The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-09-08
RIVER R;PLETS.

Orleans yesterday. ~ -'o
The Str. Dewey, Capt. A. T. C,nr
Orleans. ior Ne'
The Strs. Delta, Belle of the Bend.
Lucille Rowland and HillC,itv arc ax
pected to arrive today '"
The Str, Lucille Rowland resume,
ner place In the Vicksburg and Mem
pms trade Yesterday. She will leav,
memphis every Saturday for Vicksbure
The best boats have all underoon,
.he usual repairs prepatory to handlins
ene COTTON crop and no delay need bt
occasioned in shipping this season.
Inc snag boat, Jno. M. McComb. die
tne right thing Tuesday. She tied M
AZ our wharf, paid off It's men and al
lowed Greenville to get its share o.
government money. Thanks.
Low water in the river is causing the
steamboats, to have trouble in gettinp
through the mouth. Several DAYS L
required to get to Yazoo CITY from
Vlcksburg. -Yazoo City Herald.
The Poepke Lucket Lumber Co.. are
rebuilding the Geo. M. Water. and
When finished will be named the CITY
OF Chicago. The boat will be used e
low logs to their mill here and in Ar
kansas.
A Pittsburg special of Saturday saws;
Because OF the great amount of coal
loaded the fuel will be cheaper here
this fall. but dearer at Cincinnati and
elsewhere. The supply at down river
points will be short. Clear and hot
John G. Rudy, for several years con-
nected with the little stamer Morning
Star, died at sicksburg Sunday even
ing and was buried at the National
cemetery in that city.
Str. Ralph, one of the best known of
the smaller craft that piled about Mem
phis, went to the bottom last Tuesday.
The boat had Just been sold to the Red
Rlver Packet Co. by Ed Postal. it's
former owner. The boat was fully in
sured.
Ike Judkin, colored, who looks after
the warehouse of the Greenville Wharf
d Storage Co., has held his position
for nearly fifteen years. He is prompt
and attentive to his business and makes
Supt. Startling faithful and trusted
employee. Such colored men are an
honor to their race.
Snnday-The Str Annie Laurie came
up on good time, Capt. Young in charge
and Schaffer in the Office. Usual dull
Sunday business, but good passenger
trip. Morris RosenstOck and family
took the Annette tranffer to the Str.
Ruth at Vicksburg for New Orleans. -
Arrived Str. John Henry.
Monday Str. Delta came up at 10
"a. M, "a hours late, due to heavy bust
ness going down. Band playing and
the usual flutter in young society. All
the officers on the Delta are young,
handsome and interesting. At least
the young ladies think so. Good trip
freight and passengers.
Mr.. Lynn Startling, superintendent
of the Greenville Wharf &Storage Co.,
is the right man in the right place.
Kind and accommodating, he is always
ready to favor a shipper or receiver in
anyway possible. His many years of
service in this position proves his abil-
ity and popularity with both the river
and business men. We say it and can
prove it that his equal cannot be found
along the Mississippi river.
The Str. Resolute of the Alabama
Coal Co., met with an accident Tues
day by blowing out one of her cylinder
heads. The boat had inst started for
New Orleans with tow of barges
when the accident occurred. She was
towed to the bank and machinists put
to work at once repairing the cylin-
der completing it by Thursday, when
she left with her tow down the river.
One hundred and eighty thousand
tons of coal were sold Monday to New
Orleans agencies to supply the demand
in that city which has heretofore been
by the Pennsylvania propuct.
Thirty thousand tons go to a PEN
nsylvania company which is unable to
get sufficient coal from its own mines.
That will be delivered by the Southern
railway and its barge lines from Green
vile, Miss.
The Louisville Courier-Jounal of Sun
lay says: "rhe outlook for a heavy
reight and passenger business on the
liver this fall and winter is flattering
There is plenty of water for the
BIG sidewheel steamers Indiana and
Cincinnati to make good time between
his city and Cincinnati. The Marine
Goal Company. of Pittsburg, will be
coal South before January
..O'Donnell's big elevator at Port
and is proving to be success and is
handling big quantities of Pittsburg
oal daily.
Ex-State Senator Weathersby of
1onticello, Lawrence county, reports
hat the steamboat line between Mon
icello and Columbia is expected to be
n operation by the latter part of this
Jeek. L his boat line will connect with
he branch of the Gulf and Ship Island |
tQ6lmnbia and will thus give the
e6ple,in that section direct connection |
fith commercial centres. 1t is estimat-
d that there will be saving of sew
DtS-ffve cents bale on cotton ship |
Orleans.
John G. Rudy, for the last few years
Dnneoted with the little steamer |
forming Star, owner of the Seventh
,As Adventist, was found dead in his
ed on board of that boat yesterday
FORMING. The deceased was in his
It'll wear. The funeral took place
esterday evening from the boat, con-
ueted bVT5set-.L Halliday. The re-
aims were inferred at the National
emetery, Ae deceased being a Union
,triot in the SDdliish and civil wars. |