The Portland daily press., 1891-05-04
BRIEF JoTTlNCS.

Saturday was a bright and beautiful May
day.
The Fort Sumner site on North street is to
be graded this spring.
Today the spring time table on the Maine
Central goes into effect.
There were AZ arrests last week, of which
81 were for drunkenness.
The Wheel Club will have special meet
ing at 7.3O o'clock tonight.
The fire alarm bell tower has been moved
into the stove foundry yard.
The grand Masonic bodies will hold their
annual meetings in Portland this week.
Morrill, & Ross horse ran away again
Saturday, split the groceries and broke the
wagon.
Bosworth Relief Corps will repeat the May
Day carnival at City Hall on Friday eve
ming.
Yesterday was Rogaticn Sunday and was
duly observed in the Episcopal and Catholic
churches.
The retailers are talking of closing their
places of business the afternoon of Arbor
Day.
The wholesale fish dealers commenced the
Saturday afternoon closing movement last
Saturday.
The new Rifle Club will locate its range at
East Deering on the line of the railroad near
Lunt's Corner.
The food left from Portland rs banquet
was given Rev. Mr.. Wright to distribute
among the poor
greenhouses at Deering recently and their
fathers paid the bills.
The sheriffs seized cask containing 100
bottles Of lager beer at the Onion Station.
Saturday morning.
There were several very grateful showers
fell yesterday afternoon, and they started
up the grass in great shape.
The Typographical Union has voted to
change the time Of meeting from Saturday
afternoon to Sunday at O'Clock.
The First Parish will give another coffee
party at Gilbert's Hall on next Wednesday
vening, May 9th.
A piece of machinery fell on the foot of
Mr.. Greeley, a workman at the Portland
.CornFauy Saturday, crushing II.
Several letters were received lately at the
Portland post Office despatched with the
blood of the mail agents killed in the rail-
road accident near Norfolk, o., April 18TH
Woodford Park is getting ready for the
races. MIR. Mahlon Jordan will bring his
horses there the middle of the month, and
Mr.. Wilson will bring Mr.. FL. +. Farnham's
horses.
Timothy Donahue, a tender for Mr.. Red
Ion, the mason, claims he was assaulted by
the striking tenders Friday night on Spring
street because he refused to join In the
strike.
The Grand Army fair will be held the
week of Nov. 9th. w. II. Green is chair
man, Whitman Sawyer treasurer, and E. c.
Milliken secretary Of the executive commit.
tee.
A mechanic of this city is about taking
out patent on an invention for converting
the saw dust and other waste from mills
into wood pulp OF peculiar strength and
quality that he says can be utilized for near
ly every purpose In which wood Is used.
Shipowners will be interested in heavy
demurrage reported by the British consul
at Manila in a report on the trade of the
Philippine Islands. Two vessels. the
Minister of Marine and the Alexander
Yeats, having arrived at Manila, the former
on Augusta 18th and the latter on Sept. 8,
1889, they were chartered by an American
syndicate to be loaded with hemp. AS the
price Of hemp at that time did not suit the
views of the charter party, they declined to
purchase and kept the vessels on demurrage,
finally Ichartering them again to be loaded
with sugar. The Minister of Marine got
away in the beginning Of June. 1890; but the
Alexander Yeats did not sail until the end of
that month. Meantime, the demurrage paid
to the masters of the respective vessels day
by day, as the law requires, had reached the
following extraordinary figures, unpre-
cedented in the shipping industry. The
Minister of Marine, e5O28 ($25.14O); the Alex
ander Yeats, 1856 1924. $780, making total of
S50070.