The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-11-28
RIVER NEWs.

The marks at the landing last EVENING
showed 9 feet inches in the chsnprI s,I
falling.
The wharf presented lively a. pear.
ance yesterday, with the "hurryiny 70
and fro" Of wagons, drays, &c, delivering
and carrying away freight.
The Mallie Ragon and Mollie Ebe,,
the latter from Cincinnati, departed for
Pittsburgh yesterday morning.
The Express left for Parkersburg q,
the usual hour with big trip OF trcigh,
and passengers.
The towboat Ed. Hobbs and bargrs Ar.
rived from Pomeroy Yesterday morniuo
The Courier is the Parkersburg packe,
this morning at 10! o'clock.
The r. r. Hudson WAS due from Gin,
cinnati last night. She will leave for h.
same place this afternoon at O'Clock
The James Rees has resumed her ,rrs
in the Sunfsh trade The Tempe,,
which has been running in place of the
Rees during the low water. left for III.
south.
A great number of tow boats with
large tows of eoai, passed down Thur,ds,
and Friday.
The Carrie Brooks from GAINESVILLE G.-
Pittsburgh, is due here tomorrow.
A special dispatch from Pittsburgh
! says:
The J. W. Morgan injured two Of her
bargeS by striking them against the tow
OF the Boaz, and at last accounts they
were in II sinking condition, near Jack.
Run. The Sam Brown stuck two Of hc-
barges ut the Clusters. The MARY Da,.
age, while coming up the river. h,lrg
/ light, about two o'clock this morniuy
run under, and sunk almost instantly
nearly opposite DXmont Hospital. some
/ eight or ten miles below Pittsburgh. Il
is said that she went down in abou,
| minute, and that the engineer. hramen
/ and others made II narrow escape with
/ their lives, and but for the fact that ,h.
/ only sunk to about within two feet Of her
! boiler deck, everybody on board would
/ doubtless have been drowned. She be-
longs to y. }. Bisley Il Co.. coal mrr
chants, who value her Mt $1,000 She
| had taken part of tow of coal down
/ the river some distance for another boat,
and was on her way back. She liz.
straight, and can probably be raised
without much difficulty.
by Telegraph
PITTsBURGH, November 21.-Rivrr &
feet inches and falling. Weather clear
and pleasant.
CINCINSATI, November 27.-Rlycr II
feet and rising. Weather fair and mod
crate
EVANSVILLE, November 27.-Wcs,h.
er cloudy with signs of snow mercury ~
to So, now s. and rapidly falling. River
| fallen inch, and now feet , cnchr, on
the gauge. Down--Evansyillc, Shipper,
Own, Tarascan. tp-G"orge Roberts,
Sandy, and Gracy. business dull.
LOUISVILLE, November 27.-RNrr
rising with feet } inches in the ruual
and feet inches in Indian chute Ar
rived Eddyvillr, Cincinnati; ami Etns
and tow, IrOnton. Departei-Eddyy,Iir
Nashville; Little Candor and EtnS
Ironton; and Grorg" Spangl"r, EVANS.
! VILE
CAIRO, November n Arrived
Mary Alice, Upper Mississippi; Colo
RADIO. st. Louis. Departed Moill" Moore.
| New Orleans. River 9 feet 3 inches nud
rising; weather clear; mercury 80.
ST. Louis, November 2I.-Arryrd
Capital City and Utah, NIcksburg; Chm
ton, Kcokuk; Anderson, Mound city,
st. Joscph Memphis. DEPARTED iP',
| Illinois river; Rob Roy, kcokuk. River
rising slowly with & feet of water 10 CAT
70; cloudy and cold all day bri'k snow
storm tonight.