The Portland daily press., 1883-05-21
Brief Iottings.

Bright but cool Saturday, with showers at
night. Cool, sunshine and showery Sunday
with southeast wind. Mercury $40 at noon.
Deaths in Portland last week, 49,
Arrests last week, 80; drunk. 26.
The Messiah church fair netted $50, and 400
volumes have been added to the library.
The Saco Rifles, with the Institute Band,
will visit Portland July 4tb.
New windows have just been put into the
City Hotel Office.
Presumpscot Iron Works will start up in q
few days.
The Brooklyn will probably be docked June
10th, and the Transit arrive here same date.
Grimmer's orchestra will furnish music for
the representation" day exercises at Colby the
coming Commencement.
A man fell overheard Saturday while en-
gage in unloading railroad iron from vessel
in Back Bay. He was rescued without injury
Steamer Machigonne's house Is being
sheathed inside and will be newly painted
throughout.
Sea bass salmon, salmon trout, white ish,
shad and pickerel we've the delicacies in the
markets Saturday night.
Trinity Sunday was appropriately observed
at the Episcopal and Catholic churches yester-
day.
A choir of fifteen young ladies, drilled by
Mr.. Root, the organist, now furnishes music for
st. Pau's.
The New York will soon take the place o.
the City OF Portland between Boston and An
napolis, N. S.
Miss Christina r. Harris, who committed
suicide in Greene Thursday, was employed in
a store in Portland prior to 1881.
officer Harris killed a dog on Tate street
Saturday, that bit man named Jewett in the
face.
Messrs. Winship and Collins have nearly
completed arrans ements for the grand band
tournament July 5that Maranocoob. Over
100 bands will compete.
The Methodist Episcopal church at West
End are trying to buy lot to build church
on, and The society has presented Rev. John
Gibson with fine dress suit.
Mr.. G. H. Raymond, Saccsrappa, will build
fine house on Main street, in that village,
and two tenement houses on Central street,
this season.
Value OF foreign exports last week S24,-
66o.9O including 85,552 feet lumber. During
last season the foreign steamers brought here
and the Gfanu lIuuk sulpp6u w oob AVVV Oolc
merchandise against 400 the season previous.
A. N. Hawes, Saturday, planted twenty
bushels Connecticut oysters and a quantity of
oyster shells in Spurwink river as an oyster
bed. Oyster shells as large as mans two
hands have been found in the bed OF the None
such river at Grams icehouses.
We accidentally omitted the extensive re-
pairs In operation on the bark Daring IN our
notes on shipping last week. This vessel has
been re-cassed and rated 1.2 for four years,
and no pains have been spared 10 make her
good vessel. She is owned by J. S. Winslow
nd others.
Cherry trees blossomed here Sunday, May
20th, five days earlier than last year, and about
the average. In New York they were in
bloom Sunday, May 18th, which shows that
with us the season is more advanced than with
them, as there should be more difference.
The ship carpenters who went to Philadel-
nhia have returned. When they arrived there
tbev were interviewed by league men who
convinced Them that the employers were in the
wrong. The Portland men, therefore, refused
to work. The league paid all their expenses
and treated them in generous manner. Sat
urday morning twenty-five of the twenty-four
men returned to this city.