The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-05-07

The marks last evening indicated feet
8 inches and falling.
Business on the levee only moderately
active.
The local packets are doing lively
produce and garden. truck business.
The Emma Graham passed down yes
terday morning for Cincinnati. Captain
Nat. Eathartis in command, while Capt,
Hod Knowles is takinga rest.
The Buckeye State passed up yesterday
from Cincinnati to Pittsburgh,
The Pres Ellison continues her regular
trips to Bellaire. For times Of departure
see time card below.
The Chancellor left last evening for Gin
cinnaI.
The elegant st. Lawrence is due to-day
from Cincinnati, and will return at the
usual hour for departure tomorrow even
ing. Capt. Billy List Is in command,
with clerk @. D. List in the Office.
Yesterdays Pittsburgh Dispdtch says:
Judge Acheson, OF the United States Dis.
trict Court, rendered an opinion yesterday
In the case Of tho towboat John Nixon VS..
the towboat Geo. Lysle. This case grew
out Of collision between these crafts in
November, 1877. Judge Acheson holds
that the libellant was entitled to $19S 50
for repairs and S4s6 rs for loss sustained.
|. Cincinnati Commercial; The general
topic Of coversation on the levee Is the
treatment OF the owners OF the Cannon
by libeling the Charles Morgan at Louis.
vile, while she could have been as easily
attached at Cincinnati, and enabled to
complete her trip. Parties from New Or
leans exonorate the Morgan, and say that
the Cannon was purely in fault, having
run into the Morgan, and was saved from
burning up and towed ashore by the
Morgan.
Marsh Hays and James Alexander are
the Wyomings pilots from Cincinnati to
Pittsburgh.
Capt. Robert Beers died at Pittsburgh
day before yesterday, aged lightweight.
He bosted from Pittsburgh in the days OF
keel boating, and aiterwsrd engaged in
steamboating He retired about 1910. He
was always opposed to boats running on
Sunday.
It is stated by the st. Louis Republican
that the Huntington and St. Louis Packet
Company, OF which Commodore Honshell,
OF Cincinnati, Is the head and front, have
contract for transporting $4,000 tons OF
iron ore from st. Louis TO Ashland and
other points above Cincinnati.
Capt. j.. A. Parish is endeayoring to Sc
cure the steamer Tanhauser to take the
place OF the Willie Austin in the Steuben-
vile and East Liverpool trade.
The Chancellor on her next trip will
bring up the Wood county delegates to
the Republican Convention that meets in
this city on the 18th inst.
The Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette says:
The depressed condition Of the iron bust
ness has, as might be expected, put
dAmper OIL the river business, as heights
for all points have fallen of very materi-
ally since the collapsing OF the boom. It
Is thought, however, that there will be an
increased demand, both for iron and nails,
within the next few weeks. II ia worthy OF
notice that the shipments Of glassware
from Pittsburgh have been unusually large
this spring.
Yesterdays Cincinnati Commercial says
that Capt. Ed Muhleman, the courteous
chief clerk Of the Andes, will resume his
duties In the office after having spent o
pleasant week in Cincinnati.
lBY Telegraph
PITTSBURGH, May 6.-.Riyer 4 feet II inches
and falling. Weather clear and warm.