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EASTERN DIVISION
FROM COMMERCIAL STREET STATION.

For Cape Elizabeth and Scarboro Crossing
Mg~12.25, 4.3o p. M.
For Portsmouth and way stations, 4.3o p. m.
-tConnects with Rail Lines for New York,
South and West.
4Oonnects with Sound Lines for New York.
sWestern Division from North Berwick Sun
days only.
SWestern Division from Dover.
hE~Connects at Scarboro Crossing with
train for Boston via Eastern Division.
Through tickets to all points South and West
for sale az Union Station,
JOHN W. SANBORN. Acting Gen. Man. Boston
w. f. BERRY, Gen'I Traffic Manager, Boston.
d. J. FLANDERS. G.. P. and I. A. Boston.
D. w, SANBORN, Genl, Supt., Boston.
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HARPSWELL STEAMBOAT CO.
Delightful Sail ss Miles Down casco Bay.

Delightful Sail 2e Miles Down Casco Bay.
Commencing July 4th steamers Chebeague and
Merryconeag will leave Portland Pier for Long
Island, 9.CO, 10.15 a. m; 200, 400, 500, 7.30
p. m. Little Chebeague, 600, 1918 a. m;
200 400, 800 p N. Hope and Great
Chebeague islands. Harpswell 500, 10.15 q.
M; 200, 500 p. IN. Bailey's and Orr's Islands.
900 a. M; 200, 600 p. m.
Return for Portand-Leave Orr's Island,
GOO, 1910 a. m. 400 p. m. Bailey's Island,
$40. 10.45 a. M; 3.45 p. m. Harpswell, 6.25,
11.35 q. M; ZOO, 4.25 p. m. Littlefeld's, $50
a. M; 2.25, 4.55 p. m. jerks Great Chebea-
que and Hope Island, 7.O5 a. M. 1905. 2.4O,
1920, $50, 445, $50 p. m. Long island, 7.4o
a. NJ; 1885, $40. 800, 5.35, $1,000 p, m. Ar
rive Portland, S.15 d. M; 100, 340 $50, 500,
Sunday Time Table.-Leaye Portland for
Long Island, 1000 "A. M; 200, 7.30 p. m.
Harpswel and intermediate landings, 1000
a. M. 200 p. m. Return leave Harpswell II. 40
a. H., $50 y. H.; Long Island, 1875, 500,
$1,000 p. IN. Arrive Portland, 100, $50 1890
p. m.
AOr at close of Casino Theatre, Long Island.
Sailing trips % miles down the bay, 800, 1915
a. m.; 200 p. IN. Tickets only 80 cents. Round
trip tickets, Portland to Long Island with adm s.
ion into Casino Theatre 20 cents Sundays to
Harpswel and return IS cents. Other Land
ings 20 cents.
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Chicago Cattle Market.
(RY Telepranhl

IBy ItI6gTdpnI
CHICAGO. July 70. 1892.-The Cattle market
Receipts $500; shipments :; best natives 10
@15c higher ;others steady good to prime steers
5 10a5 45; stoekers and feeders at 3 50@3 95 !;
Texans 25fD3 so; COWS 5Oa2 75.
Hogs-receipts 1900; shipments 11.OOo
opened 5@1Oc higher; closed lower; rough and
common =; mixed closed at 60G5 so; prime
heavy and butchers weights 85a5 35; light
at 65@6 90.
Sheep-receipts 5000; shipments $4,000; ac-
tive; prime sheep and lambs shade higher: ma
ings 5o@e 90; Texans 2o94 60; lambs 90
OF 90.
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CHARLESTON, July 70. 1ss2.-The Cotton
market is quiet; middling &C..
SAVANNAH. July II. 1ss2.-The Cotton
market is steady; middling &c.
MoBILE.July 10, 1s92.-The Cotton market
is nominal; mlddling 7c.
MEMPHIS. Julyl2 1se2.-The Cotton mar
ket is steady middlings &c.
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RAILROADS.
Portland & RumtOrd Falls Railway
In Effect june II, 1852.

