The Portland daily press., 1874-05-04

the street. Fined So with costs.
Brief JOtfIngs.
Cooler and mostly clear to-day
The school house at Lbby's Corner is report
ed to stand on an unstable foundation.
The suits against the Maine Steamship Com
pany for goods burned on the wharf last sum-
mel will come to trial in the Superior Court to-
day.
At the annual meeting of the Portland
Board of Fire Underwriters the following off
GERS were elected for the ensuing year: F. j.
Rollins, President; j. M. Heath, Vice Presi-
DENT Sterling Dow, Secretary and Treasurer
The contract for finishing the basement in
City Hall for Court affairs has been awarded to
j. G. Ward.
Don Jose Bivadouga has been appointed vice
consul for Spain at this port, and as soon as he
arrives Don Tomas Lozano, the Consul, will
sail for Europe on leave of absence
AT the regular weekly temperance meeting
this evening at the Allen Mission, there will be
some of our most earnest and eloquent total
abstinence advocates Also good singing. All
are earnestly and cordially invited TO be pres
ent.
The Boston & Maine railroad pay dividend
of four per cent. May 18th, on their stock,
which is very different thing from stock
dividend, as announced a few days ago,
A hotel keeper in this city gave an organ
grinder dollar week ago, and every
since the grateful man has taken his station
in front of the hotel and played three hours at
q stretch The boarders are getting up a sub
scription to send him west
Quite number of persons went out to Ever
green Cemetery yesterday, to get out of the heat
of the city.
The pelsons who are in the habit of firing
guns on the Dump Sunday mornings, would be
good subjects for the police to Look after.
If the water could have been let on the
fountain in the park yesterday the number of
attendants would have been greatly increased
The churches were well filled yesterday.
The fountains up town were in. play yester-
day, making believe that summer was al
hand.
Many people went after May flowers yester
day, and came back with wet feet.
1t was so pleasant yester ay that people in
their folly said, we are going to have fine
weather DOW '-uumindfu of the snow storm
promised for next Wednesday.
The mercury, by dnt of hard work, climbed
up to 81 degeees Yesterday.
1t may be necessary to remind over-saneuine
people thatit isn't quite time yet 10 don straw
hats and doff fannels.
The attention of the school agent is called to
that school house rat hole mentioned in Satur
days Ad0ertiser.
There will be meeting of the Women's
Missionary Society this afternoon, at 3 o clock
in State street chapel. Rev. B. f. Leavtt
will address the meeting. Ladies interested in
. forming mission circles among the children arr
especially invited.
Members of Forest City Temple of Houol
No l, are notified of meeting to be holder
this evening to make arrangements for the
funeral of their late brother Cyrus W. Knight
There were six persons baptized at the FRS
Baptist church yesterday morning. In the af.
ternoon they were received into the church.
A safe key was found at the foot of Chestnut
street Yesterday. 1t can be found at this of.
fee.
DIR. MacaIaster explains that his horse die
not take fright Saturday and dash into another
team. His carriage was standing in Marke
Square when team came up Middle street at
a furious rate. One Of the shafts ran into his
vince! and tipped his carriage over. Then his
horse started to run. The doctor was bruised,
but received no severe injury. The horse was
badly injured.
The freight business of the Eastern and
Maine Central line at the Portland station, in
GLIDING both ehe received and the despatched
amounts to about seventeen hundred and thirty
loaded cars per week,
The party of gentlemen who have purchas &c
Little Chebeague island, with a view to erect a
hotel for the accommodation of pleasure par
ties. are now in New York negotiating for &
steamer to run to and from the island.
Three persons were received into State street
church yesterday by profession of faith
A horse made lots of fun for crowd oil
Green street Saturday. A man was on his
back, but he decided not to go until large
whip was broken over him, Then he went.