The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-09-20
RIVER NEWS.

Jas, Il. Peasants OF Vcyay, wants to
contract with some one to tow his
barge SChenck and the hull OF the Mary
Houston TO New Orleans this fall.
Captain Sam Mcbride, the veteran
New Orleans Pilot. has received intclli-
gcnce from Holland that his wife has
fallen heir to "A handsome fortune.
Captain Jake Iedan was in Cincinnati
on Monday enroute to Put-in.Bay.
Captain Thomas Alexander of Detroit
estimates there will be 10000 bushels of
pot toes taken south this fall.
Captain a. j. Schenck Of Veyay, Indi.
ana, who has been here since the E.. y.
Schenck commenced loading, return ed
home by rail yesterday.
The City OF Alton ont from st. Louis
Tuesday, found 5. feet at Liberty Island,
which is the shOalest place in he river.
The last boats up, report six feet at st.
Pleasant and Bulletin.
The Cincinnati Commercial of Tuesday
say: The Storm No. 3 changed hands
on Thursday last. Captain Cunningham
and Engineer Sherwood sold their inter-
est In the boat and her two barges,
Blair and Hart, to Captain Alex. Halli.
day, formerly of the Ohio No. 4. Cap
tain Halliday intends putting cargo
boxes on the barges, and running the
boat and barges in the New Orleans
trade this winter"
Capt. II. II. browns new Golden
Crown is to draw 81 inches light, and
will be completed this week.
Mr.. Frank Gilbert, river editor of the
Evansville CyDrier, was in Cincinnati on
Monday last seeing the sights. 1t is
strange how much time the river editors
Of that paper find for travelling and
pleasure. In fact it is a curious sort of
a position anyhow If we may Judge from
It's effects upon the men who have tried
to hold it down. First they join the
Red Ribbon Temperance movement
and take IN the town. Then they get on
4 terrible spree, and if this does not
cause a change of editors they 60 visiting.
Viz. Gilbert is talented. spicy and able
writer. and is well known and well
liked by many OF our citizens and all
liver men who know him. He belongs
o the Red Ribbon movement of Evans.
lille because they wouldn't let him wear
white ribbon. He does not despair
loweYer, of yet being able to press one
If them to his manly bosom.
NEW ORLEANS, September 1.-THE
-owboat companies, by agreement, have
advanced the rate of towage from the
passes up as follows; Towage for all
vessels under $50 tons, ninety-five cents
per ton. with sliding scale for down tow
age ranging from fifteen to thirty cents
per ton; towage up and down on smaller
vessels, one dollar and five to one dollar
lnd eighty cents per ton.
The French tarque Harold, from
Havana, Is now at Quarantine station,
with three cases yellow fever on board.
The mate OF the schooner Leonard Dan
els, from Havana, died of yellow fever
two DAYS after leaving Havana; she had
two cases ofiever on board when she
arrived at Quarantine station.
PITTsBURG, Pa, September lS.-The
Nonongahela rose trne last night, but
IS about stationary at this writing, Sp.m.,
with % inches in the channel. The
weather is quite cool tor the season.
Iol. w, Emmerril, who has charge of the
Ohio river improvement project, is in the
city. The dredge-boat Monongahcla No.
is at work on the shoals below Eliza.
beth. Considerable work is to be done
at points further up the river. More has
been done this season toward clear.
ing the channels OF the Ohio and Monon.
gahela than for several years past.
Walker Il. Carter and Jno. r. Wash.
ngton are partners in the wharf boat
business at Memphis.
Tie Ste. Genevieve for Memphis and
The Susie Silver for New Orleans are due
to>day.
The City OF Chester looks bright and
new. She had tair cargo and made
some additions here.
The Cotton Valley with reshpping
Zip was due last evening from the Ohio.
The tug Sam Greendyke with the L.
?. Schenck's barge in tow was wind
pound all day at Ogdens landing.
The river fell 3 inches yesterday.
The Danube added $50 tons at Padu.
,ah, and considerable freight here. She |
has nice trip of people. She is nice |
BOAT with cotton guards and high |
lcck room. Her cabin is neatly furnishd |
md is comfortably arranged for passen-
gers. At Rising Sun, Indiana, she lost a
leck passenger over, board by the name |
If John Wilson, He was a paperhanger,
md hailed from Cincinnati