Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-20
THE BAY"
Items of Interest from San
Francisco.
OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD.
A centenarian Who Has Never Ead Day
Of Sickness.
THE RELICS OF THE LOST wHALER.
Scarcity Of Vessels Suitable for Carrying
Wheat.
THE BAY"
OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD.
THE RELICS OF THE LOST wHALER

| SAN FRANCISCO, August 19.h-A Cal
| reporter has unearthed centenarian in th,
person of Mrs. Catharine Hayes aged 104
living with her youngest daughter, Mrs
| Donovan, at AL Jessie street. She is :
native of County Cork, ireland, which sh,
left three years ago to come to this country
She stood the voyage without any incon
venience, She has never had day of sick
ness during her life, except from an accident
| which befell her shortly after arriving here
She understands no language but the Celtic
| and her faculties and memory are unin
paired. She remembers with great clearnes;
| the circumstances in connection with the
Irish rising of 1898.
| THE RELICS OF THE LOST wHALER
The relics obtained by Esquimaux from
the whaer, supposed to be the Vigilant, and
| which were sent from Alaska by Captain
Hooper, of the Corwin, have been on exhibi.
| tion at the Merchants Exchange for several
| days, and have excited melancholy curl
osity, because they may be the last evidence
"a eLO iaeO VI tNo CiCWn Vi DE6Fc anu marcy
men. Among the relics is a pair of spec
tacles that are supposed to have belonged to
Captain Nye, of the whaler Mount Walas-
ton, which vessel was with the Vigilant when
the two ships were last seen. Thursday
evening Mr.. Nye, brother of Captain Nye,
in company with his wife and SOD, inspected
the glasses, and while not being able to posi-
lively identify them as his brothers, thought
they were the same that he had seen in his
brothers hands. Mr.. Nye's son was certain
they were his uncle's as he remembered a
popularity in the slides. If the glasses were
Captain Nye's, the fact of their being found
on the Vigilant is accounted for on the
supposition that the Mount Wallaston went
to pieces in the ice first, and the crew went
on board of the Vigilant. Mr.. Nye told
reporter that he still had hopes of hearing
from his brother, for several reasons. The
fact that but four bodies were found on the
Vigilant when first seen by the natives float
ing off the Asia coast led him to believe that
the remainder of the two crews had volun-
tarily abandoned the vessel and sought the
land, where they may now be. His brother,
he said, was a man Of undaunted resolution :;
was hardy and used TO hard knocks and the
rigors of the Arctic regions. and his crew were
worthy of their Captain. If men could get
along in that inhospitable region, Mr.. Nye
felt certain that the missing sailors would be
heard from some time. A gentleman well
acquainted with Captain Nye told the
RECORD UNION reporter a story of his de-
termination that shows the Captains broth
er's opiaion of his grit and determination was
well founded The Captain was cruising
away north in the Arctic Ocean, in company
with another whaler, and both were in the
ice, searching for whales. a dead whale was
sighted at the same time by both vessels in
an open place some distance off. The other
vessel was nearer than Captain Nye, and
could reach it first. By the unwritten code
of whalers the first to get possession of dead
whale is the owner. As it was no use for the
Captain to try to reach it with his ship, he
ran her alongside of an intervening cake of
ice, lesped overheard and ran across the ice,
and with only knife in his hand plunged
into the cold water, swan to the valuable
prize, took possession and held it until taken
off by boats crew. This story is still told
among whalemen as an instance of good iudg-
ment. and as an act showing unadulterated
grit.
TONNAGE MATTERS.
There are no vessels suitable for wheat in
port disengaged, and but one on the Cali
fornia coast, and she is at San Diego unload
ing railroad iron. The spot rates for ships
for grain are therefore nominal for the mo-
ment. During the week one vessel was re-
chartered at "a Is for Cork or U. K, but as
she was ready for immediate loading, the figure
may be taken as an extreme rate. Another
vessel was chartered at 81 per ton for Liver.
pool direct. a third ship was rechartered at
e3 19s for Cork or U. K. The last two en-
gagements may be taken as an index of the
spot freight market, and wers there any
available ships they could probably obtain
the same figures. For future arrivals ex-
treme rates are asked. and il is said vessels
afioat have been secured at figures that show
confidence in the future. of the market.
THE STOCK MARKET.
Stocks have been excited this week, the
boom beginning last Monday. Prices ran
up rapidly and the difference between last
Monday and Thureday has swelled the
pocket-books of those sensible enough to get
out. There was reaction this morning and
prices fell off considerably. The boom began
unexpectedly. and as it is the unexpected
that always happens the street was
caught with but little stock on hand.
and the main cause of the continued
rise was the orders from outsiders, who
always want stock when it is going up, and
seldom buy when the market is going down.
No one appears to know why the improve
ment came. Various rumors and reports
floated around, as they always do when stocks
are active, but one was just as reliable OF
unreliable as the other, and are not worth
repeating. TIE manipulators of the stock
market never tell what they are going to do,
and when their ends are achieved, it is
always the case that the effect they want to
produce is discounted for their own benefit
before the public can find out anything.
Five months ago there was boom rather
stronger than the present one, and shortly
after an assessment blanket was put on-a
large number of those unwelcome plssters
being placed upon shareholders-and it may
be that this boom is only another assessment
boom to encourage outsiders to come to the
center before delinquent sale day. This
thing has been done before now. and will be
done again.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Greenbscksrs have nominated n. G.
Irving for Mayor and J. P. Dunn for Au-
disor.
On the Geary-street cable road W. G.
Oyerend, of Vallejo. was on Thursday trying
to jump on dummy, when be missed the