The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-01-18
RIVER NEWS.

The marks at the landing last evening,
indicated 9 feet and II inches In the
channel, and falling.
The j. l.. Rhoads arrived from st
Louis yesterday morning, and after dis
charging a lot OF freight departed for
Pittsburgh.
The Market Boy left for Pittsburgh at
o'cloch yesterday morning.
The Andes arrived from Cincinnati
yesterday afternoon.
The Courier will be the Parkersburg
packet to-day at noon.
The local packets are making their
regular trips.
The Andes will leave for Cidcinuati
this afternoon at 8 o'clock.
RocKING vs.. REVOLVING BOILER BARS.
TO the Editor Of the Cincinnati En-
gmrer:-You published in the Enquirer
Of the 10Th of January, under column
heading of River Intelligence" notice
of French CRATE bar. believe the
patent granted to me March IL, 1878,
and reissued March 30, 1875, is equally
as novel, is simpler in design and NOR
effective as furnace bar than the one
you describe. Where it is desirable to
make steam rapidly, as it always is on
steam boats, the bar you describe would
be nuisance. The fireman could not
waste time looking into the ends OF a
hundred more bars to sec if the air
courses were unobstructed; much less
could he spend his time turning the bars
singly with a key. My invention con-
sists of series of straight bars either
with single rib or series of them.
These bars have pivoted ends-half cir
cles-and rest upon transverse bearings
which have semi-circular sockets 10 re-
ceive the ends of the bars. Under a
series of these bars, beneath one furnace
boiler, / suspend to the two other bars u
transverse recessed bar, into which de-
pending Tugs on the bars fit. This trans.
verse bar was slot through it, and the
front bearing bar is provided with a
fulerum, the fire poker or bar OF
iron is used as n lever, by
means of which all the bars under one
boiler are rocked, right and left, at pro-
per intervals. By means of this improve
ment there is great saving of fuel and
labor, and complete absence OF vitrious
Stag deposits on the bars
These bars have been used successfully
for nearly two years.
Presuming that the Enquirer Office is
provided with an engine TO run its
power presses, / will agree to put in a
full set of my bars under yocr boiler and
take the price of the fuel saved in the
first six months by their use as a full
compensation for my expenditure.
Il. &. GRAVES.
Cambridge, Ohio.
by Telegraph
PITTSBURGH, January l7.-River 5
feet inches and stationary. Weather
cloudy and Aild.
EVANSVILLE, January l7.-Weather
cloudy; mercury 470 to 550 River rising
with II LILO feet on the gauge. Up
Grey Eagle and George Roberts. Down
Pat Cliborn ard j. d. Parker. Bust
ness very light.
MEMPHIS, January l1.-Rain fell II
inches; warm rain still continues; heavy
fog on the river detains boats. Arrived
ILLINOIS, Vicksburg. Departed-Julia,
St. Louis; Bismarck, New Orleans.
LOUISVILLE, January Nv Gather
warm and cloudy. Arrived-Warrior,
Sherlock, Cherokee, Turner, Glasgow,
Evansville. Departed-Sherlock, Cher
okee, Glasgow, Cincinnati; Warrior,
Pittsburgh River & feet on the falls
and feet in the canal.
CAIRO, January l7.-No arrivals or de-
partures. River 20 feet l inch and fall
ing. Weather in the evening was foggy;
mercury Sc degrees.
CINCINNATI, Janurry l7.-River 10
feet eleven inches and falling. Weather
cloudy and warm. Arrived-Hudson,
Wheeling. Departed-Exchange Pitts
burgh; Garrett and barges, New Orleens.
ST. LOUIS, January l7.-Arrived-
None. Observation-Disclosures, New Or
leans; Boyd, Illinois river. River fall
ing; the ice has run out. Weather
cloudy, damp and warm.
NASHVILLE, January l7.-River ris-
ing with thirteen feet on the shoals.
Arrived-Bermuda, Cairo; Silyerthern,
Cairo; T. L. Hillman. Cairo. Departed
bermuda, CAIRO.