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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Sep 17, 1890

Page

3

NEW BOOKS Washington's Writings volume reviewed

A review discusses the seventh volume covering May 1 1778 to July 29 1779, noting Savannah capture and Monmouth, plus Rhode Island events. It critiques Ford's editing, credits to Sparks, and the volume's apparatus including maps, plates, and an index by Townsend.

Washington Savannah Philadelphia Monmouth Rhode Island Sparks Ford George Washington Worthington Chauncey Ford New York London G. P. Puirege Sons W. K. Clarke & C

Selections From Heines Poems Edited by Horatio White

Professor White presents selections from Heine drawing on the Buch der Lieder Neue Gedichte Aus Deutschland Romancero and Letzte Gedichte. The editor notes White’s preface praising Heine and includes critical notes on linguistic syntactical and metrical quirks. The volume, with notes and commentary, suits students of German and arrives from D C Heath & Co Boston.

Helne Professor White Hein Israel White Heine Horatio Stevens White Boston D. C. Heath & Co

A Hand Book of the Tariff Review and Notes

A review praises a new digest by George Huntington Adams that compiles tariff provisions, court and Treasury decisions, and warehouse system rules. It notes thorough research yet gaps like missing cases Bartram vs Robertson and Hartranft vs Oliver, and suggests a fuller index and case table for professional use.

Custom House Adams Secretary of the Treasury Bartram Vs. Robertson Riobbe Denmark St. Croix Hawaii Hartranft United States George Huntington Adams New York Baker, Voorhis & Co Boston Little, Brown & Vuo

Townsend's scrap book praised for mass of odd information

Review criticizes Townsend's United States scrap book for inaccuracies while acknowledging its vast trove of facts. It notes errors such as Behring called a Russian navigator and Des Moines as French terms, yet highlights useful historical data, territorial notes, and biographical oddities.

United States Townsend

Harmony in Praise and military memoirs reviewed

The Harmony in Praise hymn book edited by Mills Whittlesey and A F Jamieson is praised as a compact collection of 106 hymns balancing old tunes with fresh music from masters. Also reviewed are John Shipp’s Memoirs with an introduction by H Manners Chichester and Pickard’s School Supervision, plus E Chester’s Girls and Women offering practical guidance for health and culture.

Mills Whittlesey A. F. Jamieson Boston D. C. Heath & Co Captain Coignet Napoleon John Shipp India Coignet Lieutenant Shipp Chichester Shipp His Majesty’s Eighty-seventh Regiment H. Manners Chichester New York Macmillan & Co Latire, Brown & Co Riverside Library E. Chester Houghton, Mifflin & Co

Receipts for the General Theological Library in Boston

Treasurer Samuel R Payson reports added memberships and donations for the General Theological Library including gifts from Charles Robinson Henry L Pierce and others. Total receipts reach 96118 07 with most expended on the library and building funds and urgency noted for moving costs to a new building. A letter to the editor corrects a related obituary remark about Sir Edmund Grattan noting his father Thomas Colley Grattan wrote a critical book on America.

Samuel R. Payson General Theological Library Mt. Vernon Street Charles Robinson Henry L. Pierce A. G. Thayer Society of the Disciples Shawmut Avenue G. B. Brown Framingham Methodist Episcopal Church Medford Ransom Thayer Sutton Sir Edmund Grattan America England Thomas Colley Grattan Boston

Shipping News Miniature Almanac for Wednesday

Shipping page miniature almanac notes September 17 with high water data, moon phase, and length of day. Figures show tidal height and times, listing nautical references and pricing codes.

Port of Boston News in Septentennial Arrivals and Clearances

Port of Boston shipping report lists arrivals including Steamer Nestorian from Glasgow with 219 steerage, and a list of coastal and foreign steamers and schooners, with forts, fog, and variable winds. CLEARED foreign steamers Yarmouth and Hattie M Bain, and coastwise traffic including Alleghany and Olivette, plus vessels sailing for Liverpool and Portland.

Nestorian Goodwin Glasgow H& A Allan Cumberland Thompson St John Eastport P’ortland Muse Toke Waldron Penobscot Ingraham Bangor Kennebec Collins Bath Olivette McKaybar Harbor Portland Snowman Ciy Gloucester Proctor Bowden Isogton Anderson Port Antonio Frust Boston Fruit Company Joshua Lovett Macee New York Scranton Taw Sel Orlando Boston Johnson Anse d Hainault Hayti Green, Knaebel & Co Nellie , Pickering Belfast Ferguson Jacksonville Andrew Nebinger Philadelphia Smith Cassie F Bronson Kennett Newport News Clarence H Venner Baker James Pace Garfield Samuel Thorp Pierce Baltimore Susan N Pickering Deer Lua Price Copp Hillsboro Robert Splane & Co Cricket Ernst Same Mabel Atwood Stewart Weymouth J G Hall & Co Mary Bi LeVash Sydney Arichat de Long Shenandoah Dudley Peay Alice Binghampton Slater Roman Vortland Barkentine Hattie N Bangs NP Doane Rockport Mase Schs

Freight and Charter Updates Across Ports

September reports show steady rates with several charters in New York Providence and Baltimore. Vessels include Linwood Blandina Sneheim Barbara Preve and Hen Craa chan sailing refined and crude petroleum to Europe India and the Mediterranean while fish scrap is loaded in Providence and several canal charters sail to Boston Salem and Portsmouth.

