The Portland daily press., 1880-05-03
Brief lettings.

brlGI JOJCiug5.
Cold Saturday and clear Mercury 800 at
sunrise, 400 at noon, $50 at sunset; wind
north.
Fine day yesterday and warm. Mercury 60o
at noon; wind west.
The teachers regular monthly meeting oc-
ours tonight.
Two pairs of boots were stolen from w. P.
Goss' store Saturday.
There were Is deaths recorded in this city
the past week, 3 from scarlet fever.
The night police appeared in their uniform
caps Saturday.
There was runaway on Congress street
Saturday that ended in a smash-up near the
corner of Casco street.
One of G. L. Marston's sons, of Deering,
was severely injured by having piece of iron
fall on his foot last Monday.
The steamer Minnehaha has made her sum-
mer time table for the islands and will COM
mence running today.
There were 150,392 letters, cards and papers
delivered, and 1O5,O55 collected the past
month.
The Grand Trunk has been compelled by
the pressure of traffic to increase its rolling
stock 30 per cent.
The Bowdoins will play the Harvard base
ball club at Portland on the 31st instant,
which will be observed this year as Memorial
Day.
At the last monthly meeting of the Citizens
Mutual Relief Society, eleven new members
were admitted and seven applications received
for admittance at the next meeting.
IL Al, .al.,
starts from Portland in the evening, and re,
turns, leaving Augusta in the morning, make
Waterville its terminus instead of Augusta.
The Greenback City Committee have voted
20 rent the rooms in Fluent Block, occupied
by them for some time, as a headquarters dur
ing the campaign.
The Republican City Committee have loased
Lancaster Hall from the 10th Of May. to the
10th of November, for the purposes of the
campaign.
A pair of fine horses, belonging to Hession
& Conley, were accidentally backed over
board at Randall & McAllisters wharf, Satur
day. They were rescued.
The Committee on Streets has awarde i the
contract to D. B. Kicker for furnishing the
city with 1000 yards of selected granite paw
ing blocks at 81 yard.
Parties on the street, near Market Square
Saturday night, were swindiing people by
selling Crank Leslie's Illustrated" of an old
date for a late edition.
Quite crowd gathered around the show
windows of Owen, Moore & Co., Saturday, tc
inspect the brilliant display of japanese arti
cles. The window was brilliantly Illuminated
in the evening.
Saturday morning the sherffs seized cou
pie of half-barrels containing ale from Thos
F. Brogans, "a Adams street, and two jugs
containing four gallons of 1um from No. l.
India street-an unoccupied store.
The deposit which John A. Kennedy made
for race with Louis Felsing of Wheeling
w. Va, has been withdrawn, Felsing no
having made good the amount necessary to
cover the deposit.
The Dominion government has rescinded
the order prohibiting the importation of hogs
into Canada from the United States, on con
dition that they be slaughtered on arrival
The Dominion cattle inspector denies that thu
hog cholera has developed itself in American
hogs kept there a short time.
The Sunday Times says: ''The superinten
dent of the rag room at the Cumberland pape
mills has been in the habit of issuing check
to the girls sorting rags, as each basketful wa
sorted, thereby regulating their wages. An,
now the check system will have to be revise'
as there are strong suspicious that some @
these daughters Of Eve have been issuing ia
SMILES of these checks in such manner as t
accrue to their own benefit