, 1880-07-25
MARINE NEWS.
a Small Amount Of Capacity and
Large Receipts Cause Grain
Freights to Advance. =:
Progress of the Work of Rails
ing the: Tug Louie
'-. g.. Dole. +.
Local and General News-The Daily
r Port List. =. .
HOME GATHERINGS.

GRAIN FRElGHIS- .. ....
There IL no use, evidently, in attempting 10
crowd .freights on grain down this seuson. They
will 60 up despite nIl com mbinatlons. The charters
reported yesterday werc:,
To Bnifalo-Propellers Avon, Scotia, Russia,
Fountain City, and Arabia, corn on through
rate; schooner Swallow tcArly) for wheat at 81
cents: To Erie-Propeers Wissahtckon and
Junata, corn through. 10 KIngston-Propeiser
Clinton and schooners Grantham and +. 0.
Barker, corn at cents. Capacity, 10, ,oo0 bushels
wheat and $4,000 bushels, corn. It was
ruuored that 10000. bushels: more room
was tnkcn for corn than was reported. At
the Close shippers freely offered 514 cents on
corn to Buffalo, but found NO takers; because OF
scarcity iios in tbs fact TINT pi,ny vessels with
ore contructs have been withdrawn from the
gr1lin trade, while many others Of smaller ca
Pacity are in the lumber tr''de, where they be-
long. .: .-
The steam yacht Manic, which unfortunately
met with disaster In Detroit River on Thursday
evening aud caused the lttss Of Il lumber Of
lives, was built IN Shicago py a.s. tue VEL well
inal length was thrty.sx fees and futt iength Llt
or thertAbouts Of huld. She was known here as
r. Y. Avery's s.ea,n-launch. and went to De-
Of the Detruit Yucht Club, after he had sold his
slopp yacht Mamie here. The yacht Manic IS at
present owned in Kenosha- -. .
THE LOUIE DOLE.
The work of raislng the tug Louie Dole out Of
the draw OF Adams street bridge had progressed
SO rapidly last evening that her decks were near
ly nbove water. The timber ble-purcaase
with screws appears to be fnfallible.
DOCK NOTES. II.
Another unusually quiet day along the docks.
The excursion steamers were well patrontzed
yesterday,
The propeller City OF Trnverse flies q Garfield
and Arthur dag. This Is tho iatest exhibition
Of political pluck III navigation
Between g. and o'clock yesterday morning
the tug J. j. Hugcrnan arrived here from Mil
waukee with the canal schooners Q. III. Bond
Hngerlnan is under command OF Capt. James
4cGiun, IN old CAicAgo tugpa1n, and IL con5id-
cred one OF the very best hohts on tho lakes.
she left on her return TO Milwaukee at about
4 report prevailed last evening to the effect
that the schooner Kitty Grant hnd become
waterlogged aud a total wreck near Whitchall
The Kitty Grant is vessel OF S0,0O0 feet lumber
carving capacity and was built at Milwaukee
nearly. if not fuliy. twenty years ago.
4 little row between two tug Captains last
evening caused u sonsa;ion ut Wells street
bridge Just befaro dusk. One Of the belgerents
took an Involuntary BATH The names Of the
tugs are j. g: Ingram and ASA Ransom. 1t
would hardly be fair, nftcr this mention, to give
the names of che Captaiis.
South Chicago hns at last got the new tug
mentioned in TIE TRIBUNE Il few weeks ago.
She Is named the Meteor, nnd her dimensions
.sre as follows: Length. IS feet over ull: beam.
inches; stroke, II inches. The Meteor is owned
by the Hammond Lumber Company.
The slip Of the new steel-works of the North
Chicago Rolling Mill Company ut South Chicago
IS lo2 fest wide and l2oo feet long with an aver
Capt Fl. Blues tug, J. G. Campbell, flies
Hancock flag.