The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-11-23
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NphlplItu 9IccittiS lOI tllt JouTNul.
Lumber froights coastwsr have steadily improy
ed, but on the contrary coal rates have declined in
proportion as the collier fleet has increased at New
] FORK and vicinity. Foreign business, petroleum
excepted, has shown no Improvement, nor is there
much reason to expect amy for some time to come
Considerable local shipping has been done in hay
and POTATOES. The principal engagements made
here rs we'll as those OF Maine vessels elsewhere
concluded, are these schr Martha Brewer, Of Bel
fast potatoes hence 10 4 market probably Boston ;
schr Evene, Of Belfast, potatoes in bulk hence TO
New York or Baltimore; schr Charlie Bucki of Bel
| fast, hence TO Charleston or Wilmington, hay 50 per
| ton schr Orion, of Belfast, seasoned lumber from
Bangor to Boston, s.. IL per NJ; schr William Fred
erick OF Belfast Philadelphia 10 Cieniuegos coal and
general cargo, about S2,0s0 lump; brig Ned White,
OF Belfast, from New York TO a port in Australia
100 lump, brig III 6 Sibey, OF Belfast from Sour
abaya to Cork for ORDERS sugar $3.50 tons t3 per
ton: schr Annie l. Mckeen, of Belfast, jacksonville
to New London, s1.15; schr Prescott Huzeltine Of
Belfast, JacksonN lille to Gibraltar, lumber SD gold
brig Atlas, OF Bangor oil from Portland London
schr Hannah McLoon, OF Rockland, 5000 bbls ren
ed OIL New orE 10 Liverpool, IS; ship Sontag of
stockton ,00i tons from Norfolk to Liverpool cot
ton, ,s I'D per ton free of loading and COMPRISING
charges; brig Jeremiah of Searsport, 20 NJ lumber
from Pensacola to north side Cuba, s. currenc, ;
ship lranquebar, of Richmond, $500 bbls refined
oil New \ orl to Bremen, IS, Cd schr Mary b Har
ris of Harrington ljJ NJ lumber from savannah TO
| ST. John, NIB, 500 gold; schr Maud Webster of
Bangor, AZ tons, New York to Key West, 5000, and
from Pensacola six trips to Corpus Christi, lumber
| private terms Schr Mary Ann McCaun, of Bangor
| 100 NJ lumber from Pensacola TO Sound port, 50 ;
| ship Samuel Watts of Thomaston, New York TO
san francisco, general cargo, private rate; ship IN
dauntcd, OF Bath, same voyage, schr Five Sisters
| OF Machias, New ork 10 Gonaiyes, general cargo
| soc per Dbl, and lumber, s. gold also numerous
| Others to South America, tie West indies etc at
| current rates.
DISASTERS.
Schr Medtord of Bangor, before reported ashore
loated of, and was picked up ana lowed into Ros-
ton 10th inst.
| Ship Alice Nennard, Gould from Meiilloues for
Falmouth, put into Montevideo Oct 9th leaking bad
ly, and would probably have to discharge cargo.
| gale oil Cape Horn added TO the stranne of the
cargo OF guanO caused the disaster.
Schr Globe, smith, owned in Bangor, while or her
way from that port to Boston, Mass, laden with
| lumber, sprung aleak and put into Portland II few
days since She is leaking badly that her owners
ordered her to discharge and return to Bangor Her
| cargo will be forwarded by another vessel
Schr Kate J. Lunt from Brunswick, Ga for st
| 1ago before reported abandoned was found on
| Double Breasted Gays, Abacoa. The wreckers have
saved portion of her cargo.
Brig Mariposa. of Stockton, from Cadz for lou
cester, put INTO New York 10Th inst reports, came
the southerly passage and was Il days north of Der
nuda; lost and split sails.
| MARINE JoTrINas
| QUICK TmE-Sch ID II Bisbee of Camden. Cant
| W l. Libbey, arrived at Montego Bay, ia, Nov ,
| from New York. making the passage from SANDY
Hook to port in days and 10 hours-said to be the
| stockton.
Messrs Grace, Brothers & Co of Callao assure ship
owners and masters that the hitherto long detention
al the Southern Guano Deposits has ended. The
company is now prepared to sell time to vessels go
ing there to load. The Lobos de TERRA Islands has
| been closed.
The shpwrecks on the British coasts for the sea
son of 1918, amounted to the unprecedented mum
| Der of $500. OF these Az were total losses liz
| serious calamties, and 946 minor.
| Schr Juliet, of Cherryiield, at New York from
| Aquilla reports that Capt NJ w Small of AIlbrdge
died at sea Oct 9th, after six days sickness
There have been built in the Kennebec district the
past season, ships, barks, schooners and sloop
| aggregatng ZOOS tons.
| Business in San francisco is very dull and much
depressed. Many ships are leaving in ballast for
Manila and the guano ports Freights are nominal
y 30 and 40 shillings per ton to Queenstown for or
| ders.
cd to make Ia ships suit of sails at II cts per yard,
while their enterprising brethren in New York are
complaining at q cts for the work
LIVERPOOL, Eng, Nov II. Capt LansiI, of schr
| Ada w Gould, of Bangor. abandoned at sea on the
voyage from New York to Rio Grande, has arrived