The Portland daily press., 1892-07-18
BRIEF JoTTlNes.

The police want bath room put into
the station.
There was heavy shower early Satur-
day morning.
A Raymond excursion party will ar
rive here tomorrow.
There were IS arrests last week, of
which 10 were for drunkenness.
The Maine Press Association arrived
home from Rangeley Lakes Saturday.
A man named Callahan, at work in
Deering, was Frustrated by the heat Fri
day.
Forest City Commandery, Z. G.. e.
will visit Essex Commandery of Lynn on
Labor Day.
The Denison- Morey case is to be ar
gued at this term of the law court in
Portland.
The Hough excursionists will arrive at
the Falmouth Hotel today on the way to
Magnolia, Mass.
The committee on fire department has
voted to put the Bragg horse call in all
the engine houses.
There was but one transfer of real es-
tate Saturday, w. W. Lamb to W. J.
White, Westbrook.
''Grifin is coming and the mile track
is booming right along" is the latest
from the horsemen.
The schooner Lizzie Maud brought in
onn ! IL A IL yXT,r+L,,or, TX ,.ra1c of
mackerel yesterday.
1t has been decided that the fire at
Best's store caught from electricity used
to run a coffee mill.
Members of Ivy Lodge, D. of R., had
delightful excursion and picnic to Mar
riner's landing Saturday.
The sheriffs seized dozen quart bot
ties and keg of whiskey at James Col
lins's, AL Commercial street.
The draw for the Grand Trunk rail
road bridge will be due here from
Rochester, N. T., September 18th.
The committee on public buildings de-
cided Saturday to reopen the bids for the
erection of the Australian ballot booths.
Beginning at 11.30 a. m. the Spring
street cars will make Is minute trips
from Bowdoin street to the island steam
ers.
The deputies seized whiskey at James
Conwells, who keeps a saloon of very
large capacity at Il Center street Satur-
day.
Officer Thrasher has arrested a young
man named Campbell for perpetrating
some of the Fourth of July vandalism on
Free street.
| A notice has been placed in the Public
| Library reading room offering reward
of SIS to whoever detects anyone defacing
books or papers.
The largest mails on record are being
received at the post office this summer.
| The influx of summer visitors adds great
ly to the business.
| Somebody is making work for store
clerks by placarding the windows with
advertisements at night which the clerks
have to wash off in the mornings.
The band concert at Deering Oaks
drew a large and well pleased audience
Saturday. The next concert will be
given Wednesday evening on the West
ern Promenade.
A young professional man of this city,
to whom Virginia relative left an old
fashioned desk some years ago, accidental
ly discovered secret drawer in it a short
time ago containing $4,000.
The cat boat Caro- was dismasted in
the strong wind off Ponce's landing at
Long Island Saturday. A boat put out
and took the crew ashore and the Caro-
drifted onto Little CLebeague.
The Portland & Rochester are filing
| in opposite Winslow 6 Co.'s pottery at
| Deering Point preparatory to extending
their side track to Bedford street and
extending the size of their yard.
| Work on the proposed locations of the
new police signal boxes will begin today
| 1t will take about three months to get
them in running order. Mr.. Wheeler of
the Gamewell Company went over the
locations Saturday.
| The turtle back steam launch Fanny
was in the harbor Saturday bound for
Eastport, Captain Spalding in command.
She is cigar shaped, turtle backed, has
her machinery and quarters amidships,
and can make ~ knots per hour.