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'THE MARINE RECORD. *B AROUND THE LAKES. CLEVELAND. • • ' Work on tho breakwater Is progrostlng. A now Jibboom Is belng~tuppll6d to tho schooner Voluntaor nt tho Globe yards. Tho Golden Age, bqlldlng at Huron. O., Is expected In next week to bo fitted out. Smith's lighter which capsized nt upper ifurmtco doclt Is In Smith's dry dook tor re¬ pairs. The stcambarge Jarvls Lord, bound for Milwaukee left this port tho 3, having In tow tho schooner Lafrlnlcr. • ' Rates on ore are firm at 05 cents from Es- cannba, with a few odd lots In pockets which It Is des!ratio to move at $1. Vessels are mooting with unnecessary dc- lay'nt Ashtabula on account of railroads not having cars ready to rooolvo ore. Tho telegraph companies should bo more particular lu for warding and delivering dis¬ patches to shippers aud brokers, as tho de¬ lay often mot with entails much loss,. Chnrters: Schooner Monitor to Dtiluth, colli at 00c, nnd ore back from Marquette at $1.10; schooner Emma C. IIutchliiBon, coal from Sandusky to Green Bay, 00c. The scow Homer H. Hlno which was re¬ ported ycsterdavi,te at Black river, from tier sunken condition' was brought to this port yesterday at about 7 o'clock a, m., and now lies In the Globe drydock, where she will undergo a thorough recalking. Navigation on the river was obstructed for about nn hour on Monday afternoon on account ol the Viaduct draw being bo ex¬ panded In the hot sun that It stuck fast so that the engineers were unable to swing it. The variation in this bridge between the ■coldest titid hotest weather 1b from 10 to 12 Inches. , There Is n bettor fccllntj among shipown¬ ers and brokers and a semi-.confldent opin¬ ion that better figures are soon to be obtained for coal nnd ore freights. The following Is tho list reported July 30: Steamer Cleveland and schooner Helvetia, coal, from Ash¬ tabula to Duluth, OOo, and returning bring ■ore mini Mtmiuntm tu OBlu-purw,'p. t.-, schooner TnimpfT, ore, from Escanaba to Cleveland, 05o;sohconer Our Son, coal from 'Cleveland to Chicago, t 70c; schooner St. Lawrence, coal from Cleveland to Cheboy¬ gan in the Straits 00c. CHICAGO. The tug owners are trying a patent smck i consumer on a tug chartered for the pur¬ pose. Lake freights aro active and firm, 2>£ cents for corn to Buffalo. A convenient chart of tho Chicago River tins recently been published bv B. F. David¬ son The schoonor Parana Is at the derrick of the Chicago Drydook Company, getting a now main mast. The schoonor Imperial has had her repnlrs completed and came out of tho Chicago dry- dock OirTuesday last. The Whitney was not damaged In her collision with the railroad brldgo on the 4th. " Captain D. F. Miller and his brother, of Grand Haven have purchased the Interest of Thomas Paige in tho schoon. r Dilver. The-now tug-F. II Starwood built by John Martel of Sangatuck arrived here this week and will run In the Dean & Wilson Line. „ , , The sloop yacht WaBp, Captain and owner John Prlndlvllle, made a very quick liin.to Milwaukee on Saturday she started a con- sldorablo tlroo behind the remainder of the yachts of the Chicago Yacht Club but arrived ono hour and a hall before anv of them. The steamer Garettn which Is runn'ng ex¬ cursions from Chicago Is now Illuminated on her evening excursions by four electric llehU which adds greatly to her populaiity. Quite a largo number of piles have been driven along the market docks during the ■vast week. They wero groatly needed and are considered a great boon by the Captain, who are now enabled to got tholr vessels tlod up safely to the docks. The body of Captain ThomnB Fountain, of tho Wolle Burt, has not yet bcqii found, although a careful search Is mad» every day, and tho crews of the numerous tugs koop a vlallant lookout while scouring tho lake. In order that an extra effort may be made, Mr. Dunham now offers a reward of $50 