The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-08-21

Slightly warmer yesterday. Mercury OF
Z a. M, $50 at noon, GO at sunset; wind south
| east.
Red Stockings Is, White Stockings O.
| Arrests last week 81, drunks "a.
| The two extra men employed in each engine
| house have been discharged.
A mink was caught the other night in JohI
| M. Small's barber shop on Fore street.
Nine deaths wers reported in Portland las
week.
Value of foreign exports last fortnight wa
$28,0S653. There were 567,290 feet lumber
exported.
Mr.. Cooling of Shaw, Cooling & Co., is goin&
to Europe, and Saturday the employees pre-
sented him with a handsome French clock.
If Pressure Isle will raise $4,000 for classica
school, Bishop Nicely promises $1,000 more
from the Episcopal denomination at large.
Messrs. Warren and Fowle, are building {
two stored house on Maine street, in the Wes
end of Saccarappa.
Mr.. Chas. Fenton is building two stored
house on Bracket street extension, insSacca.
Kappa.
The full particulars of the Portland Encamp
ment to Springfield September 18th, will be
ready in few days.
A slight fire on the roofrofs G. A. Dyer's
packing house, Saturday afternoon, was extir-
guished without serious damage.
Messrs Quinn & Co. of this city are reset
ting and repairing the boilers in the Hallowell
cotton mill. The mills will consequently be
idle for some two weeks.
O. ~ f.sl
power stationary engine for Knight q Co., to
be placed in the latter's new bung factory on
Commercial street.
A lot of land nearly opposite the Cum
mings school house Deering has been purchas-
ed by the Ocean Street Circle, for the new
hail.
1t is rumored upon our streets that new
line of Island steamers will run in our harbor
next season, and that Capt O. q. Knowlton
will be the manager of the line,
Last evening the police made seizures at
Fred e. Blake's ed Gould's old place on Fore
street), Mary Sulliyan's on Congress street and
in cellar on Center street.
Steamer Lizzie S. Capen, Jonesport, is hay-
ing extensive repairs on her engine and boilers
at this port. The Woodbury. came out OF day
dock Saturday and proceeded to Eastport
The Several lodges of Odd Fellows in this
city with friends and invited guests will make
their annual excursion and picnic to Long Is
land, Aug. 30.
The prospect of consolidating the Maine
Central and Eastern is is said, has been debat-
ed. 1t is probable the lease of the European
and North American to the Maine Central will
be drawn in a few days.
Six hundred of the Ancient Order Of Hiber-
mans and their friends from Lewiston arrived
in this city Saturday over the Grand Trunk
road and went to Old Orchard, returning home
in the afternoon
The Portland Company are changing the
wood burning locomotives Of the Ogdensburg
road to GOAL burners, are building one hundred
8 wheel platform cars for the Maine Central
and twenty locomotives for the Northern Pa
ciic.
On of the largest panes of glass in the door
way of Dyer's dry goods store on Congress St.,
was broken out last night. As no ono had en-
tered the store, it was probably broken by
some one leaning against it who afterward
made himself scarce.
The new Sunday paper, the Union, is out
and Mr. G. W. Bean tho city editor, is evident
ly determined to get the news. 1t is in this
department the Union will make its principal
effort as of course it cannot fully compete with
the Times as it does not receive the Associated
Press news.
The Sunday Union says: "a large excursion
came from Montreal over the Grand Trunk
railroad Saturday and went to Old Orchard via
the Boston and Maine road. In the evening
on their return, when near the city several of
the excursionists who we're evidently intoxi-
Gated, got to quarelling and soon an uproarious
row was in progress. Car seats were over
thrown, windows smashed, and heads broken
with impunity. The train was stopped ON
West Commercial street and the riotous excur-
Sionists eiented from the train -