The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-29
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.


German ship EIse's Cargo Nearly All
saved, but the Vessel a Total Loss.
British Steamship Forest HOIme
Arrives for Cotton-The Norwegian
Steamship Olaf Kyrre to Return
for Cargo of COtton-Capt. Mark
Townsend of Schooner Chauncey
f. BurlS, a Hunter.
The tug Iris of Brunswick arrived here
yesterday. and will leave to-day on re
turn with a raft of timber in tow for the
Hilton-Dodge Lumber Company of Darien
Capt. Mark Townsend OF the schooner
Chauncey E. Burk is quite a sportsman
In addition to being a good sailor he is an
excellent shot, and generally is on the
lookout for big game. He went hunting
on Little Tybee Island yesterday. accom-
panied by his friends. Mr. Pabst Of Phila-
delphia, and Mr.. Herman Winter The party
reached the island in a paphtha launch
from Thunderbolt, and went early in
search of game. 1t was not long after
the party became separated that Capt.
Townsend saw wild boar coming at full
speed in his direction. The hog showed
fight and was about to attack the captain
when load of buckshot stopped his wild
course. The body of the beast was skinned
and quartered. and is now sailed down in
the locker of the schooner Burk. The
bristles on the boar were from to s inches
in length. The weight of the wild hog
was 260 pounds
cfp ,sl,t
Capt. tombstone, sixteen days from Las
Palmas, arrived yesterday for a cargo of
cotton to be shipped to Bremen. ]. f. Mi
mis- & Co. are the consignees.
The schooner Matilda D. Borda, Capt.
Norton, from Philadelphia, arrived yester-
day with a cargo of coal consigned to
Bond, Harrison & Co
The Norwegian steamship Olaf Kyrre is
posted at the Cotton Exchange for a car
go of cotton to be shipped to Bremen She
is due to arrive Feb. from Halifax. via
Fernandina. She will be consigned to
Richardson & Barnard. This steamship
was at this port in November last and
took cargo of cotton for Bremen.
Many ocean steamship lines are adopt-
ing the method of supplying their steam
ers with bilge keels. The Cunard Com
pany will fit the Aurania, Lucania and
Campania with them. and the five new
steamers of the Wilson Furness-LeyIand
company, running between London and
New York, have also been equipped with
them. These keels are especially advan-
tageous when steamers are flying light
and presenting high side as a target to
the wind and weather
The severity of the winters storms at
sea is being keenly felt by the barges
which trade along the coast to New Eng
land ports with cargoes of coal The
barge Yonkers, from Newport News for
Providence. fonndered in a gale on Jan. %
IL IS believed that she foundered about
twenty miles south-southeast from Sandy
HOOK lghtship. Wreckage from a barge
was passed in that position on Jan. % by
the British steamship Hogarth, which ar
rived at New York on Sunday last.
The saving of the German shin Else
from this port for Rotterdam. before re
ported ashore at Maasvlatko, Holland has
been given up as hopeless, but most of
the cargo will be saved
Key West, Fla. Jan. ga survey held
to-day on steamer Darlington which ran
ashore recently with a load of cotton
showed no damage done. The cotton was
ordered reloaded and the ship will go 10
Hamburg. The salvage will be arranged
out of court.