The Portland daily press., 1884-08-16

Bright and warm yesterday morning; cool,
with an east wind, in the afternoon. The
mercury indicated 64o at sunrise, TAO at noon,
$50 at sunset.
The Greenback (Fusun) county committee
will organize Aug. 23d, and fill up their ticket.
Rev. Parker Jaques' health is BETTER and he
hopes to resume preaching in three weeks.
Che jamestown has gone on a cruise to Bar
Harbor.
Senator Hale was at the Falmouth Hotel
yesterday.
Conant, the photographer, has sent US fine
cabinet of Mr.. Blaine.
Yesterday afternoon, a runaway horse struck
four year old child while at play on Mayo
street, bruising its back quite badly.
Inc Record says there are ten Commercial
street business men who voted the Democratic
ticket four years ago, who will vote for Blaine.
boy was run over by jigger on the cor
ner of Park and Commercial streets yesterday
morning. He was not very badly hurt.
Mr. Charles Dummer, of Hallowell, has CIV
en- $3.50 for free bed in the Maine General
hospital for one year.
An independent temperance meeting will be
held at Reform Club Hail. corner of Congress
and Temple streets, tomorrow evening, at 7.30
O'Clock. Bring the Gospel Hymns.
A. L. johnson, the well known lobster pack
er on Custom House wharf, will soon erect
commodious and neat buildings for his grow
ing uisinese.
Rev. FL. p. Winter, general secretary of the
Young Mems Christian Association, will SUP
ply the pulpit of the Methodist church in An
burn, next Sunday.
The Gospel meeting at the rooms of The
Young Mems Christian Association this ever
ing, viii be conducted by Rev. N. A. McAu-
lay of Chicago.
Among the latest arrivals at the Falmouth
last evening were Gen. George L. Besl, Nor
way, Col. Matt Foster and wife, Kansas City,
MO-, ID. l.. Shiny and Judge Joseph f. DAILY
and family, of New York.
A stOrekaaDer on GOnpraga ztraet vAstprdsv
told his clerk to take his horse out of the wag-
on and put bin in the iamp-seat- By mistake
the clerk took countryman's horse and the
laugh was on him.
A. Fl. Allen and Samuel Fl. Bald win, both
of New York. were at the City Hotel last eve
ming. Several bicvclists from Boston, enroute
to Bar Harbor, have registered at this house
during the past week.
Yesterday afternoon, man named HealY,
while working in ditch On Spring street, ac-
cidentally stuck a pick iuto his knee, wound
ing bln SO severely as to require the services
of physician.
Officer W. R. Frank brought victim of in
temperance to the station last night. The
man had been out in boat, fell overheard and
how he got safely back into the boat is mys
terry.
At meeting of the Back Bay Land Compa-
ny held yesterday afternoon, it was voted to
sell the large property of the company on the
Hats on the north side of the city, at public
on.
The onnual convention of the Maine State
Sabbath School Association will be held in
this city, Oct. 14th to 10Th. Rev. W. f FCrafts,
OF Brooklyn, n. Y, and Rev. Smith Baker, of
Lowell, Mass, are among the number who
will address the convention.
On Aug. 1st. reduction of little over 80
per cent in the export duty upon Cuban GEN.
trltugal sugars, whether in bags or hogshe q ads,
went into effect Heretofore, the export duty
on hogshead of 1900 pounds has been $4 S5
gold: The present duty is 81 3S gold, and
$1. .38 in bank bills, or about $2.07 gold.
In the case of Hansen, who stabbed Foley
Thursday, Judge Gould yesterday took the
view that while Hansen did, perhaps, more in
self-detence than was actually necessary, it
was case where the man was got drunk and
then followed dow the wharf for the purpose
OF row and robbery, Hansen was discharged
and Foley sentenced to four months in the
county Jail, and to serve an Impending svo-.
tence of ninety Gays, making seven months in