The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-08-07

The picked nine which was to have played
the Dirigo b. b. c. of Deering, on last Satur-
day, will play next Saturday afternoon on the
Dirigo's grounds.
Rev. DIR. Joseph Stockbrdge and family
started yesterday for Colorado, proposing to
spend two months in the land of the bison and
the savage.
A meeting of the stockholders of the Attain
tic & ST. Lawrence Railroad Compa ny, was to
be held yesterday, but no quorum was pres
ent an adjournment took place.
f. o. Bailey s. Co., sold seventy-five tons of
marble and granite belonging to the United
States postofice contractors yesterday for $1O5
The County Commissioners are in session this
week and will give hearing to the inhabitants
of Deering on petition for a gate on either
side of the Ogdensburg Railroad track, at the
foot of the hill on which the Brewer House
stands.
Wilson, the grocer, has placed pretty little
engine in his window, corner of Exchange and
Federal streets, for the purpose of driving his
coffee-mil
The Mayor hes gone to Brownfeld.s
Never was the island business so prosperous
as this year. The boats go loaded every trip.
Odd Fellows from Portland attending the
sessions of the Grand Lodge and celebration at
Lewiston on the 18th, will be furnished with
free return tickets over the Maine Central road.
Yacht Sylvie, Capt. Written, with the own
er's family and friends ON board, arrived here
yesterday afternoon.
The section of the Boston & Maine railroad
between Fore river and Oak Hill, will be ready
for the rails in ahout two weeks,
Mr. d. w. Foxs steam yacht Elsie has been
visiting the towns on the Kennebec.
The reunion of the 1-10-29th regiment comes
off Friday next at Peaks Island. The Grand
Trunk Railway will grant tickets to come and
return for one fare.
Mr.. William L. Billings having been ap-
pointed agent of the Portland Steam Packet
Company Mr. Charles f. Williams, Jr., has
been transferred to the freight office in this
city, Mr.. John Graham to chief clerk of the
Montreal and Mr.. w. H. Liscomb assistant
clerk.
Collector Washburn, who has been on visit
to the family homestead in Livermore, was
taken quite i'll of Inflammation of the bowels and
obliged to return home. Yesterday he was
much better.
survivor of the 46s5 subscribers to Rowletts
Interest Tables, published January LIST, 1902,
and which for many years were standard au-
thority in this country.
The return game of base ball between the
'iAfarine Nine of the U. S. steamer Powhatan
ann the Beaverton Base Ball Club of Fort
Preble. WILL we learn, be played tomorrow,
Aug. Sth, on the grounds of the latter, com
mencing at o'clock p. m. All lovers of the
game should attend, as the marines are anx-
ious to win back their laurels, and hard strug-
gle may be expected.
The Irish American Relief Association have
laid out for a splendid holiday at Sebago Lake,
and no doubt they will get together to-day one
of the largest parties of the season. See ad-
vertisement.
Francis Murphy will be present at the meet
ing of the Reform Club to- morrow evening.
AT the meeting of the Marthas Grove Camp
meeting Association held at the office of Jos
A. Locke, Esq, Saturday afternoon the consti
tuition and bylaws reported by the COMMITTEES
appointed for that purpose, were adopted an'
the following additional members elected: ID
r. Hastings, Eben Weeks Frank Shirley AM
William Chase of Fryeburg and Rev. G.
Mason of Browns Hill, G. e. The followin!
Committees were appointed, viz: Commit
tee on the Grounds-S. r. Leavitt, Il. g.
Smith, Chas. Nutter Committee on Trans
portation-E. T. Nutter, S. r. Leavitt, VIM
Chase. Committee on Victualling-E. T. Nut
ter, Geo. l.. Kimball f. A. Smith. COMMITTEE
to provide Straw-Wm. Chase Geo. Stanley
j. f. Cobb. Committee on Stablng-Walte
B. Nutter. Committee on lighting the ground
William Chase. COMMITTEES on PoIicr-Elinha