Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1886 — FROZEN FISH. [ARTICLE]

FROZEN FISH.

Myriads of Fish in the Gulf of Mexico Killed by the Recent Cold Weather. [New Orleans special.) Mr. A. O. Wilson, a well-known civil engineer, has recently arrived here from Florida, where he has been engaged in landsurveying. He states that during the recent cold snap, while he was making a voyage from Tampa to Cedar Keys, the schooner in which he had embarked was wrecked off Cedar Keys the Bth of January. All hands escaped with their lives, but suffered greatly from the Cold. The salt water froze on the reef in the Gulf of Mexico upon which the vessel struck, and great numbers of fish, chiefly trout, sheephead, and redfish, were killed.by the cold and floated on the wafer, covering its surface for miles. Inquiries among fishermen and others elicited the fact that during the same cold spell fish were killed on the Louisiana <mast and were then floating by the thousands-from the Rigolets to points far to the eastward. 0 . Cincinnati had the first paid fire department in the world, and its first paid engineer, Finley Latto, has just passed away. Nat Goodwin, the comedian, contemplates building or buying a fine yach for the coming season. - . Mrs. Curtis had her watch stolen from her rooms in New York by a messenger boy, but recovered it the next day.^ Of the 672 Yale graduates who died in the ten years between 1676 and 1885, there were 271 who were past 70 yean of age.