The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-07-19
BATH
Excursions and Fishing Ship News Fire
Accident

Excursions and Fishing-Ship News-Fire
Accident.
FRIDAY, July IS.
pen painful ditty,
And true it is pity
That folks should ever naughty be and sin.
But fiirtations in a cellar
matron with a fellar!
Are really quite sufficient to make body grin.
o Temporal, mores,
o lachrymae, furores,
1t really was sufficient to make body grin.
And the gent upon the banking,
He deserved right good spanking
To noiselessly observe the actions all withinl
Let's hope that naught was in it,
Vile Gossip did begin it,
Imagination's fabric, idle tongues do spin
The Brunswick excursionists to the islands
yesterday arrived back in time for the evening
train.
The porgy steamer Mabel Bird was up river
to-day for cook. She will steam for the west
in search of menhaG,n
The workman whose knee-cap was crushed
by an ice block at the Arctic ice-houses yester-
day was Mr.. John Hodgkins, of Damariscotta
Mills. His condition this morning was COM
Portable.
More furniture from Lewiston for the
islands,
Nine carriages went on the ride to Birch
Point yesterday.
This morning at Torrey's foundry, Henry
Conant had the first joint of the index finger
of his right hand severed by the knife of a
lathe.
Forepaugh's circus will probably visit Bath
this season.
The Laurena took a private party down Back
river this morning.
The X. & L. locomotive, Henry ingalls,, is
receiving repairs at the R. R. repair shop.
The schooner Clara Ellwell, of st. George,
beached, copper-fastened and painted at the
beach, was to-day towed up river by the Glide,
to load ice.
The yacht Centennial left this city last Tues
day for Mt. Desert, with party of eighteen on
board. She is having fine weather for the trip.
The Lettie, chartered by John Houghton,
Esq, will start Monday for fortnights yacht
ing cruise to Mt. Desert and other points of
interest along the coast.
Mr. Albert Grassy and others, at Pleasant
Point, yesterday afternoon. caught nearly 800
mackerel in two hours time.
AT 1245 p. m flames were discovered break
ing through the roof of a two-story wooden
house on Willow, near North street, formerly
occupied by Mr.. Dawson. The neighbors
brought pals OF water and extinguished the
names without raising a general alarm The
damage was slight.
Mr.. Goldstein and a. Boston gentleman at
Lords yesterday, caught 700 mackerel in one
hour. - INV
The equine owned by Postmaster J. w.
Wakefield is q speedy animal He brou chit
ms ms owner from the Aliquippa House one day
tnlS week IN Just one hour and four minutes
Editor Fuller of the Rockland Courier made
us call today He makes short stop in the
city.
River pilots are justly indignant that the
mud dlggers now operating near He'll Gate
dump the mud they dig from Arrowsic flats
into our channel. AT low water in some paris
OF the channel opposite the city where the
mud is dumped the water is but four fathoms
deep. The authorities have once notified the
parties to stop, and if the work is continued
the law should be enforced.
line schooner Jennie NJ Carter is having
her mainmast taken out.
The f. l.. Richardson has had her foremost
taken out, her rudder overhauled and today is
being reprinted
little Brown boy, eight years DID, was bit
ten last evening by a large dog owned, not by
y: i; Percy as the Times stated, but by VIM.
Field OF Brunswick. The animal had been
proving about town for several DAYS
yesterday, as Mr. Frank Leonard was stand
ing on Mr.. Harris beach wagon driving over
a sidewalk into the stable yard, he was thrown
INTO the ar, landing on the ground upon his
back. Serious injury was at first feared