The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-04-23
BRIEF JoTTINcs.

Rainy day Saturday and chilly. Saturday
was bright with higher temperature.
There bave been 300 yards Of new carpet
ing laid in the Falmouth Hotel this spring.
The new uniform of the Mutual Union
messenger boys is very neat.
The ship William G. Davis sailed from
New York to Hiogo in 100 days and back in
1OS days, very quick passage.
Rev. Mr. Crosley will preach to the Mason
ic order of the Church of the Messiah. ST.
Johns Day, June oath.
Shepley Camp, S. Of ", will attend the
memorial services at State street church May
27th.
The Boys Literary Society will have their
monthly supper, musical and literary enter
tainment this evening.
The Longfellow G. l.. S. c. will meet this
evening with Mrs. Fl. L. Houghton, Bow
doin street.
The regular monthly dinner of the Paint
and Oil Club was held at the Preble Satur-
day evening.
No such person as George T. Graham
dropped dead in Portland, Saturday, SO far
as the authorities know.
The veranda of the 1-10-29th Regiment
building at Long Island will be 165 feet long
and wide.
DIR. Ring is building new cottage near his
present one at the Cape, and Mr.. George S.
Hunt is putting an addition and tower on
his house close by.
The exports last week were 704, 92S feet of
lumber, 1903 empties and two cases machin-
cry; the imports were 14,475 ties, 1,19S hogs
heads, 147 tierces of molasses,
The Sullivan c. Andrews property, situat-
ed at the corner of Spring and Emery streets,
was sold Saturday to II. NJ. Hart for $4,000
free Of encumbrances.
The John Brooks goes on the Boston line
today, the Emita is running to the islands,
and the Enterprise. of the Boothbay line, is
being painted.
Quinn g. Co. have shipped 40 horse pow
or boiler to Kings grist mill at Calais, and
the Portland Company are building new
freight cars for the Portland g. Rochester
road.
The final rehearsal of the Turnverein ex-
hibition class will be held this e, ening. Re-
served seat tickets for the Saco exhibition
tomorrow evening may be obtained of Mr..
A. w. Lowell.
All applications in the future for new
wooden buildings will have to be made to
the full Board of Mayor and Alderman be-
fore the committee on new wooden buildings
will act.
The Nellie Burns, Contest and J. w.
Brown have gone on the marine railway at
Liverpool, n S. to be caulked. The Tit
mouse transferred her outfit to the Allen
Lewis and abandoned her fishing trip as she
was leaking.
Over hundred men will be.kept at work
at Cushing's Island on the hotel, the four
new cottages, roads and trees until July.
More than 1000 trees have been set out. Mr..
William Murray has contracted to carry out
Mr.. Olmstead, the landscape gardeners,
plans this spring.
The man killed ON the railroad Thursday
night near Scarboro has been identified as
Patrick Brophy, an employee in the Pepper
ell mills at Biddeford. He had been in this
country about year and was % years old.
Coroner Halls jury decided he came to his
death by accidentally falling from moving
train Thursday last.
Sargent, Dennison 81 Co. have received
another cargo of coal and notified their crew
to commence work on 1t Monday. Saturday
afternoon as the men were making prepare
lions for their work, putting up stagings,
etc., some of the former strikers made good
deal of talk and said the men should not go
to work today the firm sent for the police
and everything was quiet.
Bids were opened Friday by the Supervis-
ing Architect of the Treasury for material to
complete the masonry work on the public
building at Augusta. The bidders were as
follows Horace Princeton & Co., Water
vile, $27,947; Bodwell Granite Company,
Rockland, $27,5OO; the Maine Granite and
Improvement Company. Washington, d. c.,
$28,500