The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-20
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

Ooinss of the Day Among the ENcur-
sion Boats-Large Fleet of Sailing
Vessels Went to Sea-Freights and
Charters-List of Vessels Bound for
Savannah.
The steamer Clifton took a large crowd
If negroes to Button yesterday. The
steamer escaped the squalls which passed
over this vicinity, but she had several
..souaIls" on board. The negroes were dis
nosed to be quarrelsome among them
sAl,es. and several fights occurred in
which women took prominent parts. No
one was hurt There was a scrap between
a woman and man on the wharf after the
boat returned, and several tongue battles
were also participated in by number Of
negro women.
marty Of young gentlemen made trip
n the blackfish banks yesterday on the
ug Paulsen. They did not catch many
6sh-oniy one-but ali but two of the party
contributed largely to feeding of the
fish" The sea was very rough, and
souall struck the tug which caused it to
he rather uncomfortable for the fishermen.
They returned to the city at o'clock.
The steamer Alpha did not make her
regular o'clock trip TO Daufuskie yester-
day afternoon on account of having been
DELAYED by the storm on her way back to
the city. There was quite a large crowd
on the wharf, who were disappointed at
not being able TO go to the island.
Capt Van B. Avery of the tug Cambria,
who took the schooner Charles H. Valen-
tine to sea yesterday, reports that a squall
struck the schooner soon after he left her,
in which she lost her fore boom and gaff.
She proceeded on her voyage.
The Norwegian bark Tikoma, which ar
rived at Tybee Saturday from Cape Town,
has been ordered to Brunswick for cargo
of naval stores.
The Norwegian bark Gilead which ar
rived at Tybee Saturday from Bahia, was
lowed to the quarantine station yesterday.
She will load at this port with cargo of
naval stores for Europe.
The steamer Alpha left for Beaufort last
night and will return to-day, with an ex-
cursion of colored people from Beaufort
and the way landings in South Carolina.
Six vessels proceeded to sea yesterday
morning. Two of them were foreign YES
sells and four were coastwise schooners.
The Norwegian bark Augustine, Capt.
Olsen, from Trieste. arrived yesterday for
a cargo of naval stores. She was ninety
one days on the passage.
The war between the United States and
Spain, says the London Shipping Gazette
has necessitated the laying up of con-
siderable amount of tonnage registered
under the Spanish flag which is really
English owned, although sailing under the
foreign flag to obtain the special advan-
tages accruing in the trade with Spain and
the colonies in the West Indies and the
Philippines.
Owing to the steVedores' strike in Phila-
delphia many of the transatlantic liners
have been seriously delayed. The Ham
burg American liner Bohemia, which ar
rived at Philadelphia on June l, did not
get away until last Thursday, not having
been able to discharge her cargo earlier be-
cause of the strike. The Red Star liner
Switzerland was also delayed from the
same cause.
Says the London Daily Telegraph: Is
Lieut.. Hobson, by his gallant deed, likely
TO add word to the nautical portion of
the English language? 1t looks like It,
For example, a river passenger steamer
one of the grimiest and most tumbledown
of the many dilapidated craft of the kind
that plough the silent highway, nearly col
lided with a barge at London bridge yes
terday afternoon. The skipper used strong
language to the bargee, but to his taunts
the latter beloved Better take that old
tub out to sea and IIobsonlze herr " The
retort was greeted with burst of appre-
ciative and sympathetic laughter by the
passengers on board the vessel thus char
acterized. If the majority of the Thames
sOnized," and replaced by comfortable
modern vessels, the change would be well
coined by most of the people who use the
river service