The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-15

The Eldorado, one of the best boats ever
built on the Ohio, will leave for st. Louis
this evening. Captain w. w. Little COM
mands, and Messrs J. II. Little and Bryson
Pursell, Jr., are her clerks.
The Fleetwood will be the regular @. d
o. Railroad packet leaving tomorrow for
Huntington.
Capt. Geo. VOLTS superb packet Cherokee
arrived from Pittsburg this afternoon and
will be found at the foot of Main street.
She is registering people and receiving
freight for st. Louis, and will leave to-mor-
row sure. Capt. A. Byers presides in the
Office.
Boat-hands' Gossip.
Business moderate.
Heavy rain last night.
Among the passengers to this city on the
Hudson were Col. Z. NJ. Norton and Major
Tom Norton.
The Lizzie Gardner leaves to-day for
Parkersburg and will bring down tow of
timber. Jack Rowland will be her pilot.
The Government light at Horsetail Island
will be moved to the Illinois shore at the
base OF the upper dyke to-day on account
of high water.
The Telegraph's fuel bill amounts to
$125 week. She takes the cake"
The Southern Transportation Company
send out only two boats this week-the
Golden Rule tomorrow and the Paris G.
Brown Saturday. The latter will be fol-
lowed early next week by the Golden
Crown.
Mr. c. D. Miller of the Commercial, J. J.
Rape, ESQ.,, and Mrs. Capt. H. J. Vinton
returned this morning from New Albany
ON the Andy Baum.
Capt. ]. N. Williamson's new steamer,
which was built by the Marine Railway q
Dry Dock Co.. and is duplicate of the
Clifton, was towed down to the foot of Lud-
low street this morning by the Champion
No. 8, to receive her machinery and outfit.
Mr. Henry Caldwell will not be first
clerk on the Hudson, as intended, and
stated by US some time since. Mr.. Eugene
List will have charge of the Hudson's Of
fee.
The Andy Baum came in late last night
from Memphis with about 80 cabin and Is
deck passengers. Her principal items of
freight were l ,128 bales cotton, 400 brls oil,
u brls rosin, 26l bags shipstufls and sun
dries. She will return next Saturday.
Captain John o. Phillips arrived by rail
this morning from Pittsburg.
The Eldorado will clear for st. Louis this
evening" with about 25 cabin and deck
passengers, and 800 tons freight, 200 tons of
which she added at this city. Her princi-
pal items are $50 tons pig iron, l25 tons
manufactured iron, $1,000 fire brick, 1000
kegs nails and lot of miscellaneous stuff.
The Buckeye State broke her steam-drum
last night just as she started out and had to
stop for repairs She got away at midnight.
The United States Mail Line will hold
their annual meeting Monday to elect off
GERS and Directors. The meeting will be
held in Louisville.
The new steamer Clifton may get away
for Pittsburg tonight, but we think she
will hardly be ready to start before to-mor-
row morning George Hughs will be one
of her pilots. She leaves here flying light,
and will load at Pittsburgh for St. Louis.
The Joseph Nixon arrived this morning
with one barge coal, one barge iron, and
one barge ore. The latter is for Swift's
rolling-mills She will return tomorrow
with an empty tow. The Nixon has en-
tered the Cincinnati and Pomeroy trade,
and will do all kinds of towing. John f.
Keeling Esq, an energitic and pleasant
gentleman, is her agent here, and will at
tend to all orders.
Capt. A. T. Gilmore arrived in the city
this morning from Louisville, and will re-
turn this evening. He contracted with the
Howards at Jacksonville yesterday for
side-wheel boat for the Louisville & Hen
derson Packet Company, 2G5 feet long, 40
| feet beam, and 6 feet depth of hold. She
| will have the Tarascon machinery, consist
ing of cylinders % inches in diameter and
| IN feet stroke, four steel boilers "a feet
long and AZ inches in diameter.
| Capt. ]. X. Darlington came down from
Pittsburg this morning.