The Portland daily press., 1879-07-26
FRIDAY, July %.

FRIDAY, July %.
One more intention recorded.
Ho! for Mouse Island!
A brilliant display of aurora borealis at mid
night.
Two tramps slept on Moultons wharf last
night.
Two RATS of logs aggregating 1900, towed by
the Kapella and Popham, passed by to Wiscas-
set this morning.
600 logs per day are cut up by Sturgis mill
at Wiscasset.
The X. of P. excursion to Old Orchard
leaves Bath Tuesday at G.55 a. m.
The street commissioner is matchmaking
the hill side road near Witch spring.
The schooner Reuben S. Hunt finished I'M
loading 275 tons of coal at railroad wharf yes
terday afternoon. The coal is shipped to Lew
iston.
VIM White is putting new foremost into
the Mary Sands.
Yesterday afternoon the valve on the dis
charging engine at Hayden's coal yard blew
off. The engineer barely escaped being
scalded.
BY the custom house record it appears that
during the month of June 1875 vessels arrived
at the port of Bath, with an aggregate ton
mage of 1891. The number OF men employed
was 11,0l0 A good showing for commerce on
the Kennebec. From July to July %, So
vessels have arrived at Gardiner This, Fri
day, morning Is loaded vessels were towed to
sea. These facts speak for themselves.
The families of Mr.. j. Huse, G. l.. Turner,
DR.. S. Anderson and of other citizens are rus
ticating in tents and cottages at Small Point
A down river fisherman sold 800 mackerel
for $50 in the city this morning.
A number of Brunswick people passed
through the city this morning en- route for
Popham and the islands.
X. & L.. head brakeman, Warren Glidden,
is spending months vacation at Old Orch
ard.
The porgy steamer Phoebe ste AIMED to sea
this morning.
Mr.. Al. Hodgkins, at Spears stream Thurs
day, caught 30 trout, several of which weighed
over two pounds each.
Quaker car No. n has left the machine shop
of the X. & L. r. r. completed.
A portion of our French population went
down to the sea in skiffs this morning They
will camp on the shore.
Capt. Thomas NJ Reed and Hon. Edwin
Reed, of this city, are spending few days at
the Fabyan House, White Mountains.
Hotel embellishments 9, Sagadahoc "a.
The treasury having been reimbursed the
Maritime Exchange again receives daily tele-
grams from all parts of the world.
Shpping-The schooner Nellie V. Rokes,
built by Goss, Sawyer & Packard, was launch
ed yesterday afternoon at the yard of the firm.
Her tonnage is 296.14; registered length 1914
feet; breadth 32.4 feet; depth 80 feet. Capt.
Enoch G. Thompson will command her. The
| schooner now ON the stocks at the yard of b.
| w. & III. T. Morse registers 460.59 tons. Her
| registered length is 1889 feet; breadth 33.1
feet; depth 12.4 feet.
The steam bark Mary and Helen, hailing
| from New Bedford, now on the stocks at
Packard's yard measures 420.50 tons. Registers
in length 1882 feet; in depth 1915 feet.
| A large party from Bath attended the Ger
mania concert at the Samoset House, Mouse
| Island.
| The Prussian is lying in the stream and will
sail Saturday for New Orleans.
| A party Of citizens interested in Shipping
| with Mayor Richardson and City Marshal
Ballou, this morning in company with the
| engineer experimenting the government
operatives at He'll Gate in the tug VIM. Kemp,
! visited the spot where the mud is being
dumped into our channel. The gentlemen
| were shown that the dumping of the mud in
this portion of the river which is fifty feet
deep at high water could not obstruct naviga-
ton in the least. Seven thousand cubic yards
OF mud are being taken from the Arrowsic
flats and this is placed over a much larger area
in the Kennebec than there is in the area from
which it is taken. The depth of the dredging
| in back river averages 5-8 feet, and the mud
after settling on the bed of the Kennebec will
not average half foot deep. Our river pilots
may be satisfied that the government officials
did not intend to improve back river at the ex-
pense of our serviceable channel.
Davis and Hale at Columbian Hall next
Wednesday night
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