The Portland daily press., 1885-06-17
BRIEF JoTTINCS.

1t was summer day yesterday The
mercury indicated $50 at sunrise, 74o at noon,
79o at p. m, 730 at sunset; wind southwest,
There were 5000 feet of new hose received
yesterday.
The summer tourists begin to be seen
among the passengers on the railroad trains.
The vendors Of small wares and patent
medicines have begun the annual campaign
in Market Square.
The liquor dealers are taking out the usual
number of United States licenses in order to
get them before the first of July.
A man tried to steal gentleman's horse
and carriage from in front of Kendall &
Whitney's yesterday, but was caught.
A short time ago some person entered the
office of Libby's stable on Preble street and
stole a twenty dollar bin, which lay in the
desk
About thirty trains on the eastern division
of the Boston & Maine at Everett Mass,
were delayed till 1 p. m. yesterday by an
open drawbridge.
Several of the Diamond Island lot owners
have bought the steamer Isa of Rockland
She is A feet long, IA feet beam, and will
carry 50 passengers.
Forty-two of the Portland bootblacks sat
down to an elegant supper, and were enter
tanned with music and readings and brief
addresses in the Y. NJ. c. A. Hall, Monday
evening.
Boys threw ball through the bay window
of Mrs. Donnell's residence at Turner's
Island yesterday, and the ball hit her in the
hand. Justice Perry has them before him
for malicious mischief
Some rubber in Barbour's shoe store got to
smouldering in the stove, Monday night, and
the night Waterman, Mr. McCloskey, with
much judgment called Mr.. Barbour instead
of allowing an alarm to be pulled in. No
damage.
Mr.. John j. Davis is still in the employ of
the Grand Trunk Railway Company, on COM
mission, and his office is located in SWEETS
Express office. He is in no way connected
with SWEETS Express, as might be inferred
from the item in Mondays Argus.
A gentleman residing in the western part
of the city awoke a few nights ago and
heard his dog barking beneath the windows
Looking out, he saw two men armed with
clubs and evidently intending injury to the
dog. The gentleman threatened to use his
revolver if they touched the dog, whereupon
the tramps took themselves off.
In Portland the other day Balm of Gilead
tree was felled and all the boys around began
to transform the branches into whistles of
every key. The whole neighborhood was
deafened by whistling music. One young
ster tried his whistle once too often in the
house. and his mother kept her word by
taking it from him. At the table, a few days
afterward, while her head was turned away,
she was electrified by shrill blast blown by
the boy ON his fingers. "There!'' said he,
''you can't take that whistle awayw Thus
was family government set back in that
household.
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