The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-11-02
RIVER NEWS.
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Champ on""..............-.. ........... Paducah
HEand Lake .,..............,....,"St LOuls
MaEmrl.r.... ............. -, LOu-
Belle - Louis .......,,..,. Nicksburs
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Jim Fi-k .... ...... Paducah
Champion .......,....... Pdduclh
Belle 81 ............,.....st Louis
hAlmel.e".. .,,...... Memphis
GENERAL ITEMS.
River at noon yesterday was feet s
inches above low water, decline of inches
in q hours.
The weather yesterday was, as all our
readers well enough know, not very agree
able. I, WAS cloudy and rather cool.
To-day is Sunday but hang" the diff.
ference say steamboators.
The annie p, Silver, Dave Silver master,
left ST. Louis yesterday, bound for New
Orleans. ~.
The Colorado, McPhee,cr master, wa,
advertised TO leave 81 Louis for Memphis
yesterday.
The City Of Alton left New Orleans for
st, Louis day before yestesday.
Saturday beng a busy LAY for ye river
editor, our river column lacks some Of it,
usual intcrestGnd length,
The W. p. Halliday j, on her way up
She lett Memphis day before yesterday
and hence is due here.
The lower wharf-boat at Paducah is
still there, not having been turned over
to her Metropolis purchasers as yet
The Future City was to leave St. Louis
yesterday for New Orleans. She has in
tow fleet Of the VI. V. T. Co.'S barges
The barge recently sunk by the City of
Alton at Fogleman's chute is to be raised
if possible after the freight has been re.
moved.
Pilot Joe Mccullough was struck with
paralysis at the wheel of the John ;.
Bransiord, and was brought to Rockpot
in critical condition.
The Celina goes ont of the Tennessee
river trade on her arrival at Evansville,
and, we suppose, will be used during low
water by the Evansville Packet Line.
The Dacotah for Vicksburg left st. Louis
under the auspices Of the Memphis and S.,
Louis packet company. She had all the
freight she wanted and q good passenger
list
The j. n. Macomb is on her way down
from St Louis for Nicksburg, she will
pay her attention to the numerous obsuuc.
tons complained of in the rlvcr between
here and Vicksburg
The Marine Journal very properly re-
marks that it is not altogether the charge
of wharf-boats to which the steamboatmcn
object, but tie Wharfage tax. Steamboat,
men are willing topay ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
sion for the collection Of their bulls, but
they seriously object to pay a red cent for
the wivilcge of carrying freight for the pco.
pie of any town or village It is not the
whar(mastcr OF town that we condemn,
but the people who permit the passage of
an ordinance to unlawfully and unright.
cously extort money from steamboats,.
Helena, Arkansas, wants the shipping
people of her city, who have great amount
of cotton to haul, to build tramway across
the bar in front of that city to the waters
edge, and have the steamers receive there
The channel of the Mississippi runs very
near the sandbar, which is formed right in
front OF Helena. II is becoming more and
more apparent to these people TINT the bNl
is getting worse and worse every season on
account of the rapid change in the river in
that locality. Should they I've fortunate
enough TO accompiShthis desimblcchangc
beneficial result would accrue in the say.
ing Of trouble and expense both to the
shippers and steamboat
For twenty years the Ohio river has no,
been so low as it now is. AT hundreds oi
points between Pittsburg and Cincinnati il
can be forded. There are 100000
bushels of coal at Pittsburg awaiting ship.