The Portland daily press., 1881-04-23
Brief lettings.

Clouds and sunshine yesterday. Mercury $50
OF sunrise, $50 at noon, and 47o at sunset; wind
south east.
On Saturday, April 30th tue Bowdoin Nine
play the Harvards at Cam bridge, and on Me-
mortal Day return game will be played in
Portland.
At the Portland Smelling Works. Professor
Bartlett, by means of the steam blow-pipe, has
generated enough heat to smelt copper ore car
rying 40 per cent. of zinc, and drawing off the
pure copper into 200 pound bricks.
Wyer Brothers, in the steamer Magnet,
started from their dock one day this week at
twenty minutes before twelve and went to
Orr's Island, distance of 90 miles, dipped up
GO barrels of herring from pound, returned to
the dock at fifteen minutes after five, barrelled
up the fish and shipped them to Boston on the
seven o'clock boat
The Greenback Central Club has appointed
P. H. Gordon, John Hooper and r. NJ Spring
or committee to select permanent quarters
A runaway team Fast Day tore down the
posts and awning in front OF Spaulding & Lib
by's on ST ring street.
Rev. F. E. Clark of Williston, and Rev. A.
P. Tinker of Auburn, exchange pulpits to-mor-
row.
The Methodist churches of this city unite in
Love Feast at Chestnut Street Church at
1870 a. m. Tomorrow Bishop Peck will be
present and conduct the exercises.
A mad calf ran down Mellen street yesterday
morning, knocked wheelbarrow load of bar
rels into the gutter, and near the Oaks was
killed without its doing further damage.
Steamer Ontario, of the Dominion line,
cleared for Liverpool yesterday afternoon.
She takes cargo valued at $148, 4S3, includ-
ing 172 cattle, 1000 sheep, 1,16S quarters of
fresh beef, sc, 400 bushels wheat, $4,000 pounds
lard, 143,50O pounds bacon, $4,000 pounds oat-
meal, 8,400 pounds cheese, 1880 bushels peas,
1,S0S bags -four and other articles.
The Portland Packing Co. have purchased
1.-THE machine works for ST., 800, at the rate of
sixty cents a foot for the land.
The Eastern Railroad Company has purehas-
cd 1000 tons Of steel rails, which will be laid
during the coming summer.
The second annual reunion of the Maine
Association will take place in the town hall,
Hyde Park Mass, next Monday evening The
Temple quartette will furnish music, and Gov.
Long and Rev. NJ. j. Savage, natives of Maine,
have been invited to be present.
The Grand Trunk Railways report has been
issued. The available balance for the half
year ended December 31st was G197 1896, which
pays the first and second preference dividends
in full and admits of the payment of per
cent. ON the third preference.
Two more small Lewiston boys, sons of Geo.
Babb and Nathaniel Farr, started for the
plains Sunday night. They arrived in this
city Monday, and were arrested by the police,
who had telegraphic instructions to that effect
from City Marshal Smith, Monday night.
The Peoples Spiritual Meetings have been
removed from Army and Navy Hall, and in
the future will be held in Mercantile Hall,
Harrington Block, Congress street.
By order of the committee on public grounds
Mr. Nahum Littlefeld is putting fences around
the trees on the Western promenade.
The memorial window of which we spoke in
our issue of the 18th, has been placed in ST.
Thomas Church, Somerville, Mass.
The Montgomery Guards, Co. E., LIST Maine
Regiment with their guests, the Lawrence
Light Infantry, Co. f., 9th Massachusetts,,
will present a fine treat to the citizens OF Port
land at their exhibition May 18TH.
Our readers will remember that the second
and last lecture on the Queens of Egypt will
be delivered by Miss Townsend at High street
church vestry this afternoon
Mr. Henry H. Kurdish has purchased one of
Colman's water colors, on exhibition at Davis
gallery.
Fast Day, on the arrival Of Capt. Dale of the
Quebec, and bride, from Montreal, a salute Of
seven guns was fred from each of the three
steamers lying at this port, and then royal
salute of twenty-one guns in honor of the cap
tain's Queen.
We would remind our musical friends that
the Maranacook Festival is only one of series
of grand musical events in our State in which
the Festival Chorus now being organized will
be invited to participate.
The Scott-Siddons party are stopping at the
Falmouth and United States Hotels.
Some excitement was created yesterday by
the discovery of the remains of an infant in an
ash heap on School street. Coroner Gould
was called but decided the child had been still
| born, and gave it decent burial.