The Portland daily press., 1883-09-06
Brief Jottings.

Fine day yesterday. Mercury 56o at sun
rise. 7Oo at p. M, go at sunset; wind west
w. G. Crisham, has sold his promising colt.
Maud ID. to Boston parties for $500.
The Bishop of Fredericton has left the city
for his home.
MIR. L. T. Smith of the Bangor Commercial,
is in the city.
Frank Murch, NJ. D., lately of the Maine
General Hospital, is seriously i'll at his faith
er's residence, White Rock,
The Sunday school connected with the
Church of the Messiah go on their annual ex-
cursion to White Head tomorrow.
MIR. Grimmer has returned from his summer
engagements and is now ready for his scholars
and for otter business.
The Portland company will cast the big bed
plate for the engine building at the Goss Ma
rine Iron works at Bath.
Officer Heath arrested man named George
Trafton, yesterday, for an assault committed
at Springvale several months ago.
Messrs. N. & 81. B. Cleaves appear as coun-
sci for Shaw Brothers in the suits brought BY
Portland creditors against this firm.
The Portland Company sent away yesterday
two more locomotives for the Northern Pacific
railway.
Mr.. Lucius Tuttle, General Passenger Agent
OF the Eastern Railroad, is again quite i'll st
his home.
The BIO p. m. trip from Portland as also the
3.5 from Evergreen and Trefethen's and the
800 from Little Diamond will be discontinued
on and after this date.
Schooner Eta of Swsmpscot, brought $50
barrels of fresh mackeral yesterday to Messrs.
Il. Libby & Co., the largest fare arriving here
for the season. R. Libby & Co. have packed
Thus far this season 325 900 cans of mackerel.
The schooner Nathaniel Holmes, which ar
rived here Tuesday, was SO badly strained by
heavy weather that she filed during the night
at her berth, Long wharf. Her cargo consists
of timber
The Portlands say they have accepted the
challenge of the Enmetts to play them game
of ball for $40 and are waiting for the EN-.
metts TO accept.
One OF the boys who was arrested on a suspi-
cion Of larceny from the Falmouth Hotel, has
been discharged there being no Case against
him. The other boy is still held.
Mrs. Annie Cary Raymond will attend the
coming musical festival at Worcester, Mass,
as the guest Of the association. Miss Margsr-
cit Bryant has been engaged to sing in two
concerts.
Among the arrivals at the Falmouth yester-
day were DR. jenkins and party of Charleston,
s. c., DIR. Walker and party OF Ontario, Rev.
erdy johnson OF Baltimore, Wallace Ross and
Hosmer the oarsmen.
Another name is suggested to be added to
the list of women authors of Maine Miss
Eliza II Morton, OF ALIENS Corner, Deering,
published volume of poems year or two ago.
Citizens have contributed $56 toward pay
ing for the new uniforms for the Dirigo base
ball club. The boys will wear them on the
occasion of their game with the J. L. Whit
ing nine next Saturday.
Miss Jenniebelle Neal, tine popular dramatic
reader Of Boston, is soon to be male the reci-
pient OF rare and valuable set of Shakes
peare's works. 1t was owned for many years
by the late + Q. j. Smith of Portland, one of
the leading Shakesperian scholars of his day.
The executive committee of the Portland
Civil Service Reform Association held a meet
ing last evening, at which in addition to the
transaction of routine business consideration
was given to the subject of the relation of this
reform movement to municipal government.
Byron d. Allen of Yarmouth, has accepted
position in the cashiers Office OF the Maine
Central railroad in this city and entered upon
his duties. For several years past Mr.. Allen
has represented the interest of the PRESS at
Yarmouth
s4Ias Sunrise, an Indian minister, of the
-sssszdeida tribe of New York, will be at the
Friends meeting, on Oak street, this evening
at IL o'clock and relate his conversion and
some of his experience among the Western Iu-
dams.
Mr.. P. G. Drinkwater, of North Cambridge,
Mass, informs the Transcript that he deposit
ted with the Maine Historical Society years
ago copy of the picture alluded to in its issue
of August Sth, representing the trial of Christ.
1t is a Autograph bearing date 1923, and is a
curiosity worth looking at.
Advices from Boothbay dated Monday, say
that "mackerel of large size were schooling
freely forty miles southeast and ten miles
southwest from Monbegan. Late arrivals
from off Mt. Desert report large maekerel
schooling more freely, but mostly at night.
Schooner Z. X. Fox took 100 barrels, and sew
eral other vefsels from 10 to 200 barrels each.
With favorable weather the prospect is now
very favorable"