to any one who recovers the body. .John J, Griffin, owner of the wrecked schooner A. GrMorbyj'hns.beon In the city paying oft* her bills. She ha* been turned over lo tho underwriters. Mr. Griffin loft (or Dotroir, and returned hero on* the 4th. The ifow steainbargn Alice E. Wilds has arrived horo nnd gone Into the lumFor trade between this port nnj Lttdlugton she was bltllt by John Oados at Detroit for Qaptain B, Wilds who is qommarldlng her; sue la of tho following dimensions: Length of kee!'1f35 feet, loqgth over all 150 f eot breadth of beam 28 feet 3 mclibs, dopth of hold 10 (foot 10 Inches her engine 25x30 and boiler 8)^x15 were btijlt by the Dotiolt diydock engine works. Tho stcambarge Maine, Captain Ladncr,<{ was detained here two days this week, get¬ ting some ropnlrs done to her cnglno by Roboit Tarrant, tho engineer. Tho now stenmbaigu Kittle "if. 'Forbes, arrived hero last week fiom Cleveland, coal laden. Sho was built at West Bay City, by Wheeler & Crane, last vvlntci, foi Captain ForbeB, of Port Huron, who Ucommnndlng her* She Is a very handsome barge. John Rlggs, ship cnrpcntei, old Burling¬ ton slip, Is building A sloop yneht for some Chicago parlies to goto Geneva Lake. Length over all, 28 feet; breadth of beam, 10 feet; depth 3 tcet 0 Inches. | Tho now Bjearnbarge J. M. Allmondlngcr, of Benton Harbor, made her first trip to this poi ton Thursday last, lumber laden from Ludlngton. She was built at Benton Harbor by Allmendlnger a, Hull, her own¬ ers, and Is commanded by Captain Chns. MorrUon, of St. Joseph. Her length ovei all Is \U% feet; breadth of beam. 24 feet 2 Inches; depth of hold, 10 feet; tannage, 207 net tons. Her engine 18x20 and boiler, 0 feet 6 Inches by 14 feet 2 inches, was sup¬ plied by Anderson & Holman, ot St. Joseph. DULCTII. There Is plenty of water in Duluth harbor at present, Tho tug Agate .received repairs to'her [.stern bcnrlngB yestorday. The tug Campbell loft for Knife river wjtli Tlef boom sticks this morning after a raft. The steamships Hecln and Drake and schooner "ronton are discharging coal at the N. P. Dock. Tho little steamer Eva Wadsworth went into commission on the Duluth un'JSuperior routo this morning. Moro bunting was displayed by the ship¬ ping in port Sunday than has been shown In any provlous day this year. A. Pugli, of St. Paul, has leased the Du¬ luth Iron Co.'s' dock and will use It for n coal dock the present season. At Buflalo, on Filday, the steamship Ed¬ ward Smith and two consorts were char teed to carry coal to Duluth at 85 cenis—a reduction of 15 cents. Walsh Brothers arc engaged In making a new boiler for tho little steambarge Maggie Carroll, the old ore having been condemned by the Inspectors. The stcambarge Alpena and consort were detained atOutonugou lor nearly two weeks by the foi million of u sand bar across the mouth of the canal. The piopeller St. Paul nrilved fiom Buf¬ falo about 7 o'clock lust evening with a few tons of general mcichandlse and quite a largo number of passengers. . 'Ihe propcllei Quebec arrived ycstertlnv with live car loads of sugar and about titcy passengers Sho wenlout again this morn¬ ing ulili 3,000 barrels of Hour The old ferry Fero, which was burnt to tho water's edge last winter, has been ro built nnd was launched last Saturday, she will bo used as a barge ami lighter. A distinguished party arilved last week on tho Nynck of tho Supcilor Transit Line. The party consisted of Gen. Wm. T hhor- man, his aid, Col. Tldball, Chief Justice Walto of the United States Supreme Conn and Chief Jijsllce Gray ot the Bupreme court of Massachusetts. The party were warmly received. The large tug E. L. Maaon, recently pur chased by the Duluth A Iron "Range road from Williams A Upham, which will run be¬ tween Duluth and Agate Bay as a general Servlco boat, has arrived from L'Anse. Sho was purchased for $10,500. Hor dimensions arc: do feet ovor nil; 10-foot; I) feet