The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-03-13
Brief Jotttua..

brl9ht and pleasant yesterday morning with
the mercury indicating 15o at q. m. and 24o
at noon. In the afternoon a strong cutting
northeast wind sprang up and the mercury
dropped to 14o at sunset.
Benjamin f. Griffin is building handsome
schooner yacht for Capt. James f. Woodbury.,
Mr.. M. Gilbert's annual children's ball
will come off at City Hall on the 28th inst.
The Cadets ball will be given either April
10th or 18th.
The Boston and Maine road have q dozen
new locomotives in process OF construction at
Taunton and Providence.
The Cumberland Farmers Club will hold
their annual fair on the grounds of the Club
at West Cumberland, Sept. 80 and OCT. 1, 1886.
The freight business of the Maine Central
is largely in excess of that done at this time
last year.
The Peruvian sailed at p. m. yesterday,
taking full cargo and three cabin, two inter-
mediate and ID steerage passengers.
Judge Symonds will lecture to the law stu
dents at O'Clock this evening, on the subject
of "Sales."
The Grand Lodge, I. o. of @. T., will hold
its annual session at Portland, April 18th and
10th.
The Grand Commandery of the United
Order OF the Golden Cross will hold 1t annual
session In Biddeford, April 7th.
Tonight the Washburn Union, connected
with the Church of the Messiah, will spend an
evening with the humorous authors of Ameri.
ca.
The sociable given by the Bosworth Relief
Corps at their hall last night, was well at.
tended and all present spent an evening of
muck enjoyment.
The Montreal of the Dominion Line will sail
this morning. She will take three cabin and
three Storage passengers, full cargo and 270
head of cattle. The cattle came over the
Grand Trunk last night.
Evangeline Lodge, Daughters of Rebekah Of
Biddeford, will come to this city Saturday
evening, to visit O. j. Butler. They will ar
rive on the 8 p m. Boston and Maine train and
return home ON the Pullman.
One of Portland's finest lady singers will
make her trst appearance in Saco, at the Main
street Baptist concert, next Wednesday even
ing.-Biddeford Journal
Her name, please?
The Vincent Chautauqua Circle meets this
evening with Miss Nellie Laughlin at No. 30
Monument street. An interesting programme
is promised. The answer to the roll call is ex-
pscted to be in the words of Longfellow.
There was good sale of seats to Rev.
Joseph Cooks lecture on "Mormonism and thu
Chinese Question:" at Stockbridges, yester-
day. The lecture will be given the 10th inst. i,
at City Hail.
Capt Happy Bill and wife and a company of
soldiers from the Salvation Army in Portland
will visit New York next Monday to attend
the ffteth anniversary celebration and war
council OF the army.
Horace Hickey, cook on board the schooner
Sarah Louise, lying at the Boston and Eaine
Railroad wharf, fell between the vessel and
the wharf yesterday morning, but was rescued
by Captain Hickey and seaman, apparently
not much injured.
Mr.. Kinney, of the signal service, noticed
strange phenomenon in the southern heavens
Wednesday night which he thought to be
meteor. 1t was observed for nine minutes
from two to eleven minutes past one O'Clock.
1t was six degrees in length, and of a brilliant
red fading slowly to white, and then was OBJ
scured by olonos. The attention of several
people was called to it. 1t appeared to be sta
tonary.-Advertiser.
George Ell. Boothby is contracting with
farmers in Saco and Scarboro to plant sweet
corn for the factory of Burnham s. Morrill, at
Dunstan. The price which they offer is the
same as last year, $1.84 per hundred. The
seed is to be furnished by Burnham Sc Morrill,
free, and no corn accepted unless raised from
their seed.
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