The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-06-11
TUESDAY, June 10.

ACISD<aI, ulO w.
Lilies and roses
Have frozen their noses,
Syringas are wthered by cold
The lilacs looks faded, --------.
All natures been raded
By Boreas the northern king bold!
Fishermen report no luck, owing to the high
winds prevailing.
Highland Light Lodge had an unusually in
teresting session last night.
Mr.. Henry Shattuck, engineer on the K. and
L. freight train, last Saturday caught three
pound brook trout at Damariscotta.
Menhaden have begun their peregrinatlons
up the Kennebec. Yesterday the river was
filled with them. Most of those Melted were
sold for bait
Mr.. A F. Copeland's yacht recently built by
Harrington was tried yesterday and found to
equal expectation as to sailing qualities She
will sail for Boston Wednesday,
The Boston Company will return to Bath
Tuesday, the 18th inst, and play at Columbian
Hall in "BoX and Cox 'Trial by jury and
"Singing Lessons" They will have a full
house.
st. John salmon are in the market.
Freight receipts-K. and L. r. R.: - west,
s east M. c. R. R.: 15 east, IA west
Among the freight receipts were c. A.
Hooker car corn, car ship timber E. & A.
Sewall.
Monday dog was killed on the railroad at
Cooks Corner who was formerly owned by a
gentleman who carried the mail between Bow
doinham and Bath, when this CITY was a
"wood station The man on one of his trips
was killed by the Indians and the dog secured
the mail bag which he brought to this place.
The preceding is a good story. Let's see-how
old would the dog have been?
Hotel Notwithstanding %; Sagadahoc, 49,
DIR. Croker of Augusta, en- route for the
stump at Popham, delivered Greenback
lecture this noon at Jackson's auction rooms
Monday afternoon Martyr Jordan was en-
gagged in wheeling potatoes from the st. Johns
schooner at the Barytes Mill wharf, where by
the gang plank's swaying both man and bar
row, hlled with potatoes, were tumbled into
the river, the barrow falling ON the wharf. He
fell between the wharf and schooner and was
with great difficulty rescued by men aboard the
schooner
Yesterday was one of accidents About d.
m. D. o. Foyes horse, attached to his delivery
wagon, went on rampage up Washington,
through Oak and Front streets, being stopped
opposite Cummings livery stable by Mr.
Thomas Dunning On its course collisions
were made with teams of DR.. Rice, in which
were two ladies, A r. Paris, Geo. Brooks, all
noon VIM. T. Donnell's horse upset his car
rage; and in the evening about O'Clock Mr.
John Stevens horse ran away, frightened by
the breaking of the buggy's forward axle
Messrs. Stevens and Whittier, who were in the
buggy, leaped out. The team was smashed up
like the shay in the poem three wheels being
all left of the team. Edes, the hackman,
stopped the horse in very neat fashion at much
risk to himself.
Capt. Joel Barter, of the schooner Eta M.
Barter, now in port, Monday morning 90 miles
south OF .Seguin boarded a water-logged aban-
doned schooner, very old and on fire. The
schooner hailed from Machias. Everything
had been removed from the wreck except an
old pump.
The Eureka House, Popham, opened TODAY.
The new hotel at Popham is one of the high
est situated on the coast. From its cupola
Portland can be plainly seen.
The Samoset House is much improved in
appearance by the addition of handsome
lookout.