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til it is needed to fill the local
demands. When the schooner Brina
Pendleton arrived here about three weeks
or longer ago, 1t was thought that she
would be the last vessel laden with ice TO
arrive. After she was unloaded all prepa-
rations were made at the ice wharves for
the winter lay up. Hosting machines
were disconnected, betting taken Off and
the notification from the headquarters
of the American Ice Company that the
vessel was on her way. Tomorrow the
machines will be made ready for service
so that the blocks Of ice can be taken
from the hold Of the schooner when she
arrives here.
The schooner Charles A. White, with
about 5000 watermelons aboard, from
Chesapeake bay point. came Into port
Saturday and was berthed with the oys-
ter-carrying vessels at the 11th street
wharf. But two vessels are in port with
melons aboard, and the return Of warmer
weather has made the demand for them
fairly active. Today the fruit is selling
at prices ranging from about 81 per ilun
bred up to ST. and S1o per hundred for
the better grddes of the fruit Vessels
with melons aboard will continue to ar
rive at the oyster wharf two or three
weeks longer.
Arrived: Schooner Edith verrall. cord
wood from river point: schooner hanson
=. Barnes, tar in barrels from Norfolk
for Georgetown; tug Camilla, towing y.
c. Co. lighter laden with sulphur ore
from Quantico: sloop Daisy. at Alexan-
dria to load a general cargo for Farm
ington, Md: tug James o. Carter. with n
tow of light coai-carryfng barges from
Indian Head; tug Meade, with tow OF
scows from Greenway.
Sailed: Power barge Louisa. light. for
Nomni TO load for Philadelphia: steam
barge Dennis Simmons, light. for North
Carolina port to load back To It's city;
pungy Martha a. Avery. light. for
do rixer rninf n load ha cE this ritN.
schooner J. \. Weldon. light, at Alex
andria to load a general cargo: tug Will
liam II. Yerkes, jr., light, for Chesapeake
bay seeking tow: tug pixie. with TOW
points; tug Rosalie. with tow or light
barSes to Piscataway creek.
Memoranda: Schooner j. S. Richard
son has completed loading pulp wood at
Somerset Beach and has sailed for Phil
adelphia: schooner Margaret Thomas.
from this city with coal, arrived at Bos-
ton the 10th instant: schooner Ida q.
Farren. laden with pine lumber for this
10th instant: barges Bailey aid Minerva.
with cargoes for this city. : ave sailed
from Philadelphia: schooner elizabeth T.
Doyle, laden with coal from Georgetown.
arrived at Boston the nth instant.
The Southern Transportation Company
tug Dixie has sailed from city for
Baltimore with the light barges Tioga
Duke and Patuxent The barges will load
Southern is on her way to this city from
Baltimore with the coal-laLen barges
Reliance and Curriomen in tow. These
barges have aboard over thousand tons
of fuel.
large proportion of the population OF
Washington must have gone to points on
the lower Potomac to spend its vacation
this summer, judging from the throngs
now returning home. Every steamer from
the lower river for the past two weeks
has been returning to this city with full
passenger list, and the steamer Harry
Randall, which arrived in port yesterday
evening had aboard over two hundred
passenger. from ints between Nomini
and Glymont.