The Portland daily press., 1883-07-23
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Fine day yesterday and warm. Mercury 70'
ct q. M, 7So at noon, rae at sunset; wind
west and southwest.
Deaths in Portland last week, 16.
There were 81 arrests last week; IS for
drunkenness.
The liquor sheriffs made SO seizures last
week.
There were seventy-two arrivals at the Fall
mouth Hotel, Saturday.
One of tho Spencer patent fire escapes has
been put into the City Hotel
The game of base bali between the Emmetts
and Portlands, Saturday, resulted in victory
for the latter. q to 1S.
The Saccarappa Base Ball Club will play the
Springvale Club, at Saccarappa, next Thurs
day.
J Those two new cars were put on the Con-
gress street line Saturday night, and the COM
pany has received twenty new horses.
City Hall is taking its turn now in the gen.
eral repairs 1t will be ready for use the first
of September.
The annual dinner of tie Cumberland Bar
Association viii take place at the Ocean House
hext Thursday.
The schooner yacht Vision, Of Boston, Geo.
B. Taylor, arrived at s o'clock Saturday morn
ing and will go from here to Bath
Portland parties supply by contract 240 bar
rels of -four per week to the Lewiston French
Canadian bakeries.
1t is expected the Brooklyn will be out of
the dry dock in about two weeks. She will
then load with lumber and sail for home.
HOLSTERS and mackerel are scare and facto-
ries are only canning Spikes" or very small
msckerel
Quinn & Co. have just completed two %
horse power boilers for the capitol at Augusta.
Messrs. Smith & Abbott are piping the capitol
for steam heating.
Those vocal and instrumental concerts by
Prof. Maynard, the blind musician, are rem
dered very enjoyable to the passengers by the
fremont.
An excursion party from Lewiston number
ing 125 passed through the city on the Grand
Trunk ra ilway Saturday, on their way to Old
Orchard.
Officer Field arrested Henry Winslow, Sat-
urday, for stealing valise from the Grand
Trunk station, the property of Judge Huff of
Ohio
1Ao 1Oielduu t1tCam l. dOhOt Oonpduy
steamer Forest City is laid up for general over
hauling and repairs. She will be used as a
spare boat.
We understand that an association to be
called the Sons of York, similar to the Oxford
Bears Association, will shortly be organized
In Portland.
A girl named Mcdonald was arrested at the
house OF Mrs. Barstow, ON Lincoln street,
last night, for stealing silk dress at the Otta-
wa House, Cushine's Island. on the Fourth of
July.
The steamer Mary W. Libby is receiving a
new upper deck to render her more convenient
for the ferry travel to Cape Elizabeth. When
finished she will take her place on the ferry
route, and the steamer Josephine Hoey, Capt.
j. a. King, will be kept to be used in case of
fire on the wharves.
Daniel Chaplin Post Of Bangor, S.of V.,have
sent an elegant specimen of penmanship, by
Mr.. George Sargent of Bangor, handsomely
framed, in the form Of a card of thanks, to
Ehepley Post of this city for their kind hospi-
tally July l4th. The present was received
Satur lay.
The Portland, Bangor, Mt. Desert and Ma
chias Steamboat Company is doing a heavy
business. The Mt. Desert travel has set in SO
strong that some days the company is COM
PEELED to have passengers 60 to Rockland and
spend the night as it is impossible to provide
staterooms for them.
The fine steamer John Brooks has just re-
ceived her summer brushing up, as well inter-
nally as externally, and has also baen reitted
with new and tasteful carpets in the saloon,
ststerooms, and ladies' and gentlemen's cab
ms. She is now a worthy companion of the
new and elegant fremont and will now run in
connection with that steamer