New Yok Europe Linwood New York Liverpool Blandina Marseilles Sneheim United Kingdom Continent Barbara Preve Philadelphia Mediterranean Hen Craachan Calcutta Providence Swhs A F Howe Orient Carterette KP Chase Sume Baltimore Rebeccca J

Seaport Shipping Ledger from Digby to Valparaiso

A condensed list of ships and cargos with Sept sailings and arrivals across ports from Ayr to Valparaiso. Entries name vessels such as bark Ornen, ship Manydown, steamer Wieland, bark Nora, and schooner Gleaner, with origins, destinations, and dates. notes grounded vessels and cleares at Halifax and Digby.

Missing buoy reported by steamer captain at New Bedford

Notice to Mariners from Captain Jartow of the Marthi's Vineyard reports that while returning from Nantucket he found red can buoy No 2 missing from its station near West Chop yesterday evening, prompting navigation caution.

Jartow Marthi

Lynwood launches as 625 64 L00 ton barkentine

New tonnage at Bucksport Maine William Beazley and Co launch the fine barkentine Lynwood of 625 64 L00 net tons with a white oak frame and yellow pine plank and ceiling. Owned by Miller Ball and Co of New York and commanded by Captain Gilley, dimensions 146 keel 167 over all 34.2 beam 18 feet depth of hold.

Bucksport William Beazley & Co Miller, Ball & Co New York Gilley Mary I Kimball

Whalers Vi a Vineyard Haven and San Francisco Plan

WHALERS. VINEYARD HAVEN Ar Sept 16 whaling act Carne 1 Knowles, Marston, for Hatteras ground, of and for Provincetown, sixteen months out, with $00 bbls sperm on board 490 bbls all told. NiW BEDFORD, Sept 16 Captain Whitelaw, who was denied permission to catch whales in the Gulf of Georgia because his ship was American, has bought an old Canadian steamer and is fitting her up at San Francisco as a steam wher with many new appli ances of his own invention. She will carry twenty wen, and her iron tanks will hold 70,000 gallons of whale oil. On his Canadan bottom, Whitelaw hopes to catch many whales in the waters forbidden to Amer vans.

Vineyard Haven Knowles Marston Hatteras Ground Provincetown Niw Bedford Whitelaw Gulf of Georgia San Francisco

Maritime ship positions and routes from transatlantic fleet

A spoken list provides vessel names and paths with origins and destinations. Wilhelm sails from Philadelphia to Stettin on Sept 7 at latitude 49, Bark Drayton from New York to Port Elizabeth on Aug 5 at 31 30 N 46 20 W, Hark Marit Louisa from Matanzas to New York on Sept 11 at 30 N 79 07 W, Dark Orbers from New York to Flensburg on Sept 7 at 47 N 37 W, Bark Queen of the Fleet from St John NB to Liverpool on Sept 10 at 50 N 22 W, Bark Chignecto from Hamburg to New York on Sept 11 near 4 miles, 47 04 N 40 03 W, reported by steamer Nesterian at Boston from Glasgow.

