The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-05-01
BRIEF JoTTINos.

Saturday and Sunday were both delight
full spring days.
! The steamer fremont will have four
teen new state-rooms added, or 104 in all.
The Liberal Art exhibition is still
open to the public free over Owen,
Moore C Co.'s.
Today the Casco Bay Co.'s boats begin
running to Cushings and the other land
! ings.
The Building Trades Councils agree
ment will go into effect June 9Th.
The U. S. mail wagon drivers are out
in uniform cap of blue cloth, with U.
S. NJ. On the front.
The Congregational Club will meet at
the Preble House next Monday evening,
May 8th.
The outside of the Post Office building
is having cleansing, under the charge
| Of Mr.. James Mcdonald. Saturday the
Market street side was washed down.
Tonight will occur the regular monthly
meetings of the city government and
Westbrook city government.
The Portland Wheel Club will have a
run to Deering Thursday evening next,
starting from the club room at 7.3O
o'clock
| MI. Dan McCann's son stopped to fix
his horses harness on Portland bridge
Saturday night. A team coming in the
| opposite direction ran into his horse and
a shaft penetrated the horses thigh
| fifteen inches. DIR. Maxwell thinks the
horse will get well.
The sardine schooner just built by
Perkins & Blaisden of Bath has been
brought to Portland to receive her
| machinery at the Portland company's
shops. She will be delivered to her
owners in Brooklyn as soon as she re-
ceives her machinery.
| There is on Commercial street the I'M
precedented amount of y, 800 barrels of
flour, crowding, nearly every
store house and repository that can be
found. This engagement of the market
is ascribed to the heavy crop of wheat in
| 1891.
Mayor Baxter has given the Veteran
Firemen the basement room formerly oc-
| cupied by the street commissioner; who
goes to room on the floor above.
The regular monthly meeting of the
| Women's Maine Indian Association will
be held in the vestry of the Plymouth
church tomorrow afternoon at 8 o'clock.
The committee Of creditors of the At
kinson House Furnishing Company rec
! commended settlement whereby the
business may be put into new corpora
| ton, the stock of which shall go to
satisfy the claims of the creditors.
| Hon. Josiah Fl. 'Drummond has been
selected as referee to decide the question
as to the location of the York hospital
matter of much interest in Biddeford
and Saco.
The Concordia, the last boat of the
| Donaldson line for the season, left Satur-
| day at o'clock. She carried the usual
grain cargo and quantity of maple logs.
The Oregon, of the Dominion line, will
sail Thursday. She closes the winter
ocean traffic.
| Mrs. Luther D. Look, while looking in
the window of Lords grocery store on
Congress street Saturday, was jumped
on by a big dog which bit her on the neck.
| The dog will die.
| Attention of members Of the Portland
| Yacht Club is called to the advertise
ment of an important meeting of the
club.
A horse, driven by Mr.. Apt, mate of
the New Brunswick, while standing at
the Boston boat Saturday, took fright at
a locomotive and rushed between a
loaded car and moving locomotive. The
horse escaped injury. The wagon was
demolished.
Capt. Whitman Sawyer was thrown
from his carriage on Casco street Satur-
day, but escaped with bruises.
J. E. & Frank Trott have taken the
mail contract for four years between
| Portland and Peaks Island for $500.
| At the Worlds fair musical exhibition
in June DR.. Torrington's son. the Mon
treal organist, will preside at the great
organ.
Mrs. ErvingsWinslow's proposed read
ings will not take place the coming
month, but more extensive course for
this talented actress will be arranged in
the autumn.
Mr.. R. K. Galley has received an order
from the commissioners for replica of
| his bust of Vice President Hamlin to be
placed in the Maine building at the
Worlds fair. 1t will be shipped today.
Saturday afternoon J. B. Prince, en-
ployed at the Portland Tinware Co., on
Cross street, had one of his fingers badly
jammed in a tin press.
The Baker Extract Company took in a
car load of ammonia Saturday morning,
consisting of 500 cases. This reminds
one that spring and house cleaning time
is here.
The boys will want to read the adver-
tisement of Wyer Greene & Co., as they