Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-03
DrifwoOd.

| LOOK out for q sudden rise.
| THR Boaz has tied up at Jacks Run.
THE Bedford left for Wheeling at noon yester-
| day.
THE Convoy and Maggie are tied up above lock
| No. 4.
THE Rainbow left Cincinnati yesterday for New
| Orleans.
THE Adam Jacobs left for Brownsville Yesterday
| morning.
THE Keefer is on the way up from Cincinnati
| with a tow of empties.
THE Acorn will be due here to-day. 1t passed
| Bellaire Tuesday night.
| THE Elaine arrived last night, and will leave
| for Wheeling this afternoon.
| THE up-river packets did more business yes
| terday than for several months.
THE Time passed Bellaire yesterday and will be
| here shortly with tow of empties.
THERE is no likelihood of there being boat for
Cincinnati on the packet line Saturday.
THE Nellie Walton passed ParkersburG yester-
| day morning. 1t is expected here soon.
| THE Tom Rees passed Portsmouth last night
| with a tow Of empties, on her way to Pittsburg.
A BARGE has been anchored at Memphis bridge
| pier No. 10 warn boats by blowing q whistle in a
| fog.
THE marks showed feet yesterday morning at
A. M, and at P. M. 1t had reached the half-foot
| mark.
THE Little Bell is expected here from CIncin-
natl. 1t passed Bellaire with tow of empties
Tuesday.
THE James G. Blaine will be the Morgantown
packet this morning, and the Adam Jacobs in the
afternoon.
THE Hudson lsft,for Cincinnati yesterday after
noon in charge of Master J. T. Ellison and David
Lacy, Clerk.
THE Seven Sons got the barge belonging to
Gray's Iron line of the bar near the Tenth street
bridge last night.
THE e. W. Bachelor arrived from Cincinnati
In N WI n 0f mass VIII will
return on the trip to-day.
BOTH up and down river packets enjoyed large
business to-day, and everything seems to be on
the Jump at the wharfboats.
s. H. NEwLIN, John Smell, j. Suitor, j. B.
Owens, A. Ballard and George Owens left on the
Hudson for Cincinnati Yesterday.
A PARTY of ladies and gentlemen left the
Hudson yesterday afternoon and will go down
and meet the Bachelor on its way up.
THE Twilight left yesterday for Charleston with
tow of coal and lumber for Jutte, Stratton &
Foley, who are building piers for a bridge at
Charleston.
THE towboat H. 8. Frisbie arrived in st. Louis
from the Ohio river Tuesday with three barges OF
pig-ron. She distributed a cargo of Ohio river
salt at the different towns and landings between
here and Cairo.
A. NJ. NOBLE and wife, Mrs. Reider, Miss Sho-
ber, Miss Beckert, H. l.. Carter Miss M Hoh-
myer Mr.. and Mrs. J. Metz and Mr. Sommers OF
Sommers Bros. Co.. were among the passengers
to Cincinnati on the Hudson yesterday.
THE records at Davis Island for the month of
June shows that 262 towboats, towing from three
to two empties on an average, and $50 towboats
towing 204 flats 219 barges and so coal barges
carrying 4p2 600 bushels of coal to the Southern
market. This shows that great many of the
boats could not get out with the coal this month.
AN attempt is being made to have the Scotia
lay over until Saturday, there will be no boat
scheduled for that day. No arrangements to hold
the boat have yet been made The Louis A. Sher-
ley the boat scheduled for Saturday, but it
was feared that there would not be enough water
.lofff mn in, nAnR
on the Pomeroy line, but the prospects now are
that the boat will be put on the line from here to
Cincinnati.
IL ndn