The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-09-29
For additional Local News see
Fifth Page.
BRIEF JoTTiNos.

The school teachers will be paid Monday, Oc-
tober Sd.
Yesterday was lovely summers day. The
wind wassvest and the mercury reached 73o.
Twenty-one Italians arrived yesterday noon
over the Grand Trunk and went to Boston last
night.
Mr.. E. E. Benson, DR.. T. Fl. Fillebrown and
Mrs. Blanchard moved up from Great Diamond
yesterday.
There will be a regular monthly meeting of
the9Fauington Debating Club, 1922 L. L. A.,
this evening.
The rehearsal of Phantasma last night in
City Hal was very successful, and every indica-
tionpdints to great success.
The steamer Manhattan brought two steam
boilersa&6r the Portland post Office from the
NeWburgh Steam Boiler Works, Newburgh,
NY.
Tie, Portland Rochester road are taking the
old Baker car heaters out of their cars and re-
placing, them with the Sewall steam car-heating
apparatus.
A horse attached to grocery wagon belong
ing to- G. al Kilsop, became frightened by the
steam cafSMhiae standing in front of a house
on Brown street, Westbrook, Tuesday, and ran
away. He'fadea lively run up the street. and
w&Snot stopped unfit the wagon had been de-
m0Iished.
The passenger traffic on the Maine Centta1
continues to be large. Besides the ordinary
passenger cars Monday night, there were five
Pullman sleeping cars full. Tuesday night four
Pullmans were required. The Flying Yankee
Tuesday afternoon was made up of IS cars,
which were drawn by two locomotives.
Schooners Martha D. McClain, Doughty,
brought 1000 pounds of'cod and haddock and
5000 hake to A. G.. Sterling s. Co.; Mary H.
Lewis Weber, 1000 pounds of hake and 1000
cod and haddock to John Willard; Maud S.
Carter, 1876 barrels of salt mackerel to market;
the 4Gertie May brought 1876 barrels of mack
erel.
A change has been made in the advertisement
Of the Portland g. Rumford Falls Railway ask
ing for proposals to build the proposed connec-
ton with the Maine Central. The new dates
after which specifications, etc. can be seen ap-
pear in the advertisement this morning
The trouble between the granite firms and
their employees in this city has been adjusted,
and Tuesday, for the first time in several
months, number of the granite cutters went to
work. The basis of settlement is the same as
that at Barre and Quincy.
The pupils of the public schools will assem-
Bile at the usual hour Columbus Day, and in
each room there will be some exercise in COM
nlemoration of the event which the day has
been set apart to celebrate. The schools will
be dismissed at 1890 O'Clock, and the rest of
The day will be holiday for the children
AS the patrol wagon was on the way to the
police station from the Jail with load of pris-
pners yesterday, a nut on one of the wheels
same off, and the passengers suddenly dis
mounted. The prisoners reached the station
all right, however.
A lady in this city who makes use of the now
common vapor or gasoline cooking range, no.
tees that however thick the flies may be else
where in the house, or room even, they never
approach this stove, or light upon anything set
back upon it when it is in use. 1t is probable
that the peculiar odor is abhorrent:to them.