The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-13
BATH.
Molecules-Ship News-A Smart Mass
achusetts Girl-Rides and Excursions
Sudden Death-About Town.

Sudden Death-About Town.
TUESDAY, Aug. u.
The dust blows.
The cisterns cry aloud for drink.
The cricket huskily chirpeth.
High street, below Centre ,rejoiceth in new
! walk.
Vacation half gone is the juvenile lament
The dimensions of the new Masonic banquet
hall in Ledyard's block is 64x23.
Hotel Embellishments SO; Sagadahoc,
II.
The locomotive Thomaston is being repaired
at the X. & l.. car shop.
Gov. Conner was in town today, the g uest of
DIR. A. J. Fnller.
Coal has gone down. Egg coal now brings
$3.50 per ton. We understand it brings $50
per ton in Rockland. If so why is this thus
ly?
Citizens complain that the dog law is not
enforced. Daily parties are bitten. A COM
plant to the police is sure of satisfactory re-
suits. Enforce fully the law however and
complaints will not be made.
Porgy steamer Fannie B. Sprague arrived in
port this afternoon with 70 barrels Of mack
erel
The Adella towed down q raft of 400 logs to
Wiscasset this morning.
A raft of 200 logs was tided to Winnegance
this morning.
The steam whaler is nearly ready for sea.
A new flag pole was put ON the custom house
today
Two Small Point fishermen brought up 1000
weight of mackerel and cod this morning, the
| cod finding a ready SALE
The schooner Annie l.. Palmer is receiving
new topmasts at Hodgkin's.
The schooner Joseph Clark is being re-
caulked and made ready for sea.
New potatoes bring 80 cents per bushel on
| the street.
One of'the fair and festive bellies at Popham
recently made bet with a gentleman that
she could tire him out waltzing. The bet was
| box of candy. The music struck up; the
twain gyrated. After twenty the gentleman
collapsed and the maiden won her bet. Jack
| wants to know who wouldn't give pound of
| candy for 90 minutes waltz.
A young folks ride to Small Point yesterday.
An old folks ride to the same place occurr ed
| today.
| play ground ON the Sabbath. This should be
| stopped.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. j. Goldstein give recep-
| tion to their friends at the Eureka House,
| Popham tonight The Creedmore has been
| chartered to carry invited guests from Bath
! this evening.
Mr. Ray Eaton, an old Bath resident, who
| was member of the Sd Maine Volunteers
and who lost an arm at the battle of the Wild
| ernesS, now special agent of the Postofice
| Department, is maxim brief visit to Bath,
| having just returned from the Pacific coast.
| Mrs. j. d. W atson of Philadelphia lectured
| on temperance at the Reform Club rooms last
night. Considerable feeling was manifested
| because the City Hall was not given the lady
| and her friends. 1t was simply because the
| lady did not take the requisite steps to obtain
the use of the hall that she failed to obtain it.
Mere Point is becoming favorite visiting
watering place with Bath people. The name
| is to be changed, we hear, to Ocean Point.
| The ship Theobald is daily expected at this
| port.
The Sasanoa took an excursion from Bow
| doinham to the Islands this morning. The
| Lawrence took party down Back river. The
| Creedmore was crowded as was the Morrison.
| The excursion season is the harvest time of
| boat people this year.
The Odd Fellows hear what the wild waves
say at Old Orchard Wednesday.
William Trask of Winnegance ridin with
| his father through Woolwich yesterday after
| noon while the team was going over the
marsh fell over upon his father dead from
disease of the heart.
The Della Collins took party of up river
people to the Islands this morning.
The Republican county convention will be
held in Bath Aug. 18th.
| The Omnibus took party of Baptist people
| to Parker's Head to attend the Sunday School
convention.
A young Massachusetts lady boarding at
Parker's Head the other morning arose at
a. m, got into her row boat and rowed over to
| the Sunrise, taking on board her father upon
| the arrival of the Star from Boston, and row.
| ing him back to Parkers Head. Plucky.
|. Why don't Bath folks build colony of
| cottages at Fosters Point?
| Every afternoon the sea breeze is delightful.
| Strangers say Bath is a most charming place
| in which to summer
They do say Bath is to have new daily
newspaper. Politics, Greenback and Demo-
cratic.
How about those Germans?