The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-08-29
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GENERAL ITEMS.

GENERAL ITEMS,
The Jno B, Maud passed up yesterday
morning.
The City of Providence was loaded for
Vicksburg.
The Colorado added literally here Tor
Memphis.
Capt. Branch Of the Sam Roberts was
again in town yesterday.
The Hillman hadla big trip from the
Madrid bends lumber, beer kegs and hoop
poles (whoop poles O..
The W. P. Halliday came out yester-
day evening, and will leave during the day
She will fill out here.
--Justus Cunningham is first cook on
the MY Choice" and it is said there is not
better cook on the river.
Cole Boren came down on the Fowler
yesterday from Mound City and left for
ST. Louis by rail. He is on a prospecting
tour.
The Golden Rule came down yester-
day towing barge. She transferred the
freight and after adding few hundred
tons here left yesterday noon
The Idlewild came out with large
pleasure party aboard from Evansville.
Mrs. Charles Gallagher and family were pas
sengers on her to Evansville.
The ViHt Shinkle passed down early
yesterday morning with the best Memphis
trip of the season. She added largely here,
and got away with her guards in the water,
Capt. Frank Bedard was a passenger
on the Maud. He reports things quiet at
the wreck of the City of Vicksburg and
work goingon rapidly. Capt Frank does not
look like corpse by any means, although
it looked at one time like there would
be bloody work about Ashport.
The Scudder came out towing barge
containing 400 tons. She lightened to five
feet and came over the bar back of town
without any trouble, but was obliged to
wait till those boats and barges which
blocked up the channel got out of the way.
She filed out here and got away late Fri
day night.
Harry Matson philosophers somewhat
in the following strains There are fifty
steamboats, plying in the Mississippi river;
there are ninety snags in the said river, be-
tween Caro- and Memphis; there are three
steamboats, that ply in the Missouri river,
and the government has in commission
three elegantly appointed snagboats. A
careful survey of the panorama, through the
optics Of the interested pilot, discovers the
presence in Missouri river, one snagboat;
in the Mississippi river, between Cairo and
ST. Louis, one snagboat; but among the
ninety snags between Cairo and Memphis,
nary one. The third snag jerker's wherea-
bouts is entirely and utterly unknown.
She is supposed to be where the others
ought to be, on the docks" Harry's head
is level.
She arrives at 2 p. M; at $50 she
gives long bewilderng blast of the big
whistle, at 2;45 the engineer interviews the
laundering mud,valve, at 3 p. m. the small
liver searching pandemonion born cocoanut
whistle located on the boilers edifies the
denizens of the wharf, at $3.50 the big
whistle is made again to do duty, at 4
o'clock the big bell is unclaimed, which
together with mud valves, engineers ready
Whistles shouts of the mates, and the gen.
eral murmur (O of the ROSTERS, fills in the
time until the hour Of departure 4 80 she
promptly let 60 all her lines, and as if to
render last farewell to the already deaf
ened and heart broken populous who are
fated to do business on the levee, the whale
battery OF. this modern bedlam is cut ZOOS,
and until she passes out ofsight around the
point, the levee remains deserted waste
a barren locality, desert amid plenty,
with future pleasant enough to be sure,
but sadly marred with the prospect of
repititon Of the war dance upon the NOR
row. Is there God in Israeli
"SwAYNEs OINTMENT AND PIIIs."-The