The Portland daily press., 1897-11-17
POTATOES FOR THE sPANIARDS.
A Vessel Here With Load of Them
for Cuba.

| Demefrara and Other Items
Inc nsh arrivals yesterday were larger
IMAM they have been for some weeks.
Among other vessels which brought in
large cargoes yesterday were the schooners
Emma Lane, Florence, Juiletta, Maud
Muller Edward Trevoy, Uncle Joe and
hattle Evelyn, These vessels all clean
onoii nsh at the various wharves where
Vhey We're hauled up and the offal thrown
ineo One water shortly attracted a large
NUMBER of sen gulls who circled round
ana round the wharves for hours. There
seemed to be a hundred or more of these
sraceiuI birds and their operations in
gatherlng a dinner attracted large
crowd OF people who watched them with
great anu sement for some time.
ihe schooner Charles P. hoffman ar
rived yesterday with very large cargo
of coal.
A cargo of potatoes and British pota
Ioes at that, are on their way to Havana.
yesterday the British schooner Sierra was
lying at anchor In the lower harbor
waiting for favorable wind to sail on
nef long voyages1 TO Cuba. In her hold
are hundreds of BARRELS of potatoes, which
are to Be, turned into food for the Spanish
army who saresfghting the Cuban insur-
gents, sqa, 50 sss5s - =
The bark Hattie.S. Jackson has arrived
mere and will shortly take on load of
shook at j. Fl. Hamlen 81 Sons for Mar
Unique.
Inc schooner Florence, when she sails
LOT Demerrara, will carry among other
Things large number of turkeys, geese
and chickens. E These have been gathered
from all the country hereabouts and viii
give the sailors of the Florence plenty
OF barn yard music when they are stored
away in the vessels hold.
| Yesterday Mrs. Cornelius Conley of
Cape Elizabeth sent into Portland for
| shipment drove OF rs or more.large-
sized pigs and hogs. These were loaded
into cars and will be semitic Chicago to
be turned into sweet hams and spare
ribs for thel editication of, the Western
people, and perhaps some of these pigs
may come back to US In few weeks
labelled Western Pork Well, these
hogs seemed to know that they were bound
on their last journey and when they were
being driven into car on the Inter-
national Steamship Company's wharf,
one of the largest of them broke away
from the rest of the drove and started to
run away. One Of the men who was SUI
perintending the shipment, ordered one
of the intelligent looking shepherd dogs
to go get him. In an instant the faithful
animal was after the hog who was wal
| lowing through the mud and soon had
Mr.. Porker by the ear. The hog set up
a most unearthly squealing and tried to
shake the dog oft, but without success.
Finally the dog got the big fellow back
to the drove and released his grip on the
ear when away went Mr.. Porker SEQ
ond time. Once more the dog caught
him and held him until one of the drovers
came along and picked him up by the
legs and carried him back to the car
Mrs. Conley ships a large number of
pigs and hogs every year to Chicago and
she gets big money for her stock, too, SO
it is said.
| The government steamers have big
job to do every year about this time.
and replace them with buoys painted
white. The other night after the govern
ment steamer had placed one of these big
buoys in position vessel came along
ami struck it fair blow with her stem.
! The result was that the big stick of tim
Der, eight inches or more in diameter. was
broken short off, but the vessel escaped
unhurt. - s a
Contractor Benefits crew of men are
repairing the ferry slip and putting it
| in shape for the winter. S 81
S. A.True & Co., have sold the schoon-
er Enterprise which has been laid up at
tho dock in this port for many years to
Rockland. parties. The vessel was once
used as packet between Portland and
Harpswell, but of late years she has not
seen much service.
| A petition for a lightship to be located
near the entrance to Portland harbor is
being circulated among and signed by
| the shipping merchants and others of the
city. 1t will be presented to the light
house board.
The schooner Robert Inglee Carter, that
furnished the newspapers SO much materi-
al for water front gossip last winter is
doing active service as a coal barge be-
tween Philadelphia and Boston.
Shipping Commissioner Tolman has
signed crews for the Edith L. Allen,
bound to Philadelphia and then return
! east, and for the John b. Coyle for one or
more ports in South America.
| The Aucocisco brought up large
| freight from Harpswell yesterday. Two
cows had a chance to get their sea, legs on
and they did not act as though they had
enjoyed the "trip very much. VII
| Thirty-fives cars of export grain and
other merchandise arrived over the Grand
| Trunk yesterday morning.
| The dredge at work in the dock between
| Grand Trunk freight sheds Nos. 2 and 8
seems to be good for something besides
| digging mud. Yesterday it brought to
the surface a number of sunken niles