The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-08-14


Nine deaths in Portland last week.
Arrested last week 80; drunkenness 80.
The Festival of the Assumption will be cell
| ebrated by the Roman Catholics tomorrow
The Augusta Band, % pieces, passed through
the city Saturday. on the City of Richmond
| en- route to Bar Harbor.
The train arriving from Boston at p. m
Saturday, brought 400 passengers; 200 for Port
| and.
The six per cent. dividends of the InterGa-
tional and Portland Steam Packet Companies,
are payable today.
The large four-mssted schooner Edith
Church, with 14OO tons of coal for the Maine
Central, attracted great attention in the harbor
Saturday night.
The police Saturday seized one barrel of beer
in Browns field, and two barrels of beer on
Center street.
CA. Dyer & Co., Saturday took over one
hundred barrels of mackerel from their fish
pound at the mouth of the Spurwink river.
The police made two seizures on Center
street Yesterday, and one on Fore near the cor
ner of Hampshire.
We understand that the late Capt. Chas.
Sager was insured with the old Mutual Life
Insurance Company Of New York, on policy
of $4,000, which has increased to over S71oo.
Messrt Jost & Morton, of Portland, have
taken the contract to fresco the Pine street
Free Baptist church in Lewiston. and large
crew will be set at work this week.
A platform three hundred feet long has been
built on both sides of the track of the Maine
Central railroad at West End, extending from
Congress in the direction of Portland street.
Mr.. j. Parker has purchased the lot corner
of Deering and Lincoln streets, in Deering
and has CONNIE iced laying the foundation pre-
paratory to building fine residence.
BY invitation of General Ticket Agent
Boothby, of the Maine Csntral railroad,
pleasant party of his friends from St. Stephens
church went to Maranocook Saturday on a
picnic.
A young girl about Is years of age was ar
rested at the Maiae Central depot Saturday,
by Officer Sterling. The arrsst was by order
of the girls parents in Lewiston, from whom she
was running away to meet lover in his city,
The Reform school buildings are being paint
ed by Mr.. Hiram Daily of Saco with crew of
six or eight men. The main building will be
the same color as formerly, but the barn which
was a dark red will be painted slate color.
A rapidly driven carriage knocked a lady
down at the corner of Park and Congress
streets. Saturday night. The lady was sent
home and the driver of the team sent a doc
tor to look after her.
An attempt to break into the Office of the
Forest City Steamboat Company, on Custom
House wharf, was frustrated by the Waterman
A piece of wood was sawed out of the sash of a
window.
All persons wishing to learn to sing tho new
hymns in Gospel Hymns, No. 4, are invited to
meet at the rooms of the Young Mems Chris
tian Association this evening, at 745 o'clock.
Mr.. e. G. Berry will conduct the singing.
The next quarterly meeting of Cumberland
district lodge of Good Templars will be held
with Fidelity lodge, North Gorham tomorrow.
There will be forenoon and afternoon ession
and public meeting in the evening. Rev. FL.
c. Munson, grand worthy councillor has been
invited and will be present at this Getting.
Other good speakers will also be present.
Judge Waterman HIS purchased the Butler
house in Gorham, and is repairing the same
and making an addition OF tive rooms. Part
of the building will be arranged 80 as to ae-
the citizens. The building is situated on
School street, and the location will be very
convenient for the library.
The guests of the Little Chebeague house
enjoyed very agreeable and pleasant enter
tainment from quartette from Portland the
other evening, intersDersed with fireworks
Some one hundred persons were present. The
singing was very fine. Miss. Long sang
splendidly, while Mr.. Norris, the pianist ac-
companied with graf skill Much praise is
due to the quartetts fer SO fine an entertain
ment The house is one of the most enjoy
able places on the coast of Maine, and should
be patronized by all pleasure -seeking people.
Chambers Band played three selections at
the depot Friday before ths train left. Quite
a number of our citizens listened to the OK
quisite music. They played three numbers;a
"Grand Medley of Plantation Airs" "Enwig
Dein," Gavotte and "The Hurrah Storm
Galop" Each piece received as it merited lib
eral applause from the audience. They had
twenty of their twenty-five men with them
bath Times.