In Effect June ~, 1882.
Leave Portland via G. T. Railway, daily $40 a
M 1.20 p. m.
RETURN1NG-Leav Canton daily S35 a. M
800 p. m. Mondays only 500 a. M
Minot for Hebron Academy; Buckfield for W
Sumner and Turner; Canton for Peru, Dix
field and Mexico; also. for Brettun's Mills
Livermore. L. L. LINCOLN, Supt.
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Foreign Markets.

IBy Ielegraph.)
LONDON, July 10, 1892-Consols 96 11-16d
for money and 96N tor the account.
LIVERPOOL. July IL. 1s92.-The Cotton
market is steady: mddling 3 l5-16d: sales u
600 bales; speculation and export 1000 b~,es.
LIVERPOOL July H. 1892.-Ouotations-
Winter wheat 6s 61ad96s Tad; Spring wheat
at IS edges 61ad. Mixed American corn at
As Tad.
Cheese AS Cd for white.
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Retail Grocers' Sugar Rates.

Portland market-cut loaf size ;confeetieners
&c; pulverized, &c; powdered &c; granuated
sc; coffee crushed, 3A C; yellow. SC.
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Boston &c MI aine r.. r.
In Effect June 26, 1892.
WESTERN DIVISION.


Trains leave Portland Union Station, for
| m l. As, $780, 5.15- H. $50 D. m.; Old Or
chard Beach, 7.3O. $40, 10.15 a. M, 1920,
145 $780, 5.15, SOB. 6.15, $50 p. m saco,
a3o. s45, 1918 a. .. M. 1920, 1;45,
ford. 7.3o, 8.45, 1915 a. m. 1920, Las,
$50, 5.15, $40 p. m; Kennebunit, 7.So. SAD
a. M, 1920, $50. 5.15. GOD $50 p. M. Wells
Beach, 7.3O, S.45 a. M. $50, 5.15 pm {;
Great Falls, 7.3O, S.45 a. M 22O, 5.3O, .l5sp.
m; North Berwick Kennebunkport, Dover,
a3o, 8 45 a n 1920, $50. 8 Is. 6.o5 p: NJ !;
South New Market Junction, Exeter, HAY.
erhill, Lawrence, Lowell, Boston, t7.3o,
| t8.45 a. NJ, +12.20 $50 p. M, 1906 p. IN. /;
Rochester. Harrington, Alton Bay. Wolf
| boro. S.45 a. M, 1920, $50 p. M; Wolf
| bOro, Center Harbor, Weirs, (via Alton Bay
1920 p. m; Worcester, wa Great Falls
| and Rochester), 7.30 a. M: Manchester and
| Concord, (via Lawrence), $40 a. M, 1920 p.
M, (yia So. Newmarket Junction., 7.30 a. m.
| $50 p. NJ
Boston for Portland, 7.so, 500, $50 a. m.,
| LOO 400 p. m.
Sunday Trains from Union Station, for
| Scarboro Beach, Pine Point, Old Orchard
Beach, Saco. Biddeford. 800, 1890 a. M,
| 1885, 200, $50. 4:15. $50, 6.20 and
| and 7.15 p m.; Kennebunlx, Wells Beach,
| Great Falls, Dover, 1855, 4.15, $50 p. m.
Exeter, Haverhil1, Lawrence, Lowell, BoS-
| ton, .55, $50 p. m.
EASTERN DIVISION.
| From Union Station. For Cape Elizabeth,
Scarboro Crossing, nzS@8.45 a. NJ; Ames-
| bury, $50, 900 a. M. 1890, 600 D. m. !;
| Biddeford, Portsmouth, Newburyport. Sa-
| Iem Lynn, Boston, GALS 1880 a. m. daily,
| Boston fer Portland, 7.3O a. M. 5000 a. m.
| dailyl IL. 80 D. M. $500, 9,45 p. nj. daily.)
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Railroad Receipts.

PORTLAND. july IL.
Receipts by Maine Central R. R.-For Port
and. 100 cars miscellaneous merchandise for
connecting roads lab cars - e
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Memoranda.

