The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-05-13
RIVER NEWS.
OFFICE NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT,
Monday. May 10, 1878.
Arrivals.
Eva, Silver City. Isabel.
To Arrive.


Gov. Alien Ouachita Belle. Bayou Sara
ut. Mary. Henry Tete. Lafourche; Marina.
lower coast Belle Mary Ida, upper coast
see lee Of F.
Hanna, OuaehCa; Bonnie Lee. Assumption
Red River
The upper coast packet Belle. leaving every
Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. Is one OF tn.
best boats ever in the trade, and certain one of
the most regular. Arthur Comstoek and George
Woods. master and clerk OF the Belle, are
both exceedingly clever know their bust badt
being built for Capts. Wood and Harper TO re-
place the Blue Wing will be u hummer" and
when she gets here the two will form line
that will be hard to compete with
The New Orleans and Red River Transporta-
don Company send out the Texas, Capt. George
Noah SDoyell. Saturday. both to Shreveport
There viii be three departures for the La
fourche -day-the Eva. Silver City and Henry
The Houston leaves Cincinnati Tomorrow,
The Sherlock Thursday and ne II, Morgan sa' t
Pa sms viii anG mas IL s N%p
leon will msGh them am beth 70 and II he gets hall
The The Golden Grown is due from the Ohio and
will arrive to leave Thursday. The A. C. Don
The City Of Alton leaves st. Louis Wednesday.
The John Means. with four barges. isl on the
way from st. Louis with cargo OF l'o, 900
Wallace Mcqhesney, represents Mat ~ joyce
during his absence v ,da in Wasbingtton1 We will
For one Of the most pleasant of trips and on
one Of the best Of boats. take the large. roomy,
comfortable and fast sidewheel steamer Robert
Mitchell. leaving to.morrow at p; M. without
fail, for Memphis, Cairo. Louisville and Gin
cinnati. Opt Dan Moore No, he, her eomma a
tlemany and efficient officers. and pay every
attention to the wants OF their guests.
The koant5 Lne s team q stanard
The Bastrop. Capt. Gus Hodge. leaves to-
morrow for the Ouachta
A Washington special to the Cincinnati En-
eThe outlook for the passage of the steam
boat bill in the Senate is regarded as very I'M
posed to it. and will almost certainly report
adversely, or. will report large changes in the
House bill. Mr.. Gonkling's malign influence
unfortunately has no representation of the
great Mississippi Valley. The friends of the
a m pe 9 bsors b Se when
The St. Francis Belle leaves daily at 1880 a. m
from Bienville street for Westwego. running in
Railroad to Donadsonvie.
The Belle, in place of the Blue Wing No, g..
leaves this 10 a M for the upper coast to Ash
Messrs. Wood and Dean clerks.
The feet daylight tri- weekly lower coast
packet Wild Gazele. J. Hamilton master, 9, E.
Holmes clerk. leaves day ut IL q. M. for Mag
nolia store.
The United States mail and passen ger pa ket
The Henry Tete. J. ?. Aucoin master, M. r.
Landry clerk. leaves TO-DAY, at 8 D. m; for the
through to Thibodaux.
The very, regular :, and reliable Bayou La
om kne s and NJ iand
day at p. m.
The semi weekly Bayou Lafourche packet
and $. J. tagroue clerks leaves to-day at s
y, N. for Thibodaux. See advertisement.
The regular p triweeky upper e2ast packet
lsaves Tomorrow promptly ct 10 g. m. for the
Ben Tureaud plantation. The Mary Ida re-
turns on alternate days. and does all her bust
The. Fanchon. for Atchafalaya. through to
Washington, leaves TO, morrow at .. m. Fl; Fl.
Fanchon takes Bayou des Glaizes freight. re-
shipping at Simmsport.
~ The Robert :. Lee will leave to morrow for
Campbell IL command, A, Mcvay in the office
:. The bt; Mary, Joe Dalferes In command E.
Nieolle clerk leaves to.morrow ats .. m. for the
The New Orleans and Red River Transports
q lion so Rsa United sses ms packet TeK
leaves Wednesday Tor Shreveport. "e"" '''l 4
The Ouaehita Belle. Capt. John G.. Libano,
leaves Wednesday. as usual for Bayou Sara.
ANOTHER GOOD MAN GONE WRONG"
The following is from the Helena World of
:, 1t would seem strange how different the pub
nc ieel regardlng crews OF steamers, but tits
dsnssr at all bs one e. HE an
laborer on the levee who works for 20 cents per
hour. He does not seem to take any interest in
work agreed upon. He is surly to passengers
who may have travelled but little and therefore
eT bes WSsd hd ap
the man that can cut deck OF cards in such
manner rs to deal himself a full hand and his
adversary straight. He has no cheerful word
days" but curtiy demands the amount of fare
the instant his name is registered turns on his
probably the room is locked and the key hang
Ing before his own blear eyes. or even as bad.
she may BE bs and
period" is usually unmarried. but sports girl.
and is very attentive to her and companions
em at the table with With Zee E LADIES' Dss
ipnoeenes on his intelIigent' face that would
Jaw. Do these snides think they are not
known. 1t seems so. the way they continue
their actions. As a contrast we. will refer
take for example the Robert Il. Lee. the Thomp-
son Dean, G. P. Chouteau, Charles Morgan, J:
W. CAT, Coahoma and Katie Hooper; We could
name some others that are extremely popular
on account of the uniform kindness of the cap
tains and clerks, who not only give a passenger
tAs DoSl tloy have, TeRaTuleSS OF exterior ap-
pearance. but show them their rooms and see
that everything Is comfortable. II these few
hints will be Of any service to steamboatmen we
will feel pleased to know it. That they are fats
the travelling public will admit
Memphis Avalanche. Mayl1:
The Yazoo river packet Home. with the David
Sinton. In tow. were to leave Vicksburg last
Thursday. for Louisville. where the latter gets
a new hull and the other will be locked and
repaired. Capt. Parisot. of the " P " line Is to
build q new boat for the Sunfower trade, also
asmall craft to run in Deer Greek. He will be
at Louisville next week to look after their struc-
tnre.
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