau IL poured into one ear blu
" went OUT at the other) yesterday tina
the ldlewild would enter vigorously int
the Memphis and Vicksburg trade, In tn
interest OF the Anchor line that the Ste
Genevieve had gone below, to run be
tween Chicot and Vicksburg; that tn
Erie No. 8 (Which worked itself into
frenzy over q paragraph In the Appso
few weeks agO) had withdrawn frou
ST. Francis river and would enter the al
kansas river trade that two of our bra,
packets were going to set aside all busl
ness for one trip and run fair sauar,
race; that Jlu, Durf had Joined the tem
perancc pledge, and was in communities