The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-21


tains are requested to call at the office.
Reports of wrecks and derelicts receiv-
ed for transmission to the navy depart
ment.
Derelict schooner, foremost only stand
nag reported in lat 81 03 n. Ion "A w, Oct
IS.
Derelict bark Udsre, reported Oct 10 in
lat 80 IA N, Ion 66 AZ w.
Derelict bark, lumber laden. in lat 80 IA.
N. lon 20 2 W. Oct, IS, reported by Capt.
Elmes Of the British steamship Buck
Minister
Washington, oct. H.-Notice is given b.
the lighthouse board that on or about oct.
20, 1896 1,000-pound bell, to be struck by
hand during thick or foggy weather, in
answer to signals from passing vessels.
will be established at Negro Island light
station, on the southeast end of Negro
Island light south side OF the entrance to
Camden harbor Penobscot bay. The bell
Is mounted on a small white frame tower
near the easterly side of the light tower.
Notice is also given that on oct. g. a
LOW-pound bell, struck by hand during
thick or foggy weather, in answer to sig
mails from passing vessels, was esta blished
at Grindel point light station, on the north
side of the entrance to Gilkey harbor Pee
nobscot bay. The bell is mounted on a
small, white frame tower near the west
erly side of the light tower.
Notice is also given that ON or about Oct.
81, lens-lantern light, showing fixed red
with fixed white sector, win be estab-
lished in the structure recently erected
in about feet of water, mean low tide
in Salem Cove, off the entrance to Salem
creek, east side of the Delaware river
The light will illuminate the entire hori-
zon, The white sector win extend from
n, 76 degrees sc minutes w (WNW n w,
southerly and westerly to n "a degrees
"a minutes e one q NJ, and cover the
channel into Salem creek from Elsingboro
Point to the mouth of the creek. Bear
ings from a vessel-The focal plane of the
light will be 161a feet above mean high wa
ter and AZ feet above the lantern deck.
The light Will be shown from white hex
agonal lantern on red, triangular pile
structure. The approximate geographical
position of the light as taken from chart
No l25 of the United States Coast and
Geodedc Survey, will be lat 80 "a 16, Ion
rs 81 OF. Bearings and distances of prom
inent objects are: Reedy Island Range
front lighthouses SO deg. O6 min w
(SW a 81, 4&t miles; Reedy Island Range
rear lighthouse, 46 degrees "a minutes
w (SW y W), AZ miles, Port Penn Range
rear lighthouse, 56 degrees % minutes
w (SW by W), 81 miles; Firms Point
Range front lighthouse, N % degrees G
minutes w (NNW p w, 15s miles; Firms
Point Range rear lighthouse, N 8 degrees
l6 minutes w IN Is w. Vessels bound
into Salem creek, coming up the river,
should pass nearly 4 mile outside of El-
singboro Point, and follow the edge of the
white sector, keeping it tinged with red,
until about Is mile from the light; then
swing slowly to the eastward so as Ia
strike the northerly edge of the white Sec
tor about Il mile from the light and fol-
low the edge into the mouth of the creek
Halifax, N S., Oct. 1S.-The steamer AL
pha (Br), Hall, from Bermuda, etc, which
arrived to-day, reports Southern Sambro
automatic buoy out of position and adrift
When 1t passed the buoy 1t was WIS,
u mile from Sambro.