Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-07-19
River N ews.
River 1 feet and falling.

River feet and falling.
The Science went on the docks, yes
terday.
The EldoradO passed up for Pitts
burgh, yesterday, nearly forty-eight
hours late.
The Sam Brown and the Jim Brown
could not make it over the Island bar,
Yesterday, and turned back down the
river in search OF more wetness.
The Alice declined to take lOl bbls. OF
coperas for st. Louis on at Steubenyille
for less than 80 cents hundred.
The Katie Hooper is announced to
leave Cincinnati in place OF the Andes.
Capt. John Thompson, OF the Pitts
burgh, was on Tuesday, at Cincinnati,
the recipient OF horse, the gift OF the
steamer Paris G.. Brown. He sent 1t to
his farm up the kanawha.
Austin Jourdan, a deckhand on the
steamer Joseph Warne, while bathing
with his brothers, swan out into the
current with his clothes on, against the
earnest protest of Capt. John a. Wood,
and was drowned. Efforts to save him
were made, but proved unsuccessful.
In referring to the matter, the Clncln-
natl Commercial says: The brother OF
Jourdan boarded the Florence Meyer
last Sunday at Ravenswood, w. Va,
and while on the lower guard exhibit
ing to the mate a photograph OF his
drowned brother, the body tloated past,
at Letart, when the brother leaped over
board and recovered it. The remains
were taken to Pomeroy for inquest and
interment.
A bad stump in the channel at CoX's
rifle has been the subject OF attention
on the part of thu river dentists lately.
At last accounts it had not been eX-
tracted, but they had their eyes on it
Uelisburg Herald.
The most absurd thing ever done ut
Vicksburg was the refusal of the author
tiles TO let the Grand Tower land and
put of her cargo. She will do 1T not
withstanding.-.S. Louis Post Dispatch.
Isn't that also absurd, the tow boat
John Means being denied permission TO
land at Cairo? The lower country folks
seem to have gone daft-Pittsburgh Dis
patch. Neither precaution was so alb
surd as the writer OF the above sup
posed. In the light of SUBSEQUENTLY,
the authorities at the places quaran-
tined seem to have known their business
almost as well as the Pittsburgh and 81.
Louis river editors.
One OF the most complete and perfect
pieces of workmanship in ship building
and carpentry is now approaching COM
pletion at the ways of the Point Pleas.
ant Dock Company. The job consists
in having cut the steamer Boone intwo
Just forward of the boiler beam, and the
addition between that point and the
bow, OF sixteen additional feet OF steam
boat.-The work has been so neatly and
successfully done as to prevent discov-
cry even by an experienced eye OF the
point OF beginning or place OF termna-
ton in the work, and the improvement
makes the Boone one OF the most com
plete and conveniently arranged boats
on either river-PL Pleasant Register.
by Telegraph
PITTSBURGH, July lS.-River l foot
and falling. Weather clear and cool.
CINCISNATI, July 1s.-River feet
4 inches and rising. Weather clear
and cool. Departed-C. w. Bachelor,
Pittsburgh Katie Hooper, Wheeling.
MEMPHIS, July lS.-River Stationary.
Observation-Disclosures, Cincinnati. Wealth
er showery.
CAIRO, July lS.-Arrived-John Gill
more. New Orleans; Scudder, st. Louis.
Departed Gilmore, st. Louis. River
IL feet and rising. Weather clear; Their
mometer So.
LOUISVILLE, July lS.-River rising
slowly with 3 feet inches in the canal.
Weather clear and pleasant.
New ORLEANS, July ls.-Arrived-
James Howard, st. Louis. Weather
partly cloudy, with a light shower this
moning and evening; thermometer 30.
VIcKsBURG, July lS-Weather slight
" cloudy; thermometer 81. River fallen
S inches. Up-John B. Maude. Down
Thompson Dean.
EVANSVILLE, July 1S.-Arriyed-B.
II. Cooke. No departures. Weather
clear. River falling, with 3 feet inch
on the gauge.
NASHVILLE, July 1S.-River falling
with Is inches on the shoals.
ST. Louis, July 1s.--Arrived-Col-
orado, Vlcksburg; Golden Eagle, keo-
kuk; Red Wing, st. Paul; Rob Roy,
Keokuk; Alton and Shreveport, New
Orleans; Belle Memphis, Memphis.
Departed-Golden Eagle, Keokuk;
Moore, New Orleans; Colorado, NIcks-
burg. River fell inch with Il feet (
inches on the gauge. Weather clear
and pleasant; mercury 80.