The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-02-20

River News.
The marka last evening indicated n feet
and falling steadily.
Weather clear and cold.
The Belle Prince brought down three
barges for Gray's Iron Line Yesterday, and
took them down to Kate's Rock. The Iron.
sides will pick them up to-day.
The Chancellor went down light With
out stopptDg. She will tie up at Parkers-
burg.
The Bachelor had agood trip for Pitts
burgh.
The Diurnal, for Parkersburg, the Well
come, for st. Mary's, the Telegram, for
Darlington. the Phaeton, for Sistersville,
and the Pres. Ellison, for Bellaire, made
their usual trips.
The Pres Ellison will take an excursion
party to. the Martins Ferry Soldiers,
"Camp Fire" this evening.
Business with the packets is lively at
present. Boats in long trades are, doing
well.
The Annie Kelley arrived from Wheel.
ing in themorning with a barge Of miscel.
%laneous freight. She put off 1,600Ik kegs OF
nails and some paper stock here and ex.
pected to proceed to Louisville in the eyen-
ing Cincinnati Times,
lBy Telegraph
PITTsBuRGH, February 10.-RiSer s feet
0 inches and stationary. Weather fair
and cold.
MEMPl1ls, February 19.-Arriyed: Yfnt
Shinkle, Cincinnati; Commonwealth, New
Orleans.
vlcKsnuRG, February lO.-weather
clear; thermometer 5So. River risen .
inches. Down: Belle OF Shreveport and
Golden City.
EVANSVILLE, February 19.-Weather
clear and cold; mercury So. River 4l3
feet. Down: james w. Gaf and Grey
Eagle. Up: Arkansas Belle.
LOUISVILLE, February 19.-Riyer falling
slowly, with 81 feet in canal. Weather
clear and cold. The Cons Millar will
pass up tonight. Oakland and tow from
New Orleans.
CNcINNAT1i February 19.-Riyer 40 feet
and falling. Weather clear and cold.
Arrived: Dacotah, Pittsburgh; Andes,
Wheeling; Guiding Star, New Orleans,
Departed; %Stockdale, Pittsburgh.
CAIRO, February l0.-Riyer 81 feet and
rising. Weather clear. Thermometer 90.
Arrived: Champion and Fearless, st.
Louis. Departed: Champion, Paducah
John Porter, st. Louis; Fearless, Ohio
river.
MEMPHIS, February 10.-The river rose
2Oinches. Weather clear and cold. De-
parted: General RuCker, 0uchitat river
Iron Mountain and barges, st. Louis; Fl,
Frank, New Orleans; James D. Parker
and Golden Rule, Cincinnati.
ST. Louis, February l0.-River risen
5inches; II feet 5 inches by the gauge
Weather clear and cold. Arrived: Tmpe
rial and barges, Gilmore and barges and
Scudder, New Orleans; Baker and barges
Cairo. Departed: Tidal Wave, Hunting,
ton; Gold Dust, Vicksburg; Alps ahd
barges, New Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS, February 19.-Heayy
rain all night; clear and cool this morn,
ing; mercury Sc, No arrivals, Depart
ed: Centennial, st. Louis; Paris @. Brown
Cincinnati; the Red Cloud lays over un
til tomorrow. The steamers Charles p
Chateau, Of Memphis, and Henry @
Iaeger are loading to leave tomorrow.
NASHVILLE, February 19.-River Ia slow
! rislng, with Al feet on the shoals. TIL,
!owlands about the city have been coveret
for a week past, and a thousand or fftetr
hundred people have been forcedto vacatC
their homes. No damage beyond tn,
flooding Of small houses. The rise haI
washed out an immense quantity of lum
Der from above and caused the loss o
corn on the lower Cumberland,