depth of held; 18x20-lnch engine, with a patent cut-off for varying stroke of piston; 0)^x13- foot boiler of 7-10 inch plate, allowed 100 pounds steam pressure; registered tonnage, 42,45, now measurement; draft, 62 feet; dlamotor of wheel, BJtf feet. Her captain Is Charles M. York, formorly of tho tug Eliza Williams. Mlt.W'AUKEK. Tho schoonor C. A. King has been libeled for $2,500 lor dnmngos occasioned by a col llslnn with the Imperial. * An ordinance has gone Into effect to close all bridges In tho city between 0:15 and 7 a.m. Tho orow of tho Ed." Kelly was stoned by the union seamen oirthe 2d but no one was Injured. Tho schooner Ganges, coal laden, nrrlved on July 2d considerably damaged by the J storm. She vvaa off Port Washington whei the storm struck her. The lighthouse department have cntiscd the erection ST new building for tho light at Kenosha, and sailing masteiB will do well to mke notice that a change of light will oc¬ cur for a few days,-nnd until tho present lights are removed to tho no^ stiucture. Ac present and from this date a red lantern will be exhibited on the oast side of the new structure. jto, Dl-TROIT, The steamship II. J. Jcwott is said to have made the distance from Detroit to Buf¬ falo In twenty-one bonis recently. ■A Marquette correspondent writes to tho J Freo Press under dnto of tho i3d. Never In tho hlstcTry of the Iron ore trado has Mar- quotto suffered so severely as this Bummer, and to-day the oro piers aro both Idle. The steamer Agnes Is to be placed on the route between Detioltnnd Toledo, and will niako dally trips, leaving the foot of Wayne street at 4 p. in. nnd Toledo at 8 a. m. every day. She belongs to tho Marino City Stave Company Tho schooner Argo, which was stolen from tho United States Marshal here lust fall, Is to bo sold at marshal aaledn Canada. As she Is stjlL-iirnlor solzure here the case wdJUwlTfather complicated one.—Post and TWdtine. pom nunoN. PoitT* IlrjitON, Mich., July 3;—The pro¬ peller Boston, bound down, ran high nnd dry ashore at Joe Bedorc's dock, St. Clair Flats, nt 1 o'clock to-dny. Tho atoamor ■ Evening Star .reports tho Boston out eigh¬ teen Inches. • , OftVVPtlO. i'l'ho schooner Highland Beauty has beon , changed to a tlireo-and-nftor. Tho little schooner Emma from Chnumnnt has been in pnrl. Sho has been changed to a throcand after. The business outlook nt Osw ego la iinprnm- mlslng, and a number of vessels are laying up, nniohg which is the Btoambargo Kings- lord. The sc]moncr Monitor got Into trouble off BAY CITY. Tho new Btcuuier J. M. Weston arrived at Glen Haven, Mich., Juno 20th, on her first trip. She Is Intended for the route between Manistee and Charlevoix and mirtces a good appearance. The largest lumber fleet that ever depart¬ ed from Bay City In a day for bolow.left be¬ tween the hours of 2 and 8 o'clock p m Juno 30, numbering fitty-slx boats, cairylng 23,000,000 feet of lumber, estimated. The stcambarge Alcona and schooner S'in Diego have arrived The former loads salt and the latter lumber, both froofCPleiigB, and will got away Mpndaj. , July .Id were the following clcarames. For Ashtabula, stcambarge Mayflower, 330,- 000 feet of lumber; for Cleveland, stcain- bargo Bay Cllv, 315,000 feet of lumber, barge Dickenson, 450,000 feet of lumber; foi Toledo, steambarge Tempest, 1,200 bar¬ rels salt and 300,000 feet of lumber; barge Katie Brainnrd, 550,000 feet ol lumber, for ronawandii, hurge Golden Rule, 403,000 feet of lumber, John Sherman, 4.10,000 loot of lumber, for Eric, barges Jupiter, 375,000 feet of lumber, Lender, 340,000 leet, lor De¬ troit, bnrgo Win. Treat, 180,000 leet lumber , bTl ItOKON IIAV, The Advocate, Sturgeon Buj snvs "A strong cfloit Is being mndehy vesbelmen to have a fog signal established at the ship ca¬ nal. There Is not another point in this re¬ gion where an unpurutus like this is needed moro tliaii at tho points mentioned. The prospect l"r tho oic-carrvlng Undo seems to grow hrlgliter every dnj The mines aro now being woikyd tonciirlv their full capacit), ami ore Is ai cumulating at Es¬ canaba and nil Luko Superior port).. 