The Johns Hopkins

At about 9 o’clock on tbe night of February 26, 1881, tbe bark Fury came in collision with the steamer Johns Hopkins, off tbe coast of Cape Cod, near Chatham. A dense fog bad shut in some half hour before. Tbe bark was sailing with tbe wind nearly aft, and making eight or nine knots through tbe water, and bad besides, as I understand tbe evidence, a current of about two knots in her favor. Her lookout reported a light to the mate, who was the officer of tbe deck, and was standing on the forward part of the quarter-deck. The mate looked and saw a green light, and gave tbe word “hard…