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      Found - During Eli Higgins' repairs to Lock No. 3 , he discovered a black looking object near the surface of the water, which proved to be a large stick of square oak timber. He hauled it out, ...

      This would have been the Manzanilla.

      WARNER was finally wrecked in 1890 in Thunder Bay, Michigan. The last one left was probably ORKNEY LASS, still registered in 1892.

      Old Houses. - The old Frontier House, on Water street, known as the Crocker property, having been declared a nisance and the work of demolishing being begin, some remark as has ben mde about its history. It is said that it was built previous to the War of 1812, and …

      Death of an old Lake Captain. We learn by letter that Captain George Eason died at a point fifty miles up the Pamunkey river, in Virginia, September 28th. It is understood that he was at the time engaged in the oyster business. Captain Eason was at one time one of …

      Along the Docks. - A strange looking steam craft, the Smith M. Weed, made her appearance in our harbor yesterday. She was formerly the Charles Magee, and plied on Seneca lake. She goes hence to Lake chaplain, having been purchased by the large lumber firm of Burleigh * Marshall, ...

      Ald. Gokey made short work in raising the wreck of the schooner Coquette, and completed the job yesterday by towing the hulk on to the beach below the east pier. The croakers said he would have to abandon the job or loose money. He has done neither. If there is …

      A Perilous Voyage From Oswego to Chicago in a Row Boat -- A Resident of Oswego undertakes the Job on a Forfeit of $500 Will He Win the Ducats? The spirit of daring that seems to take possession of man at certain times, causing him to do foolhardy things, is …

      Steamer Bavarian Burned Fourteen Lives Supposed to be Lost Bowmanville, Ont., Nov. 5. A steamer was seen to be on fire about four miles off Port Darlington, about 8 o'clock to-night, and continued to burn until the vessel was apparently consumed, the burning hulk drifting out ...

      Along the docks. The schooner Havana had her jibboom broken yesterday by colliding with the schooner W.B. Phelps. Nearly all of the vessels in port will go into winter quarters. The passage down from the upper lakes has been a trying one and the owners as well as sailors ...

      Along the Docks Several vessels, grain laden, from Canadian ports, arrived this morning, giving the harbor a cheerful look again. The tug Crusader caromed on the tug Melvin's wheel house, yesterday, with a swell, instead of a reverse shot, and damaged it ...

      Ashore and Afloat The schooner Westside, which went ashore near the fort, was released yesterday afternoon about four o'clock- after lightering four thousand bushels of grain by the tug Sumner, and towed into port by the tug Melvin. The schooner has been discharged of her cargo, ...

      The Westside Accident The statement of Captain Sweatland, of the schooner Westside, published in the Times of Saturday, reflects so severely upon Captain Hart, of the tug Morey, that in justice to himself he desires that his statement be heard before public opinion is formed. ...

      Vessel sunk off Little Sodus We learn by private despatch that the schooner Etta Belle, coal laden from Fair Haven to Toronto, sunk last night when about eight miles off from Little Sodus. The crew was saved, but how the dispatch does not state. The lake was calm last night, …

      Captain Pelow, of the schooner Etta Belle, which sunk Wednesday night about 7 o'clock; when about 8 miles off Big Sodus, instead of Little Sodus as stated yesterday, arrived in town yesterday afternoon. The captain informs us th leak was first discovered about 6o'clock on the bluff of the port …

      The Wayne County Press insists that the vessel which sunk off Sodus, was named Isabel. The editor had been down the St. Lawrence and it is not accountable for what he says.

      A War Vessel for Lake Ontario The Carthage Republican gives an interesting sketch of Sackets Harbor as it is and was during the War of 1812, mentioning its importance at the last named time, and the attack of the British upon it. Of the navy yard it says: The principal …

      A significant number of the "new" vessels shown are actually rebuilds, and some names don't appear anywhere else that I can find. Two-hundred launches in a single year seems incredible in these days of one-new-boat-every-five-years, until you realize that all 93,816 tons of new 1873 shipping is not near equal …

      Marine Accident. - Last evening about seven o'clock, when the schooner J.J. Bill, Captain Griffin, was being towed up the river by the tugs Crusader and Morey, she sheered badly in the current, and taking the force of the water on her starboard bow ran into the East island and …

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