The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-20
RIVER NEWS.


RIVER NEWS.
@ nErraE NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT
Tuesday, March 20. 1878.
Arrivals.
Ouachita Belle. st. MARY. z. II. Hanna. !; Jo }1a
Maria Louise.
Martha, Alvin. Mary Ida. st. Mary. r. E. Lee,
". II Schenek. Fanchon.
To Arrive.
Ouachita Belle, Gov. Allen, Bayou Sara; Mary
Infourehe; Thomas Sherlock, CINCINNATI:
Katie, Greenville: Wild dazelle. Alvin. Martha.
The weather continues clear. and pleasant. A
shower of rain just ut this time would prove
very acceptable. as 1t 10 terribly dusty on inc
Business dull, though better than 1T was Mon
III The Katie Kountz did not get off yesterday;
we suppose she will 90 to. day. c..
The hull of the Lotus No. was sold TO Capt.
J.B. Williams for $1,000 for q coal barge.
The Florence Meyer leaves for the Arkansas
MIR. w. r. Mcintyre, clerk Of the g. 3 Church;
has Tom pig s b V or her
Hi. McIntyre was not benefited by the trip. The
Church passed Memphis Monday. ., ...z,
Bayou ns BARI Barth S Monday aisht and WIN
rsturn Saturday without fail. MIR. June Dun
bur has charge of the Office .., Gov Monnb,s
and the bends to-day.
John H. Hanna, leayi9g e. day f2r the Qua
cha CARRIES the Dniea ~ STATES a m and town
landings to Bayou SARA ID the regular packet
to-day ,s 49,, NJ uo,,son II command ,aavea
I'll The dsparture 81 Che Texas announced for
10. day. has been deferred. The Col "A A; IL. Z.
Kouns leaves instead this p. M. and will take
The ct. John has changed her hegr Of leav-
ing hereafter for Baton Rouge on Wednesday
The Enter r sti! occupies her old posi-
zion, protests to the contrary notwthsta " n
shs 10 Just as much IA u ~ way as was the "a
Jimmie Childress has taken charge Of the
Oakland Park House. and will be pleased to see
NJ Th Dey hull gn 81 the Lotus bought 81 Capt
Wood mention Of which we made Ia Sundays
DEMocgAT, will receive machinery and be used
The body Of Hamilton Perry carpenter of the
taken to his home ON tn It boat Yesterday,
remembered that the Hope was sunk by COLL
o VII 6sgs in 2g 81 hs aed SALE IN
based on claim for salvage. though the. Hope
sunk and was raised afterwards by ghpt. Nick
hr asoaSls damage onns q su Rs ssns
$4,000 When the teBtfmDTy Of the officers Of the
Texas is given i will % shoW N that It Was
through no fault OF theirs that the iamentaple
CART. j. W. Cannon left yesterday for Louis.
Vile; We hope when the veteran r; returns y viii
be without his crutches. and oil the better for It,
While the John ii. Hanna was lying at Baton
Rouge Monday evening FIRE was discovered In
u extinpuished By the officers and crew Of the
boat by heaving the burning bales overheard.
forty-three Of which were left OF Baton Rouge.
papers gives the credit Of putting ont the fire to
the tugs Nellie and Jay. Capt Blanks contra
diets II In very emphatic manner by saving
not By the tugs. The Hanna sustained no
damage whatever. and Will leave to-day US
Sec special notice to Red river shippers in
The fH.ssl pretty Danube. Capt. Charlie Thorn. is
on berth for Jefferson. and will leave tomorrow
The John Wilson arrived Monday night from
bhe Ouachtu. and is receiving for return
OF the great M st. Louis Pool Line, the St
Louis Globe-Democrat, OF the 18th. has this tc
The pool died q premature death. yesterday
afternoon. or rather at a meeting Of the 200
line committee held several days since. The
trouble seems to have been In the refusal Of the
Koantz line. The pool f' was organized on
bnsis Of allowing the barge. line334 per cent
and the Kountz line, with IT, four boats, ~,
from ITO 8 per cent When the ,John. F. Tole
OF the Kountz line. was destroyed by fire. three
na sss the If Ct decided asn
packet f boats. The % Gommodore demanded q
russa gshh esH 4 R w ss Allowed
Ss arand RsDSo d Hen and 'B s
percentage tie same as Is II they we're st run.
ming regularly. Then the pool commi tee got
mad and charged Com. Kountz with loading
boats. at New Orleans on the lat trip. The
committee appeared 70 think that he would
rather see, the Kehlor loaded than the Jaeger,
90 into the pool.. The committee claim that
this was an open breach OF contract. Sill fur
theF It was argued that the Kehlor coming here
boat. was another breach of contract These
facts, were put together, and it was at once de-
the Kountz Line, and accordingly the, james
Howard. favorite boat. will Begin to load TO-
morrow morning; on the b, Moores
port is to come on deck Thursday and leave Sat-
urday next. and 80 ends one of the worst man
aged affairs that was ever countenanced by any
commercial business Of st. Louis Any mer-
chant or steamboatman can state where the bad
ma e end who Is to
and commercial interests. Yesterday afternoon
of -four to ship to Memphis. provided they
could be sent at twenty cents per barrel when
the card rate Is thirty five cents. The Anchor
Of the Susie Silver. wouldn't take freight to
Anchor Line point, SO the miller's clerk went to
taken. If there was any doubt of the breaking
out of the pool, this acton settled 1t, as one OF
the most important agreements OF the pool was
70 take nothing for points this side Of vieks-
burg. or points known as Anchor Line points.
AS to what is being done In the way Of a new
Being made to have a slde.wheeI boat pool.
The great point to be made on such pool is to
havea boat that can land at any waypoint,
which 1t is claimed that some of the boats Of the
old pool could not do.
the freight list OF the U. P schenck com
Drised ID bales a.. cotton 10 hhds sugar i2e bbls
tons railroad iron.
The G., L. and N. O. packet line steamer
Cherokee, Geo. Wolf master. A. Beyers clerk
fS recaiYinR to leave for the Ohio To- morrow at