1 bar¬ ters have been made for Luke Lrle poi is ut $1.15, A largo number of grain vessels are going Into tho oro trade. MAItQCETTK. A wheelsman on tho tug Gooduow was caught in a tow lino and was hurt quite severely. , Charles Benjamin, a watchman on the stoambargo Egyptian, fell Into the hold ot tho vessel and was iiiBtantly killed. Ills re¬ mains wore Interred at Marquette. Tho tug Gooduow and schooners John 1 O'Ncll, Jury nnd K. Wlnslow arrived on the |«4tli, and piopeller M. Jnrcckl and uhooncr Mcars dcpai ted. this poit unilj the tug John Navngh wont toher assistance. Miles MeCiUkln, of the tug's crew was losLovcrboard and drowned,. Captain Paddocv* hansome yacht Zetn left for tho Islands Saturday evening and sails well. She had up the Oswego yacht flag and Is icported to have joined the club. • The crow sported uniforms, which were much admired. Oswego Paladlum: "The business out¬ look In canal and marine circles, at this port, Is anything but encouraging. But very little -Canadian lumber Is arriving, aud scarcely any being shipped by canal. A large number of fcannl boats nre In port. The owners of east-bound boats are sending them to Buffalo. Considerable coal Is bclno Bhlpped, and that Is about all thero is going on at this port. The stoambarge Klngsfnrd i has been laid up, nnd severnl Canadian [Bcbooners aro reported to have been laid up temporarily also, owing In the dullness of the lumber market. 'Ihe Canadian prices will have,to come down before there will be change for the better. Tbe Kingston Whig , says-lumber carriers have been working at a loss for some time." KIJiGSTON. There is no use nsktnpr^for-mnrlne news these days. Little can be bad. The collector of customs at Kingston has isbued orders ptohlbltlng excursion steamers landing nttlint port on Sunday. It Is said tiiere is not a bushel of grain on water between Kingston and Chicago bound for Kingston. It Is not often that such a state of affairs exists. Tho steamer "Cor6lcnn" was pretty roughly knocked about on her pnssage up Lake Ontario on her hist week's trip and tin her return to Montreal she hud to be put Into drjdock, where she Is undergoing re- piiha* Shippers report another fall In lake freights all around It was thought a few ilnj s ago Unit starv allot) prices w ere reuchedr- btit It seems as if that figure hits si nk lower than ever. It Is only temporary, hovvovcr. On leaving Fiction this morning the steamer Qiilntc left a length and a half ahead oh ilie steamer Hero. Belorc the former had gone veij far she was distance In (lie Hero, the Qiiintc dropping astern about an eighth of a mile on u mo mile run. I'lilo In its all former recouls as the Qiilnte Is a fast one — .Yum. YACHTJNG. Vt e gave last week, a detail* il account of the new linn jneth the Twilight, us the has si in e been ihilstetud.and whit h vvent grace- lull) Into the water filial the Olube Iron shipwudnn last biituiduy with sloiim up, und Immediately started on a shorl trip un the ilvei to the Standard oil works aud ro-" turned, with many of her friends on board, Including -Mr S V. llutkucas, Captain D. K Nlckcrson, tuptain Robert Grcenhalgli, Cnptaln Edward Williams, Mr Henry C'ofilnbun,' Messrs. Puukhiiisi, Wallace, Cole, Parsons and others, she doveloned a speed of eighteen miles an hour, making nine inllcB with only hull her steam capacity, alio vv as greeted on the trip by all kinds -of sulutcs of welcome, and all on board were well pleased with the success of (lie little beauty. 1 The coasts ot the Middle Atlantic and Now England states wore visited on Monday by a violent storm of'wind and rain, much damage, was done to buildings and shipping The storm also did uonie damage In Wis¬ consin.