The Portland daily press., 1879-09-12
THURSDAY, Sept. II.

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THURSDAY, Sept. II.
Todays shower laid the dust.
Rapid progress in ice shipment is being made
at Waterville.
Some one has proposed to remove thu street
lamp posts and sell them for old iron. They
may yet be useful on which to hang the festive
tramp.
There was festive row at midnight under
the shadow of Wesley church Too much of
the crooked.
About 175 excursionists went to Portland
this morning.
All very quiet i'll police circles.
Merchants say business is improving since
election.
Argumentati We citizens are now betting on
majorities.
Miss Eleanor P. Gushing, 3. III. S., "a, Smith
College 10, has taken the position of assistant
to Principal Huse of the High School. Miss
c. teaches Latin, Greek and the science of
government Her high scholarship in past
years is guarantee of success.
Ship L. schepp left port for New York this
morning.
This noon the Adella brought down GOO logs
for Wiscasset
Capt. Dyer of Portland this morning exam
ined the boiler Of the Laurena and found all
in good order. She is allowed to carry 10
pounds of steam.
1t certainly seems as if Bath, which was the
last to feel the hard times is once more to
enter upon business activity and prosperity.
There is better feeling among her capitalists,
feeling of hopefulness in the immediate de-
mand for shipping, the increase of freight
and determination to do all they can to
make business at home, the evidence of which
can be seen and heard along the river front.
The croakers can no longer complain that
Bath ship yards are deserted, for the sound Of
mallet and saw gives that assertion the lie, or
that her streets are green with grass, for her
streets show obvious signs of business life.
For the fall and winter the yards in which
is centered so much interest at home
and abroad will employ the old time quota OF
laborers. One or two new branches of interest
will probably be started in this city at once,
and the advantages Bath offers for the outlay
of capital ought to bring many moneyed men
to this locality. Chapman & Flint have just
sent one new ship, the l.. Schepp, to sea, and
will launch a second from their yard this
month AT BlaisdelPs is schooner; at Haw-
ley & Palmer's schooner; at Hathor ne's a
ship Just begun at Morse's yard preparations
for laying second schooners keel are in prog
ress; at Hagar's is a schooner; at Adams Il
Hitchcock's is a large coaster; at the yards OF
Goss, Sawyer & Packard six vessels, large and
small, are in all stages Of building, while at
Rogers ward is large bark the Havana, to be
launched this week, with Il barkentine nearing
completion. Does not this showing, with ne
gotiations and prospects of the present, prove
that the ball has commenced to roll the right
way?
M. f. Gannett, Esq, of the firm of Gannett
s. Son, who have just removed from their old
stand to the store formerly occupied by Chas.
p. Lemont, has been in the grocery business in
this city since 1896 Subtracting two years
from 81 to '39, spent in Ohio, this makes a
business life of So years in one branch of trade.
The proof that Gannett & Son furnish only the
best goods is the presence of his card in our
Bath advertising column.
The Central church will be ready for occu-
pancy about Oct. 1.
Many of our private houses are illuminated
evenings with lamps and refectors at porch
doors. If the practice would be followed
more generally, as in days before the introduce
ton of gas, our streets would be passable and
no thanks to the city fathers.
James I. Williams, while cunning in the bay
yesterday, shot a duck, about one wing of
which was tied a card on which was written
"Lewis Carlton, Harrison, N. j."
There is to be horse trot at Farmin gton
Saturday. The beautiful scenery along the
route will induce many OF our citizens to take
the trip.
Part of a vessels frame arrived for Rogers in
the schooner John Wentworth which came in
this morning.
DIR. E. NJ. Fuller arrived home this after
noon, having thoroughly enjoyed his three
months European visit.
The yacht steamer Laurena made her first
trip to Augusta this afternoon.
The Marion towed the Government lighter
France to her moorings in He'll Gate this noon.
Work is resumed tomorrow.
Robinson Rock is 100 feet higher than Bum
ker Hill monument-above sea level.
The schooner Bessie E. Dickinson has been
chartered to load lumber at Wilmington for
the new schooner building by B. w. & III. f.
Morse.
They still are engaged in canning the festive
sturgeon at Sturgeon Island.
Farmers are bringing sweet cider in large
quantities into the market.
The injuries received by the runaway acci-
dent yesterday by John Martin have not
proved seriOuS