The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-04
RIVER INTELLIGENCE


OIL CITY, Pa, Sept 4--9:U0 A. M-Allegheny
| River inches and stationary Weather cloudy
Thermometer 7Oo. Wind southeast
BROWNSVILLE Pa. Sept 4-1O:0O A. M-Monon.
gahela River feet inches and stationary.
Weather cloudy. Thermometer TAO. Wind south
east.
PlrrsBuRG, Pa, Sept 4-l1:30 A. M.-River 1
foot inch and stationary Weather clear and
pleasant.
CHARLESTON. W. VA. Sept 400 A. M
| Kanawha River feet2 inches and falling. Wealth
er partially cloudy. Thermometer 10. wiz
northeast
Steamboat Movements.
| Capt W. C, Tichenors fine, fust and popua
steamer Cons. Mlar will back out this evening
| from the New Orleans Wharfboat for Evansville
Cairo and St. Louis direct, and take passengers
and freight for all points on the Illinois and Up
per and Lower Mississippi Rivers She is light
draught and will go through without detention.
| Try her
The City of Portsmouth will return to Chilo at
4 p m, leaving from the foot of Walnut street.
She leaves daily and is fine side-wheel steamer.
| The Wildwood came down and will return to
| Maysville at noon.
The United States will be the mail-boat leaving
! this evening for Louisville.
The Telephone cleared for Pittsburg last night
with fair start. She will return and leave again
Monday or Tuesday,
The James D. Parker is due tonight from St.
Louis She will return Saturday.
IsOat-hands' Gossip.
weather clear ana pleasant
Business very dull this morning on the levee.
The river was about stationary at noon, with
feet in the channel
Capt Dan. Moore, of the Robt. Mitchell, has re-
turned from Pttsburg.
Capt Frank Hicks mammoth new steamer Harry
Franks is assuming gigantic proportions ana will
be completed ere many days She is lying at the
foot of Ludlow street
Capt Wm Stone is still in the city.
Sol, kineon the gentemanly coal merchant,
was on Change to-day He don't need very many
energetic statesmen just now, and says business
isn't rushing but that he can attend to another
order or two.
Col. James A. Blackmore arrived by rail last
night from Pittshurg.
Capt Vint Shinkle took the steamboatmens
little book" this morning and solicited $50 for the
sufferers in the South $3.50 is the amount paid in
up to to-day, and back counties yet to be heard
from.
Clerk Frank R, Skunk is still among the living
In fact there's good deal of life in the old boy
yet. He don't seem to remember that.he ever had
the chils or his baby had the cole Since his
boat laid up he has been making himself useful
by holding up the fiagpole on the Public Landing
and taking schooners Boston style-he takes and
the other fellow pays Frank takes his scho0ners
but he never gets under full sail.
The Gold Dust is announced to leave st. Louis
this evening for New Orleans.
The yellow fever has killed hundreds of peopls
OF all branches OF business but the South is fuiH
of second clerks and we have not heard of oneOf
them even so much as bursting his suspenders yet
The epidemic seems to steer clear of second
clerks. AL. Schraag says they are such hand
some and religious set Of young men that they
couldn't catch the fever if they wanted to.
For POmerOy.
THIS DAY, 4th, at P. NJ, POSITIVELY,
~ n POTOMAC James Kirker, Master
T Freight received on Wharfboat foot OF
Broadway, w, HonShell Supt