Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23

Anchor Liner, is due this morning,
bound to st. Louis.
The Henry Marx passed up last
night and win tow two Of her barges
to Steele's Bayou.
The Pargoud. Capt. ]. F. Muse,
Clerk Curt Lewis, will pass to Green
vile at 8 pm. today.
Captain Thos. Sargent, Of Aurora,
Indiana, arrived yesterday on a visit to
his brother, Capt. w. H. Sargent.
The Silverthorn, lately burned near
this city, was named after the late Col.
]. N. Silverthorn, the noted river edi-
tor of the Evansville Journal.
The steamer Helen Mead, running in
Steele's Bayou, and Lake Washington
and the steamer Harry in Rolling
Fork, are running in the interest of
the Marx.
The steamer Issaquena from the
upper bends, Marionneaux master,
Stelgleman clerk, came in early yester-
day evening. She leaves at l pm.
today for Greenville and way points.
The favorite steamer City Of Vicks-
burg. Capt. Dan Able, Clerk Geo. 0.
Walton, will be the Anchor Line boat
to-day for St. Louis and all way point
landings at 4 pm.
The steamer L. Fl. Sargent came up
from Davis Bend yesterday with 2235
sacks of seed. She returns today,
leaving at 10 I'm. for Davis Bend,
Bayous Roundaway and Vidal, with
Capt. Epple as master.
A special from Helena to the Mem
phis Avalanche, dated the goth, says:
"The river has risen in the last twenty
four hours two inches. Above low
water, forty-four feet two inches; below
high water, three feet"
The P. Line steamer Barksdale,
Capt. M. L. johnson, Clerk c. M.
Kahn, came in from the Tallahatchie
yesterday with 107 bales of cotton and
1000 sacks of seed. She will be the
regular P. Line packet Friday for all
points on the Yazoo and Tallahatchie,
river, leaving at 5 pm, going through,
TIC luIa he
The following letter received some
days ago is a merited compliment to a
worthy lady, who under the most
trying circumstances gave evidence of
undoubted courage and presence of
mind seldom shown by those of the
sterner sex:
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, March ~, 1856.
Mrs. W. H. Sergeant, Yicksburg, Miss:
Dear Manufacturing the sad ac-
cident of the steamer Bonham in your
daily, we the undersigned feel that
you in your heroic actions in saving the
life of the engineer and others ard
possessing such presence of mind and
Judgment in the midst of such a
terrible disaster, herewith tender our
appropriations and hope that your
courage and presence of mind, and
your losses be rewarded by our
Supreme Ruler. Accept our best
wishes. Your Friends,
G, j. GRATTAN,
THOS. j. MCDONOUGH
Deputy Boiler Inspectors.
d. r. WHITLEY, Engineer.
Cairo Argus On Saturday last q
crib opposite Eli~zabethtown fell into
the river, and 5000 bushels of corn
was lost. Tie river had undermined
it. 1t belonged to a man named
Thomas Croft. Z 4 x On Saturday
last a new barn passed down the river
and a man from this shore went to it
in a skiff and secured two sets of har-
ness. The mules that had worn the
harness were in the barn drowned.
Natchez Democrat 81: Mr.. M. j,
Creamy. who is very well acquainted
with the Kemp levee in Tensas parish
says he does not think there Is
any immediate danger from its set.
Ting. The river, he says, will have
to rise some five or six feet more be
fore it will go over the leves and cause
damage, but with the water coming VI
as slowly as it is at present, it i
doubtful IL the river will rise thai
much this season.
Memphis Avalanche: The steamer
Sonoma with Archer's fuel saver mad
several trial trips at st. Louis, and i
declared a complete success by steam
boat owners, inspectors and bushes
men. 4 4 y 1t was rumored las
evening that Supervising Inspecto
Irwin Dugan, who has been in the cit,
for two or three days, has decided t,
recommend Henry Fighter, of Helena
Ark, for hull inspector, and John j
Darragh, of this city, for boiler in
spector of this district, vice Messr'
Ralston and Rouse, who have tendere'
their resignation.