The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-05-16
STAGES OF THE RIVER.

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ing at this point at six pm, Al feet
6 inches and stationary.
st. Louis, May 15-G pm. River "a feet
3 inches and falling.
Pittsburg, May 1916 pm. River ~ feet
6 inches and stationary.
Cincinnati, May 15--6 pm. 43 feet s
inches and rising.
Nashville, May 15-6 pm. River 10 feet
8 inches and falling.
Louisville, May. 15-6 p.m.-River IA
feet 0 inches and rising.
Yesterday was bright and clear, buta
cool, strong wind prevailed through the
day.
Sunday evening at s o'clock the Golden
Crown from New Orleans passed up. She
had large crowd of passengers and add
ed Is more here. Her freight trip was
light She departed at 80 p. m. for Gin
cinnati.
The r. R. Springer for New Orleans ar
rived Sunday morning at II o'clock. She
had fine trip. On her arrival she received
$50 tons Of freight and departed at II pm.
Sunday.
The Cons Millar, G. B. Russell master,
passed up for Cincinnati at 12 o'clock SUM-
day night. She had No. trip.
The City of Vicksburg, of Anchor
line fame, arrived here Sunday evening at
5 o'clock with fine trip from st. Louis for
Vicksburg. She was detained several hours
receiving freight, left with all she wanted
here, with engagements below for more.
The B. s. Rhsa from Nashville failed to
come through to Cairo this trip. She stop
ped at Paducsh and turned back for Col
conda, H., up the OHIO, where she had
$500 sacks of corn engaged for Nashville.
The C. w. Anderson is due here tomor-
low morning. Mr.. Tabler, corn agent from
Nashville, has 5000 sacks of corn on the
upper Mississippi which he says the Ander-
son will take.
Bud Smelly and Billy Phillips, pilots
who took the Emma Etheridge to Louis
Vile, returned Sunday evening, and are now
II the city.
The new steamer John Hopkins, just re-
built and completed, left Cincinnati last
Saturday for Evansville, where she will en-
ter upon her duties as regular packet
from Evansville to Paducah connecting
with the Gus Fowler for Cairo. The Hop
kins is said to be better boat than her
famous predecessor of the same name.
The John A. scudder, of the Anchor line,
arrived early yesterday morning. She came
from St. Louis and had big trip, added
largely here and departed last evening for
New Orleans.
The John B. Maude from Memphis ar
rived att am. yesterday. After discharg-
ing some freight and passengers, she left
for St. Louis at noon.
The Fannie Tatum from st. Louis is due
tonight for Paducah. The Tatum is doing
a first class business, which we are pleased
to note, as Capt. J, B. Conway, her master
and owner, has worked hard to build up a
trade with his boat as st. Louis, Cairo &
Paducah packet. Passengers going up the
OHIO as far as Paducah will find the Tatum
a pleasant boat to travel on.
The Gus Fowler came down from Padu-
cab on time yesterday and had good trip.
She left here at G p. m. with very fine
passenger list.
The Granite State from Cincinnati is due
tonight or early tomorrow morning at
| fartherest. The State is one of the best
boats of the Cincinnati and Memphis pack
ct line. Capt w. G. Tichenor is her pop
ular master, and Mr.. Bob Mccoy who has
charge of the office handles the quill with
grace and case. Passengers going south
can procure tickets of w. +. Lambdin
Office at the Planters house.
The large and splendid steamer Thos.
Sherlock is due tomorrow morning for
New Orleans. Capt. James Nichols, mas
ter; Ames Fisher, chief clerk.
The Will Kyle meets with peculiar &C.
cident while lying at Portland, preparing to
clean out her boilers. The engineer had
let off the steam from the boilers, as he
thought, and opened the man-head of the
mud.drum. When volume OF steam
passed out, very seriously scalding the en-.
gineer and terribly scalding a lot of the
cattle on the deck. Four of the cattle were
so badly scalded that they were killed to
end their suilerings. Fifteen head Of cat
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