The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-09-29
.RIYER NEWS,

The weather to-day isclcar, warm and pleas
ant The river is falling here with s feet in ths
channel. At Pittsburg the river continues
falling, with 10 inches in the channel.
Boats Leaving To-day-Pomeroy, Emma
Graham; Huntington, Granite State; Louis
Vile, Ben Franklin; Evansville, Fawn: New
Orleans, Governor Allen and Kittie Hegler.
sTAGR OF THE RIVERS,
Oil City, inches and falling.
BroWnsville--4 feet 2 inches and falling.
Wheeling-8 feet inches and falling.
Marietta-4 feet inch and IA. ling.
Middleport-River falling steadily.
Charleston-3fe feet in Kanawha and falling
Huntington-4xfee feet and falling RI
Gallipols--Rivcr falling slowly.
Louisvhle-5 feet inches at the head Of the
canal; 8 feet on the falls ana river rising.
Evansville rising slowly, with feet
A inches In the channel.
Nashyille-3H feet on the Shoals and falling.
Shawnectown-4 feet on the bar and falling.
Lairo-17 feet and falling.
Memphis-Rlver falling slowly.
Captain Naylor, OF the Mary D., died at
Manchester, Ohio, yesterday morning, after a
brief illness.
Signal lights have been located at the follow
ing points below Vicksburg:
No. 3S--In foot OF field below Buckridge.
No. 89-Where Bondurant's upper landing
was last season.
No. 40-Two hundred and fifty yards below
last house in Brimsburg.
No. dat Dr.. NEWS gin, little above where
No. 42-On Natchez Island, one-third Of a
mile above the fort
No. 43-Two hundred yards below Ashley
Armer's, St. Catharine's Bend.
No. 44-At Briars upper or low water levee.
No. 45-One-quarter Of q mile above Green's
store.
A little stern-wheel steamer, called the
Acme, was launched yesterday afternoon, just
below NJ. ID. Buchanilp's coal-yard, at the foot
fnf OFT a Acu,
was built for Capt. w enzel, and her dimensions
are: Length, 115 feet; beam, % feet; cylinders,
81 inches, stroke. feet; boilers, 1sH feet long
and AZ inches in diameter, and five fiues. The
ire-b box, which Capt. Wenzel has had rut in,
is the first Of the Sind ever put into Western
steamer. The Acme will ply in the Ouachita
river trade.
The light-house tender Lily is coming up
the Ohio, TO. inspect the lights between Cairo
and Pittsburg.
able steamboat agent, OF this city, leaves for
Richmond, Va, on the Granite State, to view
the scenes and pleasures Of his youth. This is
the first respite from business Mr.. Charter has
had for some time, and we wish him a pleasant
visit and safe return.
The li:tle Randolph leaves for Vevay with
six empty boats in tow, one for Florence, In
diana, and five for vevay.
Captain II. V. Horton, Of Pomeroy, is in the
city.
il. K: List, Of Wheeling, W. Va, is at the
Grand Hotel
The Katydid broke her rudder stem at Mid
dleport Tuesday.
Hon. w. A. Adams, Of Lake, and Hon. Ben
ton Mcmillan, Of Clay county, have been ap-
pointed Commissioners by the Governor Of
Tennessee to trade with the State Of Kentucky
for the purchase Of Madison Bend.
The j. s. Bransford. Tuesday evening, was
hard aground at the Big Eddy, on the falls at
Louisville.
The Eckert succeeded In raising the Florence
Lee, and she will be taken out on the Paducah
Ways to day. The Eckert returns to Cairo.
The little Metamore spnk, four miles below
Bonneville, in tine Missouri, Monday.
The II. Z. Yaeger, at Memphis, Friday, dis
charged 1000 tombstones for the National
Cemetery opposite Memphis.
The Cherokee left New Orleans for Cincinnati
Tuesday evening with Us passengers and good
freight liss