The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-05-28

BrIef d Ottlngss
Bright yesterday morning; foggy late in the
afternoon. Mercury $50 at sunrise, $40 at
noon, 600 at sunset; wind, Southwest, South,
and Southeast.
All the new electric lights en- Congress street
were lighted last night and worked capitally.
Mr.. G d. B. Fisk, ex-president of the Com
mon Cosncil of Portland, now of Boston, is
spending few days in the city.
The open horse cars on Congress street, with
the feathery foliage of the trees, ard the apple
blossoms, are signs that warm weather will
come at no distant day.
MuDjOy Lodge, I. o. G. T., held a basket
party in Carleton Hall, last evening. About
two hundred were present, and a pleasant
evening was passed.
A fine portrait of DIR. Bradford of Liver
more, by Miss Skeele, and elegantly framed by
Stubs, can be seen in Stubbs art store in
Congress Square.
The new steamer Vancouver, of the Do
minion Line, arrived lately at Montreal. A
full description of the steamer was lately pub
lished in these columns.
The Portland Yacht Club will have a supper
at Peaks Island House, Thursday evening
LAO obCoMOA Will tUdt0 az Os4O ~ ILL., T0buTulBk
at 9 p. m.
The First District Republican Convention
will be held at Reception Hall at p. m. to-
day to nominate candidate for Congress and
Presidential elector.
1t is possible that the State Muster, the COM
| ing August, will be held on the field of Cyrus
Bean at Old Orchard, which is admirably
adapted for tenting and drilling, with excellent
railroad facilities
The executive committee of the Maine
Eclectic Medical Society met at the Preble
House yesterday. The annual meeting, dinner
and address of the president will be held to-
day.
Grimmer's orchestra has bAen engaged to
furnish music for commencement at Colby
University, commencement at Westbrook
Seminary, and for the Ivy day exercises at
| Bowdoin College.
The exhibition at the art club rooms In aid
of the Monument fair, will include pictures
by Schryer, George Fuller, George Innis and
other noted artists. The exhibition will be
one of the finest ever shown in the city. The
| catalogue will be ready in few days.
General Orders No. have been issued from
the Headquarters First Division M. M. grant
ing permission to all military organizations in
this State to parade under arms and in uniform
on Memorial Day, in connection with the SER
vices of the Grand Army.
Rov. j. W. Bashford has gone to Boston to
attend to May anniversaries. He addresses
the sixteenth annual meeting of the New
England Woman Suffrage Association at
fremont Temple Tuesday evening, and the
Massachusetts, School Suffrage Association at
Wesleyan Hall, Wednesday afternoon.
The little steamer Alice, built in Cakes
yard, Brewer, by Capt. S. H. Barbour, for
Durham & Morrill, of Portland, was launched
Saturday. She is still in port, but will soon
leave for Portland. She is intended to run to
the islands, and is pretty enough to please any
body.
There were two lively runaways on Union
street yesterday afternoon. A horse attached
to wagon belonging to Mr.. M. W. Best sud
| denly took it into his head to run, and started
the horse attached to the Falmouth Hotel
cart. The Best team had shaft broken, and
the Falmouth cart had an axle sprung.
The Governor, Councillor Bolster, the Cattle
Commissioners and Selectmen of Deering and
Falmouth, met at the Falmouth Hotel yester-
day, and the appraisers of damages from the
foot and mouth disease were sworn into office.
In the afternoon the appraisers commenced
| their work by visiting some of the farms
whore there were infected cattle.
Yesterday raids were made by the deputy
sheriffs at rear of 81 York street; corner Park
and Commercial streets; rear Old Printers
Exchange; vacant room, Old Printers Ex-
| change; rear AL Commercial street; No. 344
Commercial street; No. 1877 Commercial street;
George s. Hays, Federal street, cider; No.
34l Commercial street; corner Centre and Fore
streets; Freeman's Lane.
The Biddeford Times says whatever DISPOSE
ton may be made of the Old Orchard juno
tion railroad, it is quite certain it will be put in
readiness and run the coming season. The
engine and cars have been put in perfect run
| ming order and nicely painted and If the
arrangements contemplated of extending the
road to Buxton and tapping the Portland &
Rochester railroad, are carried out, il will be
of great convenience to the towns in York
county.