The Portland daily press., 1898-01-12
HERE AND THERE.
Items OF Interest Picked Up Alongshore
Yesterday.

The fish arrivals yesterday were as fol-
lows: Martha d. Mclean, 5000; Lettie
May, 1000; Evelyn Smith, 10000; Ira Hill
born, 5000, and J. S. Glover, 5000.
The schooner George Wescott arrived
yesterday with coal.
The G. j. Willard with cargo OF plas-
ter from r ed Beach to New YORK Is IN
here for harbor. The schooner b. U.
Borden with plaster from Windsor, N. D.,
to New York, is in here for harbor.
There was a slight fire on board the
schooner Charles f. Sears yesterday
which caused considerable excitement.
he @stcrew were in the rigging. doing
some work when the flame burst out OF
the CALLED and the crew hustled on deck
and after scme lively work put the fire
out. The schooner was not damaged to
any extent.
The Ella N. Willard will sail today
from j. H. Hamlen's with the largest
cargo Of shocks ever taken from this
port. There are over ~, 900 and they will
go to the West Indies. This firm ship an
enormous quantity to the French Indies
in the course of a year. Last year 1870, 600
sugar shocks and So, COO porte, rum and
Molasses shocks were shipped. The wood
for the latter comes from Arkansas where
the company owns large tracts of land,
the average cost being about $40 car
freighted.
The shipping commissioner yesterday
111 foyr u srHf Sc 4,,1-
boats, the Mary J Finn and Eleanor
Wright and thsy sailed at . o'clock for
ST. John, N. B., for ths purpose of tow
ing back the dredging plant of Mr..
Wright which has been at work in st.
John harbor since last June.
Mr.. G. u. Guppy and partner of Cous-
ms island are high. liners in smelt fish
ing and ship large quantities to New
York. Mr. Guppy alone dug 700 barrels Of
CLAIMS last season.
The Thomson line steamer Escalona
will take for cargo over 100, 600 bushels
of grain, to Antwerp. The Cervona will
carry to London lS0, 600 bushels.
The Hamburg-A American liner Armenia
has sailed from Hamburg for this port.
The Queensmore has arrived at Avon
mouth.
An old store house on Franklin wharf
settled about two feet last week, and yes
terday morning dropped another six in
ches, so it was decided to have outlived
its usefulness and men began tearing it
down yesterday.
The Portland bark Ella has recently
been purchased by Capt. Avis of Wood
bury, N. J., and her hailingSport has
been changed to Philadelphia. She is
now loading at the latter port forlBuenos
Ayres and Rosario. Capt. Avis was
formerly master of brig Wau-bun, which
was wrecked some time ago on the west
cost of Cuba.
The Allan line steamship Laurentian,
Capt.s John Brown, arrived at 9 O'Clock
Monday evening from Liverpool. She
dropped anchor off Portland head over
night and came to her berth early yester-
day morning.
The Laurentian left Liverpool Decem-
her 80, in heavy gale which continued
for several days. The chief officer said:
fIn fact it was a succession Of heavy
gales and high head seas all the way over
In latitude 43 degrees and 25 minutes
north, and longitude 60 degrees, IS min
utes west, we passed an Allan liner COM
ing this way. We also passed a Cunarder
and were passed by the Umbria, which
has since arrived in New York. We
passed Cape Sable January 10.'
The Laurentian brought l 200 tons of
cargo, mostly consigned to Canadian
points. The local consignments were:
Nine bags iron studs to order, 100 casks
chira clay for J. B. Moore & Co., and
200 casks to order.
There We're two first cabin, 5 second
cabin and II intermediate passengers and
10 cattlemen, all of whom showed clean
bill of health. One of the passengers had
a box containing two very pretty ferrets
which he intends taking to his farm in
Canada and put them to work on the rats
in his granary.
Perhaps the most interesting passen-
gers on board were eight Galicians, all
one family, and dressed in their native
costume of sheepskin. They looked very
Buffalo Billish, the only seeming incon-
gruity in their make up being straw hats.
They went to Winnipeg on the noon train.
They are afflicted with the name of Goto-
atezzuk, and it came near producing
riot in the steerage when the custom
house officials tried to pronounce it.
The Laurentian began discharging at
once
The schooner Lucy W. Dyer, owned by
Charles Guptill arrived yesterday after
very hard trip. The Dyer left here
about two months ago and went to Prince
Edward Island where she took on car
go of 3, $40 bushels of potatoes, for which
so cents a bushel were paid. The duty on
them is 25 cents a bushel, and potatoes
now bring in Portland market from 95
to 81 per bushel
Capt Merrill reports that on the second
day out from Georgetown the main
boom broke and from that time until
Monday he has not had favorable
breeze He has been four weeks and one