The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-06-07
MAINE CITIES.
lettings by Press Correspondents.
LEWISTON AND AUBURN

LEWISTON AND AUBURN.
FRIDAY, June 6.
More wet.
Quietest day of the season.
The anxious are inquiring for Barnum.
Absolutely impossible to raise breeze in
police circles to-day.
Loafers infest the park.
An old hack driver says travel is lighter
now than he ever knew it.
The gale last evening toppled over trees
three feet in thickness at Poland.
A tramp at the station is registered
Cooking for place to rest"
Teddie Higgins wanted a warrant to-day
to arrest fellow who had stolen ten dol
lar bill from him, but the police couldn't
warrant Teddie's statement, and declined
to grant the request.
Another quantity of liquor was spilled at
the station to-day.
Seventeen hackmen, more or less, were
at the afternoon NJ. G. train to-day, but a
very unusual occurrence, not one passenger
alighted.
Mr.. Lane, the crippled fisherman, got
badly injured lat evening. He was sitting
in his cart in front of the Elm House when
the gale came up, frightening the poor
horse, upsetting the vehicle, and then land
ing the lone fisherman unceremoniously on
Inc pavement. He was picked up and car
fled INTO the Elm House, where he was at
tended by DIR. Eldridge. Mr.. Lane soon re-
: covered from the shock, and was assisted
into his team again. and resumed his Jour-
ney homeward.
auburn tea store awning was shattered
in the storm.
A new building on Prospect Hill was
started from its foundation by the wind
and the chimney was blown down.
Officer Meneally arrested James Conway
for stealing team on gas house patch to-
day. The boy states that he and another
fellow found team on the patch, the horse
wandering from place to place grazing.
They jumped in and rode down the patch
in guest of the owner, when Conway was
suddenly scooped in by the officer, the 9TH
er fellow etfecting all escape.
The business at the civil term of court
was finished up yesterday. In the case of
Ruggles VS.. Semay, judgment was given for
plaintiff, assessing damages at one cent. Fl.
K. Prince VS.. 81. G. Davis; action brought
to recover amount due for goods delivered
defendant; judgment for plaintiff $11.75.
Hutchinson q Savage. B. Reade.
Thomas Crowley VS.. Patrick Nancy;
action brought to recover damages to car
riage by falling of defendants derrick on
Lisbon street. Judgment for plaintiff $40.
Ludden &C Drew-F. c. & w.
AT the meeting of the city council last
evening, the appropriation for fire alarm
system was indefinitely postponed, and the
appropriation bill entire wasspassed and en-
crossed. The bill was increased 81 900
from the bill reported.
Voted, to make no appropriation for 4th
of July celebration.
Fred Rowe was appointed and confirmed
undertaken. A few other unimportant
matters were disposed of, and the meeting
adjourned to call of the mayor.
Business at Fields machine shop is upon
the rush, the workmen being engaged day
and night to fill orders.
AacL of the Auburn shoemakers seam to
be good heel and toe walkers. They peg
away and keep on the track till the last,
and SEQ acaI all opponents
Alfred g. Thurlow has purchased the
farm and buildings at Poland, of the Thur
low heirs.
Nelson Tenney also has purchased in Po-
land several lots of real estate of John Ten
ney and VIM. E. Norton.
Four weeks from to-day the gentle snap
cracker will be heard in the land; likewise
the bursting torpedo; for it will be the
fourth day of July.
Hotel arrivals-DeWitt, 25; Marston, 10;
Elm, "a.
The following musical talent has been
engaged for the Bates commencement con-
cert, to occur three weeks from next Tues
day evening: Henrietta Beebe, Anna
Drasdill, Tom Karl, M. w. Whitney, S. L.
Studey and the Mendelssohn Quintette
Club. Sale of seats will open at City Hall
next Thursday, continuing two days.