The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-03-20
RIVER INTELLIGENCE.

Especial River Dispatches to the star.l
OIL Cry, Pa. Marci. 20-9 A. M.-Alle-
gheny River feet and failing. Weather
cloudy. Thermometer 25o. Wind south.
BROWNSVILLE, Pa, March 20-10 A. M
Monongahela River feet and falling
Weather cloudy. Thermometer $50. Wind
northeast.
CHARLESTON, W. Va, March 20-9o0 A..
M.-kanawha River 6 feet 8 inches and
falling. Weather cloudy. Light southwest
wind. Thermometer 400.
LOUISVILLE NorEs.
LOUISVILLE, KY, March 20.-River falling
with eleven feet nine inches in the canal
and nine feet nine inches on the falls.
Weather cool. Business fair.
Steamboat Movements.
The large and elegant sidewheel steamer
Bostona will he the regular G.. & 0. r. II.
boat leaving at A p. NJ. to-day for Hunting
ton.
The fine sidewheel packet Ohio No. 4
came down this morning and will return to
Pomeroy this evening, leaving from the
foot of Broadway.
The City of Portsmouth leaves at D. IN.
for Chilo.
The elegant Cons. Mllar will be found in
port loading to leave Saturday for Memphis
and all intermediate points
Capt. Alex. Halliday's fine steamer Paris
G. Brown will depart Saturday for all
points on the Lower Mississippi River and
New Orleans.
The Fleetwood will be the railroad boat
for Huntington tomorrow.
The Telegraph will be the regular packet
leaving tomorrow for Pomeroy.
The Golden Crown will follow the Paris
G. Brown and leave for New Orleans next
Tuesday.
Boat-hands' Gossip.
Capt Lloyd d. Belt, late of the C. K.
Peck, will soon go to New Orleans 20 take
position with the well known coal firm
of Burr d. Wood & Brothers, the well
known coal merchants.
Business rather dull on the wharf to-day.
The river continued to fall, with 80 feet
| in the channel.
Capt. John N. Skunk leaves st. Louis to-
| morrow for Cincinnati with his superior
passenger steamer Clinton. She will be
here in time to return Friday. the 2Sth,
and travellers for the Future Great" viii
do well to postpone their departure, ant
register with Capt. Skunk.
|
up, and stands A No. 1 show of being nom
mated by the Democrats
| Weather cloudy, calm and cool
| The Katie Stockdale, from Pittsburg
brought in a good freight trip this morning
including 2G0 pkgs glassware 154 brs ap.
Piles, GA tons sheet iron, l75 bxs bitters, 800
kegs nails and sundries.
| The Robert PEBBLES and tow arrived thi.
morning from Pomeroy and will return to
| morrow.
| The Condor passed down from Pomeroy
this morning with tow of salt and coal
She left portion of her tow here md took
the remainder below.
The Joseph II. Bigley arrived from Pitts
burg this morning with a tow of the blacl
diamonds
The Hornet No. . this morning took
barge coal to North Bend and barges TO-
Madison.
The Lookout left last night for Kanawhi
River with an empty tow.
| Captain Irwin Dugan the Louisville c0a
prince, writes us that he will visit the pari
of America Saturday. Come on and wei
give you red-hot reception.
+. r. Baker is improving and expec, :,
leave next week for Pittsburg in the inter
est of the Marine Journal. He may go I,
New York.
The Cons. Millar, which arrived fron
Memphis at $3.50 a. m, brought in a goo
trip of people and a big freight Sh
reshipped l0l bales of cotton on the Kati
Stockdale.
Messrs. Stevens & Ware have paid tn
Lizzie Gardner's crew off and laid the boa
up until harbor business improves. The,
have the Kate Waters doing harbor work
1t may be related as an incident that dur
ing the past six or seven trips of the Colder
Rule and the Golden Crown-one up an,
the other down-both boats have met a
Louisville or were in sight of each other il
the Louisville harbor. They will meet be
tween Louisville and Cincinnati this week
Capt. John A. Wood is in Louisville.