The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-04-26
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east.
R. Fl. Blodgett is at the City Hotel,
colored woman fell in front of the Preble
House in fit yesterday.
Today the High School class of ,S4 choose
their class poet and prophets.
Repairs are being made on the ward room of
Ward 4, in old City Building.
There was an eclipse of the sun yesterday,
invisible in this section OF the country.
The new street signs on New High street
are inscribed "Hight" street.
We have received the Folio for MAY from
". e. Chandler.
Miss Thursby and troupe are at the Fall
mouth Hotel.
The materials are ready to lay the sidewalk
in front of the new bank building.
Hook and Ladder, No. 3, has ct last been
furnished with horse.
The cutter Dallas came out of the dry dock
yesterday morning.
The Grattan Literary Society will play the
Shaughraun at Bangor on the I'd of May.
j. M. Adams. agent for Barney McAuley, Is
in town.
Mr.. q. A. Gilbert is In town and we under
stand that his mission here is in reference to
the analysis of phosphates.
James Friel was arrested yesterday for steal.
ing tobacco from Daniel Hayes, on Centre
street.
Rev. Mr.. Wright and Rev. Mr. Daniels
will exchange pulpits tomorrow in the after
noon only.
Rev. W. FL. Fem has returned and will oc-
cupy his own pulpit tomorrow morning at
High Street Church.
The city has awarded Mr.. D. b. Kicker thu
contract for furnishing the city with curling
stone for the year.
The island traffic is larger than ever before
known at this time of the year. People are
now moving daily.
A little boy named Hardy while playing on
the Park fence Thursday, fell and broke his
arm.
The woman's gospel temperance meeting
will be held at the Mission this evening at 7.30
O'Clock. All are invited.
Tuesday, May 9th, the Eastern Railroad will
give an excursion to Boston for the Wagner
musical festival. Tickets will be good to 90
May 9th and return May 9th or 7th. at $3.50
baggage car lost its trucks on the YER
mont division of the Ogdensburg road, Thurs
day, and was derailed. The other cars were
not injured and no one was hurt
An independent temperance meeting win
be held at Reform Club Hall, corner of Con-
gress and Temple streets, tomorrow evening at
7.30 o'clock r. 81. Murphy will preside
Mrs. Deborah p. Kimball was suddenly
stricken with paralysis on Thursday afternoon
and laws in q NOR ortti
the residence of her son, Mr.. George L. Kim
ball, No. ia Emery street.
May 9th the Boston and Maine Railroad
will sell tickets to Boston and return at $3.50
to accommodate those wishing to visit the
Wagner festival The tickets will be good
for trains returning the 9th and 9Th.
The Portland High School nine, class of 'S6,
yesterday defeated the Deering High School
nine, on the Seminary grounds, Deering.
Score, to 8. This is the second victory for
the Portland club.
The Railroad Commissioners have notified
Colonel Greene not to run any more passenger
trains over the Shore Line Railroad for the
present, and accordingly the trains announced
TO run on convention days next week will have
to be given up.-Bangor Wing.
The Rev. j.. M. Williams will preach the
second sermon in his monthly series on "The
Foundation Facts of Christianity" tomorrow
at p. M, in Pine Street Church. The SUBJ
iect will be Repentance"
Louis Manyan stole a sum of money from a
passenger on the Maine Central Railroad be-
tween Portland and Bangor and escaped. He
was arrested at Newburyport, Mass, yes
terday and brought to Portland.
The axaeutfva oorn m ;ttaa ~ A. no,~:4.1
Fair acknowledge contributions from Mrs.
George W. Deering, Mrs. 81. 81. Abbott, Miss
Fl. Gerrish, and Miss Deering of Berlin Falls:
also from the Portland Telephone Company
and Fernald & Sawyer.
The first challenge match at clay pigeons for
the Ligowsky State championship badge, be-
tween teams of five men from the Willard
Shooting Association and the Androscoggin
Club will take place on the grounds of the lat
ter at Lewiston, on Wednesday forenoon,
April Both.
Yesterday Mr.. A. M. Sawyer, agent for the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to AMI
mails, found poor abandoned horse that had
been wandering about the Eastern Prom enade
for the past few days. The horse was taken to
JEWELS stable and will be killed today.
1t has been definitely decided by Eph Nor
ris, representing John Teemer, and William
Spelman, representing Peter Fl. Conley, that
the scullers' race between Conley and Teemer
shall be rowed at Pullman, ILL.,, near Chicago,
Decoration Day, the Both of May.
Mr.. j. e. Palmer, the well-known dealer in
millinery goods, has taken the store lately
occupied by Furbush & Son in Browns new
block with the rooms in the second and third
story overhead, and Mr.. M. G. Palmer the
store next door as branch of his large retail
shoe business.
Miss Clara Littlefeld, the forewoman of the
stretching room of Webb s. CushiDg's shoe
factory, while overhauling some cases of up
pers on table yesterday, lost her balance and
fell backward, falling upon and breaking her
arm just above the elbow. She was taken to
her residence in hack and a physician set the
broken limb.
Schooner Julia A. Ward, Captain Stevens,
from Matanzas with sugar, reports fine wealth
er to Vineyard Haven, making the run in ten
S~ys. ci-.~o ClIos SiLlo vessel mas had
strong easterly winds, with thick weather, un-
til within the last two days during which light
battling winds have prevailed. On April 9Th,
about eighty miles southeast from Cape Hat
teras the vessel saw several large schools of
mackerel.
Odd Fellowship.
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