Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-12-04
RIVER INTELLIGENCE.

River last night : feet inches and
falling.
Weather raining.
The local packets arrived and departed
as usual Yesterday.
The steamer Chancellor goes down
tonight for Cincinnati.
The Buckeye State is due up to-day.
The O'Neal brought lot OF glass ware
down Yesterday.
The Nellie Speer, Oakland and Boaz
passed up yesterday morning with tows
OF empty barges.
The Sam Brown, Ed. Hobbs and Tom
Lvsle. cook down light tows OF coal yes
terdav. The Lysle had also three
barges OfirOn.
The Relief. came down, yesterday,
having in tow five barges OF fire brick,
and the hull of new tow boat, which
will receive It's machinery here.
The Emma Graham, coming up last
Sunday, collided with the Wild Boy at
Twin Greek chute, breaking a hole in
the Graham's hull just above the water
mark, no damage being done to the
Wild Boy except breaking loose her tow
Ironton Register Yesterday: Just now
there seems to be a wonderful scarcity
of steamboat 'rOusters.' Hardly any
OF the packets are carrying more than
eight or ten deck hands each, and when
there is considerable freight to transfer
any amount OF canvassing will not iurn'
ish enough laborers TO speed matters
very much. Ii is said that one
of the Big Sandy packets was Offering
fifty cent? an hour for men last Satur-
day night, at our grade. \ year ago
the usual price was fifteen cents pei
hour. The scarcity is noticed all along
the river.
Some idea of the cOstlincss of steam
boats doing business with small towns
NAV be cleaned from the intelligence
that one company, running several boat'
on the Ohio river, i'm a trade 200 miles
long, paws over $4,000 per year iol
wharfage. This amount is 20 per cent
on the capital of the company, and quite
suggestive Murine Iow1,di.
The Ohio and Mississippi river I'm
provemcuts, we are pleased 10 learn
are receiving that consideration thel
importance demands With a view u
making a more than. usual effort to IN
Thence Congress to take some lmmedl
ate action, i'm the way OF supplying tn
requisite funds, Hon. Eugene Under
wood, the Kentucky member of tn,
Mississippi Valley state Convention
has called meeting ol the COMMISSION
To he held in Louisville, December nth
All the valley States will he represented
and a full discussion OF river improve
ment. loss 10 commerce 10y low water
etc, will be had, and papers will be
read ON kindred topics. The meeting
promises to be- interesting rs II Will b
| important.
PITrsBUEGH, December 3.-Riyer
feet inches and falling slowly. Wealth
er cloudy and rainy.
CINCINNATI. December 3.-River
feet , inches and falling. Light rail
most all day. Arrived-Hudson, Pitts
burgh. GENERALIZATION, Pittsburgh
Reiord. New Orleans; CAL, Memphis
Bonhom, with three barges OF Goa
Nicksburg,
New ORLEANS, December 3.-MOlli
Moore, James 4. Suddcr, It. Louis. n
departures. Weather cloudy; thel
mOmctcr 20.
LOUISVILLE, December 3.-River fall
ing slowly,with feet lOin the canal am
. feet 10 inches on the falls. Wcathe
cloudy, warm and drilling rain all day
business fair. Arrived and departed
Nirgic Lee, Cincinnati to Evansville
Golden Rule, Cincinnati to New Oh
| leans.
CAIRO, December s. Arrived -
Ny Choice, ST. LOUIS; Clifton, Pitts
burgh: Cclina, Nashville. Departed
My Choice, st. Louis. River ID Zee
and rising. Weather cloudy; thcrmon
ctcr Is.
NASHVILLE, December 3.-Rivc
rising, with feet on the shoals.
EVANSVILLE, December 3.-Weathe
/ cloudy; mercury -. River and II
feet and falling. Departed-Cooke
Cairo; Golden City.
ST. LOUIS, December 3.-Arrived-
Grand and bargcs Cairo; It. Gcnevicy'
Memphis. Dcpartcd-Grand Lake
Cairo; Helena, NiCksburr. River ros
. inches. Weather cloudy and cool.