The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-07-24
BRIEF JoTTiNcS.

The liabilities of Hoyt, Fogg and Donham
are placed at $4,000.
The yacht Ambassadress of Boston, was
in the harbor yesterday.
F. E. Warren of this city rode to Bridgton
this week, on his bicycle in five hours.
The Western Union is running two addi-
tional wires between Bangor and Portland
The Electric Regulator clock at the Mer-
chants Exchange, is set on Sandwich
time"
The yacht Alice of the Eastern Yacht
Club was in the harbor Thursday, having
lost foretopmast.
The rooms of the Portland Society of Art
will be closed through the month of Au-
gust
In the window of the apothecary store of
DR.. Edmund Dana on Congress street can be
seen six very large and handsome japanese
lilies growing on one stock.
Thomas O'Reilly of New York, National
organizer of the photographers Mutual Benefit
Association, organized Portland Associa-
ton at the Preble House last night.
A letter from Glasgow, N. S., to Mrs. Mar
tina A. King, Portland, directed in care of
the City Marshal, is awaiting an owner at
the City Marshals office.
The members of the Aged Brotherhood
with their ladies and friends will go on their
annual excursion to Cushing's Island, and
dine at the Ottawa House ON Tuesday next,
Frank Bartlett, a little son of Miles Bart
lett, of No. 1774 Oxford street. was bitten in
the wrist by dog yesterday morning The
wound is slight.
The Seamen's Aid Society connected with
the Bethel church have put case of books
containing fifty volumes aboard the cutter
Dallas. Another similar case is being fitted
up for the steamer Woodbury..
G. A. R. California excursion tickets will
remain on sale at.the Boston and Maine rail-
road station ticket office until July 10Th.
Tickets and Pullman accommodations are
also on saleto all points West and South.
The Harpswell Steamboat Company will
make an excursion to Harpswell tonight
leaving at 6.O5 p. M, returning to the city at
$50 p. N. The tickets will be sold at half
rates.
The Springfield Republican doubts the wis
dom of the proposed boycott of the Portland
fishermen. The administration has it in its
power to order boycott which would bring
Canada to terms in 60 days.
The statement printed in Boston that the
Boston and Maine Railroad company had Sc
cured control of the 43 miles of the Provi-
dence and Worcester road is emphatically
denied by both President Lord and General
Manager Furber.
We understand that the late Elihu Hasty
was insured on his life at the agency of W.
d. Little for $4,000, the original policy being
only $4,000 Mr.. Hasty leaves handsome
property besides chiefly to an only and de-
voted daughter, having lost one daughter
during the past year.
The experiment of the floating grist MILF
is proving success. The steamer Lincoln
of Portland is now making regulor trips to
the Eastward, selling corn and flour, and
grinding thecorn with small mill on board.
She makes trimonthly trips, and sells out
every time.
In the United States Circuit court yester-
day morning before Judge Webb, George P.
Gould Of Houlton was arraigned and plead
guilty to a charge of selling liquor without
United States license. He was sentenced to
pay fine of $25 and costs, the latter item in
Guiding costs also in the United States Com
missioners.