The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-03-06
River News.
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The marks last evening indicated II fee
8 inches and stationary.
Business at the landing dull.
The only excitement on the levee yester
day was the involuntary bath OF Capt. Ed.
Hornbrook. 1t is said the river rose
rapidly when he plunged in.
The Phaeton come TO the wharf yester-
day with part OF her guards and nosing
torn of. Capt. Dillon said the "wind did
it" Whew!
The Buckeye State was due down last
night from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati.
The Hudson will pass up to-day from
Cincinnati 10 Pittsburgh.
The Independent: packet Salt Valley Is
due up this evening from lronton to
Pittsburgh.
The 81. Lawrence arrived yesterday
from Cincinnati, looking very little the
worse for her collision with the Cherokee.
Her repairs will soon be completed. She
leaves this evening for Cincinnati. Capt.
Billy List is In command and Clerk g, d.
List presides at the office.
The prompt and reliable Bachelor
leaves this morning at 7 O'Clock for Pitts
burgh and all way points. Capt. Whit
ringer commands, and Mr.. Eddie is in the
office.
The Diurnal will be to-day's Parkers-
burg packet, leaving at 1880 A. NJ.
The Welcome is this mornings st.
Mary's packet, leaving at 1880 o'clock
The Montana leaves Pittsburgh this
evening for st. Louis and way points.
The Stockdale will pass up tomorrow
from Cincinnati to Pittsburgh.
The Fearless and barges will get away
this evening for 81. Louis. She takes 400
tons OF nails, 80 tons OF window glass and
glassware, and 225 tons OF rails and rail-
road equipments for the building of the
branch road OF the Riverside Iron Works
Company from their ore mine 10 the
Iron Mountain Railroad. The length OF
the branch road will be six miles.
Capt. R. O. Gray, OF Gray's Iron Line,
Pittsburgh, arrived in the city last even-
ing over the p, W. & Ky. road, and took
rooms at the New Mcclure House.
The Andes is due from Cincinnati on
Monday.
The local packets, the Phaeton, Tele-
gram, 0'Neal and Pres Ellison, are making
their regular daily trips.
"The United States Supreme Court has
again passed on the wharfage question,
and reiterated its opinion in the Keokuk
case, where 1t was decided that city
might charge wharfage fees not exceeding
fair compensation for improved facilities,
provided at city's own cost.."-C Cincinnqh
Enquirer. "The attention OF the Wheeling
editors and the CITY Solicitor Of that city
is called to the above. This IS precisely
the ground we took In regard to wharfage.
Its, however, probable that the United
States Supreme Court has not heard OF the
Wheeling decision or the case might be
different" PitSburgh Dispatch. We had
thought we had run the marine man OF
the Dipatch into a hole, having driven him
there by a fair presentation OF facts which
showed he was grossly In the wrong, and
cited case in point; in fact at home,
upon which we thought his powerful es-
says would have more effect. We can't
undertake TO furnish the DSpatch man with
brains, and as he persistently misstates
the case we despair OF ever getting any,
thing into his head short OF surgical OPP
Grafton. The opinion OF the City Solicitor
is in strict accordance with the above de-
cision, and II the Dispatch man can't see IL
upon careful scrutiny, he is blind TO all
perfection but that which he sees in him
self. !.
Appointment coal shipper asks this ques-
ton through the Pittsburgh Times: "Why
don't Col. Merrill, who is supposed to be
paid for doing such things, remove certain
distractions from the channel OF the
Ohio? These are as follows, and have
been in the way since last fall: Sunken
bargcs OF the Panther's tow, Little Grave
Creek; sunken barges OF Grand Lakes
tow, Marietta Island. Respectfully sub
mitted." We may add, In Justice TO Col.
A. Woodruff here from Green river
Cincinnati Commercial.
A special dispatch from Pittsburgh 10
the Cincinnati Enquirer Of yesterday says:
The Marmet Mining Company Is one OF
the largest coal works on the Kanawha
river, Captain Florence Marmet is the
leading spirit, and his concern owns tho
tow boats George Ntatheson and Mont
Clair. Recently the men have been out Of
the Marmet mines for 81 cents, compelling
Captain NJ. to patronize the Monongahela
pools. His barges are marked NJ. M.
Company, and can be seen to-day empty
and idly floating at their moorings in the
Monongahela, opposite the foot OF Wood
street. This is in accordance withan edict
OF Secretary Jones, OF the Miners Associa-
ton, in this weeks Labor Tribune. Mr..
Jones makes the point that II the Ray
mond City strikers are defeated the prices
may be reduced along the entire Kanawha
Valley. The price OF Kanawha coal will
be reduced, and Pittsburgh operators will
be compelled to make corresponding re.
duction, in order to compete with the
Kanawha operators.
lBy Telegraph.
PITTSBURGH, March 5.-River 0 feet and
rising. Weather clear with high winds.
CAIRo, March 5.-Arrived: Storm, Ohio
river; Champion, st. Louis; John Dip
pold, st. Louis. Deprted: Champion,
Paducah. River stationary. Weather
clear and cool. Thermometer ZOE.
LOUISVILLE, March 5.-River stationary
with II feet o inches in canal. Weather
clear and cool. Paris @. Brown, Clncin-
natl to New Orleans; Virgie Lee, Cincin-
natl to Memphis; Dacotah, st. Louis To
Pittsburgh; Dick Fulton and tow, from
Natchez. The Andy Baum is due TO-
night. /;
ST. LOUIS, March 5.-Arrived: Brown
and barges, Pittsburgh; My Choice and
barges, Cairo; Granite State, Pittsburgh.
Departed Brown and barges, Cairo;
Belle oi Memphis, Memphis; Kehlor,
New Orleans, River fallen inches, now
II feet inches by the gauge. Weather
clear aud cool.
CINcISNATI, March s. River 9S feet s
inches and rising. Weather clear and
cold. Arrived; Pittsburgh, Huntington; !;
Golden City, New Orleans; Il. r. Spring
er, Now Orleans. Departed; Andes,
Wheeling; Pittsburgh, ST. Louis. Fannie
Tatum broke her cylinder head, aud is
laid over for repairs.
Ocean Vessels.
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