The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-05-26

Saturday was a hot summers day. The
mercury rose to 75o in the shade. 1t was sui
try in the morning, but cool and pleasant in
the afternoon, and lovely in the evening. Soda
fountains were heavily drawn on. Sunday
was bright and cooler, and the wind was SOUTH
east.
Ex-City Marshal Bridges is visiting Port
land.
The police will adopt white helmets for sum-
mer wear.
Bishop Bradley. of Manchester, N. H., will
ba consecrated June 18th.
& Engineer Skillings and Mr.. Brown were both
very comfortable yesterday.
We regret to hear Mrs. Enoch Knight is ser
iously Ill with pneumonia.
The Cumberland Farmers Club will hold
their fair Oct LIST and I'd.
A heavy seizure of liquors was made in the
rear of Dolan's block Saturday.
The liquor sheriffs seized three lots of liquors
at the railroad stations Saturday.
Mr.. Bert Chase had hand badly hurt at the
planning mill on Kennebec street Saturday.
Saturday was Queen Victoria's birthday,
and the British consulate flag was displayed.
Mr.. Mcdonald, proprietor of the United
States Hotel, arrived home Saturday night.
The value of foreign exports last week was
$S7, 1924, including 545, 2l9 feet of lumber.
The steamer City of Portsmouth will receive
fifteen ton boiler from the Portland Com
pany.
Hon. Thomas B. Reed arrived home Satur-
day night from Washington. He will remain
q few days.
At the Universalist church, Stevens Plains,
appropriate memorial services were held yes
terday morning.
There were Al arrests last week, OF which %
were for drunkenness, and tramps were lodg-
ed at the station.
DR.. 81. N. Small has gone to st. Johnsbury
to recruit Messrs. Harris G. Barnes and John
Yeaton are quite ill.
Judge Symonds and Mrs. Symonds arrived
in Portland yesterday, and have taken rooms
at the Falmouth Hotel.
A defect in the chimney caused a little ex-
element in the Merchants Exchange Satur-
day, but no damage was done.
Mr.. Emery Chase, the truckman lost q
horse from congestion of the lungs Thursday
night, the third horse he has lost the last six
months.
The telephone line between this city and
Portsmouth is in course of reconstruction, and
another wire will !be strung between the two
cities.
The many friends of Charles G. Harmon, of
Loring, Short & Harmon, will be glad to hear
he has returned from his California trip in ex-
cellent condition.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. F. Holland have just NOV
ed to a new residence on Congress street, and
their friends rendered them delightful seren-
ade Saturday night.
The many friends of 81. f. Stevens, SON of
Mr.. s. FL. Stevens of the Boston & Maine, will
be pleased to learn he is doing we'll at the new
C@ur d'Alene mines.
The number of Catholic combinations As.
csnsion Day was 240. The candidates for the
priesthood mentioned the other day will be Or
dsined at the cathedral.
When the Forest City was off Boone Island
Friday night, some fifteen birds, during the
thunder storm, flew against the smoke stack,
and were picked up on deck dead in the morn
ing.
party of as boys, from the Auburn Young
Mems Christian Association, visited the Port.
land branch Saturday, and were entertained
with dinner in the hall and a sail on the Min
nehaha.
There were ID deaths reported in Port
land last week. Consumption and brain dis
ease caused three each; heart disease, 2; pneu-
monia, paralysis, cancer, malarial fever and
diphtheria one each.
Hon. Isaac A. Bailey of New York is at the
Falmouth Hotel; T. E. Lawton, pension ex-
aminer, Washington, at the Merchants Ex-
change Hotel; R. G. Ball, agent for Barnum at
the United States Hotel
-Four OF the new electric lights were put in
position and lighted Saturday night. They
were quite effective. The four were located in
Congress square, Gorham's Corner, Congress
and Oak, and Congress and Brown streets.
Chambers Band will accompany the In
fantry on the excursion to Bath June 6. The
programme of the Bath Infantry includes a
sail to the mouth of the Kennebec, a visit 10
Fort Popham, clam blake, parade of the
two companies at Bath, and banquet at the
Sagadahoc House.
TIE Yacht Club will start on the spring
cruise for Wiscasset next Thursday afternoon
at o'clock, passing that night at Jones Land
ing. Friday the club will proceed to Wiscas-
set, and arrive home Sunday, all coming up
the harbor together.
Schooner A. R. Bacon, Capt. Alfred HALEY,
from Kenuebec bound to Philadelphia with
ice, went ashore in the Kennebec Sunday
morning at 2 o'clock. She stove her bottom
and filled with water, and was towed here by
tug Clara Clarita.
Mrs. Caroline A. Jaskson, who died on the
23d inst, was lady who had much endeared
herself to many friends both in Rockland and
in this city, especially the members of the Free
street church, which she attended while living
in Portland. She leaves one daughter, Mrs. A.
B. Butler of Portland, and one son, Ralph,
living in Boston.