The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-03-12

Saturday and Sunday were spring days
with high temperature for the season
The spring term Of sWestbrook Seminary
win commence next Monday.
Upwards of 10000 pounds of fish were
brought into port yesterday.
The ferry boat Josephine Hoey was fitted
with a new boiler Saturday.
There were 81 arrests last week of which
81 we're for drunkenness
The Longfellow Statue entertainment net
ted $205.
The Turnycrein Society will give an exhi-
bition at their hall Thursday evening next.
The adjourned Teachers Meeting will be
held at Reception Hall tonight.
Officers Harmon and Pickett arrested a
man for theft of lead pipe, Saturday, from
the Commercial House.
The snow drops and crocuses have APP
peared in DIR. Kimbalps yard on Congress
street.
The regular meeting of the Society Of Nat
ural History will occur this evening at 7.45
o'clock.
The Cadets will hold a meeting Friday
next at the armory at 8 p. M, to elect a cap
tain.
The regular monthly meeting of the Young
Mems Republican Club will be held at the
club rooms at O'Clock this evening.
There was bad break in the water main
at the corner Of Spring and Oak streets Sat
urday night
John M. Elder, Of this city. is making esti
mates for hydraulic dam to supply Sanders
vile. Ga, with water.
Capt. l.. w. Tibbetts was badly bitten by
dog belonging to Alderman Cunningham
Oh Saturday, and Marshal Hawkes. had the
dog killed.
will go as far as Gorham today to accommo-
date parties who wish to attend the town
election.
Finger" Smith, so called, it is alleged,
was caught stealing articles at Coburn's drug
store on Middle street last evening by the
proprietors. He is locked up for larceny.
Yesterday afternoon there was smart
snow squat, the first one for some weeks,
and at night there was a brisk, raw east
wind bl,wing
The Portland Company are building ten
fiat cars for the Portland & Rochester road,
and the Pullman Company a combination
baggage, mail and smoker.
l.. b. bennett, Esq, will address the Vet
eran Republican Club upon 1.-THE Tariff" at
their room No. Brown block this Monday
evening at 7.3O o'clock.
The annual meeting of the Portland Aux
Hilary of the Mc'All Mission in France will
be held in the vestry on Tuesday, March
18th at 23Op. m.
The Longfellow Chautauqua Circle will
meet this evening with Miss Helen Emery,
1876 Park street. Roll call to be responded to
by quotations on flowers.
AT the next exhibition of the Society of
Art, the catalogue besides the works on ex-
hibition, will contain the names of the mem
bers and artists of this city and vicinity.
Grand Generalissimo E. NJ. Fuller, of Bath,
will be present at tine working of the Red
Gross by the st. Adams Commandery to-
morrow evening.
The Poitlands will play a series ef games
at the Eastern Maine State Fair at Bangor,
in August with the Salem, Lowell and Man.
chester clubs.
The schooner James McNichol, Captain
Blake, which arrived from Boothbay with
cargo of phosphate, during Friday night
erably damaged.
The Franconia came off and the Winthrop
went on the New York line Saturday night.
The Emita and Cadet are having new smoke
stacks. The Madura, from Liverpool, is ex-
pected tomorrow.
At the meeting Of the Casco Building and
Loan Association held Saturday, GO shares
were taken, and bids were accepted for three
loans, one Of $500, one of $555 and one of
$500.
There was large amount of drift ice in
the harbor yesterday and the docks were SO
full that the ferry boats could not reach their
landings and were obliged to take passengers
at the end of the wharfs.
The secretary of the treasury has awarded
the contract for new deck and for minor
repairs to the tender Myrtle of the first and
second light house districts to John W. How
land, of New Bedford at $3.50.
For Bosworth Relief Corps Bazaar the
the Boston Decorating Co. will decorate the
hall; Chambers Band, the First Maine Fife
and Drum Corps, Shaw's Quartette. and
some Of our best singers and readers will
take part
The imports last week were 1764 hhds. and
1T5 tierces OF molasses. The exports includ-
ed the cargo Of the Boston City for Liver
pool which was valued at SCI ,210, and that
of the barkentine Harry Stuart for Port st.
Louis. Africa, valued at S6,S4S.63, and 49,
256 feet Of lumber by other vessels.
Chief Engineers Report
From Chief Engineer Cloyes's report of
tho Fire Denartinept we learn there were ca