The Republican journal., 1882-06-29

FISH AND FIsHING. The PASSPORT Sentinel
says the alcwifr fishing is getting lively at Den
nySvillc. About one hundred barrels We're talk
en- in one day lately. Many people come from
quite a distance to fish for thrm.....F>h are re-
ported scarce 1T Pcmaqlid.. ..Icrbrrg~ are in
terfcring with fishing on the Grand Bank~......
The fishermen have generally not done Well the
past week. and n>tcadof fishing have taken the
opportunity TO run in what mackrrcl they had
caught. hence the receipts have been quite heavy.
Indeed, on Monday last there arrived in Boston
and the outports. II 300 barrels of markrrrI....
1t is estimated that the yearly ''catch" of sal
mon on the PcnobScot will amount to &lI000...
After the first of July. the Maine fish laws per
nit anglers To cast their lines into the waters
frcqucnted by the delicious White perch and the
gamcy bnss......The Canadian li>hcric. statistics
for the wear 1881. just published. show the total
value Of the production Of the fisheries of Can
ada to be- Sl1.S17 lG2 The value in the prov incrs
for the year amounts to Sl4 ,499,979, exclusive
of the catch in Manitoba and the Northwest ter
rtoreS. of which there are no returns ....... The
Calais Times reports splendid fly fishing at
been so numerous for years it is said Unr of
the land-ockcd salmon captured by William
Todd Esq, ut the Stream few days ago weigh
ed 81 lbs.
The advertising cards issued by Dr. j. 4.
Aver 4 Co. are works of art WORTHY of a
place in any collection. ON receipt of green
stamp they will send st Of the cards to any
address.
Lieutenant j. W. Danenhower has agreed to
deliver q limited number of lyceum lectures
this season if his health permits
Work on the Garfield Memorial church,
Wash ngton. is going forward rapidly, and it
IS hoped that the cornerstone will be laid on
July ID, the anniversary of the assassination.
Mr.. Raymond l." NcWcomb, one of the re-
centy-arrived surviving officers of the Inflated
steamer Jeanette, is in Hartford, Ct. reading
the proofs of u forthcoming "Ilistoly of the
Jeannette Arctic Expedition"
A fire in the Storehousc Of the Pacific mills at
Lawrence. Mass, Friday night caused a loss Of
over u million dollars, fully insured. Two fire
men were suffOcated and several other people
injured. Spontaneous combustion is supposed
to have been the cause.
''tirst fruits of the new crop, breadstulS and
provisions will fall in price. and every branch
of industry receive Il new impetus, while the
era of prosperity. ushered in with the autumn
Of 1879, will be granted M indefinite extern
sion"
Cyclones now occur nearly every day in
some parts of the West. Added to these at
fractions of the summer solstice in the West. is
tidal wave, two miles wide and eleven feet
high, at Cleveland, Ohio, Friday morning Yes
sells parted their cables, piers were submerged
and railway tracks flooded. $50 600 damage
was done at Cleveland The wave receded in
sixty seconds. The wind blew tiercely.
Another terrible tornado Saturday swept over
portions of Iowa. Indiana. Minnesota. Nebras-
ka. Emmettsburg, the country seat of Palo
Alto County, Iowa, was destroyed and a num-
Der of persons killed and wounded. At the
towns OF Hoopersville and Spencer. large
amount of property was destroyed, eleven peo-
pie killed and large number wounded. IN Min
nesota, Indiana, and Nebraska the storm did
extensive damage. but the only casualties report
ed are the killing of two men in the last named
place.