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XIII. OLD SERIES, NO. 49 VOL. I NEW SERIES, NO. 11 LOCAL NOTICES ------------- Gayles & Nash have received another cargo of Flour, Feed, Middlings, Rye Flour, Butter and Eggs, by steamer DAISY DAY, and are ready to supply the trade. LOCAL MATTERS ------------- Schooner DAY SPRING loaded with bark for Crowley & Scott yesterday. Thos. R. Lyon is in Toledo at present bidding for an order of nearly six million feet of lumber to be used in building an immense elevator in that place. If Mr. Lyon is the successful bidder, his vessels will be towed by the steam-barge COLIN CAMPBELL, and trade to Toledo until the lumber is all delivered there. The schooner LUCIA A. SIMPSON, of Manistee, while attempting to enter Michigan City during the gale of last Monday was driven ashore and the crew narrowly escaped being lost. A boat was manned from the shore which, after repeated attempts, succeeded in rescuing the entire crew. Capt. Louis Guthrie, who is well known in this city, was severely hurt by being struck across the chest with the hauser when it parted. Robert McKillopp, of the Fourth ward was one the SIMPSON'S crew. THE "CITY OF LUDINGTON" ----------- Goodrich's new propeller, "CITY OF LUDINGTON," was launced at Manitowoc on Monday last. The following particulars, in regard to the new boat, is from the Inter Ocean: Length of keel, feet .............170 Length over all, feet ............185 Breadth of beam, feet ............ 36 Depth of hold, feet .............. 11 Cost, complete, about ........$90,000 Her engine, boiler, and machinery will be all new and of the best and most improved make. As stated by the Inter Ocean several months ago, the commissioning of this new craft has been greatly delayed because samples of the iron to go into her boiler had to be sent to Detroit to be tested, when the iron might just as well be tested here in Chicago. She has full cabins and will have forty-four staterooms, as well as a commodious saloon, and will be furnished as all the Goodrich crafts are, which is saying quite enough. The new craft is to be named in honor of Ludington, our promising east shore port. The CITY OF LUDINGTON as viewed, on the stocks, is staunch and strong in hull, has an excellent business model and will be thoroughly equipped. MISCELLANEOUS ------------- Between 1872 and 1880, twenty-six steamships laden wholly or partially with grain foundered at sea, and six were reported missing. During the same period, 100 grain laden sailing vessels foundered and 111 were reported missing. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ THE LUDINGTON DAILY RECORD, Ludington, Michigan Thursday, Aug 12th, 1880 VOL. XIII. OLD SERIES, NO. 50 VOL. I NEW SERIES, NO. 12 LOCAL NOTICES -------------- Guyles & Nash have received another cargo of Flour, Feed, Middlings, Rye Flour, Butter and Eggs, by steamer DAISY DAY, and are ready to supply the trade. Machinist Patterson has been overhauling the ALDRICH'S machinery this week. The barge COLIN CAMPBELL took a load of 377,000 feet of lumber from G. N. Stray's mill last Monday. Goodenough & Olney have loaded the schooners PRIDE and SILVER CLOUD with hemlock bark the present week. H. B. Muehle, the assistant engineer on river and harbor improvements for this shore, has been in town the present week. Repairs on the piers was commenced last Tuesday under the immediate supervision of John A. Mitchell. The cribs will be built higher and filled up with stone. The following Sir Knights will visit the Chicago trienniel conclave of Knight Templars, to be held August 16, 17, 18 and 19: H.B. Smith, L.C. Waldo, L.H. Sterling, T.V. Ward, F.P. Dunwell, Wm. Farrell, Wm. G. Hudson. The MAGNET will leave Ludington Saturday morning at 4:50, and connect with the cars at Pentwater for Muskegon, where the Sir Knights will join the Muskegon commandry, of which they are members, and proceed to Chicago. NEWS OF THE WEEK MICHIGAN ---------------- The schooner GRANGER, of Sheboygan, while coming into the harbor at Goderich Monday morning, struck the elevator with her yard and a piece coming down killed her captain, E. J. Stokes, instantly. He resides at Sheboygan, Wis. The iron shipments from the Upper Peninsula for the season to July 28 were 862,645 tons, an increase of 308,125 tons over the same period last year. The body of the Monaghan boy lost on the MAMIE was found near the mouth of the Huron river on Monday. This is the last of the 17 victims who went down on the ill-starred yacht. The body of a man, very much decomposed, was washed ashore near Bay View Thursday. An inquest has been held and the body is found to be that of a man named Wilson, who fell off the barge WILLIAM TREAT about two weeks ago. The coroner's inquest on the body of Mary J. Martin, one of the victims of the MAMIE disaster, resulted in a verdict Saturday, that the collision was caused by gross carelessness and criminal negli- gence of George D. Horn, master, and Henry W. Buff, pilot, of the steamer GARLAND. Horn and Buff were arrested on a warrant issued by Justice Toll on complaint of Michael Kelly, father of Thomas and John Kelly, both lost in the disaster, charging the prisoners with manslaughter. The defendants were immediately taken to the justice's office, arraigned, pleaded not guilty and admitted to bail in the sum of $2,500 each, two sureties, with Alexander McVittie and Albert Schulenburg as bondsmen for each. