The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-02-04

The marks last evening indicated 0 feet
8 inches and stationary.
The Andes left last evening for Cincin-
matt with good trip, consisting OF nails
and glassware.
The Emma Graham passed up yesterday
for Pittsburgh.
The Chancellor is due up this morning
from Portsmouth TO Pittsburgh.
The Courier will be this mornings
packet for Parkersburg, leaving at 1880
o'clock.
The Jim Brown passed up yesterday
with a tow OF empties.
The James jackson passed up yester-
day with a cargo OF cooper stuff.
The Bachelor will be tomorrow MORN
ing's packet for Pittsburgh, leaving at Z
o'clock.
The Phaeton, Telegram and O'Neal are
making their usual daily trips.
Geo. Harlan, who was second clerk OF
the Abner O'Neal when she was in the
Pittsburgh and Wheeling trade, and after
wards held the same position Of the Q. w.
Bachelor is now engaged in railroad
Office at Chicago.
Rates at Pittsburgh for ST. Louis freight
have been advanced to l5c for heavy and
25c for light freights. To Cincinnati and
Louisville the rates remain unchanged.
Owing to the strike OF the miners OF the
Belmont Coal Company's coal works, the
Belmont Furnace and Rolling Mill is load.
ing coal in barges at Pomeroy, to be towed
to Bellaire.
Mr.. John G. Kirker, chief clerk Of the
Salt Valley, who was called home to
Weilsburg, last trip, by the serious illness
Of his father, is back at his post again, his
aged parent being somewhat better, al.
Though not yet out OF danger.
A dispatch from Louisville TO tho Gin
cinnati Commercial OF yesterday says: Capt.
John Armstrong, a veteran commander in
the Louisville and Cincinnati Mail Line,
who retired from the river thirty years
ago, died this morning at his home, east Of
Madison, Ind. He was about ninty years
OF age, and was the associate of Captain j.
Blair Summons, Captain Jacob Strader,
and James German, deceased. He was q
noted commander, and will be remem.
bered by old time river men. Several
years ago he built church on his farm,
known as the Armstrong Church" He
had been an invalid several years. The
last steamer Capt. Armstrong commanded
was the famous Pike No. Z, and when
Strader and German sold their interest in
the Louisville and Cincinnati Mail Line,
about 1874, Capt. Armstrong also sold his
interest, retiring to his Indiana farm, op.
posite Locust Bar, where he had resided
for many years, and where he died.
by Telegraph
PITTSBURGH, February 3.-River G feet
inches and falling. Weather cloudy and
showing.
EVANSVILLE, Feb. 9.-Weather cloudy,
snowy and colder. Mercury 300. River
10 feet 10 inches and falling. Down: Ar
kansas Belle, Dick johnson.
VlcKsnuRd, February 8. - Weather,
and cold. Mercury Az. Down: J. NJ.
White, NatcheS. Up: Ed. Richardson,
James Howard. Arrived-John B. Moude.
NEw ORLRANs, February S.-Arrived:
W. II. Holiday, and John Gilmore and
barges, ST. Louis; W. P. Schenck, Cincin.
natl. Departed: New Mary Houston,
Cincinnati. Clear and cool.
CAIRO. February S,-Arriyed; Golden
Rule, Cincinnati Keller, Cincinnati,
Departed: Fearless, St. Louis; Golden
Rule and John A. Scudder, New Orleans.
River % feet inches and falling. Bar.
ometer so,
CINCINNATI, February S.-River II feet
10 inches and rising. Weather. showing.
Arrived: Granite State, Pittsburgh. De.
parted: st. Lawrence, Wheeling; Granite
State, Louisville; j. W. Croft, Memphis;
viii Nyle, New Orleans.
ItST Toms Fehruarv 2-Arr;vad. p;t,s.
burgh, Huntington; Dippold and My
Choice, Cairo; Belle OF Memphis, Ohio
river. Departed: Commonwealth, New
Orleans; Helena, Yickshurgi Montana,
Pittsburgh. River 0 feet Q inches by the
gauge. Weather cloudy and cold.
LOUISVILLE, February 3-Riyer falling
slowly, with feet q inches in canal.
Weather cloudy, cod and showing. John
L, Rhoads, Pittsburgh to st. Louis; virgie
Lee, for Cincinnati; Golden Grown, for
Cincinnati ]. G, Fisher and tow, from
Pittsburgh oontor and tow, Pomeroy
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