The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-04-13


The marks last evening indicated Z
feet 0 inches and falling.
Business on the levee dull.
The local packets arrived and departed
as usual yesterday.
The Pres Ellison is the prompt Bellaire
packet, leaving at the times specified in
her time card below.
The Cherokee passed up last evening
en- route from st. Louis to Pittsburgh.
The Jacob Heatherington and 'barges
left last evening for Cincinnati to trans.
port John Robinson's circus up the Ohio
river.
The repairs to the Diurnal will be COM
pleted so as to allow that steamer to enter
her trade Thursday.
The Andes is the popular Cincinnati
packet, leaving at In. N. to-day. Her pas
senger accommodations are first class, and
her facilities for the promp. transmission
OF freight are anexcelled.
The Pittsburgh Dspdtch OF yesterday
says: The steamer Julia was built for the
Pittsburgh and Zanesyille trade. She cost
$4,000. The first Is months she paid her
owners $4,000 and was sold to another
party for $4,000 cash. There Is no boat
at present in this trade. Itsome live man
would place suitable boat on the track
he could make money and have no occa.
sion to carry freight at 10 cents per hun.
dred.
st. Louis Post and Dispatch OF Saturday:
To.day's corn cargo was the largest chip,
ment OF grain ever moved on the Miss
issippi in one tow. II left, or was to leave,
at noon-the Iron Mountain and five
barges. One Of them, the Great Republic,
received on board yesterday at the Biddle
street elevator 100000 bushels Of corn.
The feet Of Ave barges bears away 300,.
900 bushels, shipped by the two houses Of
Faith, Ewald & Co., and Cole Brothers, oil
this city. Our authority for the figures
above are Mr.. John Jackson and Mr.. II.
v. Lucas, the larges stockholders OF the
Mound City Transportation Company.
The largest previous cargo was ,0O0
bushels, by the same boat, at II cents per
bushel freight, three. elevenths higher
than the present rate. No railroad ever
built can compete with this sort Of trans.
portation, fact the world Is rapidly
learning. The weight OF 100000 bushels
OF corn is $500 tons. Send this by rail
and it will employ forty.two trains Of
twenty cars, and could not be carried to
New York protitably TO the carrier for less
than $4,000. The Iron Mountain will
take It to New Orleans in ten days for
s24, 900, and can bring upa freight list Of
S6, 900, and pay of her crew for around
trip OF thirty days. Whether the cost Of
the round trip would amount to 50 900, or
$4,000, or more, is question which we
have no disposition to inquire into.
10y TSleraph.l
PITTSBURGH, April 12.-Riyer s feet
inches and falling. Weather clear and
cool.
LOUISVILLE, April l2.--River 0 feet Z
inches and falling in canal. Weather clear
and pleasant. Pittsburgh, st. Louis to
Huntington; Sam Miller and tow, Pitts
burgh; Ben Wood and tow, to Pittsburgh.
CNctSSArl, April 12.-River 20 feet
8 inches and falling. Weather clear and
cool. Arrived: Buckeye State, Pittsburgh;
Chancellor, Wheeling; Areadre, Tennes-
see river; Dakotah and Alice, st. Louis.
Departed: Buckeye State, Dakotsh and
Alice, Pittsburgh.
{ CAIRo, April l2.-Riyer SO feet IL inches
and falling, Weather clear. Thermometer
54o. Arrived: Gold Dust, Vicksburg;
Centennial, St. Louis. Departed: Port
Eads and Petrol, New Orleans; Gold
Dust, St. Louis; Centennial, New Orleans;
Springer, New Orleans.