The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-11

perial College OF Dom Pedro II.
the college OF san lose, schools Of surgery
and medicine. military and naval academy
and lot Of pubic schools. AL Of the
big political bosses hold forth at Rio.
That city is naturally the great market
or Brazil and a. mas advantages such as
M ~ Tor concentrating the commerce OF
the globe. Its imports comprise the pro-
ducts or every country Its chief exports
are sugar, coffee. rum, building mber,
leather. talloW, gold. diamonds tOpaZes,
ainetnysls ana aQuamarlne. The bay, or
inlet Of Rio is seventeen miles in length
and eleven miles I'm width, and forms one
OF the MODEST harbOrs in the world
That's dry talk, but facts" he said,
suddenly breaking OF from his descrip-
ton OF Rio. IN tell you a story about
when / was a sailor lad. Our good ship
had on board an irish boy, who belonged
70 New York. While at Rio de JaneirO
Nike bought box Of cigars TO take home
TO his dad. on arriving at New York
accompanied him 10 his home. His moth
er met as at the door and after going
| through the usual joyous greetings of a
mother 10 her son. the old lady called in
nelghbor 10 tell her the news.
say. Mrs. Mulherin," she exclaimed.
with glee. Mickey has come home from
Ride We bold HOro and has fetched the
ould man box full Of leather pipes"
The little schooner Emma A.
| DickersOn went to sea yesterday from Ty-
bee for Honduras. The fact that she had
| 10 be at anchor at Tybee for several days
awaiting fair weather caused several ru-
mors TO get afioat that she was waiting
/ 70 take on cargo of ammunition to be
transported to Cuba for the insurgents.
/ There was no reliable foundation for the
/ rumors, however, as q was prepOsterous
to suppose that the small schooner could
/ take more cargo than she cleared with
when she left Savannah.
The steamer Vigilant has evidently be-
I
| between Boston and Plymouth. Mass, as
/ Capt. Gibson has had frequent inquiries
/ lately from parties who wish to buy her.
! Yesterday he received two kilograms,
/ one from Buffalo and one from New York.
| The parties were anxious to make ar
! rangements to purchase the boat. She
| is chartered for one hundred days by the
] Winthrop Steamboat Company Of Boston,
| which has an option on purchasing her
/ when the time of her lease runs out,
which will be in about two months.
The steamer Laurada of Iiberian emf
grafton and Cuban filibusterng fame is on
a marine railway at Philadelphia for the
purpose Of being painted
The Norwegian bark Regina. Capt. sor-
Wig, from Savannah for Harburg has ar
/ rived at Dover with mantopgaliant yard
| sprung and loss of jibboom, having been
| cut down TO the waters edge on port side
| amidships by being in collision of FOlke-
| stone, during a fog. with an unknown iron
/ bark, which proceeded on her way with
/ the loss of 1ibbOOm. The Regina has sew
eral feet Of water in her hold, and is being
/ toWed TO London. The Regina sailed from
| this port for Harburg June 3 with 4,823
! barrels of rOsin, valued at Sl5,20S The
| cargo was shipped by the S. +. Shotter
/ Company. Just before leaving here the
Regina was overhauled and recaulked.
About 5000 watermelons were shipped
north during the last two days on the
q zf grrnaaN Is
ed for New York, and the Chattahoochee
for Boston.
The Norwegian bark Ole Smith
Ploug, which arrived at Tybee
Thursday being 40 days from stet-
tin, has been ordered to vii
mington to load naval stores for Europe.
She sailed yesterday.
The barkentine Bruce Hawkins. which
cleared yesterday for Boston and was
ready to sail, has been detained on ac-
count of the illness of three of the crew.
They are sick with malarial fever, sup
posed to have been contracted by sleep
ing on the deck of the vessel
The United States snagboat Toccoa. was
hauled out on Jones marine railway yes
terday for repairs.
The steamer Ethel. which ran against a
snag on her last trip to Augusta and wa :
hauled out on Jones marine railway for
repairs, was launched yesterday. She left
Tor Augusta last night, taking the steamer
katie's schedule.
The steamer Katie met with an acct
dent on her last trip down from Augusta
trap on the piston slipped and broke the
cylinder mead. She will be ready to resume
her trips to Augusta next Tuesday.
Four vessels are chartered to arrive at
ms port with fish scrap, to be used with
fertilizer within the next two weeks.
They are the schooners George H Ames
now at Booth Bay Me. loading the In
seph w. hawthorne, now at Lewes, Del
ne ne EIl i; A. Seribner. at Lewee, Del, and
the joel Cook. at Philadelphia
The schooner Linah c. Kanunski yester-
aay nnished diseharging her cargo of
guano' which she brought from New
will load lumber for New York.
The schooner Rebecca NJ. Walls finished
dlscharging her cargo of coal YESTERDAY
and will sail to-day for Brunswick. wbers
she IS chartered to load lumber for Phila-
delphia or New York
The Norwegian bark Australia. which
has been at this port for the past two
months, finished loading a few davs apC
and Yesterday cleared for Guayaquil. &c,
S IaC with fne cargo of dressed lum-
per Tor a special order. The lumber was
snlpped by the Georgia Lumber Compan,,
$17666.32. a.
The barkentine Henry Norwell from
New York for Brunswick in baiIas.
which went ashore last THURSDAY on chi;
shoals, North Carolina, has broken ~,
The Merritt Wrecking Company were mn
able TO render her any assistance. The
crew Is at the life saving station tn
Henry Norwell was owned in Boston nv,
Mr.. Henry Norwell, who is also ov,nes
OF the barkentine Bruce Hawkins. who's
with cargo of lumber The Norwoi1
was in command of Capt Lord. She 80
hnilt In 1879 at Rath NJ -. - " -