The Portland daily press., 1886-06-30
BRIEF JoTTINcs.

The public schools Will close next friday
and be followed by ten weeks vacation.
The matters will make their anr ual excur-
sion to Long Island, JulyS.
A wagon belonging to Brooklyn house
was seen on the street decorating yesterday.
An electric lamp has been put up in the
centre of Lincoln Park and was lighted for
the first time Monday evening.
s. Thirty half barrels of beer were seized by
the police at the Boston boat yesterday
morning.
Captain Doughty started for home with
his schooner the Ella NJ Doughty on Mon
day and is due here the last of the week.
The State Grange, Patrons of Husbandry,
will be held at Old Orchard on Wednesday,
August 18th.
The Portland Rolling Mills yesterday de-
clared an annual dividend of three per cent
payable on and after July 18th.
- The members of class 70 P. III. s. are re-
quested to meet at the house of E. W. Corey,
No. 4S6 Cumberland street. Wednesday eve
ming, June 30, at 7.30 o'clock.
The Commercial Travellers Association
will give their first dinner, at Long Island,
July 18th. The invited guests will meet at
the Falmouth Hotel at $50 a. m. of that day.
Stephen M. Watson, librarian at the Pub
lie Library has poem prepared on the an
Gent rooster that is perched over the First
National Bank in this city.
A sail boat containing two ladies and
gentleman capsized in the harbor yesterday
afternoon. The party were rescued by a
passing boat very wet, but in no wise hurt
The new steam roller arrived in Boston
Sunday. by steamer Boston City, from Lon
don, England, and will be ON exhibition here
next Monday.
Grimmer's orchestra played in Saco Monday
at a reception given at the residence of. Chas
W. Shannon. Esq. Today the orchestra will
play at Hebron Academy. July Sth they will
play for the North Bridgton Academy.
There will be business meeting of the
graduates of the Portland Girls High School
at Reception Hall this afternoon at 430
o'clock, or at the close of the graduating ex-
ercises.
Don Fisher, for several y,ais brakeman
and baggage master ON the Dover and Win
nipisoggee, has been appointai snperintend-
ent of the Old Orchard Bea railroad in
place of Geo. W. Hill.
Elder A. o. Burrill has commenced course
of Biblical lectures in a commodious tent on
Thomas street, to be con tinued each evening
through the week and over 81 nday. The
meetings will begin at 1902 III.
The office of the Recorder Of the Munich
pal Court has been painted and tinted. The
desk for the Recorders assistant is behind a
neat railing and this portion of the office has
been carpeted and handsomely furnished.
The steam yacht FREELY of Boston, with
five members of the Boston Yacht Club on
board arrived yesterday forenoon, and after
calling at the club house of the Portland
Yacht Club, steamed out for trip down the
harbor.
About $50 yesterday morning two young
men entered garden on Cumberland street
and stole number of rare and valuable flow
ers. The young men are known and it will
be well for them to call on the owner of the
garden and settle for their theft
The meeting of the Alumni of the Cape
Elizabeth High School to have been held iaSt
Friday did not take place owing to the rain.
II was postponed until next Friday, when 1t
WILDE held at the Town Hall, Cape Eliza
2 beth
table today for the summer months, max
Ing tour round trips daily to Harpswell. Ow-
ing to increased travel the company has char
tered steamer Alice to run in connection
with steamer Gordon.
The old iron factory on Indian street re-
Gently purchased by Mr.. Simonds is in pro-
cess of demolition. Yesterday morning the
two walls yet remaining, collapsed, and In
their fall little boy named Robert More
head, was somewhat injured.
Street Commissioner Staples is now
putting down a brick sidewalk from Green
street to the entrance to the Oaks and paving
the cutters The Commissioner and Civil
Engineer were favorable to straight grade
from Green to State streets making a vast
improvement in the looks of Portland street.
This is being carried out by the street com
nittee