The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-02-19
RIVER INTELLIGENCE.
ALLEGHENY FALLING.

RIVER lNI IELLIGENCE.
ALLEGHENY FALLING.
| Tspeciai ,i,spatcnes u the SIsrL
OIL Cry, PA.. Feb. 19--S:ls A. M.-Aneghehy 4.
River 2 feet 6 inches and falling. Weather
cloudy. Thermometer 20o. Wind north.
| MoNoNGAHELA FALLING.
BROWNSVILLE, Pa, Feb. 1850 A. M-Monon-
gahela River 8 feet and falling Weather cloudy.
Thermometer 290. Wind northwest
| GOLD AT PITTsBURG. u
PITrsBuRG Pa, Feb, l9-12:2O P. M,-River
feet and falling, and good deal Of floating ice
in the channel. Weather CLOUDY and cold. Busi-
ness fair.
KANAwHA FALLING.
CHARLESTON, W. VA, Feb l9--9:52A. M.--Kan-
awha River 6 feet and falling. Weather cloudy.
|IThermometer go. Wind west. ..-
LOUISVILLE.
LOUISVILLE, Feb 1s.-Rver rising, with 1efeet A
inches in the canal and s feet4 inches in the
chute on the falls. Weather moderating and bu 81
ness only fair.
CLEAR OF ICE AT sT. LOUIS.
ST., LOUIS, Feb 19.-Business fair. Weather
cold and cloudy River clear of ice and rising.
Arriyed-John B. Maade, Vicksburg; City of He
lena Vicksburg. Departed and leaving to-day
Joe Kinney, Memphis; John b Maude, Vicks-
burg.
GOLDEN CITY AT NEW ORLEANS.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 19.-Weather clear and very
pleasant. The Bedford arrived last night from
the Arkansas, with a fair trip. The Golden City
arrived this morning at $780,. with fair passenger
Hist and big freight. All well. The Thomas
sherlock and Gold Dust are both. telegraphed tC
arrive tomorrow evening.
Steamboat Movements.
The large sidewheel steamer Potomac came
down this morning, and will leave this evening
for PomeFoy and all informed ate points and &c
: through without detention Capt James kirkel
commands and Watt. Shedd presides in the Office.
The elegant sidewheel steamer Fleetwood will
be the regular c. & o. Railroad packet leaving to
day promptly at a p. m. for Huntington, where She
come is y ith the early trains tomorrow for al
Eastern cities. Capt. !. L. Campeell comlnan1'
ana ]. c. Vanderbilt, ESQ, has charge OF the
: Office. ~
from the foot of Walnut street for Chilo and at
, tends to all way business.
Capt r. W. Wise's superb James W. Gaff will
positively depart is evening for Evansville, Cairt
, and Memphis, and take passengers or Little Rocl
and the Arkansas Hot Springs. Mr.. G.. Wash
Thompson does the honors of the ,tfice.
The magnificent new Gamer Guiding Star viii
{ get away this evening without fail for New Or
leans and carry people and freight for AL Southern
= ports Capt! W. B. Miller, master, and Col. JOIN
S. Jones, clerk, are her efficient chief officers
! | Cart I. T. Belts fine steamer c. K Peck leave
, this evening for ST. Louis, and should be remenl
bercd by our shippers Capt Belt IS clever gen
The Wildwood returned to Maysville at noon.
BOal-handS' Gossip.
Business somewhat improved.
: The Hudson is laid up for the present
!. In another column will be found the names o
the Mardi Gras excursiOnists leaving for New Or
. leans tonight on the Guiding Star.
T. P Phillips of the Franklin Insurance Com
! pany, Wheeling, is III the city again looking afte
D tie nails tax from the barge Korte sunk by th
Ed. Hobbs during the ice.
January, 1871 steamer John Howard burned a
New Orleans; tutai loss. Value, $4,000. Cargt
valued at $3.50 900: loss, 100000. . =.
| The Katie Stockdale, gong up, laid up at tn,
Sisters on account of ice. Several other steamer
are choking stun ps and rings along the banl
/ in tile Upper Ohio River.
The towboat Annie Kelly, now here, is owned
e bv Commodore Hornbrook Of Wheeling. where
she was bnit Just before the freeze-up. When thu
= : ice moved ut Wheeling she was sunk, but raised
( again, and put ON the Point Pleasant Docks fo
repairs. She is a very pretty little towboat aut
!, her dimensions are: Length, 145 feet; beam Q
D feet depth of hold, AZ feet She has two six
q fined double rveted steel boilers 26 feet long anf
AZ inches in diameter Her cylinders are l5 inche
in diameter and s feet stroke and her wheel is l.
feet in diameter. with buckets 10 feet.
Her hull was built by j. s. PrEgle,. OF Browns
Vile, Pa, and is iron sheeted from stem to stern
The cabin was built by Aubrey & Son, of the sam'
place. The machinery is from the shops o
e Sweeny & Son. The sheetiron work was done b.
Samuel Kuglcn, the plumbing by Trimble 4
: Hornbrook, and the painting by JOS Stewart, o
Wheeling. The boat throughout is built of thu
best material, and her construction was superin
e tended by Harry Holiday and Commodore Horn
brook. The lumber used in the cabin is perfect.
clear and not a Knot to befound in it. On the in
side it is neatly grained in ash and the cabin foo
is laid with alte nate strips of ash and walnut
;. The cabin, office and state-rooms are all neatl.
furnished and fixed up i'll iirstclass style for tn
fon of hnr n,,lr al.
used on the boat, and the pilot-house is heated b.
4 steam.
night with an empty tow, but was compelled b.
the ice to return'and lay up
The George Lyse left this morning for Pitts
burg with empty barges, and will have to go to tn
n bank or return.
The river was falling fast at noon, with "a feet
:. inches in the channel. The river this mornin
1 was about half full OF ice, from to inches thick
s Weather cloudy and quite chilly this morning
t A slight change and warmer weather may prevail
a during the next twenty-four hours, but the iI
dications are favorable for colder weather to-nol
row evening"
e The W. p. Thompson, which arrived this mcrr
e ing from Pittsburg, was undecided about return
. ing. she reshipped 1858 kegs nails on the C. K
= JAS W. Gaff for Padacah
I The Potomac passed Ripley at Sa m., and wi
i be here before 2 p. m aud return to Pomeroy tn
n evening.
Capt. j. B. sneathen, the genial coal merchar
-. of Pittsburg, is in the city. From him we lear
that his boat. J. w. Gould, cleaned the il
n from about her tow and started again for Pitt
8 burg.
A an hour it was showing furiously. u.
= The w. P. Halliday will be aioat in q few dav
y Mr. D. s. Barmore has force Of upward OF on
e hundred men hard at WORK putting ways undt
e her. Soon rs the ways are set he will cut ava
the bank from under the boat, let her settle dow
, upon the ways and launch her sideways into I'll
river leaving her in as good condition as she ey,