Vicksburg weekly herald., 1877-08-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

the weather isn't worth a nickel.
Osceola bar Is causing pilots to make
some very pious remarks.
The Port Eads and barges is an.
nounced to leave st. Louis for New
Orleans to-day.
The Ohio is shoaling badly. The
Golden City was delayed Sunday by
the difficulty of passing Rising Sun
bar, and there iS only scant B feet on
Portland bar.
Very black and threatening clouds in
the West, with heavy incessant thunder,
seemed to threaten o big storm about
daylight yesterday, but the grand at
mospheriC display eliminated in q
slight shower only.
The Belle Memphis did not arrive
until yesterday morning. She had .
big freight down this trip, putting of
over 1000 packages and bringing $500
for this port. She grounded in the up
per river, which was the cause fher
delay.
Memphis Avalanche, Tuesday: The
Chas. Morgan passed here shortly after
sunrise on Sunday, with q light freight
of not over $50 tons, and black with
people. II the water is too shoal the
the Morgan will reship her freight in
the Ohio and endeavor to get there
with her people. She will not try
another trip until the fall season opens.
The New Orleans Times says {:
"Captain H. L. Lee leaves to-day for
=. the mountains of Virginia, to join his
:: family. From there, be will proceed
to st. Louis, Louisville and Ciucin.
natl, to appoint agents for his Yazoo
River Line of boats. The Z. H. Dur
y fee has gone to Algiers, in quiet quar-
I ters for the present"
Under the head Of "Reminiscences,
i the Natchez Democrat has the follow
q ing: "The Henry Chouteau, at 81
!. Louis from New Orleans, on the 24Ll
/ ultlmo, brought up thirty.two boxe
5 of specie, containing 5000 900, from tn
I. mint at New Orleans, consigned 4
4 Adams s. Co.'s Express. Besides th
specie on freight, the same boa
> brought up nearly one hundred passen
! gers, just returned from California
"a among whom was full 500 GOO more
! as near as could be ascertained. The
a hull uf the Henry Chouteau was, for
= number Of years, used as q wharfboa
at this point. Being no longer fit 70
service, abe was grounded on the grav
70 el bar Just below the ferry landing an
"a alterward wrecked.
~ A telegram from Gallipolis, OAiC
ss under date OF the 9th, gives the f. low
N ing particulars Of the suicide of Fran
Black, well-kDown steamboat ba
keeper "Frank w. Black, q bar-SeepC
49, well known along the river, came hon
81 on a visit to his mother last Thursds
y In rather a melancholy state OF mint
- declaring his intention of committin
~ ~ suicide. His mother 1attered herse
u she had dissuaded him from his pu
pose, but he this morning after breal
fast left the house, as he said, for Il
purpose of getting late paper at Ha
ng wards drugstore. He did go the
i" and get cigar, but walked on out
Il. the river and sat down under tS
W. sycamore tree, aud shot himself
rs, death with q revolver, shooting once
he the mouth and once in the region
the heart. He left note lying In
i,S s. hat beside him, directing the dispoi
" ton Of his remains, and declaring it
er. be his carefully considered purpose,al
ON desiring it to be understood that be W
Or in his right mind. He leaves wi
,ol. and little daughter at their home
rm. Proclorville, Lawrence county, 0esid
his mother, sister and two brothe
'Fs' lie was in his twenty-sixih year