The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-08-24
BRIEF JoTTINCS

The rainfall Saturday morning was 1.S5
inches.
There were 4S arrests last week, of which
"a were for drunkenness.
Employees of the Grand Trunk had good
time at Cow Island, Saturday.
Presumpscot Lodge of Odd Fellows of Fal.
mouth will visit Maine Lodge tonight
Two vessels were slightly injured by a
collision in the harbor Friday night.
1t is possible that Canon Farrar will lee
ture in Portland the coming autumn.
The value of foreign exports last week was
$6,101.70, including 151, $50 feet of lumber.
Postmaster Palmer has had many applica-
tions for special messenger boy appoint
ments.
The draping in memory of General Grant
was removed from the public buildings
Saturday.
The Boys Union of Portland are expected
to visit Augusta sometime the first of Sep
tember
The passengers on the Gordon, Thursday,
saw two large cranes on an-island in Harps-
well Sound
By over eating fruit, which is not in per-
feet condition, many people suffer from
bowel troubles at this time of the year.
Friday morning the Cumberland landed
over hundred passengers at Eastport and
carried much larger number to st. John.
Mr.. Herbert Robinson's little child fell
thirty feet from second story window on
Tying street, Friday, and escaped with slight
injuries.
Amos L. Millett's friends have presented
him with an elegant hammerless gun valued
at $3.50 and set of resolutions finely framed
for his many kind acts.
Officers Lawton, Firth, Masfure and Nc
Donough seized fifteen barrels of ale yester-
day morning from Boston & Maine car on
Commercial street.
M. F. Davis was at Maranocook Saturday
arranging for the regatta of Sept. 10th. There
will be three turns in the races so that spec
tators can see the whole of them.
The steamer Forest City made excellent
time on her return trip from Brunswick
Thursday evening, making the run of over
20 miles in / hour and 40 minutes including
two stops.
The quickest steamer trip between East
port and Portland is said to have been made
by the Cumberland in II hours 80 minutes.
The State of Maine made the trip in II hours
45 minutes.
Agent Sawyer arrested James A. Graf
fam of Gorham, and man named Kerngan,
Saturday, for cruelty treating their horses.
He has also disposed of 10 old horses the past
ten days.
Messrs. Talbot & Moulton are rebuilding
Eagle Hook and Ladder Company No. rs
carriage. 1t will be made so as to carry
more ladders and at the same time be no
heavier
Capt. Charles Hilyard, at present in com
mand of the State of Maine, served in the
navy during the war of the rebellion, was
captured in one of the unsuccessful attacks
on Charleston, and spent thirteen and one
half months in Southern prisons.
Mr.. H. P. Darlington of the firm of Ar
mour & Co., of Chicago, while about twenty
miles out from the "Waldo" where he is now
stopping, Friday, speared shark ten feet
long. After long struggle he with his
assistants succeeded in landing the vicious
creature aboard the steamer Valera.
Officer McGrath discovered liquor trap
beneath an old horse sled standing in the
rear OF Commercial street rum shop. The
affair was ingeniously gotten up and con-
nected with the building by line of pipe.
The hiding place was new, never having
been used. 1t probably never will be.
There arrived at this port the past week
thirty-two vessels, the total of their fares
aggregating 6.9O5 barrels. The schooners
Gertie May and Matte Dyer brought the
largest, $50 barrels each, and the Jas. War
rem and Annie Sargent, the smallest 80 bar
rels. There has been slight rise in the
price of mackerel.
Some of our readers will remember a young
man named Winser who was for some time
in the life insurance business here He left
very suddenly about two years ago and re-
turned to England. 1t now appears that he
has fallen heir to a large fortune, and is now
one of the land owners of Great Britain
Gazette.