Astoria. Ii, July 11-Sch Scotia, bound east,
struck on Browns Point, and had to take the
assistance of tug. Damage supposed to be
Havana, July 9-Sch C W Lewis, Kenneally,
from Santa Cruz for New York, with timber,
is ashore at AlacraneS.
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Cotton. Markets.

NEW YORK. July IL. 1S92-The Cotton
market is quiet and 1-16c lower; sales 1851
bales good ordinary uplands 4 15-16c; do Gulf
5 5-16c; good ordinary stained 7-16c middling
uplands 5-16c do Gulf 11-16c; do stained at
6Nc.
NEW ORLEANS. July IL. 1592.-The Cotton
market is easy; middling 1-16c.
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New York: .Iohn Fl cross, Brunswick; John

New York; John II Cross, Brunswick; John
Paul. Whittier, Norfolk
DUTCH ISLAND HARBOR- Ar 10TH schs
Dick Williams Hodgkins, and Leonessa from
Bangor for New York; Irene Meservey, Me-
servey. Clark's Island for do; Saml Hart, Hart,
Blueliill for do: st Elmo, Kennedy Rockland
for do; CYRUS Chamberlain, Dobbin Thomaston
for do Grace p Willard, Gardiner Fall River
for do NAV Day, Perry, Calais for New Haven;
July Fonrti. Atwood, Bangor for do; Ulriea
Smith, Pickett. do for New Rochelle.
NEWPORT-Ar 10th. sch Wyman. from
Philadelphia.
Sid 10th, sch Merrill C Hart, Waldoboro.
Arliith. schs Ira b Sturgis Blaisdell, Wis
casset; Lizzie Raymond, Raymond, Gardiner
for New York.
NEW NEW BEDFORD Ar 9TH sch Enterprise,
VINEYARD HAVEN Ar 18th, schs Flya-
way, Vinalhayen for New York; VIM H Mitch
ell, River Hebert, Ms, for do; Jas Warren, Cal
ais for do: Charley Woolsey, .Rockland for do;
Montezuma Bangor for Providence; Gen Banks
Sullivan for do; S B Wheeler, Richmond, Me,
for Wilmington.
sALEMgAr 9th, sch Ida G Southland, Phila-
delphia.
Also ar 9th. schs NJ Cushman, Boston for
Beverly; Annie Gus. Hoboken; Mole Rhodes,
Baltimore; Emily Ellsworth @y.. 4
BATH-Ar~ 18th. schs Warwick Tillotson,
Portland; Kate Markee, Boston.
Sid 10TH schS Jonathan Sawyer. Philadelphia
Nettie Champion, and j X Manning, do; Mar
vim Kelley, Boston.
GoR-Cld 9th, sch Willie H Child, Giles,
Philadelphia.
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OFFIcE OF L1eHr-HoUsE BOARD.

Washington, DC :, June a, 1882.
Notice is hereby gwen that on or about July
Is, 1892, fixed red beacon light will be ex
hited from an upright 20 feet above mean high
water, standing at the edge of the south bank
of the st Croix river, about 21a nautical miles
below Calais, Maine, 800 feet above Whitlocks
Mill and directly opposite Hills Point, at the
NarrowS The Illuminating apparatus will be a
tubular lantern, and the light will be maintain
ed only during the season of navigation.
BY order of the Lighthouse board,
JAMES A. GREER.
Rear Admiral, U. S. N, Chairman.
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DIAMOND ISLAND, YARMoUTH&
FALMOUTH FORESIDE ROUTE.
Time Table 1892.

Time Table 1892.
COMMENCING June 6, steamers Alice and
~ Isis leave Portland Pier for Yarmouth,
1925 a. m. 2.20 and 800 p. m.
For Falmouth Foreside, S.25, HOO a. m.
and 2.2O, 500, 6.15.
For Diamond Island, $50, 7.45, 1000,
HOO, 1915 a. N. 2.10, 400, 5.15 6.15 p. m.
RETURN.
Leave Yarmouth for Portland and inter
mediate landings, 100, 945, a. m. and $40
p. m.
Leave FalmouthTown Landing, $50, 7.30,
10.16 a. m. LOO, 4.15.
Leave Diamond Island, $50, 7.2o, SIS,
1890 a. m.; 1.25, 2. 40, 4.45, $50 p. m.
Royal River House carriages from Yarmouth
vile will connect with steamers at Yarmouth
Foresde. B. Nj. SEABURY. Gen'l Manager.
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New York Mining Stocks.
CBy TeIeeraph.)

