The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-07-17
BATH.
Ship News-Boat Sunk-The Fishermen
The Mt. Desert-News and Gossip.

WEDNESDAY, July 16.
go in the shade.
Several sunstrokes are reported.
Heavy thunder shower that last night
Peanut vendors have ceased using their
stoves and simply expose the nuts to the suns
rays.
The Caledonia, Capital Potter, with salt for
Houlton Bros, is daily expected.
The Arctic Ice Company begin loading the
ship Prussia with ice for New Orleans Thurs
day.
From Augusta to Bath along the banks of
the Kennebec, men, women and children are
employed in brushing potato bugs into
baskets.
Another large crowd in the Sasanoa for the
islands this morning.
A defunct porcine sewed up in sail, floating
about City wharf, this morning, attracted con-
siderable attention. The odor was noticeable
in Brunswick.
VIM. White is taking out the foremost of the
f. L. Richardson, and will put in new mast.
Mr.. White will take out the three masts of the
schooner Norman, now lying at Woodwards
coal yard.
4'Ai. Sopu yaoH1 w 10 UP iiohi oI'Houh yCS-
| terday afternoon and last evening loaded with
| lumber furniture and carpets for his new
hotel on the Bluff, started for Popham. Run
ming afoul the Knox and Lincoln wharf, she
| sunk in about ten feet of water. Divers were
employed to get out the ballast and cargo, lines
were placed under the boat and she was raised
! this morning. The furniture and carpets were
| slightly damaged.
| The ship Alice Minott is daily expected to
! arrive at Phipsburg Centre, where she will
| receive repairs and afterward load ice for New
! Orlean
The fishermen are very bitter in their denun-
citation OF the steam porgy men, and say they
have driven all the bait from the river. Tues
| day at the Sunrise in Harrongtons two lodges
just half peck of bait was obtained. The
| fishermen are using now eels for trawl bait a
| necessity to which they are rarely reduced
Messrs. John Shaw John III. Kimball and
Clarence Warden, Tuesday at Bill Lords,
Pleasant Point, caught 1924 mackerel
S. +. e. City of Rockland, recently repaired
at Manchester, passed through this city Tues
| day, en- route for Rockland.
| The Mt. Desert yesterday steamed II miles
| in 80 minutes, and the improvements are con-
| sidered success.
| load ice at the houses between Gardiner and
| Richmond.
A Cape Cod fisherman went ashore on
Georgetown shore Tuesday.
| Lie heSOlute ldSI evening lOWeu OUU logs 10
Winnegance mills. The Hobson took 700 logs
| to Wiscasset.
Chas. Powers, a native of Rondout, Mass,
was in town today. He stands it. 6 in. in his
stocking feet.
Everybody was sea sick ON the excursion to
| Horse Island harbor yesterday.
Spinney is making great preparations for the
excursion to Popham on the 29th. Seventeen
pieces of music will accompany the party.
The Universalist Sabbath school had their
annual excursion to Popham on the Knicker-
booker today. very goodly number went.
The Bath Times young man has been sun
struck. The doctor expresses hopes of his re-
covery.
Cholera pills looking like peaches are in the
market.
Hotel arrivals-Sagadaho 10, Shannon 20.
Citizens living near the river bank wants
the bathing nuisance abated.
Still quiet in police circles.
DIR. E. M. Fuller, after pleasant ocean voy-
age in the Parthia, has been rusticating at the
Lakes of Killarney
Gen. F. ID. Sewall has returned for a short
visit home.
Jack intended to have said the road over
Bull bridge was pleasant drive to Adams.