Vicksburg weekly herald., 1878-04-05

The palatial Golden Rule, Capt. o.
P. Shinkle, Is the Saturday boat for
Cincinnati.
The Belle of Shreveport and the
Commonwealth both gavet this port the
"shake."
Davenport Democrat: The Mistis.
sippi began 10 erOds for itself q chan
mel. 1t has madn . trough in solid
rock, In some pafIs scarcely less than
800 feet deep and ten miles wide. 1t
is not the depthso much as the breadth
that Is astonishing. KeOkuk is Az
feet above the sea; Burlington, az;
Muscatine, TO-; Davenport, "a; Clin-
ton, l43; Dubuque, l66, and McGreg.
or, 1873 feet higher. The water of the
Mississippi falls from McGregor 10
Keokuk 1893 feet in a little over 800
miles. At the lower rapids ii falls "a
feet in II miles, and at the upper rap.
ids 26 feet in l3 mice. This leaves las
feet in 2I6 miles or about six inches to
the mile.
Memphis Herald, April l.: FAvoring
as we do, a support Of home interests
in river circles, We eau but aIlude to
the recent experience Of Front street
house, TO show that nOu.recngniiion
OF the interests alluded to, often work
to great disadvantage If not serious
loss. The steamboat X hor last week
took lot OF freight for a point below,
greatly under card rates Jailed 10 ind
the landidg and carried the freight to
Greenville, Miss, when IL was re.ship.
ped on the IIinois coming up. Not ex.
pecting II, no one was At the landing 10
receive the freight, consequently tits
now back at its starting point, with
quite little bill of charges attached,
and yet no nearer ils desliuati0n than
when 1ist shipped.
The six.mle Island In the Ohio river,
five miles above Jefiersonville, cOu-
taine 100 acres oil farm land, ami IL
owned by Merritt AllOway. AlloWaV
purchased II long time ago from be
heirs Of L9Aven lawrence, who lived
aud died Q miles from L 'uisville, near
Middletown, Kentucky. The price
paid was 81 500. The island was en-.
tirely covered By water In 1882, and
again In lS47, and since then has been
nearly submerged. The soil Is said to
be the finest for corn aud early pola.
toes IN the country, AIloWsy raising
from 70 to 90 bushels Of corn to the
acre every year, He would not sell II
for $500 per acre. He has no fences 10
build, and only pays the State Of Ken
lucky $25 year for taxes. Six.milc,
Island 10 Of itself alone snug little for.
tune.
ST. Louis Globe.Democrai, Monday
The j. N. White was the fastest boat
In her time, but the ]. D. NJ. Kehlor,
the new boat OF the KOuutZ Line, beats
the world for slow time. Here is the
record from the date OF Advertisement;
AdveI lised 10 leave for New Orleans
on the llth of March, and departed
March 10Th, arrived at Cairo Saturday,
23d, at Memphis 26th, at Vicksburg on
the night OF the 29lh. The Belle oil
Memphis left here March ~, arrived at
Memphis, and had started back when
the Kehlor arrived. The Colorado left
here on the 23l, And arrived at Mem.
phis alongside the KehlOr, after having
left here four days behind her, The
City OF Yicksburg left here Tuesday,
26th, and arrived at Vicksburg yesler.
day morning about six hours after the
Kehlor. The james Howard departed
torty.eight hours behind the Kehlor,
and arrived at Memphis fOrty-eight
hours ahead of her, aud II the Howard
went along without mishap, she ar
rived at New Orleans before the Keh.
lor got to Vicksburg.
Picayune, Tuesday By the arrival
last evening of the steamer Assump.
tlon, we learned through the Chief En-
glueer, Mr.. Youngblood, how Mr..
Chas. Landry, the second engineer, was
lost. 1t appears that as Mr.. Young.
blood came on watch, ct 4 am, Sunday
morning, which was about eight miles
below DOnaldsonville, he relieved Mr.
Landry, and the latter, taking q lamp
and oil can, went out, as is customary,
to oil the machinery, and being absent
for . longer period than usual, Mr.
YOungblOOd went out 10 look for him
and observed Mr.. Lsndry's hat and
lamp lying on the fan-tail, but Mr.
Landry was missing. Mr.. Youngblood
gave the alarm at once, aud the boat
was stopped. But no trace Of Mr.. Ian
dry could be found. Capt. P. A. Char
LOT, on the return Of the Assumption
from Lafourche, landed near the place
where Mr.. Landry was missing, ant
offered Q reward 10 several fishermen
and others to interest themselves il
finding the body. Mr.. Landry wa
formerly engineer on the steamer Hen
ry Tete, and on the Assumption sine
the latter came out and was q sobe
and industrious young man. He leave
wife and child, sister, aud bic age
parents to mourn his loss. Peace I
hia Ashes,