The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-04-13
RIVER NEWS

The marks at the landing last evening
showed about 10 feet.
The Z NINA Graham passed down early
Yesterday morning.
The Ragon departed, yesterday, tcl
Psrkersburg.
The Express, en- route for Parkersburg
passed down last night.
The Hudson is due up from Cincinnati
10 day.
The Bette Gilbert has entered the Bel
lslre and Wheeling trade, with Captain
Davis on deck.
The Science ls to-dsy's Psrkersburg
packet.
/ David Rhoades, first engineer o! the
| steamer Virgle Lee, who Is charged with
killing Charles Smith, deck hand on
the steamer Courier, was taken to GIN
clnnati on Monday by Constable Kerr
of Portsmouth, OHIO, where nc was COM
mtted to jail.
Captain Henry X. Reynolds, OF Steu-
benvllle, died at 4 o'clock yesterday
afternoon, after q lingering illness. he
began steam boating in 1915, with Cap
tam Alex Devenny on the North Caro-
| lima, and was also with Captain j. )
Devenny, on the Do Witt Clinton, Are
tic and other steamers. Captain K. re-
tired from the river Ia 1865 and since
that time has been superintendent OF toe
Steubenvile Coal Compsny-Market
street shaft. He was p prominent mem
Der of the Christian (Campbolllte)
| Church, and leaves wife and several
children.-PittSJurgh Chronicle.
by Telegraph
PITTSBURGH, April l2.-River 8 feet
10 inches and about stationary. Weather
clear and pleasant.
New ORLEANS, April l2.-Arrived--
Carondolet, Evansville. No departures
Raining all day.
VICKsBUKG. April l2.-Therc has
been sixteen hours OF rain; now cloudy
and threatening. Up-CapitaI City
and Sherlock. None down.
SHREVEPORT, April l2.-Arrived-
Texas, New Orleans. There has been
a heavy rain for twenty .Iours, and is
still! raining River rose g inches,
LOUISVILLE, April l2.-River feet 2
inches in the canal and falling. Depart
ed-Cons. Mi!!ar, Memphis; Laura Da.
Wis, Cincinnati. Weather clear and
warm.
MEMPHIS, April 12.-River rose l
inch, and now stands 30 feet 2 inches
Weather rainy; mercury 81. Arrived
Belle of Texas. Departed Glencoe and
Chester, st Louis; Coal City, Ohio river;
Keystone, New Orleans.
CINCINNATI, April l2.-River 20 fee:
inches and falling. Arriyed-Courler
Wheeling; Baum, Memphis. Departed
-Donnally, New Orleans. The Bob
Schenck has completed repair and lett
for New Orleans n 3 P. NJ.
! EVANSVILLE, April 13.-Fair till 20.
night; now cloudy with signs Of rsini
wind northeast and east; mercury IS to
sc deg. River 81 clio fee, and falling. Port
List-Up-Silverthor Smith, Arkansas
Belle. Down-Rsven and tow, Etna
Fawn, Horner, Grey Eagle. Business
light.
CAIRO, April observation-disclosures
Rule New Orleans; Belle Memphis, St.
Louis; Cool Hill, st. Louis. Departed -
Golden Rule, Eckert, Memphis; Samuel
Miller, Ohio; Rlgley, St. Louis; Belle
Memphis, Memphis. Captsin Van Pet
died in the hospital to-day, in this city
River 80 feet and rising. Weather
cloudy; mercury 90 deg.
ST. LOUIS, April r. Arrived War
Eagle, Keokuk; Ashland and Future
City, New Orleans; City of Vicksburg,
Vicksburg; Fannie Lewis, Kansas City.
Departed-Wsr Eagle, and Colorado,
Vicksburg; Stevens, Huntington. River
has risen SInches but is stationary to-
night. Weather cloudy and cooler.