The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-04-11
Rrief L0ffiugs.

Brief Jottings.
Clear aceatter aUith north or northeastern!
aoinds is promised to-dau
Line average local freight rates of the Massa
chusetts railroads for 1872 [misrepresented by
the type in our yesterdays issue] were o'4l
cents per ton per mile, or twenty per cent
| higher than those of the Maine Central railroad
| for the same year.
| The Boston and Maine have in contempla-
| ton improvements on Smiths wharf. The Goa
and lumber sheds will be taken away, thus Civ
| ing room for three more tracks,
A Swiss and wife about 45 years old, were at
| the Grand Trunk station yesterday accompan.
| led by nineteen children and three grand chill
dren.
The wooden bridge will be placed over High
street Immediately.
A young son of John C. Cobb, ESQ wa.
thrown down and severely bruised Thursday
while leading horse out of his fathers stable
in Deering.
We understand that meeting of some of OIL
leading citizens is re held to-day with reference
to the establishment of a park and show
grounds that shall be worthy the chief city o
the State.
Several inches of damp snow fell yesterday,
the storm lasting until noon. Then the sur
came out and the walking was dreadful.
Sixty Swedes passed through this city yester-
day en- route for Toronto.
The schooner Lizzie Bradley ran into anoth-
er schooner near the breakwater during the
storm yesterday, and her rail and fore boon
| were carried away
Mrs. Fitzgerald, the converted sal lor' wife,
is expected to lecture Sabbath evening on the
Evils of Intemperance at the Allen Mission
Chapel.
Capt. Dutton addressed the meeting at Allen
Mission last evening Much interest was
manifested and the meeting was very success
full.
By request the lecture delivered by Hon. G..
j. Morris in the regular course at East Deering
will be repeated by him tomorrow evening.
A free entertainment will be given to the
scholars of the fraternity and their friends this
evening in hall, 353a Congress street.
The officers of the Allan steamship line say
that the number of emigrants brought this
winter is smaller than during any winter since
| the line was puton
oohCo Ou SCuOUi OOutIllbb66 are ueuC6
forth taboo and wags and punsters will govern
themselves accordingly.
Tickets for the Ward variety troupe can be
obtained at the box office, Music Hall.
MEETING OF THE MAINE CENTRAL DIREc
ToRs.-The regular monthly meeting of the
directors of the Maine Central Railroad tool
place at the Falmouth last evening. President
Morrill, and Messrs. Woodbridge and Ward Of
Boston, Cook of Salem, Jones of Portsmouth
Patten of Bath, Alden of Augusta and Stricl1.
land of Bangor, were present. General Man
ager Hatch, of the Eastern-Maine Central,
Superintendent Lincoln of Augusta, and Eng
Holt with other subordinate off GERS were in at
tendance. The general affairs of the road, ant
particularly the management of its bushes
was considered. The characters of various sub
ordlnates were considered, and measures dis
| cussed looking to the efficiency of employees
The board voted to affirm the contract of thu
Eastern with the Boston & Maine relative t.
business from competing points on the two lat
| ter, and the contract between the Eastern anl
Portland & Ogdensburg. The former contrac
does not affect freight and passengers from tn,
Maine Central or east of Portland. The cues
ton of running Pullman cars, we understand
was also discussed at length. The introduction
of palace cars was an innovation of Judg
Rice's, and like other experiences of railrc a,
men has not proved satisfactory on the Maine
Ceatral, as it costs the company as much to con
vega Pullman palace passenger from Bangor t
Portland as it does to ship four tons of freigh
So far as our reporter could get the drift of tn
sentiment of the board, it is opposed to the US
OF the fifty ton palace cars on day trains, bu
for the benefit of the travelling public NOR
than its own profit the company will continu
the sleeping cars with an understanding th
passengers occupying donble space in such cars
shall pay the company two fares. This wa
the talk, but we were unable to tell definitel
to what conclusion the directors arrived OH tn,
subject, but it may be safely predicted tina
they voted as they talked Sometime such
gentlemen do as they say and sometimes -
The part of the bridge that fell at Watervill,
during the freshet will soon be put in shape
| and the work will again proceed. We are pleas
ed to announce that everything was lovely ant
that Col. Alden won't have bill passed by th
next Legislature prohibiting the contract of 49,
years between the Eastern and Maine Central
He considers it exactly the best possible thin,
80 long as the machine shops are retained a
| Augusta.