The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-23
RIVER INTELLIGENCE.



BROWNSVILLE, Pa, Sept. 23-931 A. NJ
River 8 feet inches and stationary.
Weather cloudy. Wind northeast.
CHARLESTON, Sept. 23-10:2O A. M.-Kan-
awha River foot inches and falling.
Weather clear. Wind west.
OIL CRY, Pa, Sept. 23-S:4 A. Nal
legheny River inches and standing.
Weather clear. Wind west.
New ORLEANS, Sept 2S.-River IL feet
10 inches below high-water mark. No
arrivals nor departures other than the local
packets. Weather wet.
ANOTHER STEAMER SUNK.
YANKToN, Sept. 23.-The steamer Pini-
nah, one day out from Yankton, struck
snag at Bonhomme yesterday and sunk
within few yards of shore. She belongs
to the Northwestern Transportation Com
pany, and was loaded mostly with mining
machinery for the Black Hills.
Steamboat Movements.
The City OF Portsmouth leaves at p. m.
for Chlo.
The Laura L. Davis leaves tomorrow
evening orSt. Louis
The Buckeye State will be the regular G.
d o. r. X. packet, leaving this evening for
Huntington.
The Telegraph is the packet to-day for
Poneroy.
The Granite State will be down in the
morning. and return to Pomeroy in the
evening.
The Ariadne leaves this evening for St.
Louis.
Boat-hands' Gossip.
Business fair.
Weather clear and warmer.
The Cherokee is on the docket at Fulton,
but will be off in day or two.
Mr.. Reynolds goes out second clerk on
the Laura L. Davis.
Dave Knox, our efficient and iovial levee
cop, leaves tomorrow for Gallipolis, to
be gone ten days on visit to his mother,
who is eightv-four years of age.
Captain Gray sold the Iron Mountain
and four bulk grain barges yesterday at
Pittsburg. Terms private.
The Etna is due tonight with three
barges of iron and two of coal from Ironton
The A. L. Norton is transferring freight
and passengers from Catlettsburg to Hunt
ington.
The river continued to fall this morning
with four feet five inches in the channel.
On the 29th of July the stage of water at
this point was four feet two inches, which
is the lowest the river has been this season.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat: Considerable
talk has been going the rounds of steam
boat circles over the consistency of the
United States Government in 'uging a
toll out of the Ohio River boats for going
through the canal at Louisville, while at
Keokuk an equally as expensive canal is
thrown open free. The Marine Journal is
getting hot around the collar about this
matter, and it would seem justly, too.
The spunkylittle NJ. j., says: We ask again,
why is it the Government requests no toll
from boats which pass through the Keokuk
Canal, but demands it at the Louisville
Canal? The Government should not make
fish of one and fowl of the other.
Yesterday st. Louis Post Dispatch says
''The Ste. Genevieve, Mike Kelly pilot, ar
rived from Cairo at 5 a. m. Grand Lake
had one barge at noon yesterday aground a
Liberty. Chouteau fifty miles below here
all right last night, lying up. Gilmor,
would help the Grand Lake off. Met tht
James d. Parker going down for Cincinnati
at lightning speed. Captain w. A. Davis
has returned from Central City, Col. A To-
cal paper says that Irene lode is to have the
main shaft sunk deeper. The Irene has
been developed by several shafts Davis &
Co. also own the Harry, Paul, Leon and
Davis lodes. The Irene has yielded surface
quartz which, run under stamps, returned
from five to nine ounces of gold TO the
cord"