Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-11
RIVER INTELLIGENCE.


The Katie Stockdale passed up about
2r. NJ. yesterday.
The local packets make their trips
like the hands Of clock in regularity.
The Whale is en- route 10 st. Louis
with six barges loaded with Wheeling
manufactured articles.
Captain Tom Mcdonald is making
trip on the O'Neal, to-day, for Captain
George O'Neal, who went TO Pittsburgh
on the noon train. The O'Neal will lay
over at New Cumberland tomorrow and
give the boys a chance TO go to church
and hear West Virginia gospel expound-
ed-.Sdhlrddy'S SeltbsnViiie Gazette.
The probabilities are that Steuben-
vile wharf will be ornamented with a
new wharf boat in the near future. The
O'Neal company are getting everything
in excellent shape for the accommoda-
ton OF its patrons.
The 81. Lawrence, the new and ele-
CANT Wheeling and Cincinnati packet,
in command OF the genial and accommo
dating Messrs. List, will leave Cincin-
natl Tor this port at P. VI. tomorrow.
Capt. VIM. List and Clerk Charles List
LETT Tor Cincinnati Saturday evening to
bring her up.
The Eldrado, which is aground at
Goose Island, is reShipping her Ohio
and Mississippi river freight on the
packets.
An old and observant steamboatman
was heard to remark the other day that
in few years steamers of 80 feet beam
and 800 feet long, with sufficient power
10 make them last, would navigate the
Ohio river to Pittsburgh.
The sam Roberts present trip down
the river has proved disastrous one.
She sunk barge OF coal at Eight-Mile,
belonging to the Pomeroy Coal Com
pany. and sunk a barge containing about
1000 barrels OF salt at Twelve-pole, be-
longing to JOY * Co., of st. Louis, upon
which there was no observation-disclosures
natl Times.
The Steubenville Gazette tells good
story OF the trip OF the Jim Brown from
that place to Pittsburgh Barges were
sunk on either side the boat and then
pumped ont so rs to tighten the Brown
some II inches. \ single fireman and
few pilots bound up constituted the
! entire crew, the latter having been dis
missed at this port, as no river had been
anticipated.
The Fearless, with a large tow, in go
Ing up, last evening, got little out OF
her bearings at the loot OF the tow head
at Browns Island, and grounded her
barges on sand reef that makes out
near the channel at that place, but she
succeeded in backing them of without
losing much time or sustaining any dam
age.
Part Of the wreck OF Mrs. Riddles
kitchen, washed away by the recent
! freshet in Wells Run, was captured
at the Steubenville rolling mill.
The body OF the insane deck hand
who leaped from the steamer Eldorado
near Sardis, was discovered last Satur
day by Robert Hutchinson, Jr., near the
place he leaped into the river.
There have been an unusually large
number OF deaths by drowning in the
Ohio river during the past few weeks.
The new towboat, Harry Brown, sue
cessfully launched at Freedom, Is a
model Of beauty, smoothly finished, and
| strong at all points. Rivermen unite in
saving that when completed she will be
| the best tOwbOat ailOat. The following
! are her dimensions, viz: Length on deck,
2lO feet; beam ~ feet, width on deck,
over all, 30 feet; depth OF hold feet.
She will be- provided with seven steel
boilers, Is feet long and 40 inches in
diameter. The engines are 20 inch
cylinders and 10 feet stroke. The shaft
| is 80 feet 6k inches long, and l3! inches
! i'm diameter at the ends being swelled TO
| ID inches III the middle. 1t is made of
east steel, weighs ten tons, and was
brought from Germany, being the work
of Herr Krupp, the celebrated gun maker
! of Essen.
EVANSVILLE. August l0.-Arrived-
Polar Star, Arkansas Belle, Baltic, Rhea,
! Burcham. Weather fair and cool. River
! falling, with feet 3 inches in the chan
mel.
ST. LOUIS, August l0.-Arrived and
Departed-NOne. River falling with IA
feet II inches 10y the gauge. Weather
cloudy and pleasant.
CINCINNATI, August l0.-River Z feet
and falling. Weather clear and pleas
ant. Arrived-Alice, st. Louis.
CAIRO, August River ID feet
4 inches and rising Weather fair :;
thermometer rs degrees. Arrived
Hattie Nowland, T. W. Means, Grand
Lake. Dcpartrd-Cooke, Meads, City
of Vicksburg and Laura Lee.
NING,RN FALLS Excursion via Balti-
more and OHIO Railroad Tuesday. Au-
gust l2lh. Runnd trip -. Trains leave