The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-04-24
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
TU0rGIITS OF THE DAY
FROM BRILLIANT PENS.
Catch the surpius-The Coming summer
Old Time shppen Massachusetts u"
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o,ber Current Topics OF Interest.

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Other Current Topics Of Interest
CArca THE sUGrLUs.-The memphis
ipue4i refers 90 the next proposed s'""
AT The surplus as follows According
10 the plans il is proposed To cut "lu'
and decp channel from point near the
head of Chesapeake bay 10 a point near
the head of Delaware bay New OasUe
beinr the objective point. ms cahai
would be. perhaps. fifteen miles long
Apo,her canal about twenty-five miles
LONG would then be constructed from tne
Chesapeake. near Annapolis, through To
the Potomac. entering that river al
noint about opposite Alexandria. MS
wouid give the capital ample piotcciioh,
az a man-Of-war could be dispaiche"
there from League Island as cen
Ter in an incredibly short unle'
Then the scheme includes snip
canal from point on the Dela"aie
River below Bordentown straight across
New Jersey TO Rattan Bay, from when
mint there is natural deep wafer com
municatlon with New York, Jersey city
and Brooklyn, and all the cities ana
towns along Long Island Sound. J ne
ionr sea trim from New Bedford, Mass.
or Newport to Boston around lhe slrlp Oh
land on which Cape Cod rs located
would be- obyiatcd by cutting canai Il
Few miles long from Bulzards Bay 10
Cane Cod Bay, and thus there would ue
.continuous deep sea Navigation betwee,
washington and Boston, and be a prac-
ticallv straight line. The Cape Cod part
of the enterprise is an Old scheme
THE C0MING SuMMER-lt Is pre-
dicted bv some of our weather prophets
that the approaching summer VIII De
characterized by numerous and violent
electrical disturbances.
According TO one authority, scientlho
investigations covering q period OF many
vcars have established the fact THAT the
mild winters are followed by summers
with an excess of electricity in the
atmosphere The summer OF 1881 - re-
ferred 10 as "A memorable instance.
Dnring the present year thunder
storms of great severity have ragged IN
various localities, and few days ago
the passengers on a vessel in the Atlantic
saw huge ball of fire fall into the sea
-AHanN ConstHpton.
=, por
" here was " ,in'o' s"' ."D ,o,er,r
Gtobc' 'Wheh 10 De I'e''' t,, ~oJor tbe
was cohslueIc'' an iol'' =, o inst a. If
busseY in'Vi Lo ,1dodn eavs
happens. y i'' J.. ''''' .,I,a, moro ire
the N9". ,''' l' I....:.l ,,o Rnssov de.
quehuy IMAM "'" 49, T,oos,,r, al th,
clslOn is Io""''I "a, r,,do.
people money ioI '"9 "'n'' -. ,
serving applicants anu po"'''" ''''' No.
OLD-TNIE SKlrrERs ne New oih
Herdlds interview with 'cOlohci WIG
knew about the shlps oil olu 'ul'S
has the following interesting scraps ol
gossip.
None of my contemporaries are NV
ing. said the Colonel 10 me feeehuy
why, can remember Whch Oap''ii
Snow and Captain Marshall were Noun- Z.
sters AT sea. Ahram Bill, g.. ana t.. =
/ Rowland afterwards succeeded by th'
Aspinwalsl and {. Sands, in ZINE street
were then old established shipping Iim'
/ The Marshall line to Liverpool was as
tabished in 1917 call sailing vessels d
cOurscl. and The first ships 90 mat 'trFIV
were the Mcrsey. Don QuiNoie and oth
ers: any man put in a shipsand so on
"fOr the llayrc line, when Oolohe
/ Hinckcn entered it's employ lin lS32
/ there were the Charles Carroll, ETC
France and Rhone' all fun rugged ships
Even then the average passage Ie'"l'
was kept with the same spirit OF ryalr.
as in these days of steam. ] be aNefag
passage To this country Ito the west ara
a. it was termed, was tmriy.seVen day
and the AVERAGE passage To inc east ara
10 England was about twenty-five DAYS
Forty passengers would hll .he old-llm
cabins. and as for stecrage passengers
WHY. the ships were entitled io carr
two 'stecragc to every five tons register
So if shin was of 500 tons register SIN
was allowed 10 carry 2m Storage pas
senrers. ! have known them To- carr
more than the law allowed.
"The United States did not have Owe
100000 tons register OF shipping ia 10
Colonel llincken's records show, ana u
1890 il was away below that; IN ISL W
had 100000 tons American shipping be
ean to grow Immediately after The open
that il was almost impos'lpIc 10 KEY
the Western States OF country "''o'
one had fortune .i q,
From the opening -. va, ~ sLin
1860 the tonlase VI y me-. .a,ei'. g, ooo
grew from 9Vo'Voo 'o"' W. '''''
900 tons. 90. H.,
or the famous Nilppeis no say '""
But the writer rememD.Is u's''"t'''
repeatedly, on passage 10 AuslIaiia a., nav
ing hove the log ana louhu lhe / ~ III
Cloud doing twenty anu even ."en;S
two knots an neutrality-suspicious. "ign5 ds ~'
three skySa'iS SET any az 'su" h - nn,sr
ing she was u''sy, an'' nv. -. 20 -, -
screw Wheel l'ncn '9i's ,, 80 \" ' no,re
To altcr lhe helln o' .i'o CIV u1'''''7
The Comet 'oh'lhuou 'i' We
sailor, made inc run rom 9'n az
cisco TO New ORR III elShiy-lhlIee u"y
and the Sovereign oil 'ne 7eas cam
home from the sandwich Isi"n,s, ]
1892 in eighiy,'hree 9aSs. ne ''le",