Acapulco Collma San Francisco Panama Buenos Ayres Martha P Tucker Smith New York Dis Callao Mary Glover Seabury Puget Sound Digby Gleaner Thurber Guantanamo Josef Bueno Robertson St Jago Halifax Concordia Glasgow Baltimore Boston Ellie Mundy Porto Rico Caspian Liverpool Alpha Bernina Puer LO Oliva Stadacona Coguswell Delaware UEBRC Pope Borghese Moilo Donald Ferguson Belfast Prince Eugene Greenock Pierce Wilhelm Philadelphia Stettin Ion Drayton Coombs Port Eizabeth W. Hark Marit Louisa Matanzas Dark Orbers Flensborg St John Hamburg Nesterian Island Reading Salt Lizzie Raymond New London Plymouth Silver Heels Deo Valenti Portland Perth Amboy Mendoza Rice Fannie Butler Rolerson T Benedict Kelley John Bracewell Munroe Jesse Barlow Barlow Golden Ball Gibbs Chas Heath Bangor Goldenball Gibba Dover Portsmouth Schs Billow Leonora Amboy Emma & Shaw Frank York Georgietta Sullivan Fleetwood Rockland Rockport Chester Lawrence New_York Tug International Stonington Corn Page Woods Hall Flint Brown Port Johnson Crocker Salem Balsona Sherman Hailet Scis Albano Harris Centurion Linnell Roy Lerscomb Elizabeth Sinclair Elsworth Yulan Lock Machias Julia Ann Fillings Deer Isle Eaward Everett Cook Harborville Laura V. Rose Vinalhaven Mollie Rhodes Dobbin Sdis Cornelius Soule Geof Brainard Mullen Annie Mitchell Burdick Vineyard Haven Taurus Hammond Laurens Alert Frank W Mudn Storm i Ettel Bonsey Hoboken Ann Harbour Port Liberty Abbie Walker Sarah Mills Haskell Fort Liberty Quincy L T Whitmore Hatey Onward Harding Huntington Lynn Sarah A Blaisdell Pomroy Franklin Clark South Amboy Gloucester Druid Hutchings Helen Thompson Averill Elizabethport Thomaston Mary G. Bennett Wilmington Alfred Gibbs Anderson Barbados

Fishermen trade totals at Gloucester sale

Special report from Gloucester lists Mary E Dawes Georges selling 14 000 tons of codfish 300 tons halibut and 15 000 tons codfish 600 tons halibut for Grace U Young Grand Bank 12 000 tons halibut Annie U Hale 18 000 tons Winona 15 000 pounds in sale totals with buyers and destinations.

Gloucester Mary E Dawes Georges Champion Grace U Young Grand Bank Annie U Hale Winona

Bucksport Fish Prices and Grand Banks Catch Report

Letters from the Bucksport fleet detail gray and white fish prices at 8 and 12 cents per pound. On Aug 24 two thirds of the catch were gathered with the Amy Knight under Capt Delano at 850 qits, the Arthur W S Woodruff under Capt Devereux at 2700 do, the N Symonds under Capt Snowman at 1700 do, and the Hanna Coomer under Capt Cushouin at 1200 do.

Maggie Lilly Leander F Gould Buckswort Bucksport Grand Banks Amy Knight Delano Arthur W S Woodruff Devereux N . Symonds Snowman Hanna Coomer Cushouin

Abbie Clifford Foundered After Beatrice Crew Rescues

An Associated Press despatch from Bermuda reports the brig Abbie Clifford foundered at sea after the Beatrice was abandoned. Beatrice crew rescued, and Abbie Clifford crew landed. cargo valued, ship insured, capt Storer of Bath, Maine. Several vessels in distress updates and port salvage notes follow.

Vessels Sailed for Boston Amid July August Listings

The voyage list notes multiple vessels sailing for Boston or passing Anter with dates in late July and August. Ships include Cheshire from Singapore July 22, Cambusdroon from Singapore July 5, Fooling Suey from Iloilo July 20, Granite State from Manila June 7, John Johnson from Konigsberg Aug 5, Leto from Buenos Ayres July 22, Monrovia via Punta Arenas May 20, WP. J. Carleton from Singapore Aug 16, Sea Gull from Salt Pond W C A Aug av, and Taria Topan from Majunga June 23.

Boston Cheshire Am. Bark Singapore Anter Cambusdroon Br. Bark Fooling Suey Law. Bark Iloilo Granite State Manila John Johnson Br Bark Konigsberg Elsinore

Mail Closes for Foreign Routes From Boston Office

For Japan Shanghai Hong Kong and dependent Chinese ports and for the East Indies except British Ilain Straits settlements Slain and South East Indies via City of Rio de Janeiro from San Francisco September 23 mails close at the Boston office September 17 5 p m For Society Islands via Tropic Bird from San Francisco September 30 mails close at Boston September 24 5 p m For Australia New Zealand Fiji Samoan and Hawaiian Islands via Mariposa from San Francisco mails close at Boston October 12 5 p m

Great Britain Ireland France Belgium Netherlands Switzerland Italy Spain Portugal Germany Austria Denmark Sweden Norway Russia Turkey New York Augusta Victoria Pernambuco Rio Janeiro Santos la Plata Salerno Baltimore Brazil St. Thomas St. Croix Barbados Trinidad Demerara la Normandie Havre Sreiana Scotland Circassia City of Rome Yucatan Campeche Tab Central America Costa Rica Guatemala South Pacific Porta Colon Progreso Mexican States Viscaya The Obdam Nova Scotia Yarmouth Boston Newfoundland Halifax Portual Cephalonia Great Britain and Ireland Heston Japan Shanghai Hong Kong East Indies British Ilain Straits Settlements Slain South East Indies Rio de Janeiro San Francisco Society Islands Australia New Zealand Fiji Samoan Hawaiian Islands

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