The Portland daily press., 1879-07-02
BATH.
Out and About-Business Notes-Rogers
Dam-Fire at Southport. Loss $500.

MONDAY, June so.
| Mortality last week three deaths-consump-
ton L; lung fever2.
The fishermen don't find porgy on the
| coast.
The horrible procession on the Fourth is to
be of great magnitude.
| Freight receipts-K. & l.. Railroad, East
| 8 West M. c. Railroads. East 10 West
| Among NJ c. receipts are one car of corn to
Mitchell and 5000 feet of oak timber to Goss
| & Sawyer
Messrs Randall, Getchell, Mustard & Co.
dam at Small Point has been completed 1t is
| $50 feet long, 80 feet wide and cost $4,000.
| In Small Point pond last Wednesday 800
barrels of No. 1 mackerel during one tide
were caught. Half was sold for % cents per
bushel, the rest being lost.
| Three Southport fishermen went fishing
Tuesday returning Thursday making $13S
from the sale of their fish and $25 from
| plotting. They called it fair business and
| say times are hard
Daniel f. Davis will speak in Bath the first
| of next month.
Bowdoin Freshman class supper at the
| Sagadahoc Wednesday night
Rogers new barque now on the stocks when
completed will be very fine. She is iron
kneed; has fiat hold; iron keelson, and will be
of the best construction throughout. She is
designed for the petroleum trade to the Indies
returning with sugar.
An excursion to Popham July 4th Glide &
Milo.
Academy street people desire to call atten-
zion to the present cattle nuisance existing ON
| that street. 1t is used as pasture ground
Where are the pound keepers.
A boy named Robinson was run over by
strange team ON Washington street Saturday
The boy was badly bruised. The team didn't
stop.
Three hundred pupils of the High and
Grammar Schools will present the allegory
and tableau of the Great Republic July 10th
and 18th. We suggest the propriety of an
advertisement in our Bath advertising
column.
We would call special attention to the adj
vertisement of fire works and hammocks by
VIM. Ill. Smith q Son in our advertising
columns. All goods Of this firm are excellent
and cheap.
The ship yards along the river bank present
scene OF business activity, croaking to the
contrary notwithstanding.
1t is reproach to the city officials who are
paid Tor and sworn to observance of duty that
those miserable holes ON Commercial street
are allowed to exist
Little & Co.'s Boston express is of establish
ed reputation, delivers goods promptly, cares
are courteous and square.
Mr.. Emerson at Linnegan's Neck is building
steam yacht of 45 feet keel dimension.
ips-Accidents-Th Ancients and Hor-
ribles-The Fish and Game Club Shoot.
TUESDAY, July /.
Summer travel to the sea shore has opened
in earnest.
Two cars of spars skipped frog at the M.
G. station this morning
Mr.. Albert G. Pages nobby jewelry store
has received stylish sign and awnings
| The Marion took her first tow down river to-
| day.
The porgy boat Job Wilson, repaired, sailed
for Bristol last night.
The Falmouth, with dredge and three
lighters, arrived yesterday afternoon at six
o'clock, IA hours fir ON Portland The Fal-
mouth began work this morning making a
channel over the Arrowsic flats from He'll
| Gate to the bridge. Work will continue until
September.
The porgy fisherman Phebe, with 200 barrels
of No. mackerel, drove profitable retail
business until midnight last night, at City
wharf Ten mackerel were sold for % cents.
| The Phebe went to Gardiner this morning
Police news-Otficer Tibbetts arrested Frank
Sneider the well known, on Sunday for forg-
ing an overseers of the poor order, signed by
| DR.. Briny, for 80. Last night Mr.. Osgood,
| just arrived from sea, complained that his
spouse was unfaithful Williams was found
in company with Mrs. Osgood on Water street,
and locked up, Mrs. S. and the children being
sent to the poor house. This morning, VIM
Kelley of Dresden having imbibed too mnch
elixir was arrested by officers Tibbetts and
Fife, Tibbetts being roughly handled. Kelley
was finally locked up in the palais.
The route of the ancient and horribles pro-
cession on the Fourth will be as follows: Start
from Witch Spring through Court to High,
down High to Pine, up Washington to Ed
ward, thence through Dummer to York, down
down High to the Court House, where the pro-
cession will disband. Gen. L. H. Williams
will command, assisted by Adjutant General
G. ID. Hodgkins. The Bath Band will head
the column, which will consist of infantry and
cavalry. The movement is in honor of the
nominees for Governor of the three political
parties.