Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-01
RIVER INTELLIGENCE.

DOdls WIFI tONs phooSu tiIa' POiht AZ
the following order: Sunday, Tom
Dodsworth; =, Onward; 3, Nellie Speer;
4, Hyena; 3, sam CLARK; 4, Smoky City;
:, Charles Brown; S, Josh Cook; 9, j.
c. FISHER; 10, Simpson Horneri II,
Alex. Swift; -, W. c. Gutiey;
Is, George Lysle; Il, Veteran
No. 3; Is, Coal Valley; 10,
Clipper; Il, Joseph H. Bigley; IS, Ben
Wood; 10, Hornet No. 3; 20, Enterprise;
81, Dick Fulton; %, Joseph 4. Stone;
%, Jacob HeatheringtOn; "a, Jos. Horne;
%, Samuel Miller; 26, Lioness No. ..
Monday-27, Sam Brown; %, Oakland;
%, Boaz; so, Rover; 81, Jim Brown; 322,
Diamond; 50, James A. Blackmore; 81,
Tom Rees No. 2;35, Baltic; 81, l.. W. MOI
gan; 81, Belle McGowan; IS, Reindeer;
80. Three Lights; 40, |. n. Phillips; Il,
JOS. Walton; II, Panther; Is, Bengal
Tiger; "A, John \. Wood; 10, Arkansas;
As, b. d. Wood; IL, Sampson, No. >;
IS; Nellie Walton; 10, Annie Kelley;
30, Bernard; 81, Evan Williams; D,
Storm; 50, Gipsey; 81, Grand Lake; %,
J. S. Mcdonald; 56, n. j. Bigley No. >;
81, Coal City; IS, John Porter.
The new Wheeling and Parkersburg
packet Diurnal will not be ready for
business for a couple of weeks yet.
Capt. Charles Muhleman left Wheel
ing, Tuesday night by rail, for Cincin-
natl, to bring out the Andes on Friday.
Com. Gazette!
The st. Louis Times says Commodore
Milt. Harry is the coming boatman. He
began life az poor unknown boy, and
now, though under thirty, enjoys an in
come of $4,000 year. We predict a
brilliant career for the Commodore.
The advent of the harvest is bringing
its usual trouble TO the managers of the
river steamboats, on the Upper Mlssls-
sippi. When the vessels arrive the
deckhands become FESTIVE, owing to the
liberal wages given to labOrers in the
graiu fields, and at this particular sea-
son of the year desertiOns from the
steamers are frequent upon the arrival
IN st. Paul.-CmcinHdH Enquirer.
The towbOat John 4. Wood was hav-
log considerable trouble with her crew
Yesterday on account of the Captain try
ing TO make them sign an agreement not
To desert the boat in case the yellow
fever should break out on her. 1t seems
that the Wood is going to the jetties if
she can get through, which fact the
men were not aware OF when they left
Pittsburgh One of her crew came
ashore at this point, and the balance OF
her deck hands intended deserving her
when she laid up, which would be some
where above the Bellaire bridge, as 1t
was o'clock when she passed here
ScuberiHc Gazette.
Invitations are out for the launch OF
the Parole. This event will come off
positively at 10 A. NJ. to-day.
The Tom Rees is reported having
stuck two of her barges at LogtOwn, but
she must have succeeded in getting
them of again, as she had full tow
when she passed here on Tuesday even
ing.
The Katie Stockdale left Cincinnati
Yesterday for Pittsburgh.
The Little Rock Gasetie says: Steam
boatmen are Cooking up" Crops are
good all along the river, and everything
looks fine for the fall business. There
will be plenty of boats next fall. The
Memphis and Arkansas River Packet
Company have five-the Katie Hooper,
Hattie Rowland, Maumelle, Marlin
Speed and Wild Cat-all No. boats.
The Louisville Board of Trade has
thanked and commended to public no.
tlce William Devan, John GillOoley and
John Fully, for bravery, GOODNESS and
skill in saving life on the Ohio.
Pittsburgh parties are negotiating for
the steamer IIu lson, now lying ut
Wheeling. They propose to put her IN
the Pittsburgh and Cincinnati trade
HtncOck IndcDendPm
by Telegraph.
PITTSBURGH, July 3l.-River 8 feet l
inch and falling.
CINcINNATT, July 3l.-River ieet 3
inches and rising. Departed - Katie
Stockdale, Pittsburgh.
ST. LOUIS, July 3l.-Arrived = War
Eagle, Keokuk. Departed-Rob Roy,
Keokuk; Red Wing, st. Paul; Tatum,
Pittsburgh Greenville, NatChez. River
falling slowly. Weather clear and very
warm.
LOUISVILLE, July 3l.-River station
arv with 3 feet inches in the canal.
Weather clear and warm. Arrived and
UeDafttN-N. W. AnutISpll, Iltll''IN'II,
J. ID. Parker, Cincinnati to Cairo; Cable,
Evansville to Cincinnati.
CAIRO, H., July 3l.-Arrivcd-Des-
met, Paducah; Silver Cloud, Evans
vile. Departed-Desmet, st. Louis.
River ID feet IL inches and falling.
Weather clear; thermometer SO.
NASHVILLE, July 3l.-River falling
with feet of water on the shoals.
VICKsnuRG, July 3l.-Wcather fair;
thermometer ST. River fallen inches
Downtown. Arrived-Maude. No
boats up.
EVANSVILLE, July 3l.-River falling
with > feet ON the gauge. Weather
clear and warm. Arrived - Fawn,
Evansville; Bates City, Cincinnati. De-
parted Rowland, Cincinnati; Bates
CITY, Cincinnati.
New ORLEANS, July 3l.--No arrivals
or departures. Weather clear; Their
mometer ST. Heavy shower this morn
ing and evening.