The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-06-24
MAINE CITIES.
lettings by Press Correspondents.
LEWISTON AND AUBURN.

LEWISTON AND AUBURN.
MONDAY, June %.
Seaside sojourners are departing for cool
er chimes.
-Four tramps only received Inequalities
at the police station last week.
Moulton, in at Wiggin's, makes the best
soda.
Geo. w. Coffin, the soothing syrup man,
is in town, and infants are happy.
The city clerk reports four marriage in
tentions recorded for the week ending the
21st.
The Court street Baptist Sunday School
will go on an excursion to Poland camp
ground Wednesday, June 25th, via the q.
T. Railway.
At meeting of the school board tonight
the election of rural school teachers oc-
CURED, and the annual list of salaries was
reported.
The tax accounts have been given to Col
lector Farrar, and he offers per cent. dis
count to taxpayers settling their accounts
before July 1st.
An artful deceiver in town, who has two
wives living, and little the worst record it
has been our lot to notice for some time,
has succeeded in seducing an Auburn girl,
and their marriage will take place immedi-
ately. He will doubtless be arrested as
bigamist. A well known lawyer in town
says: 81 have helped to get him into state
prison twice.an would like the job again."
AS general thing the spinners in our
cotton factories are upon good terms with
their employers, and are satisfied with the
present compensation. Unlike the situa-
ton in Fall River, indications point to no
outbreak among the employees, from the
fact that they understand those who are
placed over them and upon whose good
judgment the wants of life depend, are
such men who will not unjustly or unreas-
onably allow wages to remain at the hard
times rates only SO long as it is necessary
for reaction of business and return of bet
ter times.
The graduating exercises of the grammar
school will occur in City Hall Wednesday
afternoon. The graduating class numbers
about seventy. The graduating class of
the High School numbers forty-one. This
class will graduate Friday afternoon. These
are the largest classes which have ever
completed the course of studies at either
school.
Patrick Kenney's body was found at 2 p.
m, floating in the lower canal near the
Androscoggin mill. There were no marks
of violence. He was recognized by friend.
Kenney was missed from his boarding
house Monday week. Suicide is the only
theory. He was card grinder in Bates
mill, 35 years old, and leaves wife and
two children.
A handsome livery team belonging to
Mr.. Scribner, with Mr.. John Curran iu the
carriage, ran away this afternoon, over
turning the carriage and throwing Mr..
Curran out, injuring him slightly. The
horse was cut and the top buggy complete
ly wrecked, and another carriage overturn-
ed.
Frank Mccain quietly paid $50 and
costs Saturday, for selling one glass of lille
gal liquor.
Hotel arrivals-DeWitt. II; Marston, II;
Elm, 25.
The Lake Auburn Spring Hotel was ded-
Gated to-day.
Louis Gouchee was arraiA ned this morn
ing before the Municipal Court, for intoxi-
cation, and received a fine of SIS and costs,
which he paid.
A well known politician, name suppress
ed for good reasons, was in the lookup Sat-
urday for intoxication upon the streets.