Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-03-18
RIVER INTELLIGENCE.

The river last night was stu rising
with about IL feet on the MARKS
No arrivals or departures yesterday
except the local packets.
Yesterdays Cincinnati Enquirtr says;
The st. Lawrence yesterday resnippea
1000 kegs OF nails and l,2Oo packages Oh
glassware on the Louisville Maii'ooat;
1000 kegs of nails to st. Louis on the
Granite State; $50 boxes OF glassware,
300 kegs OF nails, and 90 packages oil
glassware and other freight on the Mary
Houston to New Orleans.
The Pres Ellison took party do"nt 10
Bellaire last night, to the concert anu
lecture by Wheeling and Steupeh'iiie
ladies' and gentlemen.
Business is rather slack with major
ity OF the local packets, but the through
boats have all they can attend 70.
The towboat @. w. Hornbrook arrived
from Wheeling with two barges OF slaves
and departed with a tow oil coke'-rwS-
Jt.rgh Commercial Gazette.
Capt. C. III. Booth has sold the Tow
boat John w. Garrett aud three boats to
Capt. McMum, OF Cincinnati, for sl3,OVo
The Cincinnati Enquirer OF Saturday
contains a communication from pilot,
in which the writer says: 1.-THE Wheel
inc REGISTER SAYS: "A rumor is cur
rent here that all the Ohio river pilots
will strike on the 9th OF April, and re-
fuse 10 resume their duties until the
regulation prescribing medical exam
nations for color blindness is rescinded,
and the nonsense done away with. Sew
xun nhataahlsA1 on
the subject last night credited the To,
port, although no one could be iouhd
TO corroborate it, Ii the Pittsburgh
and Wheeling pilots will, in reference
10 the above, appoint day, say some
time in April, the Cincinnati pilots and
pilots below will meet them and take ac-
ton in regard to ceasing supplying their
vocation until the obnoxious law Is re-
pealed, We not believing 1t TO be at all
requisite for men in our business to be
able 10 distinguish every shade oil color
PITTSBURGH, March IL. River ii feet
6 inches and rising. Weather clear ana
cool.
NRw ORLEANS, March F.-Arrived-
Golden Crown, Cincinnati, Grand Lake
No. 2and barges, st. Louis. Departed
Bedford. J. Il. NJ. Keller, st. Louis.
The steames Paris, G. Brown, w. L.
Halliday and st. Louis are receiving to
leave tomorrow. Weather. clear and
partly cloudy; thermometer 56.
VIcKsBuRG, March IL. - Weather
fair. Thermometer %. River risen 2
inches. Up-Golden Rule. Down
Florence Meyer.
EvAxsvILLE, March l7.-Weather
cloudy and mild; mercury 43. River
3S feet $40 inches and falling. Up
Guiding Star, p. NJ; Cobb Cecil and
tow, 4:30 p. N. DOwn-Rainbow, 2:oO,
CINcINSATI, March l7.--River 43 feet
3 inches and rising. Weather clear and
pleasant. Arriyed-Hudson, Pittsburgh;
Granite State, Pomeroy; Virgie Lee,
Memphis. Observation-Disclosures, Pitts
burgh; Granite State and Wyoming, st.
Louis.
ST. LOUIS, March l7.--Arrived-My
Choice, Cairo; sampson, Ohio rlyer.
Departed-My Choice and barges, Cairo;
Champion, Paducah; Gen. Bernard,
Davenport; st. Geneyieve, Memphis;
Montana, Pittsburgh. River stationary,
with 10 feet inches on the guage.
Weather clear and cool.
LOUISVILLE, March l7.-River sta
tionary with Is feet inches in the
canal. Weather cloudy and cool. Arri-
walls and departures-Gaff, Cincinnati to
Memphis; James Stone and tow, Pitts
burgh and return; Coal City and tow,
Pittsburgh; Gilmore and tow, Pitts
burgh.
NASHVILLE, March l7.-Riyer rising
slowly with As feet on the shoals.
CAIRO, Ill, March l7.-Arrived-
Etna and City of Helena, st, Louis;
City OF Greenville and Simpson Horner,
Vicksburg. Departed-Etna, Ohio river;
City OF Greenville, st. Louis. River "A
feet inch and rising. Weather cloudy;
thermometer So.
MEMPnIs, March l7.--Riyer station
airy. Arrived Harry Brown, Ohio river.
Observation-Disclosures, Call, st. Louis; JAS
ID. Parker, Cincinnati. Weather cloudy
and cold.