The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-01-27

The marks at the landing last evening
indicated II feet inches and falling
Business only moderate; shipments light
The Courier, Pheton, Telegram an,
o'Neal departed on time for their respec
tive ports.
Tho Andes arrived from Cincinnati yes
terday and will return this evening. Capt
Charley Muhleman Ia in command ant
clerk Ed. Muhleman presides at tho office
The Salt Valley and Stockdale are du,
down this morning for Ironton aud Gin
cinnati respectively.
The Emma Graham is due up this morn
| ing from Cincinnati, TO Pittsburgh.
The swift steamer Diurnal, will be to
days Parkersburg packet, leaving al l0:3l
A. N.
The prompt and reliable Bachelor leave
this morning at o'clock, for Pittsburgh
and way points.
The Jim Brown passed up yesterday
with a tow ofempiies.
Tho Fearless and barges aro receiving toI
st. Lous, and expect to get away this even
ing. Capt. Chas. Leiving will take coin
mand OF the Fearless this trip, as Capt
Thos. Greenlee has gone home sick.
Captain j. II. Dunlap, Superintendent
Of Gray's iron Line, was in the city yes
terday.
The 1ronsides, Captain James Melon
aid, will arrive Thursday with lot Of ore
for the Wheeling mills.
The Iron Age, new boat for Gray's
Iron Line, will be launched at Freedom
Pa, Saturday next. A new barge forthe
same line will be launched on the same
day at Sewickley, Pa b.
The Bellaire packet Willie Austin ID
making her regular trips TO that port.
For times Of departure, see card below.
The bids for furnishing stone for the
Muskingum lock for the ice harbor at
Marietta were opened by Colonel Merrill
last Friday. There were fourteen bids,
the contract being awarded to Thomas B.
Townsend at S. per cubic yard OF dimen-
sion stone, and 81 10 per cubic yard Of
rubhle.
The Eldorado was sold at United States
Marshal's sale at Cincinnati, Saturday, for
So, 800, Captain W. O. Williamson being
the purchaser.
The Marine Journal Of Cincinnati has
this much to say about the increase OF
wharfage tax here: Now comes the city
Wheeling, W. Va, the Common Council
oil which should hide their heads for
shame, proposing 10 double the wharfage
tax, in order that the (prosperous) city
can afford to increase the salary OF the
wharfmaster, which Is not quite sufficient
to keep him In idleness. Wheeling, II ap.
pears, allows It's wharimaster twenty per
cent Of the revenue Of which the city robs
steamboats,, a sort OF stimulus, as 1t were,
for the poor, half starved ~ emissary to
bleed tie steamboats, as much as he can.
Now what We would liketo know Is, are
the steamboat .owners, captains and
hackers Of Wheeling, going 10 stand by in
silence % ittheir lipswere stuck together
With colrt.plaster and allow their City
Council to license further plundering Of
their private property The proposition
Is outrageous and merits the eondemna,
ton OF ever citizen OF Wheeling and the
vigorous protest Of tbs press.
The snagboat E. A. Woodruff began
work for tho season OF June |, since which
dale shc has worked over the river ~ FOL.
lows: Cincinnati TO Wheeling; Wheeling
to Caro; Cairo to New Cumberland, " est
Va; New Cumberland TO Evansville; Ia.
winter quarters in the mouth Green River.
0pe thousand and typnty.iour Bnags and
wrecks were removed during
The season. Amongthe wrecks removed
we're those Of the Rebecca at Petersburg;
the Brilliant at Gallipolis; the j. @. Gross.