New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-19
BLUEFnsHryG IN CONNECTICUT WATERS.

Norwich. July IS (Special. -Bluefsh running
In the lvelest style In Connecticut and Rhode
Island waters They are big, game fellows,
and sportsmen have plenty of fun with them
Every day parties of fishermen sail to the fish
Ing grounds from this port, New-London, sonington
and other places along shore, and almost every craft
comes back with deck-load Of handsome blues. The
best fishing is in the waters OF Fishers Island and
Block Island sound, and in the Race oil Plumb Island
a few miles from New-London. Daily the blue waters
between NewLOndOn and Block Island are bright with
the white sails Of sch0oner, smacbs and sail boats.
and IL easy for boat to bag from dozen to sixty
or ninety fat blucHsh in ornoon's cruise. In some
years the wind fails for weeks al time, and. Of
course there Is no fishing; but this season there Is
spanking breeze daily and al the conditions for trolling
are superb. swordhshing, too, was never better.
The Block Island and stOungton swordnshermen are
r,aping a great pecuniary harvest. SwOTdsh lOiter
In Inc toria waters Of the Gull Stream or the neigh
bOrhOJd II, and the swordlsherheh Ot New-LOnuV'
stoningtJn and Block Island cruise Tor them ABOUT
fifteen miles east Of the Island. They go iorth ia
mmOas NOank smacks tnat are especially ntted Of inc
sport and proylsioned Tor Week. This Is tue hrst
year In which tie swoNhsherhich nave uuuer'ahe'
rhe West s,ilI has 10 send East for line breeding
cattle Within the last five years Connecticut FARMERS
have shipped hundreds Of high grade Jersey ana al
Ucrncy ouws 10 lndala, Kentucky, ONO, ana states
ScI big urces for them. Every from tnree 10
Six Western breeders travel through Connecticut seek
ing fancy stock. Phe most notable sale Oh DioVael
Jersey stock recently was made BY II. Ii. Flhch,
%itls dealer of Wi!limantic, few days ago. lie
snuuea i'm one herd Colonel ID. y. Heath, OF Craw
fonlsVille Ind thrty-iye COWS and calves all pure
bouled registered jersey and all the stock was col
lce ted by Alr. Finch on Wlndham, coventry, Mats
neM Lebanon aud Hebron hrms. The cattle cost
Colonel Heath from S35 TO $i5 head they NeN
shipped by the Boston and Albany roal anu VIII Go
even DAYS ON the Journey. They VIII arrive III
indiana m poor condition Il but that's nothing sald
,he C"onrl Two weeks of blue grass feed on my firm
win out them In better condition than when theI
s.art,I They Will then be- sold To dalrymen ana
t"rt herlers in the vicinity OF Charlottesville In
rem wears Colonel Heath has shipped 1900 head oil
rnnuncII rut Jerseys tO Indiana.
Inst outside OF New. London larbor, half way DO
tween thnt mort and Noank "a tall Iron spindle springs
omt OF the rough sea above sunken rocks zoo Saius
Srnm shore Ia the iron lattccd basket nerce hsh
eage has built her nest for the last fifteen OF twenty
vn,rs The nest which Is made OF dried SUCKS anu
@ grass Is nearly as big as bushel basket, and In II
the eage laws her eggs and rars brood Oh y0nns
cues safety each year The excursion steamer IooA
Island Of this city, passes daily within 100 yaras OF
tho .pudlc aud the nest attr1cs much attention rpm
The passengers sometimes the eagle IS seen on sef
net hut of;ener careerng wildly about the sphuie,
screaming defiance The spindle Is inaccessible except
10 sailors In stanch rowboat, but mol lohg ago MI.
rranls Sevn n Young OF this city, maze out 10
reach A. lie climbed the spindle and saw three eggs
in the nest aud then the eagle ATTACKED him heoey
rnd drove him and bis party out to sea