The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-11-14
A BUSY DAY ON THE FRONT.
The City of Peking Arrives
From the Orient.
Sailing Of the Mariposa After Two Days
Delay-The Glory of the Seas lowed
to Sea.

1t Is not often that the happenings on the
city front on Sunday are worthy of
record. except when an accident on the
bay or collision furnishes some items for
the news collector.
Yesterday was an exception, however,
and the longshoremen and dock wallpapers
had quite lively time of it.
The Oceanic Company's steamer Mariposa
sailed for Honolulu, Auckland and Sydney
at P. NJ yesterday, after delay of forty
five hours, caused by the late arrival OF the
English mails. She had a large cargo.
The Pacific Mail steamer City of Picking
arrived from Houg-kong and Yokohama.
twenty-three days from the former port and
fourteen and half days from the latter.
She had strong south southeast winds and
rough seas to the 1S0th meridian which she
crossed in "A deg. 40 min. north. On NOvem-
Der !, at 3 80 A. NJ, in latitude SO deg IS
min. north and longitude las deg. q min.
east, she exchanged night signals with the
Pacific Mail steamship Peru, outward
bound. The Picking had only eight cabin
passengers. among whom was j. L. Cowie,
y. ). y.
The Nicaraguan steamer Montserrat, of
"black birding" fame, left for Nanaimo
yesterday, chartered by John Rosenfeld's
Sons, for coal.
The ship Glory of the Seas, which was q
rare flyer IN her day, and made one of the
fastest sailing passages on record between
Australia and California, was towed to sea
at A. NJ. yesterday by the tug Sea King.
The ship was going to Nanaimo for coal
and took nOn-union crew. The men had
been put on board the vessel while at the
wharf, and fearing raid by the Seamen's
Union the captain put out into the stream
and kept an armed watch all night.
Three more whalers arrived from the
Arctic yesterday. The first was the Sea
Ranger, from the Fox Islands, with ESQ
barrels OF oil and 1000 pounds OF bone for j.
H. Bartlett. Later in the day the schooner
Bonanza arrived from the same islands with
$50 pounds of bone to j. McKenns. The
bark SEA- Breeze was towed in about the
same time with 10, 900 hounds of bone and 450
barrels of oil to j. McKenna. Neither vessel
brought any additional news to that fur
nished by the Orca two or three days ago.
The brig Gaililee arrived from Tahiti
yesterday, after fair passage of fhrty-two
DAYS. There is no news of interest from the
Society Islands.
A light breeze from the northeast en-
ahled seven coastlng scho0Ders, delayed for
wind, to put 20 sea for northern coast ports
Yesterday. They all went off ia a bunch on
the ebb tide during the morning. Their
names were the Mary Eta. Theresa.
Amethyst, j. G. Hall, Howard. Ivy and Cor
inthian.
Henry Abbott. the cook on the steamer
Nerues, at Long wharf, Oakland, was
assaulted by the crew at the supper table
last night and nearly beaten into insensi-
blity. During the melee part OF his cal
was bitten off. The fight arose over the
| objection made that Abbott did not cook
enough meat for supper
AS a result of the excitement and pro-
| tracted rotations OF Saturday nights tri
| umphal celebration, quite number OF
waterfront politicians appeared on thu
street late in the day with strips OF sticking
plaster on the bridge of their nose and theiI
| ewes in mourning,