Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-17
RIVER INTELLIGENCE.
River last night 5 feet.
Weather clear and pleasant.

River last night 5 feet.
Weather clear and pleasant.
Business was lively on the river yes
terday and Saturday.
One lightly loaded feet OF coal barges
passed down, yesterday.
The Tempest brought upa load OF
chairs, yesterday.
The late rains were very general, and
additional rises are reported from all
tributaries of the Ohio.
The Emma Graham, Pittsburgh; Cliff
ton, Welcome, w. y. Chancellor, G. w.
Bachelor, Alice and the L. 5. Light
house tender Lille are ell rorte up from
Cincinnati.
One of our Saturdays exchanges says
''The Ohio River was never known 10
be so low as it is now" He ought TO
have seen it week ago.
All OF our exchanges are booming
with river news. The briskest and
most cheerful state OF affairs that the
river men have enjoyed for several
months seems well under way.
Notwithstand ding all attempts TO run
propellers on our Western rivers with
any marked degree OF success have met
with failure, we still hear OF their con-
struction. The Evansville Courier thus
speaks of a new one: "The new screw
wheel propeller, Bob Hornbrook, being
built by Captains Ingle and Hornbrook,
is looming up in first-class style. She
will be ready to be launched in about
ten days. Her hull, which is the best
built one on Western waters, is 100 feet
long, ii foot floor, 22 foot BEAM, foot
hold, and is of an easy model. She will,
when completed, have two engines, IL
incn cylinders with l6-inch stroke. The
engines are on the style OF the Gilbert's,
and are being built by the Mechanics
foundry. She will have one steel fire
box boiler, II feet long, IS inches in
diameter, with l52 fiues, built by VIM.
Heilman. She will also have two wheels
4 feet inches in diameter. Her for
ward cabin will be % feet long, and the
ladies' cabin 20 feet long, with four state
rooms in it. Back OF the ladies' cabin
will be cook house and dining-room.
Her cabin will set on her main deck.
On her hurricane roof will be an iron
railing, which will be used to put avn
ings over.
Capt. William Dillon thinks that FL
let's plan of great reservoirs up the Al
leghany and MOnongahela Is the only
salvation of the Ohio during the drought.
Cheat river the Captain thought, shonld
be damned and used as reservoir
Marine Journal
Capt. T. G. Sweeney, OF the Corona,
has contracted with Cleveland parties to
have his boat illuminated with electric
light. 1t is intended To light the entire
vessel, including her hold. The cost is
estimated at about 500.
The Upper Missouri is full of floating
ice.
CINcINNATI, November l6.-River 3
feet IL inches and rising slowly. De-
parted-Clifton, Pittsburgh. The En-
ma Graham awaits water.
MEMPHIS, November l6.-Departed
Belle of Shreveport, New Orleans; Joe
Kinney, Clinton, Grand Tower, +. NJ.
Norton, st. Louis. Weather clear and
cool. River rising.
ST.. LOUIS, November l6.-Arrived-
Montana, Vicksburg; Peek, Lacrosse;
Josie Harry, Memphis Desmet, Padu-
cab. Departed--None. River risen q
inches, with Q feet inches in the chan
mel. Weather cloudy and colder.
EVANSVILLE, November l6.-River
swelling with 9-l0 feet on the gauge.
Weather clear and pleasant, wind east
and southeast; barometer above 294 and
rising. Up-Maggie Smith and Vigo.
DOWN.. /. Buckham and Sallie Car
ney. No business.
CAIRO, November l6.-Arrived-C. n.
Davis. Evansville; Port Eads, st. Louis;
Tidal Wave, New Orleans; Little Eagle,
Ohio: Paris c. Brown, st. Louis. De-
particle. n. DAVIS, Evansville; Little
Eagle, st. Louis; Tidal Wave. st. Louis.
River feet / inches and rising.
Weather clear; thermometer 50.