The Portland daily press., 1895-03-27

There has been very little stirring
along the water front of late, and the
dullness is getting too perfect to con-
tinuel for any length of time. Yesterday
j. f. Barrett went about on Commercial
street consulting with the leading BUSH
ness men there regarding the proposition
to hold the New England fair in this
city, and out at Rigby.
Mr.. Barrett found that in general peo-
pie take very kindly to the idea. He had
talk with Mayor Baxter yesterday (not
on the water front,) and found the
Mayor much interested in the proposed
plan. When last seen, Mr.. Barrett was
on his way to the office of Mr.. Farnham.
A certain Portland skipper said recent
Is, II don't suppose it would do any
good to try for some halibut. If [
thought it would, I'd fit up and go out"
The captain of the Gloucester schooner
W. Parnell O'Hara, thought there might
be such thing as getting some hal1but,
and he went out. The result was that
he came here yesterday morning with
$1,000 pounds of halibut and 10000
pounds of cusk, and at present prices
that meant that j. W. Trefethen, who
took the fish, would have TO pay him
about $4,000. The men got about 1925 for
their ten days on the water. Bad luck
was mixed with the good, for she was
blown 40 miles off this coast Monday and
lost her main boom.
The schooner Ada, bound from St.
John to Boston, arrived in tow Monday.
She was caught in brisk little gale and
lost her rudder. George A. Hartford is
making the necessary repairs.
There was pathetic incident yester-
day when caskeJ was taken on board
the Monaghan. 1t contained the remains
of woman who died in Canada. at the
age of SO. 1t was a lonely homeward
journey, and recalled the old proverb:
"The home sod rests lightly over the
bones"
The follwing notice has been issued
from the office of the U. S. Lighthouse
inspector in this city: "The whistling
buoy off Moose Peak Light Station,
Maine, which drifted from it's position
on the 18th inst, was replaced on the
22d.n
There were three Grand Trunk specials
to this city yesterday. The cattle on the
Mongolian will arrive today. For some
reason abont 300 cattle will be taken on
board at Halifax instead of Portland.
The cargo tor the Monaghan is we'll in, a
large amount of cotton having arrived
within "a hours.
There was considerab BILE excitement yes
terday on the wharf where the Labrador
is discharging. A wild rush was made
to the wharf by half hundred sturdy
deck hands and sailors. They got down
and looked anxiously into the water. A
man from the upper wharf waved his
hand and shouted directions to Them
People from Commercial street and be-
You'd caught the alarm, and made their
way in crowds to the wharf, only to find
that football had been kicked over
board. 1t was recovered with some diff
Guilty, and the game progressed.
There was good deal, so the crowd
seemed 20 Gn1nK, IN what lOnRShOre-
man said: "Them tellers had right to
have told US that it wasn't man, but
only ball. One of them things went so
close by me this morning that it broke
me pipe" 1t must be confessed that the
game is played in all sorts of weather,
and that the fight for the ball does some
times become not one, especially when,
as was the case yesterday, the men rep
resent two steamers.
"Midweek Sunday" was well observed
on Commercial street yesterday latter
noon, and there were but few people
stirring on that street, and what few
were seen were generally talking about
attending the Mills meeting in the even
ng.
The schooner Ed Waite, Captain Har-
vey McClearn. had rough passage from
Portland to Point-a-Pitre. She encoun-
tered gale when two days out and scud-
ded five days under bare poles. James
Fuller, the second mate, met with an
accident and will be unable to work the
rest of the voyage.