The Portland daily press., 1884-05-30
Brief Jottinsss

Gold enough yesterday for Winters day
Mercury 400 at sunrise, $40 at noon 800 al
sunset; wind NNE.
4 The receipts from the monument concert OF
"Wednesday evening were $168 so.
Warden Bean took Thomas Conroy and
Jack Flynn to the State Prison, Wednesday.
Rev. 6. W. Bicknell will preach at the
Church of the Messiah, Sunday.
The net price for gas consumed after june
3Oth is reduced to two dollars thousand.
1t is rumored that Henry Judkins and
George e. Whitney are to be the conductors
on the Flying Yankee this season.
Members are reminded of the monthly
meeting of the Citizens Mutual Relief society
at Reception Hall this evening.
The new time table on the Maine Central
will go into effect June I'd, and the Flying
Yankee will leave this city at lis p. m.
Hon. Geo. f. Foster goes to-day to Chicago
and feels sanguine that Mr.. Blaine will be
nominated.
Rev. D. W. LeLschenr will give temper.
ance lecture at Carleton Hall, corner OF
Lafayette and Cumberland streets, this even.
Ing. The public are invited.
The Monument Fair has a telephone, mum.
bered 999 A, which should be called when
wanted, instead of the number of the City
Messengers telephone.
The Portland Wheel Club, twelve men, left
for Boston by beat last night to take part in
the races to come off to-day in that city, under
the auspices of the Ramblers' Club.
One hundred and fifty emigrants passed
through the city Wednesday night by special
train for Hancock Point, where they will b.
employed en- the Shore Line railroad.
In addition to the regular trips OF steamer
Cadet to the islands to-day (see time table,
shs will make trip to Greenwood Garden at
7.3O p. M, returning at 10 10.
At G. HI. Guppy & Co.'s a blackboard will
bs placed in the front window to-day, and the
Teemer and Conley, Ross and Courtney races,
and ball games will be bulletined there
A man who worked for Clark & Chaplin
was paid off the other day, receiving $50. He
went on a time, made a strange ACQUAINTANCE,
and when le went to take train for home
found his new friend had helped himself TO
his wallet aid all his money.
Don't forget the dramatic entertainment at
Rossini Ball this evening for the benefit of the
Monument Fair. The company will play
Howell's palace Car" and the farce (which
Ia which," The tickets may be obtained at
the places mentioned in the advertisement in
another column.
The Boys Literary Society of the Young
Mems Christian Association will go on an ex-
Gu sion this evening TO the State Reform
School, where they will give an entertainment
C0naigtfUO 0f
readings and stereopticon views. Carriages
will esve the association rooms at O'Clock.
All the arrangements for the great three.
mile scuiling race between Wallace Ross and
Chas. e. Courtney, to be rowed at Oak Point
n. Y, were completed yesterday at the Police
Gazette office. The race is for purse of
$1,000, offered by James Pilkington aud J.
Maggie.
Mystic Lodge Of Good Templars held their
10th anniversary at Good Templars' Hall last
evening. Mrs. Roberts and Master Freddie
Seaver sang several selections. A domestic
drama was presented. entitled "The Young
Teetot Ter, or Saved at Last"
A Mrs. Aver of Biddeford was in this CITY
yesterday. Just before taking the afternoon
train for home she was suddenly affected seri-
ously with commissions at the Boston & Maine
depot. She Was kindly cared for by the off.
cisls Of the road, and later in the day YVES
sent to her destination.
In the obituary notice Of the Rev, DR..
ThutstoD, published yesterday, some errors
occurred. DR.. Thurstons daughter Clara
married DR.. Samuel Woodbury. Blanchard of
Yarmouth. Bannah's first husband was Can't.
Freeman McGiivery. who died In the war.
After his d. ath she married Capt. Pendleton
Of Searsport.
Peter Conley of this city will row John
Teemer of McKetsport, Pa, to-day at POLL
man, Ill. TIE race will be three miles with
tura, and will take place between and 6
o'clock .. m. Under the conditions the win
ner is to take all moneys derived from rail-
roads, STEAMBOATS, or otherwise, but Conley ia
to receive 500 for expenses whether he wins
or loses. The stakes are 81, 600 side.