The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-06-07
RIVER NEWS.


W. \. johnson ..."......."Padncah
Thomas Sherlock. .."...".New Orleans
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Business continues dull.
Weather clear and very warm.
The rivers rose inches, the gauge last
evening marking IS feet, inch.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The James W. Gaff, for Memphis to.mor-
row.
The Raven goes TO St. Louis with tow
to-day.
The Nashville leaves for New Madrid
this evening.
The Robert Mitchell is due from Cincin.
natl to-day, for New Orleans.
The Thomas Sherlock got away for New
Orleans late Thursday night with a full
load.
Lea Crane, who is known to all steam
boatmen as q clerk and commander is in
the city.
The beautiful City of Greenville, Capt.
A. ]. Carter, passed down Thursday night
with full load
The Vint Shinke passed up with good
cargo of cotton, oil and sundrics, and big
lot fpeople.
The John A. Scudder arrived early yes
terdaNmorning, and after making additions
here, left for New Orleans at p. m. fiat in
the water.
The Iron Mountain and barges were still
in port last evening, She goes to Pittsburg
to be ovcrhauled, and will come out with a
texas and other improvements. She also
gets the engines of the Joseph II. Bigley.
For Mound City, Metropolis and Padu-
cab, at 8 p. NJ, we have the splendid side
wheel steamer Champion, the pride of the
lower Ohio. She carries people to Padu-
cab for fifty cents, and gives a splendid
supper.
Captain Hiram Hill has the contract to
raise the cars that accidentally ran into the
river at East Cairo on Thursday, and also
the one thar ran through the H. S. Nc
Comb into the river some weeks ago, at
the same place.
Diver John Downing, of St. Louis, who
is employed by the Hill wrecking company,
of this city, which is at work on the Cairo
and Vincennes incline Thursday, had the
end Of one of his fingers cut off, which will
necessitate his laying by for week or so.
To one who has never witnessed it, the
process of raising from the river, blowing,
and rc-kegging nails is interesting, and the
time of the person who spends an hour in
looking on this work will not spend it use
lessly or unpleasantly. Captain Hiram Hill,
assisted by the wrecking boat Charley Hill
and force Of thirty men, from Madison.
Ind, and Wheeling, are now busily engaged
raising the barge of nails cut down by the
ice, near the point, last winter, and up to
last evening, after nine days labor, they
had succeeded in bringing to light some-
thing over $500 kegs of them. At first the
work progressed slowly, but everything be-
ing in perfect running order now, an aver
age of 400 kegs per day are being loaded
on barges, ready for the market, which is
very fast work. There are yet about 5000
kegs to be raised Last Wednesday after.
noon this gang did what the same number
of men, with the same facilities, never &C.
complished before-that of taking from 30
feet Of water, drying and putting in new kegs
270 kegs in the unprecedented time of four
hours. The workmen are divided ,nto
three gangs. The first whose duty it is ia
get tho nails from the bottom of the river,
il under the control of Captain Hill, Charlie
Holly being the diver; the second party
performs the very hot work Of running the