The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-04-05
Brief Jottings.

Bright yesterday, then cloudy. In the
morning mercury 800 at sunrise, 45o at noon.
$50 at D. M, 5Oo at sunset wind south.
The deputy sherifs were after the ardent
yesterday.
Grasshoppers have appeared IN CORNISH.
They are now hunting grass.
The Society of Art has acquired convenient
quarters in Motley Block.
1t was very warm last night for tho season
and the streets were crowded with people The
mercury indicated $40 at p. m.
1t was dry night last night, the police say.
The beer-shops were, for the most part, shut,
and bore the word "closed."
Thursday evening Prof. Morgan will lecture
for the benefit of the Abyssinian church, at
the yestry, on "Paris."
The exterior of Free street church is to be
Dainted after the mastic is removed which is
now being done.
The fifth grand assembly of the Cumberland
Rowing Association will come off at Army and
Navy Hall, the 18TH with music by Chandler.
DIR. Murch was brought before the Municipal
Court yesterday morning waived examination,
and was remanded to await the action of the
Grand Jury.
The carpet for the new Methodist church at
Woodford's has been purchased, and the
members of the ladies' sewing circle have got
il ready for the church. The house will be
dedicated, it is thought, by the first of May.
The young ladies OF High st. Church will
exhibit a loan collection, also paintings and
needle work, at the church Circle Rooms, to
procure funds to establish a free bed at the
Hospital, this afternoon and evening. Re-
tfreshments and Easter eggs for SALE
The County Commissioners have received
petitions for certain alterations, discontinue
ances, and new locations in the highway from
Gorham to Gray; for defining the lines of the
same highway; and for a gate at Black Brook,
at South Windham on the line of the Ogdens-
burg.
The will of Henry W. Longfellow makes no
public requests, and after naming several
small sums given to relatives, it gives the bal
apce of the property to his children. Richard
Fl. Dapa the executor named in the will be-
ing dead, the poets son, Ernest, will be made
administrator.
The Provincial and New England All Rail
Lac, held meeting in this city yesterday,
FOR the transaction of routine business.
Ameag those present were Ell. d. Mcleod OF
st. John, N. B., Henry Osborne Of st.
Stephens, e. R. Burpee, j. F. Leavitt, f. w.
Gram, Bangor.
Arrangements have been completed for the
tournament of all the brass and reed bands in
the State at Lake Maranocook, similar to that
of last season. The new features will be a
different arrangement of trains, better facili-
ties for procuring food, and prize of Sl75
.cornet for the best cornet solo by Maine
,player Messrs. Collins and Winship will have
charge of the tournament this year, the same
as last
Senator FRYE of Maine says that the Repub-
liean Congressman can fairly claim the sup
port of the temperance men this fall, because
Republican Senators have passed a resolution
for the appointment of commission to in
vestigate the alcoholic liquor traffic, which has
been waiting before Congress the six years
during which the Democrats had control OF the
House.-BoSt0n Journal.