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ THE LUDINGTON DAILY RECORD, Ludington, Michigan Thursday, Aug 19th, 1880 VOL. XIII. OLD SERIES, NO. 51 VOL. I NEW SERIES, NO. 13 LOCAL MATTERS ------------- Captain Jacobs' wife and family visited Ludington during the last trip of the barge DAISY DAY. The M. E. society, of Manistee, gave an excursion to this city on the steamer CORONA, on Friday last. Capt. Dave Cochrane informs us that travel upon the boats is unusually brisk. He says it is better now than it has been, during any season, for the past six years. The MAGNET will go to Muskegon to-day or to-morrow to go into the dry dock for repairs. A new wheel will be one of the improvements. The DAISY DAY brought another cargo of hay for Guyles & Nash this week, and returned to Milwaukee with a cargo of bark for P. Peterson. The schooner HELEN BLOOD, which was driven on the beach at Michigan City by a gale about the first of August, has been purchased by Thos. R. Lyon for a nominal sum. Hawsers have been sent and a strenous effort will be made at once to get the vessel afloat. Her registered tonnage is 139. Among those who took passage on the steamer DIX, on Sunday evening, for Chicago to visit the trienniel conclave, were Geo. W. Roby, and T. R. Lyon, of this city, Capt. and Geo. Morgan, Wm. Doherty, A. J. Cass and Will Cook and lady, of Hamlin. NEWS OF THE WEEK MICHIGAN ---------------- A five year old son of Capt. Markee of the ferry-boat HAWKINS, was drowned in the St. Clair River Wednesday morning. The steamer CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE was seized by the inspectors at Detroit Thursday for carrying more passengers than her license permits. She brought between 1,100 and 1,300 excursionists to Detroit from Toledo. The boat is reported to have been so heavily loaded that the guards were part of the time under water. Her carrying capacity is about 800. MISCELLANEOUS ------------- At Williamsburg, N.Y., the barques NICTAUX and CYCLONE, loaded with naptha was burned. Loss $115,000. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ THE LUDINGTON DAILY RECORD, Ludington, Michigan Thursday, Aug 26th, 1880 VOL. XIII. OLD SERIES, NO. 52 VOL. I NEW SERIES, NO. 14 LOCAL MATTERS ------------- Goodenough & Olney continue to make large shipments of bark across the lake. The schooner ANN MARIE, Captain J. H. Britton, made a remarkably quick trip to Chicago and back last week. Miss Carrie Martin returned to her home in Manitowoc last week, by the barge DAISY DAY, after a very pleasant visit here. Capt. Courtland sends a report that he has succeeded in moving the schooner HELEN BLOOD somewhat, and expects to take her off the beach the first favorable opportunity. Capt. L. Sterling has hopes of getting the schr. MURCURY into this port the present week. Capt. Starkey, of Milwaukee, has been en- gaged and is now at work on the stranded vessel. It is expected that by lashing a scow to each side of the schooner she will be buoyed up sufficiently to be towed off the beach and into Luding- ton. We wish Louis success. The wind being quite strong from the east for the past two days, a heavy sea is running on the other shore, which has delayed the steamers reaching this port until late in the day, during the time. Last Tuesday morning, the 24th inst., about 9 o'clock, Charles Burgerson, mate of the scow RESTLESS, of Racine, went over the bows and immediately disappeared. Captain Louis A. Nelson, who is a brother-in-law to the missing man, put the vessel about at once, and in company with the tug SPORT, cruised in that vicinity for an hour but without seeing anything of the missing man. The cause of his sudden disappearance must forever remain conjectural. The vessel was about five miles from this port at the time of the accident. Mr. Burgerson was a native of Sweden and leaves a wife and five children in poor circumstances. NEWS OF THE WEEK MICHIGAN ---------------- Sparks from a tug set fire in the lumber on McArthur, Smith & Co.'s dock at Cheboygan on Monday and 100,000 feet of lumber were burned. The dock was injured some. Loss $2,000; no insurance. The board of United States steamboat inspectors which conducted the investigation of the MAMIE-GARLAND disaster, has prepared a long report, in which Capt. George D. Hor*, of the GARLAND, and Capt. Wm. Hoffman of the MAMIE, are found guilty of neglect and their licenses revoked. ===========================================================================