The Portland daily press., 1886-09-06
BRIEF JOTTINCS.

Rehearsals of the Haydn Association will
commence Monday, Sept. 10, at the usual
time and place.
The Free street Baptist church will cele-
brate its semi-centennial on Sunday and
Monday, September &c and 81.
Portland is talked of for the field day of
the Amoskeag Veterans of Concord, N H.,
and committee has been appointed to see
what arrangements can be made
The Maine Central Railroad proposes to
build branch road from Danville Junction
to the Poland Spring House, distance of
six miles.
A special business meeting of the ''Y's''
will be held this afternoon at four o'clock at
the Y. NJ. G. A. rooms. A full attendances
is requested
Every member of the Portland Cadets is
requested to meet at their armory this eve
ming at o'clock, to make arrangements for
field day.
The total value of exports for the week
was $23,000.64. including 1,66S,674 feet of
lumber. The imports for the week included
the following articles: 4,76S bales of rags,
2,517 tubs of camphor, SO bundles of bam-
boo.
Messrs. Quinn & Co., have recently put a
new boiler of seventy-tive horse power into
Burgess q Fobes' paint shop. They have
also furnished and shipped two water tanks
to Freeport, to be used in Shaw, Cooling &
Co.'s shoe factory at that place.
The Ottawa House at Cushing's Island
will close for the season tomorrow. Under
the management of Mr.. Gibson, this favorite
hotel has done large business during the
past summer. Landlord Gibson has made
the Ottawa one of the most popular hotels
on the Maine coast.
Saturday morning kerosence lamp fell
from the mantel piece, in the kitchen of
Mr. Melville Stickneys house, No. 101 Ok
ford street and striking upon the stove, ex-
ploded and started lively fire. Mr.. Geo. A.
Staples extinguished the flames and no
alarm was sounded.
The excursion for the benefit of the Or
phan Asylum, which was postponed, will
place on Wednesday next Among the sport
ing events will be game of ball between
the Greenleafs and Athletics, potato and
sack races and working toat race between
well-known crews. Boats leave Central
w Hdil GFoly HUuI.
Michael Cook, driver of one of the street
sprinkling carts, in attempting to drive I'M
der the bridge connecting Conant, Patrick &
Co.'s store with their warehouse, on Friday
afternoon, was thrown beneath the cart
which was bro ken by striking the bridge
The driver sustained severe bruises and is
now doing we'll
Six new freight cars have been built and
delivered by the Portland Company to the
Somerset & Moosehead Railroad recently.
The company is about to erect ''stand
pipe for the use of the Pejepscot Water
Company of Brunswick. The pipe will be
70 feet high, and forty feet in diameter. The
plates for this are formed and punched here,
and carried to Brunswick, where they are
set up and riveted.
The steam roller was put to work Satur-
day to finish leveling the street at the corner
of Franklin and Oxford streets where the
water company had been laying new pipes.
Unknown to the engineer, the earth had
been saturated with water and the heavy
forward roller of the machine settled into
the soft ground and became half buried The
roller was released by making an inclined
plane up which it could run to the hard
street