The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-01-15
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| beneh-fnark. Indicates rice. Indicates fall.
| est-rday was another lively day, particular
~ on the upper landing The Fred. a. Blanks
can ad With peepe The CITY R o Alton
left with tue best trip OF tho season to st. Louis.
| and the largept she ever had on ner sinc9 Cap
tain Bizby has been In charge. She had f40e
hogsbpads sugar Ht10G In one lotf. $50. barrels
mo asses. 500 bales iute. 300 barrels sugar andJ0
| tons sundry freight, besides which she has
engagements on the coast for 100 hogsheads SUI
| gar and lot OF molaases.
| The Henry Frank was detained yesterday on
account OF her not being unloadsd. She VIII
| leave o-,day at ~. m positively for Memphis
and ihs bends Fras AK E Hicks II command
accommodations and gets up the river at Q
The M: Y. 7; Company. steamer Port F ads
yesterday afternoon from St. Louis and will re-
turn to- day at ~ M.
| Geo. Wolf In command, W. q. Keyt clerk. is
| loading In the 3. 7. Line to leave to-day at s
D. "a. for Ctncinnau
will follow the Cheoroke SATURDAY. After get.
The Little Bob b, Capt Jerry Sullivan. Pilot
| Jack Slaymakers arrived Tuesday night from
The Yazoo Valley passed Baton Rouge yester.
day and will be on hand to leave day att p. %.
! for Shreveport, Geo. W. Rea In command, II. @.
Boazman clerk aud will be followed tomorrow
Red river is still troublous one to the steam
boatmen. The n. o. and Z. II. 7. Company has
and the Yszoo Valley Is the only orc they have
| heard from.
| The unsurpassed r. M White leaves for
Greenville to-day. and don't y, II forget it.
Hol For OPELoUSAs. VIM, Crawford
has, secured the Laura l.. Davis az regular
| packet To tn AehAfaaya. and will leave with
| her day positively at D. N. The Davis Is q
| light, good and Biauneh boat, and the largeeS
carrier y, the trade, That popular clerk. Mr. ..
| b Schmit. will be found in the Office
Henry Rouns went out in the Office OF the
Alexandria. with Frank Brinker for his part
/ Charlie browns face was all SMILES yester-
day afternoon because 1t was a bouncing big
boy and his mother was doing well.
Our friends In the bends will find Johnnie q.
/ clever dispenser OF good things.
The Mississippi river still continues frozen
over at Dubuque. La Crosse and st. Paul ALSO
When the J. M. White passed vicksburg she
had $500 bales cotton. 5000 sacks seed 1000 SACKS
oil cake and $50 blrrels oil Mr.. I'd. Murray,
Either in August or sectember last We don't
remember which. the 10 Bryarly arrived from
Red river with q crew shipped Is shreveport.
When near Alexandra No OF the roustabouts.
young fellow called Eob. went 20 Massa Mat
want 81 to quit. and In answer 70 the question.
| "Why2" said he was sick and wanted to go
home tshreyeport,l Capt. ,seevell sad: All
| righ5; go and tell tho mate" He went to the
mate and told him ne wanted to qnif. and an
swered the mate as ne did Capt. s.. that he was
/ sick and wanted to. go home. The mate called
t9s satehm l and told him to take eob 70 the
answer to he Watchman's aues IONS he gave
| the anne reason Tor quitting that he did to the
captain and mate. ard while receiving his
money and paying his bar bill. gave the same
reason TO the clerk aud barkeeper. and On ar
rival at Alexandria. left the boat osten~
ably to 20 to shreveport on the re- re-;
q, summons to appear at Commissioners
Chesters office. Repairing there he found to
his very great surpI fse that Bob was In the
cits alive In body and well In the flesh. and had
entered suit against him for wages due, claim
ing that he had been Obliged to quit the boat on
account Of ilI-treatment and tho dan ger Of his
life from the mate. Commissioner Chester in.
formed Capt s. that the case would be tried
the next day. And conversation about the case
was had. during which Capt. 3. said that
9 could 1 prove BY nearly. every man on hiS;
boat that Bob had quit Of b own free will
and accord, and that there was nothing owing
! to bin and he also sail, in the face OF all this
Commissioner. | will bet you $40 to 81 that gou
deciqe the cas-! against me. and will give you
the dollar back II you lose" The COR missioner
} replied that. whila admiring his candor, he was
sorry ne had such an opini "a Of his court