Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-04-17
Marine,

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The schooner Hattie Johnson, on
Goose Island reef, is a total wreck.
The Canadian schOOners, Muir and
Antelope left Thursday for Chicago.
Capt. Keeney has been busy this
week fitting out the Northern Belle.
The steamer Pearl arrived on her
first trip to this port yesterday morning.
The schOoners C. Hart and Susan C.
left Tuesday for the Hammond Bay iron
mines.
The st. Adams of the Northern Tran.
sit line arrived Thursday afternoon from
Chicago. d
Capt. Bouchard. on his trip to Mack
inac Thursday, counted 43 vessels and 4
steamers in sight.
The schOOners Bertha Burns and c.
X. Miner passed down, Thursday, with
main tOp-masts gone.
The wrecking tug Leviathan arrived
Wednesday morning. Capt. Kirkland
found her services in demand.
We see by the marine reports that
great many vessels lost their anchors in
the straits during the ice jam.
The schooner Duncan City cleared
Thursday evening with cargo of luIn-
ber from Duncan for TOnawanda.
The schooner DObbin lost her main
boom and the captain was in Thursday
looking after having new one made.
The propeller Champlain of the n.
T. line, was the first craft to make a
round trip through the straits this sea-
son.
The tugs WinslOw and Oswego sue
cecded in releasing the schooner Swal-
low, ashore at McGulpin's point, Tues
day night.
The Colorado must have queer
pumps that they had to remove suffi-
cient water from her hold to admit of
the pumps working"
The Leviathan succeed i'm relieving
the schooner Cape Horn, ashore at Point
st. Ignace and tOwed her to the Macki-
nav Lumber Co.'S dock.
The Inter-Ocean of Tuesday says
the schOOners A. MOsher and San JacintO
were getting on their supplies prepara-
tory to leaving for this port.
The st. Paul put in her first appear
ance for the season last Wednesday after
noon. She landed quite an amount Of
freight, bringing up what two of the
boats of the line had left at Alpena be-
sides her own freight.
The schooner Ann Maria, with car
60 of general merchandise for the Mack
mac Lumber Co., is at Point st. Ignace,
with both anchors and most of her chain
lost, hole stove i'm her bow, stern post
gone, and otherwise damaged.
The schooner Donaldson came to
anchor off this port Wednesday in a
leaking condition, caused by the ice.
The captain telegraphed to Port Huron
after tug to tow him down. He had a
hard time making port with his yawl on
account of ice.
The Chicago Times says that the
schooner John KelderhOuse, owned by
the ChebOygan Lumber Co. of this vii
lage, was accounted the finest appearing
vessel of the Chicago grain fleet, and
that Capt. Mullen was justly proud OF
her.
The propeller Lawrence, Of the N. T.
line, arrived from Chicago and Milwau-
kee Tuesday forenoon. The captain re-
ported four vessels ashore at McGulpins
point, one at South ManitOus leaking
and in need of pump, and one at the
North Manitous with canvass blown
away.
The steam barge LOthair and con-
sort had a rough time after leaving the
straits before they got to Chicago. The
seas washed over them and stove in their
bulwarks and carried away the yawl OF
the COrrisande. .s-r-a
| The tug John Gregory, of Green Bay
Wis.,, came over Tuesday from MackinaC
after one of the Leviathan's steam
pumps to 60 to the aid of the schooner
Hattie Johnson, ashore On Goose Island
reef, bound up with a cargo of coal. She
was bound from Buffalo to Green Bay
when she was chartered to aid the John
son.
The steamer Keweenaw put in hel
first appearance last Monday. She is 6
handsome craft and elegantly fitted out
nice, large state rooms and cOmmOdi
Gus cabin. Capt. Jones and his gentle
manly clerk, c. S. Fisher, are quite proud
of their craft, and they have reason to be
for she is a credit to the ChebOygaI
! route.
| The Mary made her first trip to Mack
mac Island Monday evening, returning
Tuesday. Capt. Bouchard is great!
pleased with the working of her ma
> chinery since the change. He made tn,
run from Mackinac, coming around BOi
Blanc. distance of % miles, in les
than three hours, Notwithstanding som,
delay from ice.
, The water in the river is fully sil
7 inches lower now than at any time las
season. The Northern Transit steamer
all complain of the bottom being to-
close to the top, in many places. tits t,
be hoped for the good of the harbOI
that arrangements may be made to hav
the channel deepened, with as littl
delay as possible.
, The propeller Colorado was towe,
into Mackinac by the steam barge Rus
last Sunday, in a leaking condition, ant
she sank when within half her length o
BENEFITS dock. The Keweenaw mad
5000 Monday i'm tightening her dec
load, and that night they succeeded il
. getting her pumped out sufficiently t
get her along side the dock.
At Mt. Washington, N. H., Monday
morning the wind blew IA miles per hOu
4 and the thermometer was II degrees be
; low zero.
The supreme court of Indiana has de-
Q cided that smOkingis anecessity to thOs
who have acquired the habit, and tina
therefore, cigars may be sold on Sunday
The postmaster general has issued a
q order declaring the Boston spoon con
!, pany" of Boston a fraudulent cOncerI
e and fOrbidding the postmaster to delive
r or lo<<o n.