The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-03-26
HARBoR DRIFT.
Items of All Kinds Picked Up Along
Shore.


The tug lea King started out yesterday
afternoon to tow, to Boston the schooner
A. L. Butler, and the brig Henry D.
Cloayes. When rounding the Cape the
hawser of the brig gave way and she
went adrift The Ice King had consid :.
erable trouble In picking the brig up and
getting under way again but finally the
vessels wers taken in tow and contin-
ued on to Boston.
The Golden Sneaf came off the Marine
railway yesterday at high tide and the
B. q. Cromwell took her place and will
be repaired
The Allan liner Laurentian. Capt.
John Brown, smiled yesterday afternoon
for Liverpool with cargo of about 8, 900
tons.
The Canadian shipments were: Forty
Thousand and ninety-three bushels wheat,
Tic pieces deals, 7113 maple blocks. 104
boxes butter, 50 packages leather, 951
boxes, Be tierces and IL kegs of meats. $50
cases splints, ITO sacks oatmeal and 677
barrels Canadian apples.
The American shipments we've: Two
hundred and thirty-four boxes and ten
barrels of meats, 1859 sacks of -four,
1,76t sacks bran and 2. 396 barrels apples.
!, Her live stock comprised 1868 cattle and
AZ horses.
The Laurentian took several passen-
gers from this port and will receive more
at Halifax.
The steamship Scotsman is at the ele-
vator taking in grain.
A heavy offshore gale was expeotsd
last night by the old saltssalong shore
and vessels warned by rapidly falling
barometer wee coming liz for sh elter
during the afternoon.
The mud and slush is four riches deep
along the line of the wharyes yesterday.
The harbor is full OF vessels that put in
for port during Wednesdays storm. The
Boston boats vera late at both ends OF
the route, the fremont not arriving here
until Q o'clock yesterday morning. She
reports very rough trip Wednesday
night.
The Manhattan had rough time COM
ing from New York and did not arr We
until yesterday morning.
The fire boat steamed out yesterday
morning and moved several vessels that
had anchored directly in the path of
navigation.
The Herbert Resssing brought in $500
Holsters for N. +. Trefethen.
MIR. Benjamin F. Gribbin, the fish
warden, made a wholesale seizure of short
Holsters Wednesday that will be dis
courager to the short crustacean indus
captured SOL short Holsters from the
smack Exchange, Capt. Henry e. Davis,
which brings Holsters to 8. A. Skillings.
The smack came up In the night and
had unloaded part of her fare of /, 451
Holsters into the cars alongside the wharf
and part remained in the hold. War
den Gribbin had heard, however, that
short HOLSTERS were being bought freely
and proceeded to investigate. After his
investigation there we're $50 left that
met the legal requirements as to size.
The seizure lays the captain of the Ex-
change-open to fine of s551 and costs.
The bark Carrie WinsIow has finished
loading her cargo of lumber and will
sail Friday for South America.
The revenue cutter Woodbury. sailed to
the eastward on short cruise.
The tug Nottingham sailed Yesterday
morning with three loaded ice barges for
New York.
The tug Paoli has gone on the Marine
railway for.Iight repairs.
The steamer City of Bangor, which has
been laid up at East Boston during the
winter month. is being overhauled aud
will take her place on the route to Ban
gor April II.
Some time in the vicinity of April s,
the newest b,ttleship of the American
navy, the Iowa. willsarrive in Boston
harbor, and few days later she will
have her trial trip over the government
course between Cape Ann and Cape Por.
poise.