The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-24
RIVER iNrELAfGENCE.
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HINTON, W. Va, May 24-9.02 A. NJ
New River foot 4 inches and rising.
Weather foggy.. Thermometer $40.
CHARLESTON, MAY 24-9:03 A. M-kan-
awha River feet 10 inches and rising
slowly. Weather clear. Thermometer 1872.
Wind southeast. af@ 41et
OIL Cry, May 24-10:49 A. M-River /
foot and falling. Weather clear. Their
memeter $50. Wind south. -la
BROWNSVILLE, May N-1o:30 A. NJ
River feet 8 inches and stationary.
Weather clear. Thermometer $50. Wind
northeast. -At r.a'- p "-.f
P1rrsBURe. May 24-t1:t4 A. M.-Riyer l
foot 6 inches and stationery. w '<1
IRoNToN O., May 24-11:23 A. M.-River
5 feet 7 inches and falffng. Weather
clear. Thermometer at noon 800. None
but lorat packets passing up to neon. Gra-
ham up 1850 p. m. Yesterday, Bostona
due up at p. m. L. McMillin, President
and General Superintendent Crescent Mills,
of Pomeroy, is in the city orr business.
Commodore Johnson is getting few days
rest. BusnessIon the landing is very dull.
Boat Hands GOSSIP. fi} s~a
Business quiet. af fF ~
Weather clear and warm.
The Wildwood left at noon for Maysville
The City of Portsmouth leaves at p. m.
daily for Chilo.
Captain Murdock and Others have sold
the towboat Libertu No. to s. r. Dana, of
the Campbell Creek Coal Company.
Oscar Barrett has raised the two Walton
coal barges, sunk by the wind storm some
months ago, at the Queen City Coal Land
ing. asSL4.AsaAAat& Il tst}E h.
The J. Sharpe Mcdonald left New Or
leans last Thursday with four empty barges
and was to add fifteen more at the mouth
of Red River.
The Fearless is laid up at Louisville.
Capt James Mcdonald and Pilot Samuel
Dean passed through. 4sfA.t5AE}
The Fleetwood will be the regular G. g.
0. Railroad packet leaving to-day at 4 p. nj.
for Huntington. b - E
The Ohio No. will leave from the foot
of Broadway this evening for Mavsvile,
rtsniontli, Ironton, Big Sandy, GalIipolis
and Pemeroy direct. A 49,, .rT .-su
Capt. Mart. Eoips new Pittsburg &s Gin
cinnati packet Scotia will be launched
Wednesday. '"' "'~'
Capt. Ivint Shinkle has bonded the
steamers Golden, Crown and Golden Rule
in the sum of 5000, 600, in the Custom-house,
TO carry bondedgoods from New Orleans to
Cincinnati. This will increase the receipts
of customs here, as Large amounts of mar
BILE are shipped from Italy to Cincinnati in
bond. & s
! When We have sufficient water we are
likely td have. o. fast passenger line to Por 81
mouth to- beat the railroad time to all way
points. Capt. n. S. Ross, of Ripley, has
purchased new propeller at Buffalo and
will bring her 10 the Ohio River through
the Scioto Canal She viii be 40 feet long,
8 feet beam. and draw 30 inches. She will
be run in the Ripley and Portsmouth trade,
connecting with the Morning Star. running
from here to- Ripley. It was guaranteetiin
the sale chat she would make ten miles per
hour. She will be called the Thomas Ross
after the owners eldest son. Engineer
John Adams arrived from Ripley Saturday,
and goes TO Buffalo to bring the new pro-
peller down. ... ..
The Henry G. ,Yaeger sunk, Saturday
night, at Bailey's Landing, one hundred
miles below st. Louis, and lies broken in
twain on the bar on the Illinois side. She
was owned by VILLAIN J. Kountz, and was
worth about $12 600 or $4,000, wirich is
partially protected by insurance in Cincin-
Mollie MoGrei has gone, to her aid. No
cargo, but tbs thought she had fully one
, Il "A NJ ~,
to belong to the owner, Kountz. The total
loss to boat aud cargo will not fali short Of
$4,000. The cargo is fully protected by
insurance.
The Memphis Avalanche says: "During
the late war the" Government wanted to
send supplies up the Arkansas to Pine
Bluff unciyn engineer was dispatched
ahead to take spundings. He had learned
his trade in the same school with the lefty
engineers. In brief. he was great on ay-
erages. He measured ALL the deep holes
and some Of the shoa( places, and drew up
map, with an appendix containing a
table Of figures, allowing an average Of nine
feet Of water, while Rob Roy bar had only
twenty-five inches Of water on it. As a
steamer could not sail under, Rob Roy, but t
had to 60 over it, and there was no other
way to set to Pine Bluff BY water. the
steamer that passed up that r1ver must
draw less than twenty-five inches. The
average depth Of water in the jet les is all
the way from thirty to forty feet, but ship
masters are careful 10 lead their vessels to
draw less than twenty-four feet All on
account of the engineers wonderful aver
ages in the jetty channel"
The Laura l.. Davis went up the river
thismornfbg With a big crowd OF picnickers.
The Robert PEBBLES will leays tomorrow
for Pomeroy with an empty tow. EY
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