The Portland daily press., 1877-04-12
Brief j Ottings.

Brief j Ottlngs.
Two boys were arrested yesterday for stealir e
pigeons.
Mr.. George W. Tlue Surveyor of the port, is
out again.
Some of the bakers complain that bake
carts are allowed on the street sunday morning.
The street sprinklers were welcomed on the
street yesterday.
Steamship Circassian from this port has
arrived at Moville.
The Women's Temperance Society meets on
Saturday at o'clock in the Library of the Y.
M. G. A.
Rumor hath it that there is to be general
reduction in salaries in the educational depart
ment of the city.
The contract for furnishing the city with
stationery was awarded to Dresser, Mcclellan
& Co. yesterday.
A valuable horse belonging to Mr.. Lowell was
seized with fit yes terday, and it is thought
it will die.
The members of the class IA High School
are to hold an important business meeting at
So State street Friday evening.
The dedication of Arcana Hall to the use of
the Reform Club is postponed until Thursday
of next week.
"W. G." has been looking over the oyster
shell banks at Damoriscotta and the old
Georgetown settlement.
The steamer Lewiston will take her place on
the Machias route the goth inst, and the
steamer Richmond will commence her three
trips per week to Bangor the 18th.
A cable despatch to S. E. Springs & Co. con-
firms the loss of the ship Admiral, before re-
ported wrecked ou the Patagonian coast. The
ship and cargo were total loss, and vessel was
sold for $4,000 currency. No lives lost.
The Advertiser says that grocer on Port
land street, who is not allowed to sell bread
and milk from his store Sunday mornings, has
engaged eminent counsel and backed by the
other grocers, will test the legality of milkmen
selling milk from their carts, and of all other
sales on that day.
Messrs. J. j. Gilbert, George Russell and
Edward Robinson of Deering have $500
already ssecured to construct horse railroad
from EAbbott's Corner to Lunts Corner,
a distance of one mile, and expect to easily
raise the balance of the $4,000 which the road
will cost from Woodford's
John G. Whittier. in recent letter, thus
81 never thought much of Maud Muller and
since she has got upon the stage 1 utterly dis
own her. There is something exquisitely
absurd in the idea of the old Judge and the
over-done matron with as many children as the
'old woman who lived in a Shoe finding their
taffinities, at this late day."
The Right Worthy Grand Body of the Order
Of Good Templars will meet in this city on the
ODD of May, when dignitaries of the Order
from every quarter of the glove will be pre-
sent; the Grand Templars of Maine will give
the body hearty reception, and Gov. Connor
will give the address of welcome; there will be
banquet at Congress Hall, and perhaps an
excursion to the White Mountain.
The Independent Temperance Union will
hold meeting in Congress Hall this evening
at7I o'clock. The public are cordially invited.
A well dressed lady about 50 years of age
was brought to the police station yesterday in
an insane condition. She had ticket from
Brunswick TO Boston, and was put off the
tain in this city.
The windows in Huckster's row display
tempting looking Ecucumbers. tomatoes and
strawberries, to say nothing of wild geese and
black ducks.