The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-12-03

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SHIPPING DAYBYDAY
Marine Matters, Here, There aid
Everywhere.
The Claverdon will be down from Port
land this morning, wheat laden for Eu-
rope.
Pilot Malcolm left out yesterday with
the Galgate. He will accompany her to
Puget Sound
A full crew will be shipped on the AL
bert Rickmers today, and she will prob
! ably leave out for Falmouth tomorrow.
| The British bark Narcissus, from AS
| toria, has arrived at Antwerp in tow,
after being four days at Wieringen, where
she lost her anchor.
The Adirondacks, the largest river boat
in the world and the largest ever
launched in New York, took the water at
that port on November Goth.
| Millionaire Slater's yacht Eleanor has
| been seized by the sheriff of San Fran
cisco for a debt of $3.50 due by Slater to
hotel keeper at San Mateo, Cal.
| The will of Captain Winant, who was
| drowned from the steamer Bandorille last
week, leaves real estate in Oregon valued
at $1,000, $3.50 in cash and life insurance
of $4,000.
The British bark Pengwern came down
from Portland yesterday fully laden
dom today, if the weather permits of her
| departure.
The American ship S. p. Hitchcock
sailed from Honolulu November 7th for
New York with 57,S43 sacks of sugar, val
ued at $292, ,000 and consigned to the Amer
ict n Sugar Refining Company.
| The old Nicaraguan bark Don Carlos
arrived in port Wednesday night, says the
Journal, leaking like a basket, and was
rushed up the bay and onto the mud flats
by the tug having her in tow
! The steamer Columbia came in from
| San Francisco yesterday morning with
go passengers and a small quantity of
freight. The novelty of the low passenger
rates is wearing off, and every steamer
brings gradually decreasing crowd.
The ste amer Laurada has been libeled
for $4,000 in Charleston, s. c., by the
owners of the freight On the ground that
it was dam. .ged by the steamers calling
| at Cuba On the passage from New York.
| 1t Is held that the Laurada is f1ilbuster.
| Some gillnet fishermen are out in the
river after inferior steelheads which are
running we'll at this season of the year
| Two Portland firms are paying fair prices
for these fish, which they are freezing
and sending fresh to several Eastern
| centers.
female navigator, Mrs Minnie Mat
| thews, is now navigating the catboat
Herald from New York to Savannah, Ga.
| She IL accom- anied by her mother and
dog and is bound for the Atlanta exposi-
ton Mrs. Matthews will write sea-
story of her experiences.
Lew Parker, late sdvance agent of Ruff
! falo Bill, has invented balloon for carry
ing line from wrecked vessels to the
shore. The balloon is inflated by hydro
gen gas, and warranted to keep in any
| weather. Parker claims that his device
has been proved practicable.
Neils Peter Nelson, a sailor libeled the
American ship Susquehanna on the 18th
of November for $4,000 damages for the
breaking of his leg last Fourth of July.
He was injured while assisting in taking
down the studdingsaii boom from the top
of the forward house. He alleges negli-
gence and carelessness on the part of the
owners.
Fights between sharks and porpoises
are said TO be common in the waters
around the Florida keys and the fisher
men declare that the porpoises almost al
ways win the fight Ex-Treasurer Nc
| Creary, of Philadelphia, AYERS that he
| witnessed an encounter of this sort re-
gently in which the porpoise killed the
shark.
The threatened rumpus over Governor
| Altgeld's disposal of the model warshlp
| Illinois has been settled. The ship was
| turned over to the state naval militia for
| he ha q
| the Jackson park commissioners has de-
| cided that the brick ship was a nuisance
| Hence her disposal. The navy depart
ment has acquiesced.
The British barkentine Trinidad. which
| had been given up as lost, found her way
| into the port of New York November
goth. she was just 154 days making the
| passage from Auckland, New Zealand,
which should have not taken more than
100 days. So anxious were the under
writer's for her safety that she was rein
sIred in London at a premium of rs per
cent The Trinidad had not been report
from the day of sailing.
The largest sunfish ever taken in the
Atlantic ocean, it is said. has been on
exhibition recently in the show window Of
the A. Booth Packing Company of Chf-
cago. It measures feet from the tip of
the lower fin to the tip Of the upper fin,
while the lentgh from the nose to the tip
tip of the tail is feet inches. 1t weighs
2SO pounds, but this gigantic fish's mouth
is no larger than that Of human being,
II opened.
Captain d. b. Jackson, who has been
prominent in Puget sound steamboat
circles for thirty years, died at his home
in Seattle yesterday of diabetes. He was
81 years old. Captain Jackson was for
many years manager of the Puget Sound
| and Alaska Steamboat Company He