NEW YORK. July 12. 1S92.-The following
are to-days closing quotations OF mining STOCKS:
Col. Coal. .,.,.......,,.,.. 351a
Hooking Coal. $3.50. -. Ia
f1omeSuake .ss.. Il w
Ontario. ...... ...... .............. 80
QUICKSILVER. -. .ss...
90 p1d 10 W
Mexican. .......... =. ~. 5000.
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FREEPORT STEAMBOAT co.
Time Table For 1902.

lime Adnie e OF ioo~.
GTEAMER PHANTOM on and after Mon
- day June 30 will leave Freeport at $50 a.
p IN. Great Chebeague 7.05 a. M; 2,4O p. m.
Littlejohn's Island 7.10 a. m; 2.45 p m.
Cousins Island 7.15 a. M; ESQ p. m. Fal-
mouth Fore Side TAO a. M; $40 p. IN. Ar
rive at Portland $50 a. m; $50 p. m.
RETURNING-ieave Portland Pier 9.25 a.
M; 500 p m, Falmouth Fore Side 1000 a. nj. !;
$50 p, m. Cousins Island 1925 a. M; 600
p. m. Littlejohns' Island 1920 a. m sos p. m.
Great Chebeague 1o.40 a. M; Clio p. m. VOLTS
Point 11.O5 a. M; As p III. Arrive at Free
port IL 10 a. NJ. !; g. so p. m.
Fare to South Freeport, including drive of
five miles, making an Excursion Of SO miles for
ST. the round trip.
Passengers taking the 925 a. m, boat for
Freeport will arrive In time for trains going
East Passengers coming West by all a. nj.
trains can have delightful ride and sail by
taking our carriages at Freeport Village for
2.05 p, m. boat arriving in Portland at $50 p.
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Portland Wholesale Market.

PORTLAND. July z, 1892.
Car lots Oats lie off. Sugar easier. Onions
higher. Butter weak.
The following are to-day's quotations of Grain,
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Notice to Mariners.
OFFICE U. S. LIGHTHOUSE INSPECTOR, .
First District
Portland, July 10, 1892. J
Notice is hereby given that the following new
buoys have been established, viz:
En- Bluehill Bay-West Point of Long Island
a red Spar No g. in 5 feet, and 100 yards from
the Sandy Point, at low water.
In BluehilI Harbor-Sculpin Point, a red Spar
No2. Buoy is 80 it w by w from the point
at low water and is in 10 feet.
Triangles,-a black Spar, No 3. 80 it south OF
the northern rock i'll IA 1t at low water.
Slower Rock,-a red Spar, No 4, 20 it S W
from tho rock in IA feet.
By order of the L. H. Board,
FRANK WILDES,
Commander, q. S. N,
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STR. FRANK JONES

