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Newspaper
Branford Gleaner
Location
Branford, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1879
Page
2
Branford Gleaner Company launches The Sea World to cover propagation, taking, storage, and sale of sea river and lake fish. It focuses on oyster culture, wholesale oyster trade, and prices, with correspondents in key centers and original articles from major oyster and fish dealers. The aim is rapid growth and increasing publication size to match the industry.
E Whitworth bought out Wm Hadgetts paper box works. A year after the tornado, a gravel walk from E H Ives to Beaumont corner is being laid. Borough meeting notices are considered valid. Engravers at Simpson Hall Miller & Co held a clam bake at Company K range. Grapes, wild and cultivated, look promising this year. The town may enforce the dog muzzling law. A freight train backed through Judd Mig Co fence during side-track work. A new fire engine is expected this week for Wallingford's fire department. A National Band subscription sheet is circulating led by Samuel Simpson with twenty dollars. E H Ives and others give substantial sums. Rev Richmond’s pulpit will be filled over three Sundays by Rev Phelps, Rev Taylor, and Rev Farnham. A five mill tax was set at the school meeting to be paid in November. The old board of officers was reelected except for collector R Austin. The school district debt on July 1879 stands at $41,256.07.
The Meriden Britannia company plans a Canada branch to meet rising business from the north. In New Haven, Charles A. Baldwin & Co. boosts corset workers’ pay from 10 to 38 percent. Rev Mrs Phoebe Hanaford expected to return to New Haven to lead a new Universalist mission. In Mortford, half a block unsettled by eerie noises prompts a full search but finds no hidden occupants. Danbury-born Alva Trowbridge, father of the Chicago-bound sisters who killed themselves there, emigrated decades ago. brother Truman remains in Danbury.
The bluefish known as blue fish in New York New Jersey and New England except Rhode Island where called horse mackerel. It migrates seasonally from Carolina coasts in spring to New Jersey coast by May and New England by summer. Barnegat and Long Island areas host large catches with schools driven to shore by porpoises. By October large fish fatten and move toward southern harbors, with spawning and feeding cycles described across Barnegat Inlet Montauk Point Nantucket and other reefs. Four generations appear in waters over decades with fish increasing in size and number, twelve to thirty pounds previously rare.
A curious tale from Bertram’s Harvest of the Sea describes a melancholy mariner who kicks an old oyster shell. The mollusk bites his finger and, later, the man tastes the oyster’s interior, calling it delightful as a parade of humorous anecdotes and quotes follows from various papers.
The New Hampshire Fish Commission reports season stocking totals of land-locked salmon across multiple lakes and ponds. Key allocations include 10,000 salmon to Sunapee and Squam Lakes, 8,000 to Connecticut Lake, 5,000 to Massabesic Lake, 6,000 to Winnipesaukee, and 1,500 to Merry Meeting Pond among numerous other sites, summing to 106,500 fish.
Mr. D. D. Mallory and his partner Mr. Luddington of Baltimore plan their usual summer visit to Fair Haven, staying through the season as in years past.
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