The Portland daily press., 1888-06-29
BRIEF JoTTINcs.

The Horse Railroad Company are laying a
double track on St. John street.
The steam yacht Nooya, of Boston, enter
ed the harbor yesterday.
Mr.. ii. f. Libby, of Oakdale Deering, has
bought fine six year old mare of County
Treasurer Webb.
Seven thousand cedar ties were brought
from New Brunswick yesterday, and 1900
feet of spruce boards.
The US will receive flowers at their Flow
er Mission rooms, 8 IL Exchange street, Sat
urday morning, from until 1890.
The man who. it is alleged, stole the money
from X. Starbird's house on Green street,
was arrested at Newcastle yesterday.
A French boy named Chicoine got his arm
caught in the gearing at the Westbrook mill
and it was badly crushed.
The York Society will have its annual din
ner at Buxton today. Special train leaves
the Portland and Rochester depot at $50 a.
m.
AT meeting of the directors of the Port
landf& Rochester Railroad, held yesterday. a
dividend of SO share was declared payable
on and after July 14th.
Bergmann's automatic exposition, No. 227
Middle street, is attracting many visitors. 1t
will be open only two days longer, and all
should see 1t before it closes.
New plank sidewalks are being built at
South Portland, from Preble to High street,
also on Sawyer street, from Preble to Meet
Ing House hill.
The annual excursion of the Second Parish
church and Sunday school will occur tomor-
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advertisement in another column.
There will be a special meeting of Tref-
dale Association Saturday evening, June 30,
at the cottage Of Mr.. John Evans, at Ire
fethen's Landing. A full attendance is de-
sired.
Forest City Lodge, No. 16, A. o. u. W., is
adding new members at every meeting, hay
ing inflated four members in the last month,
and have one application in the hands of the
investigating committee.
At Owen, Moore & Co. IS may be seen the
two sets of cups won by the Dirigo Club in
the junior and senior four cared races at
Worcester last week; also the handsome silk
banners accompanying them.
Yesterday 5000 pounds of mackerel were
received at this port. Small fishing boats
landed 10000 pounds of cod, and the schoon-
or Fannie Queen brought 10000 pounds off,
shore cod and haddock.
The freight scow belonging to Jas. Jones
OF Peaks Island, was capsized in the bar-
Dor yesterday. She was loaded with twenty
five tons of ice, which was too heavy load
for the heavy wind that was blowing at the
time.
A two-horse jgger team, loaded with flour,
became frightened at the cars at the Union
depot yesterday, and ran away. Several
barrels of -four were thrown off and broken
open, and carryall was run into and the
axle broken. Nobody was hurt.
Ground was broken for l.. p. Hawkins
new shoe factory at Cheering, on Ocean
street, yesterday. The factory, when COM
pleted. will employ one hundred hands. 1t
is possible that Massachusetts parties will
erect shoe factory in the town.
The Biddeford journal says that a union
OF the electric light companies of Biddeford
and Saco, in both of which Hon. George p.
Wescott, of Portland, holds controlling in
terest, is among the possibilities, and the
talk is that the companies may be eventually
merged in the Portland company.
Yesterday man named Thomas Morgan
had his foot caught in the gearing of the
hosting apparatus on board the dredge Bay
View, at work in the Back Bay, and badly
1ammed, so much so that it is feared that his
leg will have to be amputated Rich's am
bulance was called, and the injured man
taken to the Maine General Hospital.
yesterday morning after breakfast st.
John Commandery were driven about the
city, and enjoyed themselves in various
ways. They visited Mr.. A. S. Kinds, lab
ratory and enjoyed a collation. They formed
and marched to the station. accompanied by
a committee of Portland Commandery. tak.
ing the o'clock train for home.
A petition will be presented to the CITY
Government next Monday for the widening
of Congress street, between Carter street
and the Maine Central station, ten feet to
accommodate the great rush of teams on
Congress street. 1t is claimed the street
from Carter street to the station should be
macadamized.