The Portland daily press., 1895-08-05
BRIEF JoTTINGs.
Sunday was a fine day.

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place for the new power house, foot o
Green street There were three of them
all OF the Allis- Corliss, cross compound
condensing type, 10 and 34x36, and 5O(
horse power each.
The Board of Health is running
twelve waste carts, to collect the waste o1
the city, every morning.
At meeting of the Cumberland county
Agricultural Society held in Gorhan
Saturday, it was voted to put the grounds
in first-rate condition.
The survey for Ethe new electric road
between Westbrook and Gorham began
Saturday. A large force of men will be
putEat work this week.
George o. Cutter of Green street, an
employe of the Boston & Maine, fell from
a freight. car. Friday night and fractured
his leg.
The Abyssinian church members gave
their pastor donation party onsT Thursday
evening and presented him well-filled
purse.
e. L. Stanwood's clerks went for a
clam bake to Mitchell's at Spurwink Sat
ur day.
Saturday evening young fellow on a
bicycle in lodging a team on Congress
street, near Preble, ran into another and
smashed his wheel He was somewhat
bruised.
The, Flower Mission distributed $50 bou-
quets to the hospitals and poor children
| Iof fbo oitvr 10 CT mpaL
There were 58 arrests last week, OF
which A were for drunkenness.
| J. Bailey Osgood was fined S5 and costs
but sentence was suspended-in the Nun
icipal Court Saturday, for trying to pull
steer aboard boat with rope around
it's horns. The horns were pulled off by
| the rope.
| Several youngsters Saturday kindled a
| bonfire on the floor of bedroom in the
house of Mr.. Frazier on Fore street.
The fire was extinguished with slight
damage. The boys were arrested.
The alarm from box 50 Saturday noon
was caused by the burning of a shed, cor
ner of School and Salem streets, belong
| ing to the Brown estate. The building
was of little value. Boys probablylset it
on fire.
The elegant ligh thouse steamer Armer-
lea arrivedEin the.harbor. Saturday.
Saturday was pleasant in the morning,
with showers threatening in the after
noon. A slight shower fell about s p. m.
An excursion of over one hundred Odd
Fellows and their ladies cames.from Bridg
ton over the Maine Central Saturday and
went to the islands
About sixty-fye.Sir Knights of Portland
and ST Albans Communicates, K. T.,
went to Sebago Lake Saturday for drill.
The Charlotte A. Bird and Eva and
Belle brought 1000 Holsters to N. F. Tre-
fethen. Saturday.
There were over 200 passengers for New
York on the Manhattan Saturday night
and mattresses had to be laid in the sa-
loon. Most of the passengers shad COM
pleted their vacations
A train arrived over the Grand Trunk
Saturday morning composed of four
Pullmans and.f1ve first class cars, loaded
with passengers from Canada and the
West.
A brood of eleven Bantam silver pleas
ants was Matched at the Oaks last week.
The passengers by the Manhattan Fri
day night saw two whales in Massachu-
setts Bay.
Steam yacht Startling arrived Sat
urday and coaled at Randall g. McAllis-
ter's.
Schooner Robert arrived Saturday
and reported 81 swordfish killed off the
Cape shore.
Catherine Sears was sent to the house of
correction for thirty days on Saturday for
striking Peter G. johnson on the ear
with heavy door key.
The first annual field clay of Cumber-
land County Sons of Veterans will be
held at Harpswell with dinner at the
Merryconeag House, August 18th.
The attendance of every member of
Bramhall Lodge, No. g. K. of P, is de-
sired at the meeting Thursday evening,
August 8th at which time arrangements
will be completed for celebrating Pythian
Day.
The Thomas Laughlin Company are
making speciality Of fire escape work
and are prepared to show plans and give
estimates on same at the factory at No.
154 Fore street.