for Bar Harbor, Machiasport and interme-
sRuns daily, sundays included. might ex-
press with sleeping cars attached, runs every
Monday morning, or to Belfast. Dexter or be-
yond Bangor, excepting Bar Harbor on
Sunday mornings. fRuns daily, Sundays in
Guided, through to Bar Harbor
White Mountains and Quebec Line.
For Cumberland Mills. Sebago Lake, Bridg-
ton, Fryeburg, North Conway, Glen. Bar
tlett, and Fabyans, S45 a. M, i:05 and
6.15 p. M. and fer Cumberland Mills and
Sebago Lake at 25O p. m; St. JOhnsbury,
Newport and Montreal. S.45 a. M. 6.15 ..
m. jefferson and Lancaster. $40 a. m.
and LOB pm. For North Stratford, Cole
brook and Quebec at LOS p. m.
The S.45 a. IN. train connects for all points in
Northern New HAMPSHIRE. Vermont Chicago
and the West; and with the Canadian Pacific
Transcontinental train for Vancouver and Pa
runs daily, Sundays included, and has through
sleeper for Montreal, where connections are
made with trains via 500" Line for Mime
apois and ST. Paul.
ARRIVALS IN PORTLAND.
From Waterville and Lewiston. $50 a. M: Au-
bury, Fabyans and Bridgton, 8 a. M; ST.
John, Bangor, etc., Las a. M; Harrington,
Skowhegan and Lewiston, 11.50 a. m.; Bar
St. Johnsbury, lancaster. Fab;yans and fBridg
ton,- 12.l5 p. M. Sebago Lake 445
p. m; Wateryille, Bath, Augusta and
Rockland, 5,25 p. M; Flying. Yankee
5.35 pm. /; Rangeley, Pennington, Skowhegan
Waterville and Lewiston, $40 p. nj; Mont
real, Quebec, Lancaster Fabyans, Bridgton,
SIS p. M; Night Pullman, u 40 a. M and
Bar Harbor Night Express, $500 a. m.
Sundays included.
PAYS0N TUCKER,
Vice Pres. and General Manager.
F. E. BOOTHY, Genl Pass, and Ticket Agent
Portland. June "a, 1892. dt.
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MARINE NEWS
PORT OF PORTLAND.

TUESDAY. July IL.
Arrived.
E Steamship Cottage City, BENEFIT, New York
passengers and mdse to B COyle.
Steamer State OF Maine, Colby, st John, NB.
via EaStport for Boston.
Sch EleaZer w CLARK, Goodwin, Philadelphia
coal to Me Cent RR..
Sch Viola M Brewer, Brewer, Seal Island, N y,
with 5000 live Holsters to j HI Trefethen.
Sch Diana, Clark, Maehias - wood to J III
Blake.
SCH Helen Maria. Alley, Machias-wood to
j HI Blake.
Sch Shepardess, Tibbetts, New Harbor.
Sloop Electric Light, Condor, Shag Harbor, -
Holsters to Willard q Skillin.
Cleared.
Sch Gertrude Trundy, Davis, Kennebec and
Charleston-J Winslow & Co.
Sch P Hitchcock, Blair, Kennebec and
Philadelphia S Winslow & Co..
Sch w L Burrows, for Glen Cove-Portland
Sch Starlight, Bunker, Tremont---J H Blake.
Sch Railroad, Simmons, Friendship = J IL
Blake.
Sch Louisa Frances, Thorndike, Belfast
KenSeIl & Tabor.
Sch H S Barnes, Bapgor-Kensell & Tabor
SAILED-Sch Kate B Ogden.
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS.
ROCKPORT, July 1o-Ar sch Jennie M Car
ter Ober Boston.
PORT CLYDE, July liar, sch Agnes Downs
OF Gloucester, with lao bbls mackerel.
EXCHANGE DISPATCHES.
Ar at Demerara prior to July 10, barque Me-
gunticook, Wallace, Norfolk.
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Boston Stock Market.

The following were to-day's quotations of
stocks Boston:
Atkinson. Topeka & stanta Fe R.......s3eA
C.B. q .1O01s
Mexican ConIrali So, 81 o14
Union racine ......... o7%s
Boston & Maine r. Observation-Disclosures.
Bell Telephone ......204
New York and New England r. ........ STA
do pfd. ................. SO
Maine Central r.. Observation-Disclosures.
Portland. Saco s. Portsmouth r. ..13o
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Foreign Ports.

