The Portland daily press., 1895-10-19
HARBoR NEWS.
various stray Items of Interest Picked
Up.

vaeterday morning ana bright ana beau
tiful place all day. Down on the islands
tbaFair was sharp indeed. Two or three
belated cottagers packed their goods in
a.burry and came up. On small pools of
fresh water, ice formed to thickness of
over half an inch.
The wind blew a gale in the forenoon.
AT one cottage on the top of hill man
was putting a heavy wooden shutter on
one of the windows on the second floor.
He was standing on the top of the veran-
dab AS he lifted the shutter to put it in
place, strong blast of wind came along
and took possession of the shutter. The
man followed it to the edge Of the veran-
dab and concluded to let he-wind sshave
it.
There were hundreds of crows on5Great
Diamond Island yesterday. They always
come there after the early frosts on their
way south. They stop at Great Diamond,
according to the observation of one of
the cottagers, because it has many beach
trees and after the frosts the crows can
get the nuts which they devour in great
quantities. He has noticed trees covered
with nuts and when later he has gone to
them, he has found no nuts at all, the
whole crop having been gathered by the
crows.
A man on Cushing's Island brought fa
COW on the Forest Queen yesterday. The
COW objected strenuously and successfully
to going on board the steamer, until
they applied the twisting process to her
TAIL Then she went On board.
The Annie Hayden of fremont brought
15 900 of fresh fish to J. w. Trefethen.
She had been absent about two weeks
on the trip. She experienced such rough
weather that she had to put in for a
harbor three times. She was forced to tie
for three days in Cutler.
D. W. Fernald received 500 barrels Of
herring yesterday and 300 the day before.
| A train of empty freight cars OF unusu-
al length passed along Commercial
street yesterday. It extended from the
Boston boat to Twitchell & Champltn's,
and was made up of about so cars.
| Foster Broth ers, who have operated a
picking establishment at 210-212 Com
mercal street, are moving to the large
| brick warehouse on Commercial wharf
that was formerly occupied by Trefethen
& Bearce.
Three tiny uchins, apparently about
two feet high, committed a little theft
yesterday in plain day light They
watched their chance near one of the
wholesale fruit stores, till none of the
employees were in sight and then deiber-
ately seized two big pears each and ran
off with them as fast as their little legs
would carry them. They couldn't have
been more than five years old.
The masonry work Of the Commercial
street sewer extension was completed and
the connection with the. Hampshire street
sewer made yesterday The sewer will b
cleaned out and the street cleared tomor-
row.
While the-riggers were hoisting der
rick frame to the roof of Randall & Nc
Allister's coal elevator, the two spars to
which the hoisting tackle was attached,
snapped suddenly at about noon yester-
day. The derrick frame fell into the
dock. The crew of men at work had a
! narrow escape from death, the two spars
falling close on either side of them. The
spars are rs feet long and 2 1-2 feet in di-
ameter at the butt, where they broke.
Capt EG Parsons, pilot for the Allan
steamers at this port, returned yesterday
from a visit to Montreal. He said that
nothing had been decided about the
coming steamer season. He reported
snow on the ground yesterday from Is
land Pond to Gorham, n. H.