The Portland daily press., 1884-06-27
Brief JOstings.

Cool yesterday, and partially cloudy Mer-
curry $40 at Z a. m, zoe at noon, $40 at sunset;
wind southeast and southwest.
The Citizens Relief Society will meet at s
p. m. tonight.
son of Gov. ROBBIE will graduate at Frye
burg Academy next Tuesday.
Division No 40, B. of L. E., will make their
annual excursion to Lake Maranocook next
Sunday.
Wednesday morning about sixty tons of gray
el belonging to Mr.. Hersey, the roofer, went
down through Browns wharf into the dock.
The class of rs, Westbrook Seminary, cele-
brates its biennial reunion to-day by sail
down the harbor.
The Yarmouth Rifles, accompanied by the
Yarmouth Band, will participate in the re-
ception to the Hartford City Guard, July Sd.
The Sabbath Schools of Saccarrappa will go
to Peaks Island on an excursion next Wednes-
day.
Owing to the heavy spring rains, and the
cold weather following them, there will not be
half of the usual hay crop in this county this
year.
Those intending to join the burlesque militia
re- company, which will parade July Ash, are
reminded of the meeting in the drill-room of
Old City Hall tonight at 7.3O o'clock.
Sir knight Rev. W. f. Gibbs aud family
were the guests of Portland Commandsry at
Buffalo and were most cordially welcomed by
their many Portland friends.
special meeting OF the Plymouth Sunday
school, and Home Circle will be held in the
vestry of Plymouth church this evening at n
O'Clock.
Mr.. Rafus Joy, an old citizen, and now a re-
tired officer of the navy, is visiting his old
home in Portland. Our older citizens will re-
member him
Superintendent fash, Of the public schools
and party, left Portland for New York, part
oil them on Wednesday night by boat, and the
others yesterday morning by train, and will
sail for Europe Saturday.
We have received from W. e. Chandler,
the Folio for July. 1t is an excellent humber
and the many who the late Billie Morris de-
lighted will be GLAD to have his lithoeroph
which adorns this number
The gentlemen, who wish to join the bur-
lesque cavalry company, which will parade
July 4th, will meet at the ward room, in City
Building, at 730 o'clock, Monday evening
next.
The Free street Sabbath school and their
friends will make their annual excursion to-
morrow to Orr's Island The place is an at
tractive one and almost for the first time is now
easily accessible by boats of the Hsrps veil
line.
Among the arrivals at the Falmouth Hotel
yesterday, were Gov Frederick Robbie, Cor
ham; Col. j. Fl. Hart, New York; Major W.
A. Miller, st. Louis; j. 81. Pitts and wife,
Brooklyn; M. P. Wagner and family, New
York.
Among the twelve graduates yesterday fro m
the Plymouth, N, H., normal school, were Els.
tslla M. Cobb, Portland; Sadie J. futile,
South Durham; Lula M. Abbott, South Ando
yer. Prof. O. G. Rounds, formerly of the Farm
ington Normal school, is meeting with crafty
ing success in his new field of labor as princi-
pal of the Plymouth school.
The advertisement of the next year of Mrs.
Caswell's school, which offers some peculiar
advantages for sulsr pupils and for those
who wish to procurs certain lines of special
study appears in the PRESS this morning, and
We commend its representations to the consid-
alton of those who wish to place children in
good private school, or who wish to complete
and supplement the advantages of study they
have themselves enjoyed