The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-10-14
miscellaneous.

CuLbI OuO6ISs
Miscellaneous.
There was nothing doing on the
wharf, yesterday. except by the pack
ets.........The Hartford. as usual, was
getting a good trip of freight......The
Florence Lee was also receiving lib
orally, and would have al she could
carry.........The Importer and Arma-
dillo left for Louisville, and the Min-
ME dropped down to the bone yard,
to await her turn 10 60 upon the Dry
Docks.......The LeClaire No. 2 passed
up at Am. yesterday with a splendid
trip, and brought large orders to our
merchants. She reports the John
Lumsden hard aground at Walkers.
1.-THE Pine Bluff arrived at ppm,
and the Evansville at 3, both with
good trips.........The LeClaire will be
down on Sunday evening, en- route to
Eastport...... captain Rob ert Wood
and A 7. Oaks yesterday sold the
steamer Milbrey to B. w. Hayward,
Cash. Thomas, Il. ID. Greer and others
for $500. The papers we're fixed
out, aud the boat turned over to her
new owners. all practical steamboat
men. who will put her in repair and
run her in the Wabash this Winter,
and next Summer will build for her a
new hull.
G1eanings from Our Exchange
CIECINNATI.-The Commercial of Wednes.
day says:
The Alaska has been launched from the
/ Mound City wsys in complete order, and
/ the alterations to the enlarged Dexter will
Clerk Ed. q. Miller, of the Sam. ]. Hale,
/ arrived from Cairo yesterday, having been
/ engaged in closing up the boats business
| along shore. In company with his BROTH
| er, Captain W. b. Miller, of the Minneola,
| ne viii visit the Northern Lakes, In q few
days, on his annual squirrel hunt.
Captain George Ii. Alcoke, agent for the
| Travellers Accident Company, of Hart
| ford, Connecticut, insured the late Capt.
Thad. Wirthlin, clerk OF the ill-fated Sill
| yer Spray, on the 18th of last February, for
$1,000. Captain Alcolze, yesterday, paid the
| amount insure ed over TO Mrs. Wirthlin.
The Times of Wedn eday evening says:
The rain ofsnight before last, as expected,
caused the river TO swell rapidly at this
point. giving us some ten feet In the chan
mel; and though the rain was general on
the river below, making the falls naviga-
BILE for boats light, another heavy rain on
the Upper Ohio will be necessary to open
navigation to the regular lines above and
below this point Dispatches below and
on the third page Will give further advIcea
of weather and water at other points.
Captain John and Sam. James are in the
city, near by, for purchasers OF boats
They leave again this evening for Louis
vile, where they report progress In the
canal as decidedly slow.
Captain Frank Pierce returned from his
Louisville excursion this morning. He
probably tested the wood in the new IOcHi
and found defective plank.
Mr.. Charles Sontag, OF the Vandergrih
Line, is In town. Pilots Dross and 5ebas
la 1n-n1 n a q ~
which lies ninety miles below New Alba
ny. They state that the recent rains were
heavy on the river below, and the SIDE
wheel steamers coming out to make prop
ably four feet on tho falls to- morrow even
ing. salt River affords Q good stage toE
boat-load OF defeated candidates
LOUISVILLE. The CottrEeT-JoD171Gt o
Wednesday says:
Cant Rouns. of the 18Th Era, bought
yesterday from Capt. Lee Crane the Pas
time barge belonging TO the Lucy Hunter
Capt Parrisott's new boat, Lucy KERN
deeended the falls yesterday and landed a
Shfppfngport, where she viii receive he
fnfshfng touches. she will leave for New
Orleans the early part of next week.
, ST. LoUIs.-The Democrat OF Wednesda,
says:
The river Is falling at this point steadily
The rains up the Mississippi have eheckeC
the decline temporarily. In the Ohtt
there is a rather good sort OF a rise at Gin
, cinnatt. Louisville and on Portland bar
Weather yesterday was chilly and damp
Business fair, with nothing 10 report ii
re erence to rate charges.
H. l.. stout and other lumber dealers o
| Dubuque refuse to pay wharfage for lunl
Der landed there. A case has been mad
up and taken into the Circuit Court of On
| buQue. Mr.. Stout takes the ground tina
the city authorities cannot collect wharf
j age at points on the leves, where they hav
@ not erected wharves,
{ The olive Branch, going down, got al
the cotton st Vicksburg she wanted.
Captain Chapman, OF the Augonaut. 10
ports good state of water in the TeEnes
see, and rising all the way down.