The Portland daily press., 1886-06-12
BRIEF JoTTlMcs.

Children's floral day will be celebrated at
Congress street M. E. church Sunday.
Haskell & Lippincott, corset manufacture
ers, Augusta, have gone into insolvency with
liabilities of $500.
The oldest son of John Howley was badly
injured Wednesday evening by s&some heavy
lumber falling on his right hip.
The Thirteenth Regiment Association will
hold their annual reunion at Waterville,
June 22d.
The usual Saturday evening temperance
meeting will be held at the Gospel Mission
this evening, at 7.45 o'clock All are invited.
The Mechanic Blues election, to have been
held last evening, was postponed one week,
on account Of the sickness of General Gala
CHER.
A large delegation of prominent business
men of Portland will visit Hallowell today,
and call upon Hon. J. R. Bodwell, the Re-
publican nominee for governor.
William Jackson, from Portland, has had
his lot in the cemetery DIT Locke's Mills,
graded up in good shape, the work being
done by Joseph Croker
The children of the Kavanagh school,
about 600 in number, gave a reception to
Bishop Healy in the hall of st. Dominic's
school yesterday afternoon.
The Democratic District Committee will
meet in Portland the first of next week, and
decide on the time and place for holding the
convention.
The steamer Empress, which has lain dur
ing the winter at Sturdiyant's wharf, was
moved out into the stream yesterday morn
ing to give place to the steamer New York.
Commander S. w. Lane of the Grand Ar
my, when over to Lewiston Wednesday, re-
ceived application from thirty persons in
tending to attend the Grand Encampment at
San Francisco in August. 1t is thought the
Maine party will number over 100.
The American Express Company have a
pension list, and when a man has served
them faithfully for ten years or more, and
then retires on account of poor health or a
similar reason, he is given half pay the re-
mainder of his life.
The annual meeting of the Woman IS
Christian Association called for yesterday
afternoon, was adjourned subject to the call
of the president in order that the repairs on
the hous may be completed before the
meeting is held.
The Sappho, the new steamer built by the
Maine Central Railroad Company to run be-
tween Mount Desert Ferry and Bar Harbor,
has been taken to the latter place. The trip
was very pleasant one, and those who
were aboard were much pleased with the
sea-going qualities of the boat
A new patent fuel consists of culm of coal
ground fine and mixed with pitch, and then
pressed into brick shape, about a foot long
and six inches in width and thickness. The
bricks weigh about 10 pounds each, and burn
in stove for about eight hours, making, it
is said, hot fire with very little of smoke.
The Portland Society of Art Sketch Club
makes an excursion to Great Diamond Isl
and this afternoon. The party will go on
the boat which leaves Custom House wharf
at 2.15 for Farm Landing, although few
members intend leaving on the morning
steamer.
The Chestnut street M. E. church will cell
citrate children's day, tomorrow, in the main
edIfice of the church with afternoon and
evening exercises. The afternoon services
will begin at 3 p. M, the evening at 1880.
Those in the afternoon will consist of speak
ing and singing by the children. Those in
the evening of speaking and singing by the
elder people
The editor of The News has just been
honored with an election as an honorary
member of the Maine Eye and Ear Infrma-
ry, just organized in Portland, under the di-
rection of that eminent specialist, DR.. Holt.
OF course we appreciate the distinction, and
if the association will inaugurate its benei-
cent work by supplying all its honorary
members with Gears that will hear" we
shall never forget to chant its praises, and
will literally endow it in our last will and
testament. '-Bridgton News.
The International Steamship Company's
steamer New York, that has been so long
out of commission and hauled up near the
Dry Dock, has been hauled over to the docks
of the steamship company, where she is to
be thoroughly oyerhauled, and the boilers re-
Gently taken from the wreck of the steamer
Cambridge, which were nearly new when
that steamer was lost, will be placed in the
New York