The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-05-27


The marks last evening indicated 8 feet
8 inches and stationary.
Business dull.
The local packets are making their usu.
al daily trips.
The Pres Ellison Is the regular Bellaire
packet, leaving at the times stated in her
card below.
The Emma Graham turned back from
Bellalre last evening, and will not venture
up again until the river swells.
The 81. Lawrence has laid up at Cincin.
matt 10 wait for more water.
John Young, Of Mason City, W. Va,
has contracted to build two more barges
for the st. Louis and New Orleans Trans
portation Company, TO be built immedt-
ately alter the completion OF the one now
In hand and nearly completed.
Horsetail isreported by steamboat pilots
to be the most difficult place they have to
encounter between Pittsburgh and Gin
cinnad. Not only Is the water shallow,
but the currents so strong that 1t is almost
impossible TO hold boat In the channel.
A Washington dispatch says: The fail.
ure OF the House to pass the Steamboat
bill practically defeats the bill, 50 far as
the present session Is concerned.
The Pittsburgh Commercial Gdistte Of
yesterday says; The following named
gentlemen were selected at the meeting Of
steamboatmen at Lafayette Hall as dele
gates to attend the st. Louis convention:
Capt. NJ. A. Cox oil the steamer Geneva,
Capt. John Curr OF the Sam Clark and
Capt. Chas. Bailey OF the Fred Wilson.
The same paper says; The Pittsburgh
and Cincinnati Packet Company has done
q very large business here during the past
season, which commenced about the mid
die OF November last. II has had iouI
boats regularly in the trade, one leaving
here every Sunday, Monday, Wednesday
and Friday.
The Buckeye State has been chartered
to take the place OF the Fleetwood In the
Cincinnati and Huntington trade. The
Fleetwood has probably made her las
"trip, as she will shortly be torn TO pieces
for her machinery, which goes in the new
boat being built at the Cincinnati Marine
Ways,
The Withdrawing OF the Buckeye STATE
from the Pittsburgh trade broke the pool
ing arrangement between the boats in thu
Pittsburgh and Wheeling trade, as by thu
terms OF agreement the first boat with
drawing, the pool closed. Hereafter eact
boat will act ss seems best to her own in
terest,
tBy Telegraph
PITrsBuRou, May 26.-River 10 inche
and stationary; weather clear and warm
EVANSVILLE, May 26.-Weather clea
and hot. Wind south. Mercury S.
River Q 9.l0 inches and falling. Down
|, Gilbert, Rainbow. Little business doing
/ CINCINNATI, May 26.-River 8 feet /
, inches and falling. Weather cloudy an
I warm. Arrived: Hudson, Wheeling, lai
> up; Pittsburgh, st. Louis. Departed
Plttsbarg, Huntingdon Fashion, Hendel
son.
CA1Ro, May 2e:-Arrived: Belle Mem
phis, Memphis; Champion, St. Louis
City OF Greenville, Vicksburg. Departed
Belle Memphis, St. Louis; Champion
Paducah. River 10 feet, A inches and fal
!. ing. Weather clear and warm.
LOUISVILLE, May 26.-River falling
feet 10 inches scant in canal; 2 feet
: in the chute and on the falls. Bushes
8 dull. Weather hot and Indications Of
: rain. Jas. W. 6atf, Cincinnati to Mem
I; phis; B. F. Devol to Yeyay; Baltic an
! tow, from st. Louis, laid up; Cobb Ceci
to Flint Island; Golden Grown is due; th
! Morgan telegraphed that she would al
> rive teR.M.