The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-10
and no change here or above. Weather clear and

and no change here or above. Weather clear and
cold.
CHARLESTON, W. Va, Jan. 10-9:00 A. M.-Ka-
nawha River has risen IL feet and is still rising
with 15 feet in the channel. The ice is all broken
up and running out rapid y. Weather clear. There
is seven inches snow on the ground and showing
now. Thermometer 18o.
CHARf EsroN, W. VA, Jan. 10-11 rs A. M.-Ka-
nawha River IS feet and rising. General break up
OF ice
CATLETTsBURG, KY, Jan. 10--10;22 A. M.-The
Big Sandy River has risen 10 feet and is rising fast
No change here so far.
IRoHToN, O., Jan. 10-10:25 A. M.-The Tom
Farrow was cut down by the ice and sunk this
morning up the Kanawha River A lot Of loaded
coal boats were sunk and set adriit in the Kama
wha Twenty barges passed Charleston III the
ice. No change here The ice has not moved at
Huntington yet.
HUNTINGTON, W. VA, Jan. 10-11 A. M.-The
Fleetwood and Chas. Bowen have steam up in an
ticipation Of breakup.
CoALBURG w. VA, Jan. 19-11 A. M.-The Tom
Farrow and six barges coal were sunk here by the
| ice this morning, and q large number Of loaded
barges torn from their moorings by the raridly
running ice.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 10.-Weather clear and
SUu hlNer Iu IeeJ HIGH Del0W nlGl Wuef Hhdlk'
No arrivals. Departures for to-day: Henry ank,
for Memphis; City of Alton for St Louis. Busi-
ness was not quite as brisk ON the levee yester-
day as it hus been for some weeks past The low
| water in our tribu aries with the closing of the
movements of the boats in the Ohio and Missis-
sippi rivers, together with the miserable cold wet
weather, has had depressing effect on commerce.
Capt. Burd Paris arrived yesterday by rail from
Vicksburg. He reports the Yazoo Valley laid up.
The Gate City is for sale or chatter.
H0nu-hands' Gossip.
| Capt. R. w. Wise is in the city.
| The river here is about stationary, and the ice
remains solid with no prospects of a break UP.
James II. McCord. who died aJ st. Louis the
other day. was the first United States Steam boat
Inspector located at Sc. Louis, and held the office
! about sixteen years.
| If the gorges were to give way below without a
| thaw it would not leave more than six feet Of
water in the river hee by the marks. The back
water, however causes the marks to exhibit about
| 13 feet of water.
| There may have been rise in the Cumberland
River from the rains reported in that section We'd
nesday, but we are of the opinion that the rise of
ten feet reported at Nashville last light caused
| by gorge which exists between Gsinsboro and
Highland.
| Marietta Register: There has not been single
| boat lot or damaged by ice at this place, or on
the MuSkingum River improvement, since the
completion of the work in the year lS40. The fol
| lowing boats are now safely moored here, viz:
| Steamers Geo. Lysle, Enterprise Barnard, Hope,
| Courier Monitor, W. 2. Thompson, E. r. Dale,
| Chesapeake J. II. Mcconnell, Science, Tempest,
| West Virginia, B. D. Wood, Marietta, U. S. Gov
eminent dredge- boats Oswego and Ohio and four
| dunn boats, twenty-four barges two crane-boats,
| and Marietta College Boathouse