The Portland daily press., 1896-08-26
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NEW SEARcHLIGHT FOR SHIPS Washing
ton. Aug IA new ana powerful searchlight
mas peen invented tor The purpose OF simplifying
senrchllgnJ operations board ship. II is port,
able and may be packed in box when not ill
USE. 1t call be attached Ill less than a minute.
Its weight Is just below l6 pounds. and il can
be ,...ndled with the greatest ease OF suspended
from chain operated by the cf1lcer on watch
Its peculiar feature is that II does not dazzle the
sight OF the operator. None of its beams are
wasted. aud IL gives high degree Of concentra-
Jlon OF light rays upon the object on which they
are directed The instrument has both auto
matte and hand feed, and The focusing arrange
ment is very simple. 1t shows small objects
! such as buoy, three-quartefs of a mile off,
While IT makes sails visible three miles away.
Domestic Ports.
BOSTON-Sld oath. sens sGrace Andra,vs,
Yarmouth, Ms; James Freeman, Machlas tug
Peter Bradley, towing barge Knckerbocker eor
Kennebec to load for Baltimore.
Ar 24th sch Anne Lord, Kendall, Baltimore.
Ar 18th, briggs Henry B Cleaves, Wallace,
Cockburn harbor, II. II days, with salt; Man
son, Grape. Guttenburg. M; Lena White. OFT,
George A McFadden, Wallace, Baltimore.
NEW YORK-Ar "a, ship Edward U'Brien,
Oliver, San francisco. 125 days: schs Merrill
HART and Samuel Hart
Sid oath, Darque PaySon Tucker, Rio Janeiro !;
SENS VIM } Lermond, Port Spain; Humarock,
Philadelphia; VIM II Sumner. Fernandina.
Ar 25tn, schs Grace T Willard Fail River; r
Also ar 25th. barque Meganticook, Bridgeton ;
sch Nantasket. Buenos Ayres.
CID, barque Emlta, Pray, Bahia; brig Eugene
2 ale, Harding, Pafainaiibo.
Sid, str Cottage City, Portland barque Emita,
for Bahia, and anchored at City Island
IATLANTICC oath, sch Winnegance
Philadelphia.
BAIT lMORE-sld Gath. ship M Grace, San
Francisco.
BANG OR--Ar 23d, schs Serena S Kendall
Wentworth, New York; Allendale. Sader. Bos-
| hIptiHnn Naw
Lizzie Clara, Raudail, Boston; Lillian, Grin
die, Plymouth; Emma Green, Lowell, Provi-
denee; Francis Coffin, Hutchins, Beverly; L d
Remick, Duffy, coastWise; oath. sch Charles A
Campbell, Robinson, Philadelphia.
BAIH-Ar Path, schs Celina, o D Witherel
Boston, passed up.
Sid, sens Joel Shepherd, Calvin Il circuit,
Major Pickands, Philadelphia; Jessie Barlow,
Jacob Reed, Francis Baird, Levi Hart. Atlantic
City
BRUNSWICK-Sld 23d. schs Lizzie Chad
wick, Clark. Perth Amboy and New York; Jo-
| sephlne Ellicott, Nash, Boston.
ELLSWORTH-Ar 21st, sch Fair Wind, Kief,
| GALVESTON-Cld 24th sch Carrie A Lane,
| Quick Port Tampa,
HYANNIS- Ar oath. sch Flora Rogers, Bun
ker Jacksonville.
NEW LONDON-Ar 25th, sch Mary M Brain
ard, New York.
Sid. sch Robert Mcfarland. NoanK for Darien.
| NEWPORT NEWS-Ai 24th, sch Alice Hol-
| brook, Ellis, Norfolk
Sid, sch Walker Arlington, Drinkwater.
Providence.
PERTH AMBoY-Ar 22d, sch Charles VIII
lard, Henley. New York.
Ar oath, schs Damon, Mitchell, New York
| Mary Stewart. Thurston, DO.
:. Sid Goth, schs Mary Stewart, Bangor; Damon,
| PHILADELPHIA-Ar 24Gh sch jams FL
| Dudley, Hagan, Wilmington, Del.
| Ar 25th, sch Charles Baich Crocker Bath
| Chas Schmidt do; Ida j Lewis, 90; Calvin +
Harris, Kennebec; Vim 5 Jordan, do Monhe-
| gan, do, Mary Manning. DO; Mary H Brock
way, DO; MAYNARD Sumner. Vinalhavsn.
GA, sch VIM IL Davenport, Pawtucket.
| PROVlDENCE-Sld 2Ist, sch Helen. Rogers,
| New York.
RoCKLAND-Ar oath, schs Miantonomah.
Ryan. Belfast for Boston, Charley Moolsey
| Bangor for Boston.
Sid, schs James Maloy, Burnett, New York;
Jennie 6 PiIlsbury, Blake, do; Crescent, Mchaf-
ley hurricane Island for do; Cha les r Wash
| ngtop, Collins Boston; Augustus Welt, Sprou
Bangor for Philadelphia.
aSALEM-Ar oath, sch Cumberland Little
| john, Port Johnson.
| SALEM-Sd 23d sch j V wellington, Rob
Dlns, Boston for an eastern port
| VlNEYARD-HAVE oath, sch Helen G
| hlng, Britt, New Bedford for Calais.
Ar 10Th. sch B D Prince, Coombs, New Bed
| lord for Lincolnville.
| SID, sch Lavillia M Snow.
Foreign Ports
In port at Rouen Aug 20, barque Leone for
| Bangor. TO load for Mediterranean.
| AR at Demerara previous to Aug "a, sch An
drew Adams, Hoyland, Portland.
| Ar at st John, NIB, Aug "a. sch Alfaretta s
Snare Boston.
Cid, sch P Emerson, Perth Amboy.
| In port at Greytown Aug 10, sch Gertrude A
Bartlett, Sproul, for Mobile, TO sail 18th,
Spoken.
July 20. lat $50 S, Ion SO, sch Nantasket, I'm
Buenos Ayres for New York.
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