The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-04-03
PASSED THROUGH FIVE GALES.
Sailing of the Numidian With a Valu-
able Cargo.

The Partisan, Commodore Barrett, to Ar
rive Sunday Fishermen in Luck at
Last-General Marine Notes.
The schooner Acorn, Captain Nash,
arrived yesterday. She was 80 days from
Ponce Porto Rico, and encountered five
gales of hurricane force. When off Cape
Hatteras, March 90. she split her jib and
lost her main boom. The sea was very
high. swept over her and the cabin was
flooded When she was struck by the
great wave 1t simply went straight over
her, and the water stood two feet deep in
the cabin after it passed.
Captain Nash set the men at work
baling out the water with buckets, and
the schooner scudded before the wind I'm
dor double reefed foresail.
j. Fl. Blake has found another Maine
woman who is smart at one hundred. He
said yesterday that Mrs. Pinkman of Mil
bridge is one hundred years old. She has
good eye sight and does considerable work
Captain Francis Of the schooner Mopang.
The steamship Numidian sailed yester-
day with full cargo. The American
portion valued at $3.50. 1858. consisted of
4S1 sheep, 210 cattle, a5,675 bushels OF
corn, 1449 boxes. 300 tiuroes, and "a boxes
of ham and bacon, 1877 barrels of grease,
IS tierces of tallow, Lib tierces, $500
pals, and 1875 kegs of lard, 1880 sacks of
flour, sacks oilcRke, 29S barrels Of APP
pies and 100 packages of canned meats.
The Canadian portion Of her cargo valued
at $73, sos consisted of 100 sacks Of barley,
767 packages of ham and bacon, 9549
pieces of maple blocks, 1856 bundles of
shock, 6131 pieces of deals, 1890 barrels OF
apples, 1868 boxes of cheese, "a packages
of chair sticks, Is packages of leather, 81
packages of emery stone, 1863 doors, Is
packages of carts, 131 packages of
handles, 18 packages of machinery, SO
packages of lawn mowers, 90 barrels of
older, 10 packages of sundries, 10 barrels
of -four, IS organs, So packages of pulleys,
80 horses and So cattle. She took out
seven saloon, seven intermediate and
seven steerage passengers.
The steamship Partisan, Commodore
Barrett, will probably be here Sunday.
She will bring 1850 tons of cargo.
The lower harbor showed yesterday
afternoon the presence of large number
of schooners in for harbor.
J. ". Trefethen reported the arrival
yesterday of the following fishermen:
Uncle Joe, with IL, 600 pounds Of cod and
haddook, Robert and Carr, with 10, 900
pounds, Emma Jane with Is, 600 pounds,
Mary e. Hagan, with 1000 pounds, Mon
ticello with 5000 pounds, On Time, with
1000 pounds My Fancy with 1000 pounds,
Sapolio, with 5000 pounds, Iras.g Kilborn
with 1000 pounds, Letta May with 1000
pounds. Small boats brought in 10, 600
pounds.
The fishermen are finding the weather
off this coast the most uncertain possible.
Yesterday morning promised to be good
fishing day, but the storm set in later on,
and was mixed rain and snow and very
thick. Looking from the barge Office
yesterday afternoon all that could be seen
of the sohooners in the lower harbor, was
a dim outline of the tall masts. Outside
the weather was nasty, as the fishermen
said. aud the bleated schooner came in
through the thickest kind of thick fog.
The mate of the schooner Acorn, was
taken sick at sea, and Captain Nash was
forced to put him ashore at Vineyard
Haven.