The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-05-16
Brief JOttinPS.

Warm day Saturday. Mercury touched 100.
Browns wharf is to be rebuilt
Inc congress Street society will give re-
ception to their new pastor, Rev. G. H. Lind.
say, IN the church vestry this evening.
The new steamer, the Samuel E. Spring,
described some time ago in the PRESS and in
tended for the route connecting the Old Or
chard railroad at the Saco ferry with the Pool
and also with Saco, was launched from the
yard in Deering Saturday. She will be COM
named by Captain Goldthwaite
j. S. Morris has bought steamer Nav Flow
er, at Bangor, for S1,765 and brings her to
Portland.
1t is reported the st. Adams Commandery
will go to Burlington June 1st
Somebody entered Libby's blacksmith
shop, in Ligonia, Thursday night, and stole
some $50 worth of stock
A compass was stolen, some time Friday
night, from the schooner Helen M Pierce
At the Infantry shoot, Saturday, j. w.
SSstt won the company badge making Is out
Collins has composed a quickstep to be
played by the bands at.Maranacook July 9Th.
Lang q Sargent displayed Kennebec salmon,
Saturday, at 20 cents pound
Value OF foreign exports last week, SSS, S21.-
81, including 1,lS5,57S feet of lumber and ST.
600 bushels wheat
. MIR. j. W Warren, Saccarappa, is adding
new machinery to his warp yarn mill, and the
Congregational church will try and get new
pipe organ.
The draw at Tukey's bride is being repaired.
There were l6 deaths reported the past
week
The Brooks will go on the Boston route to-
morrow, and the Falmouth, of the Interna-
tional Line, haul off for repairs The Fran
COMA will go on the New York route and the
Eleanora repair. The Rapidan arrived Satur-
day and is a fine steamer.
Mrs nj. ID. Welcome read very interest
ing essay on roses before the Maine Pomologi-
cal convention last March The essay is now
published by /. G. Welcome. Yarmouth,
Maine, and is sold for 10 cents.
Mr.. Chandler has been watching the second
new comet flom Mr.. Kent's observatory on
Park street. 1t will be remembered he estab-
lished the position of the one discovered fort
night ago, and is now establishing that of the
present discovery which is located very near
the first
The Portland Stove Foundry Company, Sat-
<dtday, closed contract for erecting several
spacious buildings for the manufacture of their
goods, upon the Back Bay near the Portland
and Rochester railroad station.
Messrs. Fassett & Stevens have drawn the
plan for new two-story, brick school house to
be built in Saccarappa. The lower part will
contain two school rooms capable of accommo-
dating sixty pupils. The upper part will be
finished for public hall.
The Bosworth Relief Corps will present Bos-
worth Post with fine flag next Friday even
ing.
The Union four will probably go into work.
ing boat racing this season, on account of lis
being better patronized than shell rowing
The last regular meeting for the season of
the Portland Society of Natural History will
be held this evening at 7.45 o'clock and lee
ture given by Rev. DIR. Boles of Salem Sub
ject: The British Museum. The lecture will
be illustrated by tho calcium light
Rainy day yesterday. Mercury $40 at noon,
500 at sunset; wind southwest and east.
The police looked up the record of Arthur
Libby yesterday and find that in the past ten
years he has been arrested 70 times for drunk
enness and minor offences, and served las
days in the house of correction.