The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-05-08
THE RIvER.
Miscellaneous Steamboat squibs and
Local Levee Laconics.

Miscellaneous Steamboat squibs and
Local Levee Laconics.
The Annie L. hiss been purchased by the
Monitor Towboat Company for 5000.
The river at this point was stationary yes
terdsy. the marks indicating q depth oil
feet 8 inches.
The Katie stockhale will pass down this
morning aud the Emma Graham up. Both
are due at early hours.
The John Penny passed up yesterday morn
ing With q tow OF empties and the Katie
Hooper In tow In q disabled condition.
Among those whose applications are IN fol
the vacancy OF the Mississippi River Com
mission Ia Captain G. w. Bachelor, Of Pitts
bureh.
viii B %stockdale, the popular Assistant
superinten tent OF the stockdale line, ran
down from Pittsburgh aud spent yesterday
in the city.
The Heatherington passed up witha tow oil
ties. and the Nail City with a low Of ties and
oil 4 ats. The Aunie l.. also passed up with
4 TOW OF ties.
The Andes arrived about midnight last
night and takes her departure Thu afternoon
ats. The Andes is a steady stern wheeler,
ably differed, and with a reputation for CIV
ing Satisfaction every time. Passengers are
always well accommodated and her facilities
for handling freight are of the best
From Pittsburgh the word comes that the
drying up otthe MonongAhela still continues,
and the river Is slowly getting away. River
men haye come graytly 10 consider the fact
that there will be no rise for the present, and
they complacently fold their hands and think
OF the very busy time they have had for the
past two months.
As the INTELLieEEI rR's river man wal rid
Ing down the ohio on q recent pleasant day,
seated In the pilot house Of the Regular,
Captain Dillon pointed TO the West Virginia
side where the Ohio River railroad lahore 5
were grading and called attention to the
huge slumps with long jagged roots that the
laborers had dug out and rolled down the
bank, where they lay waiting for the next
rise 10 wash them of. ''Is that right" said
Captain Dillon, ITO roll those snags down
there? They are dangerous 10 steamers"
The rive men would bs under obligations If
the men would burn the logs and stumps.
JEFF Martin, the genial clerk on the Regular,
has not yet gotten over feeling mad about
three passengers that beat their passage from
SisterSville 10 Wheeling about two weeks
ago. The boat was laid up OF the former
place for the night, when about midnight
three railroad lAborers came aboard. The
Waterman ordered them Ci and they left for
the lower deck. They went of the boat, but
afterwards sntaked on and secreted them.
selves In the hold. The next moor when the
boat reached this place, the hatch suddenly
lifted aud before auy Of the crew could In.
terceptthem. the three s%towawnys scampered
up the leyee as fast as their legs could take
them. JEFF says they were the first and last
heaters he ever had or ever will have.
MKMrRls, May 7-River fallen 4 inches
CINCINNATI, May 7.-Rlyer II feet and fall
Ing; cloudy and cool.
GREENSBORO, Pa, May 7.-Rivsr 8 feet
and stationary; clear.
CAIRO, May 7.-River 80 feet and falling;
cleai; Thermometer 72o.
M~oRoASrowx, ". Va, May7.-Riyer 8 feet
and stationary; weather cloudy.
BROWNSVILLE, Pa, May Z-River 5 feet
and stationary; cloudy; thermometer 72".
oLCrrY, Pa, May 7.-River . feet Z inches
and stationary; weather cloudy and raining.
RicE's LANDING, Pa, May River 8 feet
8 inches and falling; weather cloudy; Their
mometet 74s.