Foreign Ports. .1
At Singapore May 81, ship Willie Reed Yates,
for New York.
Sid FIN Queenstown July /, barque Soutnard
Hubert, Soutard, from Portland, o, for Liver
pool.
Ar at Barbados June 18, brig Stockton, Al
len, Gold Coast Africa % days, for Turks Isl
and and Boston.
Sid I'm Port Spain June "a, sch Warren Ad-
ans, Gilchrst Philadelphia.
Sid FIN Cienfuegos June "a, sch ID III Rivers,
Cocord, Delaware Breakwater.
Sid I'm Cardenas 9th inst, sch Bertha Warner,
Norwell, Philadelphia.
Sid I'm Matanzas 9th inst, sch Penobscot,
French. Boston.
At Matanzas 9Th inst, sch Cumberland, for
North of Hatteras.
Af at St John, NIB. 18th inst. schs Leo, Syph-
ers, Rockport; Vesta Pearl. Barton. do; Roy,
Hanselpacker, Rockland: George g. Everett,
Green, do; M Stanley, Flower, do.
Cid 18th, schs Vado Hatfield, Thomaston
Comrade. Akerly, and Sea Bird, Andrews, for
Rockland.
Spoken.
July 4, four miles SW OF Cape Antonio, sch
Charlotte 7 Sibley, from Cienfuegos for Della
ware Breakwater.
July s, lat 81 2e, lon ~ Is, barque Jose D
Bueno, from Guantanamo for North of Hat
teraS.
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NEW EXCURSION ROUTE,
BY STEAMER PHANTOM,

Will leave Portland Pier for Mere Point and
all landings, week days, at 9.25 a. m.
Returning leave Mere Point for all landings
at 1.3O p. nj.
VIII leave Mere Point Tuesdays. Wednesdays,
Fridays and Saturdays at $50 a. m. for all land
ings. Returning leave Portland Mondays,
Tuesdays. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays
at p. m. for Mere Point.
iu2Odtf III. B. SOULE, Manager.
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CORN.
New York Stock and Money Market.
(By Telegraph.

NEW YORK. July IL. 1892.
The following are to-day s closing guoUauons
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ROYAL BLUE LINZ.
Finest and Safest Trains in the World
-BETWEEN-
New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Washington

New York. philadelphia, Baltimore ana
Washington
VIA
CENTRAL RAILROAD OF new JERSEY,
PHILADELPHIA & READING R. R.,
BALTIMORE & OHIO R. R.
All trains vestibuled from end to end, lighted by
gas. Unequaled dining car service.
TIME TABLE May %, 1892.
Leave New York from foot of Liberty street,
North River,
For Philadelphia at 4oo 7.45. 900, 1000,
11.30 with dining car, a. M. 1.30, 2.15, $50
with dining car 400, 500, 600, 7.30, 8.45 pm.
1915 night. SUNDAYs-9.oo, 1920, 11.30
with dining car a. m. 1.3U, $50 with dining
car 800, 600, p. M, IL. Ill night
For Baltimore and Washington daily at 500,
11.30 with dining car a. M; 1.30 $780, dining
car 500 p. m 1915 night
Additional train week days for Baltimore at
COOP. m.
ParIor cars on day trains -sleepers on night
trains.
Tickets via this line are on sale at principal
Railroad offices throughout New York and New
England.
Boston office, 211 Washington street.
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Provisions, Produce, etc
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EXCHANGE DISPATCHES.
Ar at Demerara prior to July 10, barque Me
gunticook, Wallace, Norfolk.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-01-07
GALLATIN WRECKED
Went Ashore on Manchester in Thick
Fog Wednesday.

