The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-11-03
RIVER NEHS.

The weather to-day is cloudy and threaten
ing rain,
The river continuesrecedipg slowly, with ba.
feet in the channel at noon.
STAGE OF THE RIVERS.
Special to the star.
PITTsBURG, Nov. 3.-Riyer feet 2 inches
and about stationary. Raining. Thernaome-
ter a. with the wind from the northeast.
Oil City-3 feet s inches and falling.
Brownsville-4 feet and stationary.
Wheeling-4 feet inches and rising,
Marietta feet inches and rising.
Mlddleport-3 feet inches and slowly swell
ing.
Charleston-2 feet inches and falling.
Gallipolis-River slowly falling.
Huntington --3H feet and about stationary.
lTonton-- River about stationary.
Lokisyille--3 feet inches at the head Of the
canal and river falling.
Evansville-3 feet 10 inches and falling
Nashvllle-2 feet inches on Harpeth shoals,
and about stationary.
Cairo-6 ieet scant and falling:
St. Louis-Rlyer falling, with feet out to
Cairo.
The John F. Dravo is to be wrecked.
Commodore Kountz, Captains Il. Z. GRAY and
r. Z. Calhoun are sojourning aJ Pittsburg.
Sam Bryan goes mate on the Ouaehita Belle,
and VIM. :. Bryan supelsedes him on the Gov.
Allen.
The Susie Silver has gotten off Horsetajl.
leans to- day and will be followed by the Bis
marck, Saturday.
The John b. Maude is at Memphis, repairing
her broken cylinder-hlads.
The Mary Houston has arrived at New Or
leans:
At Terre Haute the river is rising with 20
inches of water in the channel.
The boiler iron for Il. n. Lee is to be manu-
fatured by the burgess steel and Iron Works,
Portsmouth, Ohio.
The j. ID. Parker returns to Memphis Satur-
day.
Those red collared ehimneys on the Shippers'
Own cost an even one Thousand dollars.
Capt. John Kyle purchased the barge Minnie
Tuesday from Lewis Glenn, Esq, anu the Ash
land took it along to tighten her out the Ohio
The Pittsburg coal men and the dealers here
entertain but little hopes of their boats coming
out on the present water.
The Exchange laid over until 10 o'clock last
evening, awaiting passengers. .
Maun. W. Satterwhite, Esq, Of Louisville,
was in the city yesterday.
One of the prettiest pictures of marine archi-
lecture is the steamer Chas. Morgan, as she
now lies at her moorings in Fulton. She has
been newly painted and refurnished for the
coming season, and will resume her trip to
New Orleans rs soon as there is sufficient
water The Pauley conuensers are up and in
place, and the large and magnificent Chas.
Morgan is in complete order and better than
when she first came out.
There is some talk Of putting the ALI. stev-:
ems in the Cairo and Cape Girardeau trade.
General Jeff. Thompson is credited with the
prediction that by the ist OF January the Mis-
sissippi river will have cut a new channel near
Vicksburg, leaving that place two miles in
land.
The stockholders Of the Cincipnvti, Ports
mouth, Big Sandy and Pomeroy Packet Com
pany held their annual meeting TUESDAY, Nov
3, and reelected the old Board OF Directors, as
follows: David Gibson, John Kyle, w alsh. Hon
shell, E. B. Moore, Hiram Campbell, John
Means, i. n. johnson. At subsequent meet
ing of the Directors the following officers were
re- elected: President, David Gibson: Secre-
tary and Treasurer, 4. N. Johnson; Superin-
tehdent, w. sHonshelL
The United States Marshal yesterday. sold
the Naomi to Stephens u Ware, owners Of the
Kate Waters, for 5000. She will be used for
towing purposes in the construction of the
Southern Railroad bridge.
Pilots Jno. Handlon and Ed. +. Mclean have
gone to St. Louis to take alook at the river.
Yesterday's St. Louis lGlobe- Democrat saws:
s'Ihe following decisions were promul-
gated yesterday by the United States Local In
spectors of TINS port: License was refused Geo.
Godebush for second engineer-canse, incom-
pentency; license as mate refused E. o. Car
ter, same cause; Nicholas Byrnes license as
engineer revoked, for intoxication; license of
Captains John r.. Williams and Grandson
Hill were suspended for four months-cause,
egligence and inattention to their Duties"
Commodore Davidson thinks it probable that
he will build TWO fast steamers for the next
sec sons business.