The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-12-01

| passengers, 1874 of whom were in the cab
| in AS has become customary since the
low rates were made most of those on
board had return tickets and will be
back in Oregon within fifteen days. Sew
eral Astoria people are making the trip.
The British ship Rowena was towed
down to Fort Stevens by the Ralief and
Escort yesterday. She will leave out for
Falmouth this morning. Captain Reed
just before leaving made a wager of 800
with Captain George Warneke, of the
German bark Albert Rickmers that he
would beat him home ten days. People
along the water front believe that the
German has the best of the wager, for,
though the Rinkmers' bottom is very foul,
she is a superior sailer to the Rowena,
and her skipper is a man who knows how
to get every inch out of his slip.
The British bark Inversnaid which is
now on the way from Newcastle, N. S.
W., to San Francisco, had a lengthy
passage from London to Newcastle this
trip. She reached the equator in thirty
days after reaching London, but was
then carried by a strong current too close
to the Brazilian coast and then had to go
north again, crossing the line and finally
recrossing 1t on her fifty-seventh day out
OFF the Cape of Good Hope her ballast
shifted, causing a further delay and a
seaman was lost overheard. She was 13l
days on the trip and before her arrival
70 guineas per cent was paid on her as an
overdue ship.
The British ship Indian Empire bound
from Newcastle. N. s. W., to Mollendo,
put into Callao November I'd when she
was 1O7 days out and the captain sent
home the following cablegram: "Ship
was on beam ends twenty days: top
masts, yards, sails and rigging carried
away; lost main and cross jackyards,
spanker boom and jibboom three boats,
side of deck house stove in, forecastle
damaged cabin gutted. Ships papers
saved; lazaretto gutted; jettisoned cargo
to extent of 100 tons. Lost steward over
board. Waiting Instructions" When
the news arrived at Liverpool ninety
guineas per cent had been paid to effect
reinsurance on the vessel, and as the risk
of condemnation still existed forty
guineas per cent was paid on her that
day.
Tuesday nights storm, though its vio-
lence was little felt in Victoria, says the
Colonist, was wild enough on the water,
and ill-fared any small craft forced to
fight it. One of these was a little
white fishing sloop, apparently from Vic
toria, the wreck of which was discovered
when morning broke yesterday, only
about twenty yards off from the oper-
ator's house at Otter point. She was
then hard and fast, her stem altogether
under water and her sails showing at
times. No name could be made out, nor
anything to specially distinguish the
craft which was about thirty feet long
and had evidently capsized during the
previous night while running before the
storm. OF the men who had formed her
crew nothing could be learned, and the
only conclusion Mr.. Gordon could draw
from the circumstances of the wreck wa
that they had lost their lives. All day
yesterday the gale continued so strong
that every effort to reach the wreck was
Intellectual and the name or number OF
the unfortunate sloop must remain un-
known, until today at least. The wind,
II 1t continues from the same quarter,
will in a few hours more dash the wreck
upon the beach. When last seen yester-
day evening the sloop was full of water
and lying on her side-her stern to the
shore.