The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-06-03
BRIEF JOTTiNCS.

A large amount of contraband liquor was
spilled yesterday.
A good many Bar Harbor cottagers have
passed through the city during the past few
days on their way to Mount Desert
The Republican District Convention to
nominate candidate for Congress will meet
at Reception Hall at 2 p. m. today.
Today is an important day in the Episco-
pal and Catholic churches it is Ascension
Day.
Children are particularly invited to the
meeting this afternoon at 415 at High
street church.
At meeting of the Board of Mayor and
Aldermen yesterday morning an insane wo-
man was ordered sent to the Asylum.
Attention is called to the time table of the
Star Line Steamboat Company, this morn
ing, in which several changes have been
made.
The Young Ladies' Orchestra of this city
are engaged to furnish music for the Junior
exhibition at Westbrook Seminary on the
night of June 23d.
Mrs. A. NJ. Sawyer of Portland, president
of the State Relief Corps of Maine, will Wis
it Sheridan Relief Corps, Biddeford, this
evening, for inspection. She will also in
stall the newly elected officers
The Siberian of the Allan Line-whose
number of days overdue has created alarm
for her safety-arrived at st. Johns, N. F.,
yesterday after seven days encounter with
iee-bergs in the Bay
An English hawthorn in the garden of DR..
II. N. Small, corner of Congress and Park
street, is in blossom. As this is the English
May Flower it shows the difference of the
seasons between that country and Maine.
Mr.. Ponce, the proprietor of portion of
Long Island. closed contract Tuesday for
the frightening of the wharf there forty
feet into deep water, which will enable any
steamer to land there at any stage of the tide
Memorial Day there were 1O,347 passen-
gers carried by the Horse Railroad Compa-
ny, and without the slightest accident; since
January list, the number of passengers car
ried on its various lines exceeds by more
than $1,000 the number for the correspond
ing period of last year.
Tuesday crew of men, under Street Com
missioner Staples, were digging in the city
sand bank at the head of Oxford street,
when they came across a heap Of mussel
shells, some twelve feet wide and extending
into the sand bank, nobody knows how far.
The shells lie in a clay stratum, fully twenty
feet from the surface.
--Mr.~Powers, the SCULPTOR has forwarded to
the committee on soldiers monument two
drawings of plans for a monument, with
model of one of them; the plans are good
architectural designs, surmounted with a
dome, on the summit of which stands the
statue of America treading the serpent Of
rebellion beneath its foot; they may be seen
at the studio Of II. B. Brown,
Last September the American Architect
published an illustration Of the Blouse by
the Sea, "by John Calvin Stevens of this city,
the same drawing exhibited in the New York
Art Exhibition. Mr.. Stevens has just re-
ceived an order from San Francisco to make
full set of plans for a house of the same
description, the structure to cost about $12,-
600.
The rose on the apple Tree on Chapel street
is probably finely developed apple bios
som, as the tree is crab apple and wild
trees are apt to show peculiar DEVELOPMENT
under cultivation. 1t resembles a Medium
sized rose in dimensions, but the color is
-lneFe- pallid and the odor different. 1t should
be remembered that the apple belongs to the
rose family, and may be considered as a
cousin to it.
The very successful and interesting ses-
sions of the Teachers Bible Class for the
study of the international Sunday school les
sons, inaugurated by the Young Mems
Christian Association, and held at their
rooms on Friday afternoons, wll close for
the season next Friday afternoon at 4.3C
o'clock with Rev. Frank T. Bayley as leader
Subject: "Jesus the Bread of Life" John
6: 22-4O. The public are cordially invited to
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