The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-06-11

steamboat squibs and Miscellaneous
Leyee GoAAfp.

steamboat squibs ami Misceilane e0us
Leyee Go.Aip.
The marks last evening indicated about 10
feet inches depth OF water In the channel
and rising.
The Bachelor was inspected Saturday at
the landi"g and did not get away for Pitts
burgh until noon.
The Scotia passed down Saturday morning.
at S O'Clock, and the Stockda!e passed up
yesterday morning.
The genial Jet Martin. while the Regular
10 laid up, Is olerklng on the DiurnaI, re-.
lieving Ernie Booth. n
The name OF Captain ThompIon's new
boat Is Frank Stein and not Florence, as
some papers persist In calliugi It.
Saturday the Alarm passed up with empty
coal lIoals snd the Hope down with empties.
The R scue passed down yesterday with coal.
The ST. Lawrence did not pass down IN,
passed up late Friday evening. Big trips,
the cause.
The Regular will present gorgeous ap-
pearance when she comes oIt again. A few
repairs and several coats oi paint have made
wonderful change. RI. -s.
The Telegram was on hand so as TO leave at
8 o'clock Saturday morhieg With The Happy
Eight" picntckss Tot Cresap's Grove. She
returned about Or. N. and then left for CIar.
ingtou. She gave great satisfaction to the
excursioniSts
Tho Prince Is at present running with the
'rinCess In the Rellaire trade, but there is u
probability that she will go down on the
AiSsis ippi aud run rs ca rier on 4 mail
route extending from Memphis seventy
miles up the river. The contractor Il neRo.
tiAting Tor her.
The new Buckeye State will be completed
al Cincinnati in about ten days, and II there
is tullcient water will 70 to Pittsburgh and
load for 81 Louis. II is reported that Cap
tain John Thornburg who commanded the
Pittsburgh In the 81 Louis trade, 10 to have
command OF the new Buckeye.
The popular Cincinnati packet, the Andes,
with her excellent accommodations for pas.
sengerS and uneq uAled freight facilities, will
be due here 10 day, and " II leave tomorrow
afternoon on her return trip. The Andes Is
commanded BY tiue set OF gentlemen, with
Captain Ch.rlie MuhlemGn at the head.
1t Is currently reported that the owners OF
the Telegram have purchased the old Chesa.
peake iroui the MAddy Bros, OF GallIpolis,
add that as soon as she Is Il The docks will
run her Ia the PArkerSburg and Wheeling
uAue' ouS 5aUOut Iue hEt OF kne Telegram
but much faster and better finished. The
Chesapeake will run in the Telegram's trade
while she Is being repaired. 90
johnson, OF the PArkersbu.g Reeman, gets
OF the following which Is quite The proper
thing: with plenty Of water In maRnifi.
cent river like the Ohio, on a beautiful day,
IN commodlous steamer like the DinfnsI,
WithA clever Captain liks Asa Booth. and no
bar or bad wh'Aky aboard, Is the Wheeling
and Parksnburs. packets have nope-why,
give as the steamboat every time and all the
time"
oncFr, Pa, June o.-River 5 feet 0ineAss
and stationary; raining.
CINCINNATI, June 10 River IS feet 2 inches
and falling; sul,ry and sh0Wery.
MoEa1NTowS, ". Va, June o River feet
and falling weather cloudy. Thermometer
CNro, Ill.,, June 1O.-Rlyer 50 feet 4 inehes
aud rising hsayy rain last night lair; thsy.