The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-03-28
Brief .EoIsings.

Clouds and rain yesterday. Mercury 4lo at
! a. m, 45o at noon, 420 at sunset; wind North
east.
There was over an inch of rain fell Wednes-
day night.
There wss an eclipse of the sun yesterday,
invisible in this part of the world.
Mr.. Frank flanagan put the steam table into
the steamer Secret
Custer Post Lewiston, visit Bosworth Post
Friday evening, March 28th.
There was a caving in of tue street corner of
Commercial and Union streets yesterday,
caused by the late heavy rains.
The Caspian cleared for Liverpool yesterday
afternoon. She has cargo valued at about
$4,000.
Grimmer's orchestra will furnish music for
the Bowdoin Senior and Junior exhibition,
April 8.
The friends of Mr.. T. J. Briggs gave him
surprise party Wednesday night and presented.
him with an elegant gold watch.
Mr.. Pitblado gave an interesting lecture on
Temperament at Vaughan street church
last evening.
Rev. d. W. LeLaeheur of Portland will lee
ture in Association Hall, Biddeford, Monday
night. His subject will be "My Neighbor."
The adjourned meeting of the York Society
will take place at Reception Hall at 7.3O p. m.
tonight.
Members of the Citizens Mutual Relief
Society are reminded that the meeting is at
O'Clock this evening.
Inspector of Provisions Davis at Boston yes
terday seized one bob" veal at the Boston &
Maine depot owned by A. Buck of Maine.
The Partisan, of the Allan Lima. sailed from
liverpool for this port, via Halifax, yesterday.
She has on board 50 emigrant girls.
Mr.. j. K. Marin, pro rietor of the Fall
mouth, and Mr.. Geo. E. Dyer, the clothing
dealer, left yesterday for three weeks West
ern trip. They will go as far as st. Louis
The Abbie Deering, one of Mr.. A. M.
Smiths fleet, has arrived at New York with a
fare of 100 barrels of mackerel from which
she will stock $1,000.
The York Society at their meeting this even
ing in Reception HALL will decide in regard to
raising $3.50 for free bed in the Maine Gen.
eral Hospital. No doubt the matter will be
favorably entertained and the amount pledged.
At the meeting last evening, the questions
OF establishing water works On the island and
giving lot to the Female Orphan Asylum to
erect house on, were discussed, but as there
were so few present the meeting was adjourn
ed one week.
Steamer Franconia Of the Maine Steamship
Line, while passing through He'll Gate yester-
day, on her way out of New York harbor to
this city, ran aground and was obliged to put
back, as she was leaking badly. She went into
dry dock there for repairs.
The heavy rain of Wednesday and the night
before caused the reservoir beneath Plum
street near the Office of the Water Company
to collapse yesterday morning, making bad
break extending from the centre of the street
to the sidewalk. A steamer pumped it.
Mrs Eugene Hale gave an elegant luncheon
party in Washington, Wednesday, in honor of
Mrs. McElroy, sister of the President. The
other guests were Mrs. Carlisle, the wives of
Senators Jones, ingalls,, Hawley, Frye, Hill
and Butler, Mrs. Blaine, the wives of Repre-
sentatives Boutelle, Dineley, Randall and
Washburn, Mrs. Craig Wadsworth, Mrs.
Walter Cox, Mrs. McMichael and Miss
Sehenck