The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-02-15
RIVER LNTELLlGENCE.
Especial dispatches to the Star.l

Especial dispatches to the starl
ALLEGHENY FALLING.
OIL CITY, PA, Feb. 15.-AlleghelIy River 8 feet
and falling. Weather clear. Thermometer so.
Wind west.
MONoNGAHELA FALLING.
BROWNSVILLE Pa, Feb. Electromagnetic River
feet inches and falling Weather clear. Their
mometer l40. Wind northeast
FALLING AT PITTsBuRG.
PrrTsBURG. Pa, Feb. 15-River Q feetand fall
ing. Weather clear and cold.
KANAwBA FALLING.
CHAIR EsToN, w. VA, Feb. l5,-Kanawha River
feet inches and falling. Weather clear. Their
mometer 16o. Wind southwest.
CLINTON BELOW LOUISVILLE.
. LOUISVILLE. KY, Feb 15.-River falling slowly,
with feet inch in the Canal and feet inch in
Chute on the Fails. Business fair. Maggie Har-
per for Madison, Gen. Lyle for Cincinnati, and
Gray Eagle for Evansville, leave this evening
Clinton arrived this morning from Cincinnati,
and will add considerable here and viii clear for
st. Louis this afternoon with big trip. Charles
Morgan will pass down for New Orleans to-mor-
row, and add several people and some freight
Weather clearing.
TO-DAY AT NEW ORLEANS.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 15-Weather cloudy,
but not as cold as it was yesterday. Arrived
New Mary Houston, John D. Scully and Lucy
Gastrell. The Skully is from the Arkansas, and
brought $40 bales cotton. 778 sacks seed and 425
barrels oil.
Towboat Movements.
The fine and fast sidewleel steamer Potomac
came down this morning, and will be the regular
packet leaving this evening for Maysyille, Ports
mouth, Ironton, Big Sandy, Gal ipolis and Pome-
roy direct and will take people and freight for
Wheeling and Plttsburg Capt. Jas. Kilker COM
mand and Watt. Shedd presides in the office.
The speedy and reliable Fleetwood, Capt. j. T.
Campbell master, arrived and will be the regular
c. & O. R. R. packet leaving this afternoon at 4
O'Clock for Huntington.
The punctsla City OF Portsmouth leaves at A
D. M, sharp, for Chilo.
The Andes departed last night for Wheeling.
The world-renowned Charles Morgan will posi-
lively leave this evening for N W Orleans. Capt.
Albert Stein commands and H. w. Stein presides
i'm the Office ably assisted by Adam Wayland.
Capt w. G. Tichenors elegant Cons Millar will
leave this evening. snre, for Memphis, and take
passengers for all intermediate points. Mr.. James
Wilson is her affable clerk.
The Bonanza arrived and returned 10 Ports
mouth at noon to-day
Capt. w. B. Miller's large and eommodious new
floating palace Guiding Star wi follow the Chas
Morgan, and leave for New Orleans Tuesday on {
grand Mardi Gras excursion. Col. John s, Jone:
| Is her courteous purser.
Boat-hands' Gossip.
Business brisk on the levee to-day
The weather was extremely cold last night an(
this morning. and considerable Light ice formet
| in the river.
The Bonanza arrived from Portsmouth at mid
night and reshipped II tons on the United State
this morning for JefersOnyllle. She returned q
noon with fair start
The steamer Clinton, Capt. ]. N. shunk's ney
beauty, took on II brls about dark last evening a
| the foot of Ludlow street, and went up above tn
city to Coal Haven. where she received 1,S07 keg
nails from one of the sunken Ed. Hobbs barges
She came down at midnight, and after putting Of
q number of laborers at the foot of Vine street
proceeded down to Flemming's Elevator. wher
she discharged some pig IRON, and left shortl
afterwards for st. Louis with II cabin passengers
and fully $50 tons freight Geo. Clark and Taylo
| Wells are her pilots.
Hiram Hill is still working at the sunken Ed
Hobbs, but the work of raising her will be pos
poned for several days until the river falls suff
ciently. A force Of laborers are now busy pianl
ing up hole eighty feet long. which was knocke
her boiler deck forward is about IS inches out {
| the water, and her inside boiler deck, the entir
length of the boat, Is above the surface OF tn
water.
boy, and bad man." He upset cheeky Irish
to 60 up TO Coal Haven demanded pay for the tim
occupied in making the trip, but John paid ther
for the time they worked only, and fired 'er
out"
c. Donnally will be found IN our local columns
Donnally have the sympathy of everybody in thei
The The river river was rising here Of noon to-day, wit
"a feet in the channel and sufficient space unde
the bridges for passing steamen