The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-02
BATH.
About the -Persoual-Sum Notes
Sharks-Yachting- Business-Gossip

FRIDAY, Aug 1.
Thirstily the roses hang
Crumpled bend the forest ferns
Hazily the cowbells clang
Toward the south the hot turns.
Mercury reads at ninety.
The stones perspire.
Mortality of the city during the past week
two deaths.
K.&L locomotive ''Thomaston'' No. 5 is at
the repair shop.
Fishermen report many sharks and plenty of
fog off the rivers mouth.
A shark 70 feet long was captured off Small
Point yesterday afternoon.
A full grown crow was caught on Middle
near Union street by some boys Thursday af
ternoon.
No services at Beacon and Wesley NJ E.
churches Sunday owing to the absence of the
pastors
The Della Collins, with the Augusta Band
on board passed down river for Popham this
morning.
Goldthwat played remarkable billiard
game last night making the large runs of 4S,
SO, 90 and 100, playing especially fine cushion
caroms A number of gentlemen witnessed t he
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game.
In garden OH Franklin street on one vine
are cucumbers measuring s, 10 and u inches.
A Lewiston trader is buying up blueberries
in this vicinity for shipment to the Lewiston
market.
The yacht Lettie arrived home from Mt.
Desert this morning. She made the quick run
of 30 hours from Bar Harbor to the mouth of
the Kennebec. Her crew, no doubt, had jolly
time.
The schooner j. S. and H. G. Adams is being
repaired at the railroad wharf
A frame for schooner of about 500 tons will
be put up this Fall by Messrs. b. w. & H. F.
Morse.
Sheepscot bay is solid full of hake and cod
The machinery and boiler are being placed
in the whaler Mary and Helen.
Many market boats arrived from down river
this morning.
Yesterday afternoon Mr. jeremiah Reed,
Frustrated by the heat, fell ON Academy street,
bruising his head and face. He was imme-
diately carried to the residence of his son, Mr..
Enoch Reed, ON Lincoln street. Today he is
able to be out.
This morning the raft steamer Adella carried
about 700 logs to Wiscasset her first raft this
season.
Guests at the Eureka House recently saw
mosquito flying over the beach with a clam
shell in its bill.
Capt. Armstrong of the sch. Eagle arriv ed
up from Seguin today with 500 weight of cod
and hake. Three of the cod weighed over 80
pounds each.
The G. A. R. boys intend giving an enter
tainment this fall similar to their last.
More sunburnt people from the watering
places up today.
The sloop yacht Lille of Boston arrived at
Mouse Island Thursday on the way from
three weeks cruise along the coast OF Eastern
Maine. Her owners are Capt. w. G. Dilling-
ham, P. NJ Pond and G. F. Loring of Boston.
The Lille is one of the fastest sloop yachts east
of New York, and has won 81 prizes If we
mistake not she was built by Harrington of
Bath
Personal-H. E. Palmer, wife and daughter,
Mrs. Gilbert Patten, Miss Sewall and Mr..
Fred Owen, Mr.. Ropes, the artist, and
daughter are at Mt. Desert. Mrs. Eveleth,
Mrs. Perkins and niece and Mr.. Harry Hough-
ton leave Bath for Poland Springs this after
noon. Mrs James McMicken of Brooklyn
with her family are spending the summer in
town. Miss Plimpton and her sister Mrs.
Kendall of Boston ,are stopping few weeks in
Bath. Mr.. James s. McCobb of Portland is at
present the guest of Thomas M. Reed, Esq,
South street.
Wednesday morning while DR.. VIM. E. Rice
was visiting a patient on Linden street his
horse became frightened at some object and
turning suddenly tipped over the carriage,
completely smashing the top. The animal was
stopped before further damega was done.
Correspondent sR.'' from whom we would
like to hear oftener among other news says
he Central church parish have decided to
pay off their debt, to paint the church also to
move the organ, much to the regret of many
members of the congregation from the organ
loft to position in the rear of the pulpit and
to modernize the interior of the church already
possessing rich and antique style of interior
decoration. REV. Mr.. Richards, the pastor
elect, will be ordained the first of October.
Complaint is made that men and boys both
from Union and other wharves along the river
battle in violation of the law.
The Winter street rehearsals have been post
poned for the season.
Hon. T. B. Reed was in town to-day.
William ID. Page, a Yale graduate, now of
the New York Sun, is spending short vaca-
ton at home.
Suppers on the Woolwich rocks are all the
go.
Hotel neutrality-suspicious. 40, Shannon's %