Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1878-11-18
River N ews.

The marks AT the wharf last evening
showed feet q incheSand rising slowly.
The Raglan will leave AT 1890 o'clock
this morning for Parkesburg and the
ThanhauSer Tor Matamoras al the same
hour.
The Hudson departed on time Sat
ur,lay for Cincinnati.
The Andes will arrive to-day at noon
and will return to Cincinnati tomorrow
evening.
The Salt Valley passed up Ell route
to Pittsburgh at 1890 o'clock Yesterday
loaded to the waters edge and will pass
down tonight.
The Katie Stockdale passed up, en-
route to Pittsburgh, at four o'clock last
evening. nine hours late, having been
detained by log She will pass down to-
night.
The Thompson passed down, en- route
to Cincinnati. last night.
The Telephone arrived from Charles
ton last evening, and will return, leaving
here at 9o'clock this evening.
The Emma Graham will pass up TO-
morrow morning, and the Granite State
Wednesday.
The IronSles and barges left last even
inyfor ~. Louis loaded with railroad
iron, nails and miscellaneous freight.
Several baats passed down Yesterday
with large lows Of coal.
The O'Neal will arrive To night from
Pittsburgh and will return tomorrow
morning al O'Clock.
The regulars will be found in port to-
day.
The new tow boat Annie Kelly, owned
bv Capt. Horn Brook, was towed to the
wharf at this city last Saturday. Her
hull was built at Brownville, and ia I+5
feet in length; beam, "a feet: hold, 4
feet; cylinders, ID, inches in diameter,
and loo, stroke. Sweeney & son are
To put in the machinery, which will
consist OF two steel boilers, twenty-six
feet long and forty-seven inches in
diameter. with six flues.
Captain Lists neW boat hull will be
launched at Murraysville to-day and
lowed 10 this city during the present
week, and will he taken To the boat
wards Of Hanes, Wilson x Co., North
Wheeling, where her cabin will be put
on. The hull is 275 feet long; beam, Al
feet; hold, q feet: guard IL feet, which
makes her - feet across midshiPs.
MEMPHIS. November Arrived
Willie Austin, Ohio river.
New ORLEANS. November F.-No ar
rivals or departures. Weather cool and
rainingall evening.
EVANSVILLE, November l7.---River
rising slowly with ) 6-l0 inches on the
gauge. Weather cloudy. Mercury 50.
Down---Schenck.
ST. Loris. November l7.-Arrived---
Tidal Wave, -. Paul Disqualification
Mountain, New Orleans. River station
ary. with still feet to Cairo.
CINCINNNu, October Ii River -
ieet inches and rising. Weather cool.
Arrived - Granite State, Pittsburgh:
Talinn, II. LOuis. Departe,l-Granite
State and Talinn, Pittsburgh.
LOrIsyItJE, November Weather
cloudy and cool. Arrive.i-New
Houston, Cincinnati. Departed-Iaura
Davis, Andy Baum. Cincinnati; j. ID.
Parker, Memphis; Mary Miller, 81.
Louis. River rising with 6 feet inches
in the canal.
CAIRO November IL. Arrived
Desmet, Il. Louis; Idlewiid, Evans
vile; FL. HObbt, -. Louis; Florence
Meyer Cincinnati; Grey Hound Mem
phis; Chsads, Chas. Mcdonald, Ohio;
Arkansas Belle, Evansville Departed
Wager, 81. Louis; Idlewild, Evans
vile; Ny Choice, -. Iouis; silyerthorne,
Evansville; Hobbs, Ohio; Never. New
Orleans; Maromb. below; Grey Hound,
Ohio; Rhoads, -. Louis: Gilmon, New
Orleans. The James Gilmoae sunk on
Grand Chain, but can b. raised. River
-.-fe~t ii inches and falling. Mercury
%. weaihereloudy.