The Portland daily press., 1893-06-26
BRIEF JoTTINas.

urQdy.
The steamer Cadet is expected home
next Friday.
The railroad summer time tables went
into effect yesterday.
Masconomo Tribe of Red Men will
elect chiefs tonight.
There were 80 arrests last week, 81
being for drunkenness.
The Portland temporary bridge will
be ready in a fortnight.
The checker tournament has again
been postponed until Wednesday.
There was no game of ball Saturday,
owing to the condition of the grounds.
The Doric Club of this city will go on
their annual field day to Sebago Lake,
July 18th. NF = Z
Yesterday morning the sun came out
| bright, but it soon clouded, and the af-
ternoon was raw.
The fair at the Catholic orphanage on
High street last week was very success
| full, 5000 being cleared.
Company E, 18th Maine Volunteers,
will hold reunion at Bosworth Post
| Hall tomorrow afternoon.
The Chautauquan teachers excursion
to Fryeburg was postponed until next
Saturday, on account of the rain.
The Royal Temperance Commission
called on Bishop Healy, and second
time on General Neal Dow Saturday.
| The Portland Wheel Club had very
pleasant run to Prout's Neck yesterday,
and an excellent dinner at the Checkley
House.
The Pythian excursion to the World s
Fair will leave via the Grand Trunk
| September 8th, and stop six hours at Nj
| agara.
| The Deering toothpick factory is com
pleted, the machinery set up and steam
started. The crew are adjusting the
machines.
| The tain for Old Orchard to be taken
by the Woman's Literary Union next
Saturday, will leave the Union Station at
1915 a. m.
1t is said the Yarmouth electric road
will go down Elm from Congress street,
along Cumberland to Washington, thence
over Tukey's bridge.
The High School field day was post
| postponed, on account of the weather
Saturday, until today, provided the
weather be pleasant.
/ The Golden Cross will make grand
excursion to Mariners Landing, Long
Island. There will be reduced fares and
a capital shore dinner.
Tonight the Unity Club of Stevens
Plains will have lawn party on F. Fl.
Holdings grounds, with Examinations
orchestral music, etc.
4 The druggists of the city are request
ed to meet at the Preble House at 945
this forenoon, to attend the funeral OF
the late Edmund Dana.
The Portland Railroad Company will
make special trips next Saturday after
noon and evening to Westbrook, in con-
nection with the Madison Falls steamer.
The frame of the Deering Drug Com
pany's building at Morrilrs Corner will
be put up today. Mr.. Wentworth is
building two-story house in Dyer's
lane, Deering.
Mr.. Thomas S. Lee, of the Grand
Trunk road, found a petrified foot and
ankle in load of Pocahontas coal Sat
urday. He will present it to the Natural
History Society.
De Rosa, who murdered his brother in
this city, and was sent to the insane asy-
lum from Thomaston, has been ordered
returned to the state prison as he has re-
covered his sanity.
The directors of the Union Mutual
Life Insurance Company have decided to
put fre-proof floor in the offices over
the new safety deposit vaults of the
Union Safe Deposit and Trust Company
A number of carrier pigeons belonging
to President Hargraves of the Sanford
Homing Club were released and timed
in this city Saturday, by Colonel H. S.
Osgood. The birds Immediately started
for home on being released.
The alarm of fire at 54S SATURDAY.
morning was caused by slight blaze il
the residence of Walter Cox on Ham
mond street. A couple of streams from
the chemical put out the flames which
with the smoke caused about SIS worth
of damage.
The members of the chemical engine
company have invented an arrangement
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from the ground floor into the rooms
above. A trap subjected to pulleys has
| been made around the pole by which the
| firemen slide down, and the formerly
large open space which made unhealthy
drafts possible, is not seen now.