Vicksburg weekly herald., 1877-08-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

Ihe Fort Eads and tow passed up 81
I 80 pm.
After the Capitol City the elegant
Maude is the next Anchor Liner.
"And don't you forget it, The Nor
gan R9ttler passes down tomorrow.
The Commonwealth left ST. Louis for
New Orleans, last Tuesday, in the Pool
Line.
The Dahlia from Natchez arrived at
5 pm, aud goes up to Old River this
morning for tow Of logs for Natche 2
The whistle OF some boat late Tues
day night fooled everybody ino the
belief that the Cherokee had passed
down, but she hadn't,
The wreck of the Utah has emerged
into view with the subsidence of the
waters, the wheel of the ill-fated
steamer being the most prominent part
in sight.
The launching 0; EAd,' dredge boat
at Pittsburg was not q success, though
the huge river craft was hauled into
the river without receiving much in.
jury.
For the past three days we have been
having the hottest weather tor the
summer, so far, and the worst o! it is,
the nights have been as oppressive q:
the days.
The -. Louis Times says: Mr.. JOHN
+. Keeling sold yesterday large store.
boat to Mr.. Roya. Bill, OF Memphis
Tenn. Mr.. Bill will lay in fall stock
OF merchandise here, which be will
coast ou, on the lower Mississippi
river.
- Memphis Avalanche: The river Is
getting shoai aud the packets now have
70 hustle 10 make regular time, rum
ming the shape OF the river everywhere
and losing no more time at landings
than i. necessary 10 put freight out on
tie h'sh banks. some crossings are
gell.ns Troublesome, Osceola bar being
reported the hardest place to pass over
, The $. Louis Republican, Sunday
Captain ". II. Blake, OF the Maude
passed an hour with bis old frient
Reno, OF the Laura Davis, They were
raised together IN Beaver county, / IN
sylvania. aud Blake says Johi wa
always an exemplary boy and gentle
man. They have been friends tol
torty-1ve years Blake ia tiity-one ant
Reno tifiy-four.'
Little Rock Gszette, Friday: 81
appears after all that Captain Ed. Now
lands new b9st is not 70 be named tht
Hattie Nowland, but she will be call
ed the Katie Hooper, in honor OF tht
dsugh,er OF Dr. Hooper. OF this city
The new boat will .eave Pittsburg fo
the Arkansas river on the second o
August next. 3: i one hundred anC
eighty feet long, i-.r,y.fve foot beam
three steel boilers, three afteen-incl
cylinders, full length cabin aud texas
We are Informed that she is the fines
boat bull; since the war. Her cabiI
furniture was purchased in New York
aud her silverware made to order b.
the celebrated Tiffany
The report Of the Bureau Of Stats
tics for the first ten mouths OF the iis
cal year Is all encouraging one for
American commerce. A comparison
for the whole time with the CORE
spending peTlcd OF 1876 does not ex
hlbit any improvement, but this can bt
plainly discerned In the imports fol
the month of April. Their total value
was $42,670,4l4, against S3G,l5B 1926 TO
the same month last year. WheT
viewed for the ten months, the declint
is seen TO have continued for most oi
the time; the figures are S35Z592, 8 4;
Of merchandise imports iu 1877, agains
$2S9,069,SIS. The domestic exports
for April, 1871, were S47,7S0775, oi
more than $l,0000O0 better than thost
OF April, 1876, Sl6,704,66S. For tht
ten months the domestic exports werl
valued gold values at 1903, ,733,3j3
against $439 ,9l5, ,269 for the correspond
ing months OF the tiscal year lS76-ai
increase Of S63,SlS,0S4. The heavies
increase in imports was in sugar, o.
which $l2,000000 more in value wa
imported; the imports of teas and cof
fees fell OF $ll,0O0,0O0. The export
uf corn increased $l0000,000, Will,
those OF cotton fell away S2l, 100000
There was great enhancement Ia the
: value OF petroleum exports, which rOsl
from $2A,3O0, ,00U to $46,000,000. Bacon
and ham exports increased 100000,
600; lard, 5000 900, aud leaf tobacco
$S,000O00.