The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-28
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The vestibule train brought 80 passengers
Saturday
The Oxford Bears will have a reunion in
the autumn.
The Grattans will 60 to Long Island prob
ably August 9th.
The Peaks island aquarium will soon be
ready for business.
There were &c arrests last week of which 10
for drunkenness
A number of yachts arrived last night and
anchored off Peaks Island.
Mrs. Hussey of Waterville street has
stag-horn cactus with 100 flowers on it.
Young Wakeman who disappeared has
turned up all right. He was In camp at the
islands.
The Leary. raft sailed at daybreak yester-
day for New York and passed out of sight
without mishap.
The annual reunion of the 1st-1Oth-29th
regiment will take place at reunion hall
August 9TH.
James Cunningham has obtained the con-
tract for building Mr.. Edward 81. Davies's
- new residence.
Cloudman Relief Cops of Saccarappa will
90 on their annual picnic to Peaks Island
mex. Wednesday.
A memorial window to Comrade Orrin r.
LeGrow will be put In the new Grand Army
building on Free street.
1t is now expected that the Fort Allen ex-
tension Of the horse railroad will be in work
ing order by Wednesday.
Another advance guard of Fore paugh's
circus, known as the Bugle Brigade, No. l, is
at the United States Hotel
The Pine Tree Wheelmen will hold a
special meeting this evening to make ar
rangements for the lantern parade.
The Cape Elizabeth knights of Pythias
picnic will come off August 1st. The Port
land brass band will furnish the music.
The showers were very heavy Saturday
and 1t was a veritable dog-day with fog at
night. Yesterday was warm and pleasant.
Mr.. Moore, manager Of Portland Theatre,
presented letter-carrier Flaherty fine cane
Saturday for his courtesies to the company.
gentleman lost 500 diamond pin as he
supposed at Owen, Moore & Co.'s and after
wards found 1t In the gutter in front of the
store.
The Lowell Times has an article speaking
highly of the capabilities of Capt. Snowman
of steamer Portland and Capt. Donovan of
steamer fremont.
George Cleeve settlement, Order of Column
bia. will 60 on sail August 7th. They have
leased the hall in the new Brown block on
Monument Square for headq uarters.
The carriage belonging to Mr.. Kimball Of
Knightville. struck lamp post in that
village Saturday morning. Mr.. Kimball was
thrown out but escaped with bruises
Albert Richardson, the son of A. w. Rich
ardson, Pelham. N. H., 16 years old, ran
away from home and has been found on j.
G. CObb's farm at Deering.
L. e. Lunt Sc Co. have already obtained
80 tons of iron from the wrecked steamer
Eduardo, off Camden, and loaded schooner
with $1,000 worth more. now on the way to
Boston.
Mr.. George Trefethen, Commercial wharf,
has cured Goldfish weighing 40 pounds
1t Is the largest Goldfish cured, ever seen in
Portland but one and that weighed 40 pounds,
The Riverside Gun Club had shoot Satur-
day afternoon, They come to Portland the
latter part of August and have a shoot with
the Portland, Lewiston and other clubs. and
are counting on a fine time.
O0PN' Aeo6SAo VA wiz AhAnhbtJ Gays duluLd0t
General Sprague's order to have the company
property all placed in the armory refers
merely to inspection and not to disband-
ment of the company.
The Boston G. Maine has given up the
check system of paying off its employees and
once more the pay car will run over the road
every month coming from Boston over the
Eastern division and going back over the
Western.
An insane woman in a house on Centre
street edited and amused large number Of
persons yesterday afternoon by lecture on
the theory and practice of religion. AS she
remained indoors she was not arrested by
the police
Superintendent Lord has received boxes
Illl OF Montgomery's England, Colburn's
First Lessons, Barrels United States, Simon
TOMS Biographies and Raub's Lessons, the
new text booke for the schools. The CT m
plete list will be decided on August I'd.
Los Angeles, California, papers have been
received here, In which is related AN account
Of the death of young and beautiful wo-
man who claimed to be native of this CITY.
and who called herself Annie Winshin. An
other account, however, states that she was
the daughter of clergyman in laval uaso