The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-01-28
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River News. :.
The marks at the wharf last evening
indicated 10 feet Q inches and about
stationary. Yesterdays rain will not
cause any perceptible swell in the river.
Business at the levee Yesterday was
dull
Tho local packets arrived and departed
OH time, reporting fair business.
The Stockdalc and Salt Valley passed
down yesterday morning.
The Emma Graham, from Cincinnati
TO Pittsburgh, passed up at II a. NJ. yester-
day with a fair trip.
The Carrier passed up yesterday alter
noon with lot oil ore fol the Pittsburgh
mills,
Tho Andes left last evening for Cincin.
natl with fair trip out. Captain Thos.
Wilson, Local Inspector OF boilers was
passenger EN- route for Iallipolls, O.
There is considerable indignation mani.
tested among steamboat owners at the re.
GENT action OF council in raising the whar-
iage tax. Aid is frequently given 10 build
railroads, but how would a proposition be
received asking aid in building steamboats,.
The hoats bring our produce, cattle, &C.,
TO the wharis, and for the privilege Of un-
loading they arc charged a tax. Another
thing Is the discrimination. Boats whose
terminal point is our city are granted a
reduction in wharfage fees OF % per cent,
while Pittsburgh aud Cincinnati boats
arc charged full rates. Is it right to bleed
the boats in this ways
Commodore Frank Booth has gotten up
party Of young ladies aud gentlemen
who will make tho round trip on the
Courier, 10 farkersbur2 and return, leav.
ing this morning ut 1880 o'clock. The
following are the names OF the party:
Frank Zook and WHO, Mr. Frank Booth
aud wife, hIr. FRANK Wiuship and wife,
Mr. Oliver Wilde and wife, Mr.. Cecil
Robinson and wife, Mrs. John Sweeney,
Misses Ella Friend, Rose Sweeney, Maggie
Battelle, Josephene Eolt, OF Cresapis Grove,
Bette MGl.ure, Mollie Murine. Jennie
Mcdonald, Mary Hauser, CadiS, O., Jennie
Coeu and Mamie Wilson. The young
gentleman ara Messrs. Kennedy Friend,
Archie Hupp, John Riheldaffer, James
Dickey, Dan. Neal, Of Parkersburg, Harry
Mendel, Friend Cox, Cresap's Grove, Geo.
Digby, viii. RranSheiu, Alfonzo Snyder,
INN Mendell, Win. Mahis, Apdrow Swee-
ney, Ir., John Berger and John Mendel.
A dispatch from Marietta 10 the C:.;,ciin.
natl Enquirer OF yesterday sav:.: William
Knox ( Son, Of IIiiarmar, have been
awarded tk.SS contract for building a new
, Goat for Captain j. T. Stockdale and 9TH
crs. II is to be 235 feet long, IS feet beam
and 4 feet hold. Sheis to be constructed
of the Diurnal model, and is expected 10
be last steamer.
The Board Of Steamboat inspectors,
now in session in Washington, D. g.,
contemplate some very decided changes in
the existing pilot regulations. Mr.. John
Fehrenbach is Chairman OF a Sub.Com-
mittee 10 whom the subject has been re.
ierred.
The steamer Winchester, Capt. George
Moore, was the largest and fastest boat
ever engaged in the Wheeling and Pitts.
burgh trade. She was EOS feet long, IS
feet beam, a feet hold; engines, 20I inch
cylinders, % feet stroke. She made the
run from Wheeling to Pittsburgh in about
% hours.
10y Telegraph
PIrrsBURom, January 27:-River 6 feet
0 inches and stationary; weather cloudy
and rainy.
EVANSVILLE, January 27.-Nlercury co..
Weather cloudy. River 20l feet and
falling. Down: Jas. Guthrie and Arkansas
Belle. Up: Dick johnson and Tatum.
LOUISVILLE, January 27.-River station.
afy, with 0 feet 0 inches in the canal and
feet 0 inches In the chute on the falls.
Weather clear and warm. 1itna aud tow
for 81. Louis.
CAIRO, January 27.-Arived: Coal
Bluff, Ohio river; John Porter, New
Orleans; Z. H. Pierpont, Ohio river. De-
parted: Mary Houston and Coal Bluff,
New Orleans; Holiday, New Orleans,
Bigbee, st, Louis; Pierpont, Memphis.
River 20 feet inches and falling.
Weather clear. Thermometer 60'.
NEw ORLEANS, January 27.-Several
hundred bales Of cotton from the burned
steamer Charmer will probably be saved,
badly damaged by fire and water. Pilot
VIM. IL. Kinson, peroeiving the fire,
stored the boat for shore. All escaped |
except the following, who were lost: Mary
Flowers, chambermaid; Dave Morgan,
pantryman; Charles Johnson and John
johnson, cooks: Mary Hamilton, cham.
bermaid; Bill Cummings, fireman; Bill
INFLOW, cabin boy. All the money and
books were lost. The Charmer was owned
one.half by Capt. Scovel and the other
halt by Capt. A. P. Truslow and Charles
W. Drone. Insured in Cincinnati COM
nanina for SlSnll