Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-05
Foreign Ports.

| itgrcw Boston.
Foreign Ports.
| HALIFAX. n S-Aug 4. ar, bks KEEP
| pa, Osterhus, Flushing; Tide, Colazio,
| Trieste; Diana, Olsen, Gottenburg.
! SOUTHAMPTON 4. ar, sim
| Fuerst Bismarck. New York via Cher
| bourg for Hamburg.
| LIVERPOOL-Aug 4, ar, sim Belgen-
| land, Philadelphia.
ST JOHN. n G2-Aus 4. ar. sim ST John
| city. Harrison, London via Halifax; ship
| Mcrmerus. Cacenius. London: schs Da-
mon. Brcen PASSPORT; Tay, Spragg, New
ark.
| Cid. sim Quart Castle. Seeley, West In
| dies VII Halifax; sch Otis Miller. Miller,
| New York.
MARSEIM.ES-Aug 4. ar blk Leon
| Pancaldo Halifax
( LONDON-Aug 4, ar sim Rector, Chat
| ham, n r..
| GREENOCK--Aug 4. ar in the Clyde
sim Louisiana. New Castle, n B; sim
! Westhall. ST John, n Il.
klNSALE-Aug g. psd, sim Felicina, st
John. r. for Manchester.
! BROW HEAD-AuAg 4. psd. sim Os-
westry. st John, y Il, for Penarth Roads.
Marine Notes.
| Tug l.. a. Belknap made a good run
| Tuesday, leaving Portland for
| Niscassct in the morning, TAX
| ing the schooner John E.
Covylc in tow there and arriving in
| Portland again about s =. NJ
The Bangor agent Of the Manhattan
5. $. Co.. received. on Wednesday.
telegram from Nedw York, saying that
the first steamer would leave that port.
/ for Bangor, on August II. arriving
4 hav, 'Io ia,
ming trips on the line has not been due
/ to the company's inability to get
/ steamers hut to the disturbance and
depression ON the coastwise freight and
passenger traffic, caused by the war.
The Italian bark Vega has finished
! discharging her cargo at Portland and
has started for Bangor. The tug Bis
marck will tow her clear up the river.
| The bismarck is one Of the handsome
est tow boats that has been in Portland
| for long time She is very speedy and
| toWhoat men say she will have no
! trouble in towing the Vega at the rate
Of y miles an hour II is said that she
is a formidable rival of the fast tug
4 Kate Jones.
san Francisco, Aug. Inflammation
| was received here. yesterday. that the
santa RoSdlia, Lower California July 13
213 days from Hamburg The vessel had
bacn given up as lost and ~ per cent
premium for reinsurance had been paid
just previous t. sailing. the Clement was
painted with new ant-fouling paint
The composition proved to be only bal.
for bdrnaclCS. ana the ship had been out
only a few weeks when it was discovered
that the bottom was very foul. Day by
day the growth on the ships bottom grew
ana hence her speed decreased until on
entering the Pacific her condition was
such that She would not mind her helm
except III heavy wind and she could
make only a few knots. The Clement
carried rich general cargo
The ship Susquehanna. which arrived
in New York few days ago. from San
Francisco whence she sailed on March
-, will so to Newport News, within
two weeks To take on n cargo of coal
for Admiral DeWey's squadron at Ma
Mia. Capt Sewall of the Susquehanna
feared when he left the Golden Gate
that war might he declared, and was
on the lookout for privateers In the
latter part of April he spoke a steam
snip ana Signalled: War or Peacc?'
The steamship answered, Reports Of
Peace" and the Susquehanna proceed
ed. \ few weeks later, n bark, the last
vessel spoke ON his long trip, signallcd
that peace was probable. The captain
did not know that war was. on. and
nearly over, until a pilot who boarded
him outside the Hook. on Friday, told
him Sc. If he had found, while far
from an American port, that war had
been declared he would have made for
an African port and there landed and
sold his cargo of wine, copper ore, fish
ana dry beans.