The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-05-19
MAINE CITIES.
lettings by Press Correspondents
BATH.

BATH.
SATURDAY, May II.
Mercury so in the shade.
VIM. Rogers, Esq, has received a contract
for schooner and bark. Work upon the
keel of the bark has begun. Work upon the
schooner will be commenced as soon as the
eastern barge is launched.
The three masted schooner Quaker CITY.
tonnage 510.49, was launched from Goss and
Sawyer's yard at high water this morning
Repairs on the MARY Jane have been COM
pleted.
Last Tuesday Mrs. Betsey Hatch an inmate
OF the Old Ladies' Home, fell down staircase
IN the Home and broke her leg just above the
ankle. She has been attended by Drs. Savage
and Kimball, and is now doing we'll
The Boston troupe played in Pinafore and
Tria! by Jury at Columbian Hall last night,
and in spite of the rainy weather had n fuli
house.
Stevens is now at work npon a four-oared
shell for the Cumberland Rowing Association
of Portland. The boat is forty-one feet lone.
Is inches wide, and is built of Spanish cedar.
A Spanish cedar single shell, 30J it, long, ia
in. wide, and in deep, is nearly completed
for M. f. Davis.
Mr.. Chas. H. Boothby of Livermore has
entered the law office of Charles III. Larrabee,
ESQ.,, with whom he will study law.
VIM. ingalls, has just completed a set of
ships block for Stevens rev ship of Waldo
boro.
Mr.. Galen G. Moses horse ran away from
North street up High this morning, smashing
up fence near the railroad bridge and break
ing his harness.
The Kapella towed raft of 800 logs Friday
afternoon past the city to Sturgis Mills, Wis
caSSet.
The report was current on the street to-day
of the burning, Thursday night of the Sydney
upon the burning of a dwelling house belong
ing to Mr.. Sydney, situated on the east side of
Southport.
Croker and Lilly's anchor works have shut
down for brief period.
The ship Scotia sailed this noon with ice
from Thwing's point for New Orleans. She is
commanded by Capt. f. A. Stinson.
Freight business-M. G. r. R., east eleven
cars, west ten. X. & L. r. R., east six cars,
west four.
Extensive repairs are begun upon the X. &
L. wharf.
Several Bath ship carpenters will go to
Mioder Bay Monday to work on Skofeld's new
ship now building at the Bay.
Foster of Richmond is building steam
yacht fifty feet in length, which will be used
at Mt Desert this season.
Mr.. William Williams, an old resident now
of Togus Asylum, is at home on a furlougf.
AT Popham the Perkins shoot is completed
and is a great convenience. The Eureka
House has received an addition in the shape of
an eastern piazza, the lawn has been graded,
and the place is now ready for the seasons.
work.
Moulton is getting out a boiler for the Morse
yard.
The fine window and counter displays in
Geo. HI. Nichols dry goods store on Front
street are attracting much attention. Mr..
Nichols has some of the nObbieSt clOakinpS and
dress goods ever shown in this city. His black
silks lately opened are surprisingly cheap and
rich, and the ladies are making great bargains
in all those latest novelties and necessares just
received from Boston and New York. A
perusal of Mr. Nichols card in our Bath adj
vertisements is of interest.
The G. A. R. boys made extensive prepara-
tons this week in anticipation of the visit of
Commander Smith and staff. They were
expected last night but did not arrive, SO the
veterans gave an impromptu reception to
Barker's band, and jovial musicale was held
reaching into the wee hours of to-day.