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The meat provided, excepting 53 cents worth of veal, consisted of 142 

 lbs. beef at 8 cents per lb., and 170^ lbs. pork, from 12 to 14 cts. per lb.; 

 203 lbs. flour were supplied at (>%, cts. per lb., 4 pecks meal at 34 cts. per 

 peck, 445 lbs. bread from 7)^ to 8>^ cts. per lb., 5^ bush, potatoes from 

 40 to 67 cts. per bush., 59 gals, molasses at 34 and 36 cts. per gal, 2il lbs. 

 rice at 5 and 6 cts. per lb., 3 bush, beans at 8 cts. per qt., 2 gals, vinegar at 

 20 cts. per gal., a can of mustard, a pound of saleratus and a bottle of pep- 

 per sauce. For drink there were 35 lbs. coffee at ten cents per pound, and 

 I lb. chocolate at 22 cents. 34^ lbs. of lard were used at 10 cts. per lb., 

 and the butter and cheese bill was very moderate, (i;^^only 72 cts. 



A Singular Circumstance. — Dec. 15, 1865, sch. 

 Live Yankee, then owned at this port by Daniel Sayward, 

 while anchored on Georges during a heavy sea, un- 

 fe shipped her bowsprit shroud, which was lost overboard? 

 f^ and when she returned to port a new one was furnished 

 by Mr. Addison Witham, rigger. The next Spring, while 

 the crew were engaged in fishing on Georges, one of them caught something 

 on his hook, and pulling up, was surprised to find a bowsprit shroud at- 

 tached. Supposing themselves to be anchored over the wreck of some 

 Georgesman, they brought the shroud in, and called some of the riggers to 

 examine it for the purpose of identification, and thus to gain information of 

 a lost vessel. Among them was Mr. Witham, who at once pronounced it 

 the one lost by the Live Yankee the December previous. He was positive 

 of this, as it had a very peculiar long-shanked hook, different from any other 

 in our fleet, and it corresponded exactly with the other one which is still in 

 use on the vessel. It was in good condition, with the exception of some 

 parts of it being covered with small barnacles. It was indeed singular that 

 it should be hooked up in the manner it was, by one of the crew of the ves- 

 sel from which it was lost. 



The Isinglass Industry. — The first establishment in this countr}' for 

 the manufacture of isinglass from fish sounds was set up in Rockport, Mass., 

 in 1822, by a Mr. Hall, an Englishman, who came to the town for that pur- 

 pose, because he could best buy here the hake sounds he wished to use. 

 His shop was out near the end of the neck, the same building Mr. Addison 

 Gott now uses as a fish house. He first used wooden rollers, which had the 

 disadvantage of warmth and adhesiveness. Besides, his rollers were turned 

 by hand power, two men to a roller, making very unsteady work ; it is said 

 the wages of this human power was from thirty to forty cents a day. After 

 some years, iron rollers were introduced, and the next improvement was 

 horse power, using a treadmill. Mr. Hall, within a few years after he start- 



