The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-08-27
BRIEF JoTTINcs.

There were no foreign exports last week.
Ivy Lodge will 60 to Squirrel Island with
Fidelity Lodge. Of Lewiston, August 20.
Tomorrow the Merryconeag will take the
Reform School boys to Peaks Island.
Theirs were large number of arrivals at
the island houses Saturday.
Pat Rooney will be at Portland Theatre
Sept. sth.
The price of milk will be seven cents a
quart after Sept. list.
The Orphan Asylum will have their picnic
Wednesday.
Canton Ridgely. P. NJ. will probably visit
Canton A, of Nashua, in September.
There were 40 arrests last week, of which
% were for drunkenness.
The liquor deputies made % seizures last
week.
Owing to an accident to the engine the
Boston q Maine .. m. train Saturday was
delayed an hour.
The 18th annual fair of the Ossipee Agri-
cultural Association will take place Septem-
Der 4th. 9TH and 9th.
1t is rumored that Col. Harrington, of
Portland, will be candidate for Secretary of
State.
District Assembly No. sc, K. Of L., will
meet here tomorrow; one hundre d and fifty
delegates are expected.
At Harry Newton's barber shop, No. 129
Pearl street, can be seen a pig with seven
legs.
Tomorrow there will be an excursion over
the Grand Trunk railroad to Montreal, Que
bee and st. Anne de Beaupre.
The committee ON fire department will in
spect the fire service at Peaks Island this
afternoon.
The Grand Trunk will receive another six
wheel shifting engine from the Portland
Company this week.
The band concert at the Oaks, Saturday,
was much enjoyed by the mothers and chill
dren.
1t is said the roads in Cape Elizabeth, es-
pecially the cottage road, require the special
attention of the Commissioners.
Mr.. S. d. Edwards, in behalf of Oxford
county citizens, offers to take twelve children
from the Fresh Air Society, for an outing.
A heavy plank fell from the steamer on
Mr.. Thomas Gibson's foot at Cushing's Is
land Saturday, infiicting painful injury.
By the bursting of bottle he was charg-
ing at Underwood Spring, Mr.. l.. d. Wells
had an artery in his hand severed and
great hemorrhage resulted.
DR.. r. III. Thomas, of Baltimore, will
speak at Friends Meeting House on Oak
street this evening and Tuesday evening at
half past seven. The public are invited.
Cumberland county District Division of the
Sons Of Temperance will meet with the Long
Island Division next Thursday. Meetings
will be held day and evening
For disregarding the rules of the Union
Railway Station, James Cooney, driver of
baggage wagon, was fined So and costs in the
Municipal Court.
The $1,000 pounds Of very fine mackerel
from Wood Island reported in Saturdays
PRESS. was bought by John Loveitt & Co.,
and not the party named, and were all the
fresh mackerel landed in Portland that day.
Stevens and Cobb have plans for an addi-
ton 10Ox6o at the Poland Springs Hotel, and
for the making over of the old dining room
wing. The improvements will give sixty new
rooms.
In the window of Morrison & Co., on Con-
gress street, can be seen breast pin of the
campaign of 1S40, which bears an imitation
cameo, log cabin, barrel of cider, tree, and
the words Harrison and Reform"
BY the breaking of ladder Saturday, two
men who were painting Hon. Geo. F. Tai
bots house, on Park street, were thrown to
the ground, but it is not thought either of
them was seriously injured.
Fish Wardens Barber and Morgan found
thirty lobster traps laid in the lower bay,
contrary to law. Saturday. These they de-
stroyed and chased the owners unsuccessful
ly for two miles.
There will be a Democratic rally tonight at
City Hall, to be addressed by Hon. John E.
Russell, of Massachusetts,. Hon. L. d. M.
Sweat, of this city, will preside, and Chand-
ler's band viii furnish music.