The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-09-13
Brief Io,siues.

An autumn day yesterday. The thermome-
ter indicated $50 at sunrise, 500 at noon, $50 at
sunset; wind fresh from the north.
W. s. Whitman (Toby Candor) OF the Boston
Herald. was in town yesterday.
Superintendent Tssh. of the pablo schools,
sailed for home In the Austrai on the 9th iast.
VIM B. Henry, manager of the Redmund
and Barry Company, is at the Falmouth.
c. w. Littleield, o. S. N; Col. II. s. Os-
good, Augusta; and j. Chambese, New York,
are at the Falmouth,
Mr.. Dickson, editor of the st. Adams, VT.
Messenger, is spending few DAYS in the CITY,
and IS stopping at the Preble House.
AID old smoke-house on the Knightville side
OF Portland Bridge was burned Thursday
morning
Master Edwin stanwood, fifteen years old.
son of Mr.. e. L. Stanwood of this city, walked
from Brunswick to Portland 10 seven hours.
A large number of ladies and gentlemen in.
spected the new First National Bank Building
yesterday afternoon and last evening.
Attention is calico to the change of time in
the runHib q of the>boars of the Forest CITY
Steamboat Company.
o. O. I ffasy, late paymaster of the q, s.
steamer Tallapoosa, and Mr.. and Mrs. J. B.
Baker of New York, were at the Falmouth
yesterday.
WO more campaign companies go to Green
wood Garden tonight to vote for the banner
The single scull Junior race will take place
this afternoon.
Superintendent Furber and the directors of
the Boston q Maine road were in town yester-
day. The directors went to Bar Harbor, and
Mr.. Furber went back to Boston.
very large audience was drawn to the Oaks
last night to ear the concsrt by Chandler
Band The music vas delightful, snd the
weather all III It could be desired.
In Mr.. Henry Milliken's garden on Park
street, stands an apple tree beariGg blo.yo0le,
ripe and gresb fruit. This tree has acted Il,
this peculiar manner every preside ntial wear
Libby, the Snow murderer, was more com
Portable yesterday. He was under the iufiu-
ence of opiates. His failure for $40 600 ia an.
nounced, and assets small.
The cal of the Rev. S. W Adriance, of
Woodford's CONGREGATIONAL church, to tbs pas.
toiate OF the Highland Congregational church
OF Lowell, Mars, as mentioned il the PREas
recently, was upanimous one.
We have received q blossom eroken from
crab apple tree in Mr.. Colbys garden, No. As
GRAY street The tree has borne an abunda nce
~ fruit this season. aud the leaves are now
turning yellow.
The tenth exhibition (,he third of local art)
by artists or amateurs of Portland and vicinity
VIII open at the art building November 1st and
close November 10Th. Ten dollars each are
offered for the best work In oil, water colors
and black and white, not oil.
"A despatch from Highland Light Gays that
about p. m. Thursday the sloop yacht Minnie
OF Newport, r. l., came TO anchor off there.
Two men composed the crew They said thew
were from Portland. They went ashore, aud
while doing so stove in their dory BY the
time they had repaired it vas dark, but they
rowed away in the direction which they
thought the vessel lay. N thing is known Of
tho fate OF the men. Mr.. DAME Friei thinks
one OF the two men was a runner for a sailor
boarding house, and thief who stole lot of
tobacco from him, and the other vas chum
OF the first one. We could not get the names,