The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-02-19
RIVER NEWS.

The marks at the landing last evening
indicated II feet A inches in the channel
and falling.
The Market Boy departed for Pitts
burgh at o'clock this morning.
The Express left for Petersburg at
the usual hour yesterday.
The Hudson arrived from Cincinnati
Yesterday afternoon.
The C. W. Hornbrook arrived from
Pittsburgh yesterday with tow OF Goa
for the gas works.
The Express took down the crew oil
the Mallie Ragon yesterday. The latter
steamer will run in the Wheeling and
Pittsburgh trade. She leaves here for
Pittsburgh on Tuesday next with the
accommodating officers, Captain Muhle-
man in command and Il. G. Caldwell in
the Office.
The Hornbrook LETT for Parkersburg
last night.
The Courier is the Parkersburg packet
to-day al noon.
The Hudson will leave for Cincinnati
this afternoon at 8 o'clock.
The Salt Valley, from Ironton en-
route for Pittsburgh, is due this even
ing.
The Carrie Brooks will arrive from
GAINESVILLE tonight, and depart for Pitts
burgh Sunday morning.
The Gallipolis Bulletin says: "ln the
article of last week we spoke of the docks
soon to be here, in the language Of our
Point Pleasant friends as 'Ond WORKOUT
dry.docks" phraseology employed
by the Point Pleasant correspondent OF
the Cincinnati Gazette. Now, any one
who is at all conversant with the facts IN
the case is aware that our friends at the
mouth of the Kanawhs look at this dry.
dock business through the same visual
organs that the fox IN the fable viewed
the grapes-they couldn't keep the docks
consequently they don's want them (O
Some of our readers, not approaching the
force of the quotation, were inclined &c
believe that the docks were not what they
should be. We hasten to undecelvt
them, and would assure them that when
tue docks once commence operations they
will discover that they are neither ole
nor worn-ou, but on the contrary, are II
good condition for doing all the WORK
they may be called upon to put OUT
by Telegraph
PITTSBURGH, February lS.-River II
feet and falling. Weather clear anc
pleasant. Departed Granite State
Portsmouth; Exchange, Cincinnati.
EVANSVILLE, February ls.-W Gather
clear; mercury 30 to 500. River 81 6-lC
feet and rising. Wind from south. Por
List-Up-Pet Ciebu"n, Silver Thorn
George Roberts, Baum. Down-Con!
Miller, Tarascon. Little Business.
CAIRO, February 1S.-Arrived-H. S
Turner and Robert Mitchell, New Or
leans; T. T. Hilman, Nashville. De
parted-U. p. Schenck, New Orleans
James Howard, st. Louis Turner ant
Mitchell, Cincinnati Sam Brown, st
Louis. River 40 feet 2 inches, rising
Weather clear; mercury 430.
ST. LOUIS, February 1S-Arrived-
Nail City, Cairo. Departed-Mitchel
Burlington; Belle Memphis, Memphis
River fallen inches. Weather partially
cloudy and warmer.
NASHVILLE, February 1S.-River fall
ing with - feet on the shoals. Departed
Eddyville, Cairo; Alex Kendall, Poin
Isabella.
LOUISVILLE, February ls.-Weathe
cold and clear. River falling with i
feet inches in the canal and II feet
inches or the falls. Departed-Golder
Rule, New Orleans.
CINCINNATI, February lS.-River A:
feet and falling. Weather clear anC
pleasant. Departed-Andes, Wheeling
MEMPHIS, February l8.-River fell l!
inches. Weather clear and delightful
Arrived -. Helena, st. LOUIS; Ruth
White river. Departed-Yaeger, New
Orleans; Future City, Belle of st. Louis
st. Louis.