The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-08-11

Isaac T. Robson of Wiscasset is at the
United States Hotel.
Mr. and Mrs. P. G. Keegan of Van Buren,
are in this city on their wedding tour.
Franklin street is being paved from Middle
to Commercial street.
There were 50 arrests last week, of which 40
were for drunkenness.
The Sunday Times looked very handsome
yesterday in its new dress of type.
Henry e. Gales of Winthrop will be the
tenor of the High Street choir.
Officer Slower arrested a small bow yester-
day for stealing bananas.
There were 5,075 barrels of mackerel landed
at this port last week.
Mr.. Samuel league has heightened the dry
dock fifteen feet, built new gate and made
other improvements there.
Mr.. M. P, Wild of Boston has become adj
vertising agent for the Portland Steam Packet
Company.
There were so arrivals at the Preble House
Saturday, including D. M. Holmes, of the
Roxbury (Mass.) Advocate.
The carding and spinning rooms in the duck
mill at Saccarappa will be closed two days in
each week.
There was an awful stencil in the city Satur-
day night, whether it came from the Back Bay
Or not.
The walls, ceilings and columns in the post
Office have been retinted and bronzed the past
week.
The United States ship jamestown, 70 guns,
1888 tons, arrived in the harbor last night and
is anchored in the roads.
The only real estate transfer recorded Satur-
day was land and buildings in Deering by
Richard 81. Turner to Robert l. Hayes.
The Republicans of Ward Five will fling a
Blaine and Logan flag to the breeze Wednes-
day night, from the ward headquarters.
Ex-Mayor Mcclellan and Charles P. Ilsley
(Pic) are the sole survivors of the old Casco
Gunner Club.
Mr. Purington, an employe of the match fac
tory, was accidentally struck in the jaw by a
stone that some friends were pitching at a
stake, and had his jaw fractured.
Mr. John B. Batchelder of Hyde Park,
Mass, government historian of the battle of
Gettysburg, will be the guest of the 18th
Maine at their reunion.
M. K. Moore, carpenter, of Deering Centre,
fell from house Thursday morning, a dis
lance OF fifteen feet Physicians fear that he
was internally injured.
The value Of the exports from this port for
the last week were $54, 1870, including o.
l64,5O5 feet of lumber. There were 10000 live
Holsters received here.
Mr.. and Mrs Ernest Edwards, Percival Gar
rett and Wesley Bigelow, of the steam yacht
Ariel, and Hon. j. G. Burrows, with Mrs.
Burrows are at the Falmouth Hotel.
Mr.. G. W. Poole, formerly second engineer
OF the Eleanora, has been appointed second
engineer of W. B. Astor's yacht, the Neurma-
hal.
G. e. Whitney of this city has Just built a
very handsome covered delivery wagon for
West & Calderwood, the bakers. 1t is very
light, and attracted much attention Saturday.
Post 30 of Cambridgeport will be accom-
panied on their visit to Portland September
10th, by Past Department Commanders
George S. Evans and George II. Patch.
George A. Gay, having severed his connec-
ton with the firm of George A. Gay & Co.,
may be found hereafter with Eastman Bros. &
Bancroft
Charles Goodnow of Cumberland Centre. a
member Of the 18th Maine, made four bulls
eyes in succession at Tolman's shooting gall
lery Saturday, an unprecedented feat, it is
said, in Portland.
The three Portland companies arrived home
from the muster about o'clock Saturday
evening and marched to their armories in
command Of Captain @. w. Davis of the Me-
chanic Blues.
The Lewiston grocers and their friends, 1900
strong, will visit Greenwood Garden next
Wednesday, and a Saccsrappa party of 800 and
the Rochester, N. H., Free Masons will visit
there during the week.
Harry Jordan OF Auburn while visiting
Portland found on the street wallet contain
ing $500 in money and valuable papers. He adj
vertised the find. The owner rewarded him
with $50 and an invitation to visit him at Bal
timore.
Sir Knight Stearns, of the Montreal Masonic
Commandery, entertained Portland Com
mandery on their visit to Montreal in June.
Friday night, as Sir Knight Stearns is visiting
Portland, members of Portland Commsndery
took him to Pine Point and gave him an old
fashioned clam bake.
Inc Argus seems sorely troubled because a
few of the merchants had their pockets
picked by some Cleveland Democrats who be-
trayed the confidence of their fellow citizens
during the Blaine reception to plumber rather
than to social intercourse. We don't blame
the Argus, for such 'scallawags" are dis
| grace to any party. Record
There were "a deaths recorded in Portland
last week. OF these nine were caused by
cholera infantum; three were caused by con-
sumption; two each were caused by cancer and
heart disease, and one each was caused by old
age, commissions, lung fever, infantile, cholera
morbus, throat trouble, paralysis and scarlet
| fever.
Mr.. f. Ell. Torrington, the conductor of the
Philharmonic Society of Toronto, Can, cow al
Peaks Island, whose production of Gounod's
Redemption" is noteworthy fact in the
history of music in the Dominion, has been in.
trusted with the sole right there of the produc
ton of "Mors ct Vita" the work which M
Gounod has nearly completed for the next
| Birmingham festival
''The Germ at the Ottawa House.o