, 1877-01-13

made her run from Astoria to Cork
in 101 days. The Frithiof was built
at Marshfield, Coos Bay, and though
a roughly finished vessel is yet a fine
sailer and good carrier. We be-
lieve this is her tirsttrip to the Sound.
From Daily of Friday:
CRAIG & HASTINGS. This firm are
doing what any other sensible peo
pie would do, in their places. As
fast as they can get it from incoming
vessels, they are purchasing rock
| ballast and dumping it under their
wharf, to support it after the piling
has been eaten away by the teredos.
This insures them an excellent and
substantial wharf, which they need
not repair till they get ready to Gel
ebrate the next Centennial. In or
der to keep the ballast from spread
ing out and rendering the water
shallow beside the wharf, the rock
will be enclosed in cribs of fir logs.
Singular to relate, the imnoria has
not yet made its appearance in these
waters. 1t comes from ports in the
Indian ocean and, instead of honey
combing piles with the grain, as
does the teredo, it cuts its way
around the timber and girdles it in
two. The limnoria is very destruc-
tive at the San Francisco wharves.
MARINE. are now six ves-
sells at Port Blakely, to wit: Barks
Brontes, Cambridge and brig Tan
ner, three -masted schooners W. L..
Beebe and DIS. Williams, two-mast-
ed schooner American Girl. Bark
entine Grace Roberts has arrived at
Freeport but the Jenny Pitts is load
ing lumber on special order, which
comes in so slowly that the Roberts
may get away first. The Cambridge
has been libelled for $4,000 dam
ages, but that will not interfere with
her departure. The Tanner goes to
Santa Monica, while the Cambridge
and Williams are up for San Pedro.
A RELIC. H. G.. Thornton, on
Wednesday night, found a cannon
ball on the hill above the lava-beds,
imbedded in an old tree about 20
inches. 1t is supposed to be a relic
of the Indian war of 1856. When old
Seattle manned his canoes and went
forth to tackle the St. Mary's, Guert
Gansevoort turned loose his big
derringers at him and the old chief
concluded that naval warefare wasn't
his forte.
EXPREssIvE.-The Tribune's story
last night, about the man who di-
rected a letter to half a dozen places
in order to make it reach Utsalady,
reminds us of the Frenchman who
called out in a saloon, ''Garcon,
Vaitaire, you shall bring to me ze
petit verre de visky gin zhulep-
cocktail-punche, by Gar p
RoBBING A LAwYER.-It turns out
that the old gentleman who was flee
ced by the "bunko" sharpers in
Portland, last week, was no other
than Hon. Columbia Lancaster. The
old gentleman was in a "peturbed
state of mind" caused by reading
the election kilograms and trying to
find out which of the other two fell
lers had beaten Peter Cooper.
PET WEATHER.-Yesterday was
like an Oregon summer day and the
sun warmed everything with his
genial ray. Our enthusiastic local
went prancing around in his shirt
sleeves till folks began to think he
was lobbying for skinned nose.
SAFEGUARD. "A railing to keep
"tired" people from falling over the
cribbing ON the Front street grade.
The grateful prayers of thousand
journeynlan cocktail annihilators,
are nightly bestowed upon the City
Fathers. "ShaferivalomeT
OLYMPIA MA1L.-The Aida did
not arrive till this morning, hay
ing brought down the Olympia mail i.
She left Immediately for Tacoma,
John L. Jameson being one of her
passengers. NUNS the word.
The FRITHIoEF. - This schooner