MANCHESTER. Mass, Jan. United
States Iev-nue steamer Gsllatin was
sreeked # NJ snchester At IL. Il this morn
log. The GsiIatin started from kuery,
Ne, this mornipg, und scross the bay to
Provin ceIowr, with two I'll ;eis short. AT
SO che passed S.lvages 10 her cou''e
south The patent log was set, and a IS
tle weather became thick. and soon besan
TO sIos. The course of the vessel WAS
then changed, intending to make Glouces-
ter for hsrbor.
At 10 Is took in all sail, and put an K "a
man on the lookou;. AT IL made land
which looked iise Rock leland ahead
Sounded, and l2 fsthoms water beingsh ,~r =,
the engine was stopped and backed Hire
the mistake was made The pilot took the
lard to be Kettle Bottom Island. but t.
stead it was Great Egg Rock. With thi,
ides the boat was started ahead, due east
heading for Eastern Point.
Attn - the vessel struck on sunken
ledge. the engine was backed, but the
vessel was fast. She began pounding
heavily, and the captain called to the men
to man the boats. The boat was rolling
heavily. and filing rapidly, as the heavy
Sea had carried away the skylghts. The
IS AZ los koibk " VIC uOHii w
sibosrt, struck and instantly killed j.
Jacobson, the carpenter, and carried the
body overheard.
The vessel was sinking fast and all hands
took TO three boats and sighted land on the
mort side. They pulled in and reached
Rocky Cove =, Egg e head. The boats
were left on the beach exeep. one, which
WIS carried Wound to the vest ard besched
On the ssnd This boat was saved, but tn
others dfiited off with the tide. TIE eff
GERS AID crew were wet to the skin ard
vent Immediately to the house of j
Babcock, where shelter was provided. The
fficers were taken TO the Manchester
House and the crew sent to Boston.
The crew saw q small schooner cspsized
of Magnolia with four men clinging to her
but Loaf sight OF her in the binding snow
storm.
At 80 the storm sbated sufficient
ly to sight the vessel which had broken in
Two, the foremost being sill that was stand
ing. The hull was entirely submerged and
the We ssei is a toiA! lcss.
Tine eftiaers and crew lost everything as
it was less than ten minutes from the time
she struck before she filled with water
The fault seems to be with the pilot. who
lost his reckoning, The vessel was in COM
maud OF Capt. Eric Gabrielson Of Edgar
town. Mass. There was on bosrd nine
other officers d twenty-eigh, sesmsu.
The vessel was Is vssrs old.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-01-07
THE DESERT LAKE DISAPPEARING.
Going Away Almost as Mysteriously as
il Came.

san FRANCISCO, Jan. 6-rbe lake in
the heart of the Colorado desert, which
made its appearance go mys'efiopsly last
summer is now Disappearing Superb
terdent Dubrov of .he salt works at SsitoD,
in speaking OF the strange phenomenon,
said
1T vas not the gusntty Of water that
passed through the cfevssse Of the COLORADO
river that made Ssl,on Lake. This crsvss'e
was measured and was fou1d to be only
300 feet wide, but the lake was made by
the general overflJw of the backs for ten
or twelve miles to a depth Of % feet, with
. current of five miles an hour. That over
fIS vas the true cause of the lake
being formed at Ssltoa. At least
two-thirds Of the water that passes
through the crevssse flows southwest
aud reached the Colorado river nesr
il. mouth S,l,on lake is nov only ten
miles long and eight miles brosd and has
Gully 13 inches of water in its deepest place
Its greatest sres in August WAS ten miles
By 80. Ii il my opinion that unles the
Colorado river rises to nesrly the same
height ss il did last February. little water
from 'ha river will reach Salton. Lskes
that we're formed between the Colorsd1
aud Sslton have entirely disappeared ard il
will take al immsnse volume Of water to
q Il again these depfe,sions. Indeed, until
III y are filled the water cannot reach Sal
tor.
From present appearances there will
be no BOD IN the Colorsdo in February,
ard hence the summer rise will be small
The VIVID Of this winter has been filing up
the channels cut by the water tbs. came
to Sslton LAST sumner. The moisture ha.
caused 8 growth Of metquite. the seed Of
which vss carried over the desert By the
water to p aces where no vegets,i,n va.
ever known. These trees will he the
means Of forming ssnd dunes, which will
serve a. barriers to future flods. With
no bigh water this yfsr, these trees
ard drifting sand will have nearly
two yesrs TO form checks to the
high water OF 1898 This viii
De ample time to cut of ali water comma
nication Of the Colorado With Salton- L.
10 bat 8 question of time WHEN the depres
sion in toe Colorado desert viil be ensireig
eat CT from the water Of the Colorado river.
The sAnd hills. beginning about Plot Kaob
and 81 sendi1g about 40 miles, are gradually
reschlng the Cocopsh m3untains. When
Joined to these mouns.'ns, they will form
barrier from 900 to 800 feet high ;hst will
entirely shu; eff the ~ster Of tie Colorado
river from the Neg river Country and Sal
ton. The channel through which the water
came lsst egmner Is ro~ entirely dry FIR
100 miles from Ssito1.