Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-07-23
River News.
River ; feet , inches and falling.

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The Tempest brought cargo OF
calves from down the river yesterday.
The Pittsburgh Dispatch of yesterday
announces "the steamer q. w. Batche-
Tor arrived at Cincinnati at noon yester-
day and is announced to leave to-day"
That beats any time we have seen re-
corded. The Bachelor must have
reached Cincinnati 26 hours in advance
OF her departure from this point.
All boats ascending the Ohio river
from points below Louisville, including
Louisville and Madison packets, are no.
titled to stop in mid-channel at point
two hundred feet below Delhi Station.
Captains and owners of boats, including
Louisville an Madison packets, are also
notified that no household effects, rags,
hair, skins, hides, baggage or sick pas
sengers from suspected points below
Louisville shall be reshipped at that
port for the port OF Cincinnati. The
day signal at Quarantine Station will be
an orange colored flag waved three
times from left TO right. The night sig
nal will be the burning Of a red Bengal
light and a red lantern waved three
times from left to right On receiving
such signal the pilot will stop his boat
in mid-channel. Any violation of these
orders will he construed as a violation
of the Ohio Quarantine Act.
The Buckeye State boys claim the best
time to Huntington made by the stern
wheel boats now on the line. She left
here last Wednesday at 4 P. NJ, and ar
rived at Huntington at 2 p. NJ. Thursday.
GIN. Times.
The new Parole, Mai. j. ID. Adams
boat, will be launched at Pittsburgh,
Saturday.
On the Mississippi, near Giles place,
a shark was caught last week measuring
feet 8 inches in length.
A sensation was created on board the
steamer James d. Parker, en- route from
Memphis to Cincinnati, by thirty or
forty children taking sick just after dim
ner with like symptoms of yellow fever,
but all recovered in few hours. The
cause is supposed to be the milk used.
The Eldorado has laid up at Pitts
burgh to await more water.
There are now about one hundred
hands employed on lock No. Z, about
seven miles below Morgantown, on the
Monongahela river. The Morgantown
people expect ere long to have slack
water navigation, and possibly they will
not be a great while longer in securing a
railroad.
The Louisville COurier-JOurlldl says:
The water is getting so low again at
Pittsburgh that the turtles can't navi-
gate without scratching their hulls.
The Cincinnati Commercial Of Sunday
saws: The Alice has given up her
Pittsburgh trip and will leave for st.
Louis.
lBy Telegraph
PITTSBURGH, July 22.-River inches
and stationary. Weather cloudy and
warm,
CrNCINYATI, July 22.-River I feet 2
inches and falling. Weather shOwery.
Departed-Virgie Lee, Evansville.
New ORLEANS, July 22.-No arrivals
departures Weather showery; Their
mometer IS.
VICKsBURG, July 22.-Thermometer
%. River fallen inches. Up-James
Howard. Down-Whisper. Arrived
City OF Greenville.
NASHVILLE, July 22.-River rising
with Il inches on the shoals.
EVANSVILLE, July %. - Arrived
Golddust, ST. Louis; Fawn, Evansville.
Departed-Annie p. Silver, New Or
leans. Weather clear. River Is feet 8
inches on the gauge and falling. Mer-
curry s..
LOUISVILLE, July 22.-River falling,
with 1 feet inches in the canal. Bust
ness fair. Weather cloudy and warm,
with indications of rain. Arrived
Feorless and tow, Pittsburgh; J. D..
Parker, Memphis.
EVANSVILLE, July 22.-Arrived-Silver
Cloud. Departed-Dora Cahler, Cincin-
natl; Fawn, Cairo; w. A. Johnson,
Florence. River rising with feet 2
inches in the channel
ST. LOUIS, July 22.-Arrived-War
Eagle. Keokuk; Josie and Northwestern,
st. Paul; Baker, Quincy. Departed
War Eagle, Keokuk; Josie and North
western, St. Paul; Baker, Quincy. River
fell inch with l6 feet IL inches ON the
gauge. Weather clear and hot.