The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-02-20

- Future City and barges, n. o.
DEPARTED.
Steamer Jim Fisk, Palucah.
City Of Chester, st. Louis.
Belle Of st. Louis, st. Louis.
g james d. Parker, Cincinnati.
Cons Miller Memphis.
RIVER, WEATHER AND BUSINESS.
River 40 feet and inches. and rising
very slowly. The rise In the "a hours
ending at o'clock last evening was
three inches.
Weather clear and pleasant.
Business. light.
GENERAL ITRMs.
The Eddyville, from Nashville, will
be here to-day.
The James Howard leaves vt. Louis
for New orleans on Tuesday.
The good steamer Julia, Captain Car
ter, will pass down tor vicksburg this
morning.
The +. II. Durfee Is due from st.
Louis for Cincinnati aud Pittsburg this
afternoon.
The Susie Silver went into New Or
leans with her big trip on Friday after
noon.
The Mary Houston arrived at and the
Bismark departed from vicksburg on
Friday evening at Z O'Clock.
The Golden Rule. Capt. o. r. Shin
kle. Is due from Cincinnati to-day, for
New Orleans.
The John A. Scudder, with big trip
OF freight, and her New Orleans Mardi
0raS excursion party, will be here to-day
from st. Louis.
Capt. j. II. Phillips, of Halliday Il
Phillips wharf.boat, returned from Chi.
cago yesterday, after an absence OF two
weeks.
The I. 7. Hillman got In l6! tons pig
iron and IL tons Of bar iron for st. Louis,
and ? mules, u wagon, whip aud seat
board, bills -four and boxes Of house.
hold goods.
The Nail City, Raven and +. NJ. Nor
ton. arc about ready to leave st.
Louis with tows Of iron ore for the
Ohio.
The Glencoe will follow the Scuddcr
to New Orleans, John McCOrd, her clerk
has got back to st. Louis, and Captain
Calhoon is due there.
The Grand Lake and barges com.
menccd taking OH freight yesterday.
morning, and were still receiving at
dark last night.
While the steamer Cons Millar lay at
the town Of Gainesville, on Friday night,
the throng Of passengers on board rev
eled for several hours in o most pleasant
manner.
The Cons Millar arrived at eleven
o'clock yesterday morning. She put of
considerable city freight, 50 bbls cement
for Ste. Genevieve and 80 bbls for Wit
tenburg, 20 plows for st. Louis, and af-
ter adding about 60 tons, departed tor
Memphis.
The City Of Chester, Captain ZeiRler
Clerk Billy Banker, arrived on good
time yesterday morning, and went to
the Cairo and Vincennes railroad COM
panies' wharf-boat, where she lay until
afternoon putting of cotton. She had
l,O64 bales.
The james Fisk arrived at 2 O'Clock
sharp. Her cargo consisted Of big lot
of woodwork for Helena. Arkansas, 1856
bundles of while trees for Memphis, and
. lot Of dried fruit. hides, wool, etc., for
st. Louis. After receiving one hid to-
bacco and two bales Of hay, she departed
happy.
The James D. Parker's Mardi 0ras En-.
eMFsioa.
It Is estimated that over 100000 stran-
gers will visit Memphis Oh Mardi Gras'
to witness the magnificent pagcants Of
the "Memph" and "Ulks," and to PARTED.
pate In the wild revels of the maskers.
On the 10th inst, will be the fourth OBJ
servance Of day that has become part
OF the yearly history Of New Orleans ;
and that the Bluff City Is destined to out.
strip her Southern neighbor In the bril-
liancy and Significance Of her night and
day scenes, no one, who knows the ell
ergy and nerve that characterizes the cit
liens of Memphis In all their undertak-
ings, will tor moment doubt.
The streets of the city IRE broad
and well paved, aud OH the day OF
the carnival, her main avenue will
be packed with lookers-on, and the gaud-
lily attired maskcrs will roam ut will, in
the center Of the street, or wherever their
whimsical inclinations may dictate. per-
sonating every conceivable character In
the long catalogue Of. cOlnical, heroic or
sedste representation. Delegations from
Georgia, Alahama, Mississippi, Ar
kansas, Missouri, Kentucky, ILL
nois, Ohio and Virginia, are
now making arrangements to be in Mem
phis on Mardi Gras, and the citizens OF
that hospitable place are making prcpar-
ations for their reception.
In order that all who may desire to be
present vt the great carnival may he af-
forded comfortable and pleasant means
by which to make the journey. Captain
Robert ". Wise, cOlpmander VI the Acet
aud elegant stcapaer James ID. Parker,
ilas placed Ills craft ut the disposal Of
passengers, whom he will carry 1t about
halt the usual fare for the round
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